I love....promoting blogs on Twitter

We all know Twitter is a great social media tool for promoting your business, but it can also be pivotal in bringing traffic to blogs which is often hard to do. Here are some tips on how to push your blog views up!  

1. Biography – make sure your ‘about me’ section is properly filled out and links directly to your website/blog. People  will search for key words that they are interested in, and if your biography is used cleverly, you will be likely to show up in the search results. Personally, if I look at someone’s about me section and they have a link, I generally want to find out more so it really is worth linking your blog here.

2. New followers – Now this is a good tip that might be worth using, especially for businesses who are hoping to drive up their website traffic. Every time you get a new follower, send them a tweet thanking them for the follow, and include your URL in the tweet. That way, they have direct access to your website or blog, and probably will be more inclined to check you our further as you took the time to thank them so personally!

3. Get yourself re-tweeted – I see it all too often… “ @justinbeiber I love you so much please retweet me!!”, “@Oprah its my mums birthday, pretty please can you re-tweet this for her!” This is totally the wrong way to go about getting re-tweeted, and like most other people out there really gets my back up!  Take time to identify the major players in your niche, or maybe even celebrities who you think have a fan base who would be interested in what you do, and see if you can get on their radar. Re-tweet what they say, tweet interesting links and news at them , reply to their tweets with something engaging if they tweet a question. If you are interesting and refrain from begging for a re-tweet, you might just be one of the lucky people who gets one!

4. Follow Friday – This one is simple. Recommend other twitter users every Friday using the #followfriday #ff hashtags, and hopefully they will return the favour in turn driving up traffic to your twitter page and in turn your URL. Perhaps make sure you recommend some major players and write a whole tweet dedicated to why others should follow them which will be likely to get you noticed even more.

5. Tweet, tweet, tweet! – there is no kind of promotion like self-promotion, so really go for it! Tweet the links to each new blog post and make sure you always make your new followers are aware that you have a blog/website (see number 3) and tweet back at people who come up in niche searches as long as it is relevant.

6. Tweet chats – I only found out about these whilst doing some research today, but it seems this is a great way of getting yourself noticed.  People hold ‘tweet chats’ using specific hash tags, where participants can answer questions from the moderation and generally chat back and forward. Check out what tweet chats within your niche are happening when here. If you become a mover and shaker within tweet chats, you might get yourself re-tweeted meaning more traffic to your twitter homepage and thus blog. I’m going to give this one a try!

Let me know what has worked well for you.

Love,

Lauren x

I love...my bucket list (allegedly!)

Blimey, I’ve  got problems.

I PROMISED myself at the start of the year that I would really start living. Life is short I said, you will be gone before you know it I said, tomorrow could be your last I said. Blah blah blah.  Turns out I enjoy to ignore my own amazingly excellent advice.

Out of my bucket list of 64 fun, excitingly and quite frankly inspiring wishes, I have ticked off a mere 5 things.

5. That is beyond poor.

And in the last year, I have only completed one of those! (see my previous bucket list post to see what, or more to the point what I have'nt ticked off)

I said to myself that in February when I went skiing to Courchevel, I would attempt to tick off number 4 - skiing down a black run. I am sad to say that this was not completed! Sure, I'm a good skiier and didi plenty of reds, but the elusive black seems to have evaded me once more (either that, or I'm too much of a baby). Better luck next year?

Oh WAIT! I have partially ticked off another one! Number 8 - Further my education. I have recently started a CAM Foundation diploma in Marketing Communications, go me!

Next items to tackle:

14. Roll down a really big hill – this seems such a simple one, but I really need to identify an appropriate hill where A. no one will be able to see/point/laugh at me, and B. one that isn’t so steep that I will accelerate in to some kind of horrific death spin and pass away into the night. Tricky.

22. Get better at playing the piano (chopsticks no longer cuts it) – I feel this is doable. I can already play Coldplay and Rihanna…oh my god I am so going to be the next Lady Gaga.

35. Use my journalistic skills and get an article published in a newspaper/magazine – This is a difficult one but I am up for the challenge none the less.

53. Enter a craft or baking competition at a country fair - I am obsessed with baking, and pretty much immense at it too, so come rain or shine, the prize will be mine!

64. Snuggle in bed all weekend and only get out to wee HAHAHA – Im pretty convinced that this one would be easy. Perhaps over Christmas on a hangover day. Bit boring on your own though..please refer to my previous single depressive post.

Lets see how far I get by next year eh!

Love

Lauren x