3 Amazing Secrets to Earning More Money with Twitter

Twitter isn’t just a place to read the latest news or play around with crazy hashtags. It can be a powerful tool for driving traffic to your blogs, and a place to meet other writers who can help to promote your content and open up new audiences for your writing.

Success on Twitter can mean better site analytics, more social media shares, and even more ad clicks and orders through your affiliate links. The more exposure you gain for your writing, the more chances there are for a potential client to see your work or for a fellow writer to recommend you for a writing gig. And of course, if you are getting paid per view or per ad impression, more traffic to your content always means more revenue for you.

As with any other social medium, a significant part of your success on Twitter will rely on how you interact with other users. If they see that you are a loyal follower and are helping them to boost traffic to their blogs, they’ll be more likely to do the same for you.

Start by Following Bloggers on Twitter

Following or friending a fellow blogger on social writing sites is the norm. But how many of us take that a step further, and follow these same talented people on Twitter? Don’t be afraid to ask a fellow blogger for their Twitter link, or to follow them if their username pops up when you’re sharing one of their posts.

Remember that if you follow someone, you want them to notice you! So send them a Tweet, reply to one of their tweets, or retweet something they’ve shared to Twitter.

Try to make it easy for other bloggers to find you on Twitter so they can also follow you. Here are some tips that will help you make that possible:

• When you set up your blog, be sure to add social media buttons to the site design so your readers can see at a glance how to follow you;
• Include a “contact” page on your blogs, and fill in the contact information on the “about” tab of your Facebook author page or Google+ profile;
• If you join a writing group on Facebook or elsewhere, watch for opportunities to share your author pages, blog and web site links, and social media contacts. If the group maintains a list of contacts that you can access, be sure to visit other group members and follow them too!
• When you’re asked for a “web site” link, consider linking to your Facebook author page, Google+ profile, or Twitter account. Think about this especially when you leave comments on an article or blog post;
• Be sure to keep all of the contact information on your blogs and social media accounts up to date, so nobody is trying to contact an account you no longer use;
• Consider using a social directory service like About.me, and link to it from your blogs, author pages, and social media profiles;
• Insert links to your contact page, About.me account, or social media accounts in your email signature.

Remember to Click Links and to Retweet

Don’t just retweet content that interests you. Actually click the links and go check them out! When you click a link in someone’s Tweet it registers as “engagements” on Twitter, and on social media management apps like HootSuite or Buffer. If you favourite or retweet, that counts as engagement too, but it doesn’t impact on the original content (their article or blog post.) That’s an important distinction to keep in mind.

Clicking through to the original content helps your Twitter friends earn more money on sites that pay per view. It can also help to boost their search engine ranking, because more clicks through to their pages increase the traffic Google and other sites will see going to the site.

When you visit a friend’s content, try to stay on the site and read a few more pages. The “related links,” site archive, recent comments, and other features that appear on many blogs and writing sites can help you to find additional content that might interest you. By staying a little longer, and taking the time to comment and share other interesting content, you can help the analytics for a site. And that can mean improved revenue for them. If a fellow blogger sees you as an ally who helps to build income, she’ll want to support your writing as well.

Blogging Tip:

When you read an article or post, take the time to leave a comment. Use the “web site” field to enter a link to your blog or author page, or to a post on a related topic. This creates backlinks to your content from other web sites, and it gets you more exposure!

People will also notice it if you take the few extra seconds to share their links on other social networks. So don’t miss those opportunities to show your support. It often means other people will return the favour. 

Create Twitter Lists

Of all the secrets to success on Twitter, lists are one of the features that many bloggers seem to be missing. Lists aren’t just a way for you to organize the people you follow. They’re also a powerful tool for promoting fellow writers and getting them to notice you.

Create public lists to group people who Tweet about the same kinds of things. You might have a list for people who Tweet blogging tips, another one for people who Tweet about writing fiction, and yet another for people who Tweet about SEO or social media management.

Twitter send out a notification whenever you add someone to one of your lists, which means you have yet another chance to get noticed. And if you make your lists public, other people can see the feed coming from those lists. If they think it’s useful, they can subscribe. They may even add you to one of their own lists!

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