Comments on: Using Twitter to Grow A Minisite’s Traffic in 5 Steps

By: Mojito

Mojito — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:49:01 +0000

Great recommendation! I view twitter as a type of e-mail newsletter without the complexity.

By: Bruce Marler

Bruce Marler — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:30:25 +0000

Great post Brian. People sometimes underestimate the value of having targeted followers on twitter and building site traffic that way.

Good stuff.

By: Chef Patrick

Chef Patrick — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:59:17 +0000

Twitter is a powerful tool if used properly. It’s fun too!

Good post!

By: DomainTweeter

DomainTweeter — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:20:45 +0000

Great post! Nice non-spammy approach to building a targeted list of followers and slowly introducing them to a site.

If you have the time, you might want to consider offering this as a standalone consulting service. Might be a number of domainers who don’t have the time / experience to do it right and who would be interested in outsourcing to a domainer who understands twitter and won’t just blast out a bunch of spammy tweets.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:54:09 +0000

Excellent post. These are great strategies, and I will be be using them for my next dev project. I would add one other thing – to use analytics available through url shorteners like bit.ly and others. The information available through these services can be quite useful.

Michael

By: Dan Sanchez

Dan Sanchez — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:38:29 +0000

Awesome post, that’s the same strategy I’ve been doing with all major developments lately.

If you are developing a GEO domain, you can use TwitterLocal or some other application that targets users by their location, it helps with getting the people who regularly use twitter to notice your site.

I use “Reading blah blah blah http://bit.ly/0000” for my tweets, it seems less commercial and usually gets a good amount of clicks.

Good luck Brian!

Dan