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Today, I’ve got a pure content post for you in which I look at three great techniques for building your Twitter following. And, building a Twitter presence quickly and with that all important engagegment.

You will have often heard me talk about the importance of social media in today’s break-neck Internet Marketing world. So, here we go, three easy ways to build a large Twitter following!

Introduction To Twitter

Twitter is a place where there are a lot of people! That many people all in one place creates a massive opportunity to do business.

Imagine if you could send just 0.01% of all the traffic that hits Twitter each day…to your website or offer! That would be a massive amount of traffic – right?

The Problem With Twitter

But, there’s also a massive problem in using Twitter in this way!

What’s that?

Yep, unless you can sort the wheat from the chaff, Twitter is just a confused bundle of “noise”. Unless you can sort, put it in some sort of order and harvest that noise, you’ll never get traffic, let alone any engagement on your Tweets.

So, in this quick Twitter Traffic Cheat Sheet we’re going to try and help you make sense of how it all works and to get some true value out of Twitter.

Hold tight, here we go!

No.1 – Do It Right

You must remember that Twitter is a very specific platform. And, whilst there is a lot of buzz about other social media tools such as Facebook and Instagram, Twitter very definitely has its place.

You only have 280 characters so you must be adept at getting your message across succinctly.

However, there are numerous examples of marketers driving huge amounts of traffic using twitter.

So, get good at getting your message across, and look at other people who are successful in your niche and copy what they do.

 No.2 – Twitter Followers

It makes sense to get as many followers as you can on Twitter. The more followers you have the more people will see your message – that much is obvious.

However, how do you get the right followers. There are two ways.

Firstly, find people that you know operate in and are interested in your niche and follow them. Again, fairly obvious.

Another way, that is not so “in plain sight” is to find the major personalities in your niche. So, if we’re taking Internet Marketing, the likes of Ryan Deiss, Frank Kern, Mike Filsaime, Hubspot etc and then…

…look at and FOLLOW their followers.

Some of the people you follow will follow you back and so you build a relevant audience. If they are following influencers in your market, they will more than likely be a potential prospect for your business.

Consider using a tool such as Tweepi to automate your following and unfollowing. But, bear in mind there are some restraints on how quickly you can build your following in Twitter.

No.3 Dealing With Twitter “Noise”

One of the biggest issues with Twitter is the pure volume of information (tweets). There must be millions of tweets per day. And, even if you are following someone, the chances of you seeing a tweet are slim, they just get lost in the pure volume or general “noise” that is Twitter.

Use your own experience as an example, note at the top of the feed when you are posting…how many new tweets are made even while you just post. The new tweet remaining at the top for a very, very short time indeed.

You can see on the image on one of my very small accounts, 6 tweets within 23 seconds of posting.

It’s easy to miss tweets and it’s easy for people to miss your tweets.

The way to get around this (to some degree) is to make the tweet more than once. Maybe 2-3 times over the course of the first hour and then again tomorrow. Re-word and tweet again and if you have multiple accounts re-tweet.

Consider adding an image to make it stand out and look different.

No.4 Hash Tagging

Research suggests that tweets with hash tags #hashtags  get more than twice the engagement than those without. This obviously means more visibility and clicks as well.

Hash tags are a way of searching out content that is relevant.

So if you are into affiliate marketing and hashtag a post as follows;- #affiliatemarketing it is more likely affiliate marketers will get to see that hash tag.

If you can plug in to a hash tag trend even better. You can use this website to find hash tag ideas.

https://www.hashtags.org/

No.5 Use Calls To Action In Your Tweets

Using calls to action can be extremely beneficial in your tweeting.

What is a call to action?

Please retweet, please share, click the link. Phrases that ask your reader to actually do something with your tweet, so “please favorite this tweet”.

Unless you tell people what to do, it’s very unlikely they will do it, so use calls to action to get your readers to take the action you want.

Re-tweeting is probably the most powerful as it gets your message seen by a lot of other people, and helps build your own following more quickly.

Use techniques like asking questions to induce people to share and re-tweet. A good idea is an either / or question and ask readers to RT (retweet) for one and Fav (favorite) for then other.

No.6 Pay To Promote on Twitter

Twitter now includes a paid platform (like Facebook Ads or Google Adwords and even YouTube nowadays).

