As previously discussed, Twitter is a fantastic way to get some free targeted traffic to your websites, but manually sending tweets on a regular basis is a time consuming and boring task!

All new tweets have an average lifespan of 10 minutes – that means your well thought out tweet will only be visible in other user’s timelines for a very short space of time.

After that, they get lost in the Twhite noise of Twitter!

It is therefore important to tweet regularly.

You bet your life it can!

I’ve spent most of today learning about Twitter from my mentor, Alex Jeffreys who created a free video series on the subject

http://www.tweetingwithyou.com/

I’ve got to say… I’m absolutely blown away by what Alex has been teaching me and more importantly, I’m having fun putting his techniques into practice!

If you are looking for a way to drive free, targeted traffic, to any of your websites, then you MUST get to grips with Twitter, right away…

I’m only sorry I’ve put it off for so long, but not any more.

Just a quick post this evening to show how leaving a few comments on other peoples blogs can make a big difference in traffic. (see previous post)

Ok, so it’s not a massive increase in traffic yet, but this is a method that will keep getting traffic organically and the more (interesting) comments you leave, the more traffic you’ll get.  I only left a handful of comments on sunday and yesterday and it’s already resulted in 12 more visitors that might never have found my blog!  That’s powerful stuff!

Here’s the new screen shot from Google Analytics (click on the image to enlarge)

Today I’ve been using a simple and free technique Alex Jeffreys taught me to generate traffic to my blog.

Alex calls it “Oil Rig Hopping,” and the idea is to get your blog linked to from external sites, by leaving comments on other peoples blogs.

Each time you comment on someone elses blog post, you’ll have the option of adding your blog URL, therefore, people can click on your link and be directed to your blog.

The key to this method’s success, is that the comments you leave have to provide some extra value or point of interest.  That way, anyone reading your comment will see you as someone with credibility and hopefully decide to visit your blog.

Ok, following on from my last post, I just want to update you on what I’ve been doing to drive traffic to my blog over the last few days.

1.  Used eBay About Me Page To link to my blog.

eBay allows you to link to your websites from your about me page as long as you aren’t blatently trying to take business away from them and make sales outside of eBay.  This means you have to be a bit careful what websites you link to and what you write to invite users to visit your site.  For example…

SET UP YOUR BLOG!

The second step is… Start driving traffic to it.

A blog is the perfect platform to start building an online income because it’s relatively easy to set up and as soon as you start adding content to it the search engines will pick it up and start sending traffic your way.  You can then monitize your blog by adding affiliate links and adds and as long as you provide some great free content and real value along the way, people will start to know who you are, like you and finally trust you… and once they trust you, they’re more likely to buy from you.