Beginner Blogger

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As you’re probably well aware I have been focusing a lot of my attention on Twitter lately. As I write this I have 1,413 followers. The reason I’ve been focusing so much on twitter lately is because:

a) Twitter is one of the fastest if not the fastest social media site going around at the moment and
b) I want to be able to reach out to as many beginner bloggers/bloggers as I can. The more people I can help the better!

So with that in mind here is the method of how I managed to get 1000 twitter followers in 30 days and how you can do the same for your niche.

1. Post great valuable ‘tweets’ related to your niche

First and foremost. In order to get people to follow you, you MUST be posting great quality valuable tweets both related to your niche and that people will also enjoy. It’s all about the value of your tweets. If your blog is about hockey and all you’re talking about on twitter is about your garden then you’re going to fail at getting those hockey fans to add you to twitter! (Yes I know, very lame example but I hope you see my point )

Check out this amazing video by Darren Rowse – Twitter Tips for Beginners

2. Search keywords on twitter based on your niche

Most twitter applications have the ability for you to search terms on twitter. At first I used Tweetdeck but over the last couple of months I’ve mainly used Hootsuite. Both of these applications allow you to search for keywords which give results from tweets all over the world.

What I did was brainstormed a whole bunch of keywords that suited my niche of blogging. Things like ’starting a blog’, ‘help with blogging’, ‘creating a blog’ etc. From these keywords I would find people using twitter that were tweeting about blogging that I felt that I could help or that they could benefit from my blog. I would add these people.

More likely than not they would follow me back. Why? Because I completed the first step of having valuable tweets in my twitter account (and also this blog) that they could benefit from.

3. Find a keyword or phrase that has a high success rate of people you are adding to twitter and use Buzzom.com add people more efficiently.

Once I had tested and tried out several keywords and phrases that I felt I was able to find people within my niche I then looked for the keywords/phrases that had a high success rate of people I was adding.

For example the phrase ‘new to blogging’ wasn’t really working out for me, I would add about 1/10 people from this category. That phrase seemed to have an awful lot of spammers and people I wasn’t interested in adding nor felt I could help. The phrase ‘create a blog’ however saw a much higher success rate. More like 8/10 from this category I would add.

Once I found a great phrase that generates a lot of good tweeters I used a twitter service called Buzzom. Buzzom allows you to search a keyword or phrase and add the last 50 people that used that keyword/phrase with the click of a button! This was a much more efficient way than adding people individually and why I was able to amass a great deal of followers so quickly.

Note that I made sure I chose keywords/phrases that had a high conversion rate of tweeters that would follow me back and not keywords where I would get spammers or people not interested in what I had to offer.

A huge thanks to @ileane for posting this great post about Buzzom.  I would not have had this many followers to this day if I weren’t exposed Ileane’s video and Buzzom

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So that is how I have (approximately) 1000 targeted people following me on twitter in 30 days.

What are your methods of getting targeted twitter followers? I would love to hear!

Please use the comment box below. Ever since I’ve changed over to the Disqus commenting system my comments have gone down quite considerably. Please restore my faith in the system and let me know it’s working at least.. hehe

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