I recently came across a brilliant technique that can increase your traffic and returning readers by a considerable amount, using Twitter! Yes, the same service that thousands have marked off as “worthless” and “a waste of time” can be exploited to really pump traffic toward your blog. What am I talking about? Twitter Hopping! :D

I’m taking this article from here on out assuming that you already have a Twitter account or understand the basic idea behind the service. If you don’t know, why not read up on it in my Twitter review post? Let’s continue.

Okay, so here is the basic idea. Twitter.com allows you to track both your “followers” and those that you are “following.” Here’s where the trick comes in, you can view & easily follow anyone listed under any other members. This is a networking frenzy!

As bad as it sounds, you can leech off of other member’s friends that are in your niche. People that are following, for example, ShoeMoney are very likely to be interested in affiliate marketing and making money online. By looking at all of ShoeMoney’s friends and opting to “follow” all of them… I’m going to pick up hundreds of interested readers for my blog! Thanks for doing the work for us, eh? :)

Use the video guide provided as an example of how to work this trick. It’s very simple:

  1. Find a popular blogger in your niche on Twitter
  2. Navigate to their Twitter page
  3. Go over to the “following” link off of the website
  4. Click the “follow” tab next to all of their interested readers!

This is not to say that I do not care what the people I am following have to say. I have pulled hundreds of interested viewers using this method, and have returned the favor by visiting their websites. It’s an awesome way to network in the blink of an eye with hundreds of people interested in your content… and it’s free!

I call this exploiting because lets face it, you are completely manipulating both the Twitter system and, well, your own friends. But as long as we are making connections (and money), who really cares?

The eventual goal here is to have all the people that you “followed” follow you right back, and in my experience about 1/3 of them will. This means that they will be reading your content and checking up on your status. Sure, you’ll have about 3:1 following-to-followers, but as long as you are expanding that all important consumer base… no one’s the wiser. ;)

Let’s recap. You can gain hundreds of targeted, active and interested readers by tapping into other blogger’s followers with Twitter. By opting to follow all of the readers of a blog in your niche, you are essentially casting a baited fishing pole and are bound to get about 30%-40% of those people to follow you back. Once that’s in tact, more and more people are going to see your content, your updates and whatever else you have to say. It’s a win-win, it’s easy and super effective!

-The Net Fool

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