The micro bloging platform Twitter has created a media storm in the last few months with a army of stars mentioning Twitter on their television shows , and Internet marketing gurus telling you, you can use Twitter to hundreds of fans , the talk about Twitter is hard to avoid . You probably know people on Twitter and your major suppliers have probably asked you to be their Twitter fan . That brings us neatly to my point . What are YOU doing about it for yourself?
A lot of people, actually I think most, don’t even “get” Twitter. And that’s partly because it can be many different things to almost as many people. And to some extent, they may even be all true, at least to that person.
But however you approach your Twitter strategy and there’s a great FREE training video about that at http://www.TrafficHug.com/twittervideo/ but whatever you do, you should be doing something. The smallest benefit will be extra chances for impressions , ideally with some way of people finding you by your keyword, or your name. I mean a few people are just going to wonder if your business (or you) are on Twitter and type in twitter dot com slash acme widgets. Now it will be embarrassing is a cyber squatter is sitting on your own name, so another good reason to make sure you secure your place in the Twit’o'sphere. (By the way things can be done about cyber squatters, just ask me.)
In other articles we talk about how to get noticed for your keyword and how to manage your account for targeted conversion (also covered well in that free video I mentioned earlier) but let’s do something we can do right now.
A lot of people envision Twitter traffic as being an internal affair . A concept most Twitter directories promote . But in the real Twitter , the advantages of having your regular traffic subscribe to you on Twitter are many fold. So beneficial that we need to start integrating immediately .
The easiest thing is to add a Twitter “badge” to your web presences . A Twitter badge is a graphic saying who you are on Twitter with a hyperlink to your Twitter profile. In the videos I mentioned , you’ll see how , but let’s stick to a simple badge for now .
WHERE CAN I CREATE MY TWITTER BADGE?
You can get your own customised Twitter badge for FREE from this site ;
http://wwwTwitterHug.com/twitter/category/badge/ – Free Twitter badge .
You just paste the HTML it provides in to your page .
It works great on WordPress blogs as a sidebar Text Widget. I’ve added them on all my blogs.
The Twitter badge is housed in its own code block so should reside perfectly almost anywhere.
If you create a table or div tag to position it in , then you can just paste the code in verbatim . With WYSIWYG html editors, there is usually an HTML “object” box you can place in the desired location and just place the code in to that. Adobe Dreamweaver users can just insert an AP Layer (from the insert menu) and then paste the code in to that using the HTML code view pane.
Integrating your Twitter page with your existing web properties is an essential strategy. One you can do in the next 10 minutes, with a few mouse clicks,
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