How much traffic can Twitter send to your blog?
A question on many peoples lips, including mine a few weeks ago before jumping into the Twittersphere, is just how much traffic can a Twitter account send to a blog. Don’t worry, I am genuinely aware that Twitter isn’t just about generating traffic, but let’s be honest about what we, and by we I mean me and the vast majority of people who read Upstart Blogger, are trying to achieve as bloggers.
We want traffic. High quality, high quantity, traffic. And the success, and money, that traffic can bring.
Furthermore, my recent exposure of Brute Force Twitter as a scam was re-tweeted and, on the day of publishing, attracted almost four hundred extra visitors.
My Twitter following is growing steadily and currently stands at one thousand, seven hundred and sixteen. I’ll share the methods I’ve used to grow this following in a future post. I will reveal this now however, growing this following has been as easy as falling off a log. No spam, no stupid brute force methodology, just very simple marketing. Very simple indeed.
But for now, back to the traffic.
Two hundred extra daily visitors from a Twitter account with approaching two thousand followers is a significant increase. Of course, this is good news, but it does raise a very interesting issue. Since it’s easy to grow a Twitter following and it would appear that around ten percent of that following are visiting Upstart Blogger, does this mean that my traffic is grabbing a ride on the traffic gravy train?
Can generating traffic, growing traffic, really be this easy? And, furthermore, is that growth sustainable?
If the answer to each of those questions is yes then I can see why many people, including many of you, have been pushing me towards Twitter for such a long time.
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Ashley Morgan is a UK jazz trumpet player and owner of independent record label 447 Records.
Ashley Morgan is the trumpet player with Enormous.
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Sounds like you’ve seen a bit of the light. It’s about making connections and those connections will build a real audience.
I can not wait for your recommendations about Twitter, honestly I use just for share jokes and quick comments with my friends but never really think in the potential.
what are you going to do when twitter goes down the tube in about a year as you predicted … lol … couldnt resist.
This is a very good article and something I have experienced myself. I found that after I was referred to twitter for advertising, it started to improve my traffic. Though it wasn’t much, I realized my unique visitors increased daily. I’m looking forward to your tips on marketing on Twitter.
The key subjective variable is the content you produce on twitter as well. Remember, it just as easy to “un-follow” someone as it is to follow them. Keep it interesting, and that will be reduced.
One of the amazing things for me is the organic connections that are made on twitter:
I follow someone that I think is interesting. I see an @ reply from them to someone else that peeks my curiosity. I check the original tweet to see what it’s all about. That person seems interesting as well. I decide to follow them.
Interesting people seem to be connected with other interesting people. I don’t want to sound cliquey, but let’s face it.
Obviously I am doing something wrong.
Very interesting post – always good to see concrete numbers when it comes to such things.
I launched a showcase site for writers at the weekend (websitesforwriters.net) by posting a simple message on Twitter. The audience and readers I have from my ‘normal’ blog picked up on it with a few retweets, and by the end of its first day the site had seen over 3000 page views and over 2000 visits.
That’s the good news. The bad news is that because I in no way whatsoever expected anything like that to happen, I hadn’t had chance to (or bothered to) monetize it.
Grr. As they say.