If you don’t have time (or the inclination) to build your following organically, then paid may be the way for you.

If you pay to promote, twitter will ensure your tweets are seen by non-followers, thereby increasing your exposure.

The cost per click (cpc) are still relatively cheap and it allows you to target your audience, by niche, demographics, geography, interests etc.

If a post is “promoted” you will see it annotated as “promoted” in grey at the bottom of the post.

They also now have an in depth analytics platform so you can easily track the success of your promoted tweets.

The image shows a promoted post. Leadpages has targeted me as I have “Internet Marketing” on my interests…which is why the paid for tweet shows on my timeline.

No.7 Like And Re-Tweet Your Own Tweets

There is nothing like a bit of self-promotion

It just gets that initial like and or re-tweet showing. I’m not saying this technique will bring you a ton of traffic, but it’s something you should do as a matter of course.

In Closing

I hope you have found this useful, if you like this and want to explore Social Media for your Online business a little further, then here are the resources I used to put this Twitter strategy together.

Corrine Essa – Social Media World

I was fortunate enough to see Corrine present this course live at her husband Steve Essa’s London workshop last year (2018). Corrine is a Social Media whizz! 100%

I got my social media attack plan from here, as well as many of the social media techniques I use today to extend my following on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram (she also covers Linked In for more B2B type applications).

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It’s well worth getting on the Webinar she delivers in anhy case! You’ll get an hour of pure content and the basis of much of what I now do on social media. I currently have 9,965 FB followers, 1,389 YouTube followers and nearly 3,000 over various Twitter accounts. 9 months ago I had just a few hundred Twitter followers and nothing on FB and YouTube!

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Paul O’Mahony – Social Media Master Class

I think, by now, you know I am in Paul’s mastermind group. I guess I am just putting this resource here because Online Business Mastery and Social Media Master Class are simply the best programs for online marketing business generation.

They are all based around starting with social media and the Re-Think Social Media book…Using the time you normally spend fishing around Facebook and Twitter effectively to start an online business.

The bottom line here is that you spend this time on Social Media anyway…so why not use it to make some money? It’s a no brainer really!

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So, to conclude, Social Media, and Twitter in particular are a great way to engage with your target audience, particularly if you are building an Online Business. These techniques will help you build a Twitter follwing in double quick time. I hope you enjoty using and profiting from them.

All the best.

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So, I’m sure if I get frustrated others msut do too!!! So here’s a definitive guide for social media image sizes for 2018 – enjoy!

Facebook Images

At the last count, I heard Facebook quoted as having close to 2.5 billion users globally – that is a lot of people. It’s also true that it provides an awful lot of potential social media pulling power for your business.

Profile Picture:

• The image should be at least 180 x 180 pixels.
• Photo will appear on 160 x 160 pixels on the desktops, 140 x 140 on smart phones and 50 x 50 on feature phones.
• Photo thumbnail will appear all over Facebook at 32 x 32 pixel

Business Profile

• The image must be at least 180 x 180 pixels.
• The image will appear on the page as 170 x 170 pixels on desktop, 128 x 128 on smart phone and 36 x 36 on feature phones.
• Photo thumbmail will appear all over Facebook at 32 x 32 pixels.
• Business page images are usually cropped to fit a square.

Header Image

• 851 x 315 (both Business and Personal Profile)
• Displays 820 x 312 on desktop
• Displays 640 x 360 on smartphone
• Minimum size 399 x 150

Ad Images

• 1200 x 628

Shared Image

• The recommended upload size should be 1,200 x 630 pixels.
• Maximum appearance width of 470 pixels
• On-page maximum image width of 504 pixels

Shared Link

• The recommended link image size is 1200 x 627 pixels.
• Minimum image size for a square in-feed image is 154 x 154 pixels and 116 x 116 pixels respectively.
• Minimum size of square image on both page and feed is 484 x 252 pixels and 470 x 246 pixels respectively.

Twitter Images

Last time I heard Twitter had about 335 million (mid 2018) users, so a long way short of Facebook, but it does still give excellent leverage for marketing purposes. Their ad platform offers cheap marketing compared to Facebook, but that’s for another day. Here are the image sizes for Twitter.

Profile Picture

• Square image size of 400 x 400 pixels.
• It will display as 200 x 200 pixels.
• Maximum file size is not more than 2 MB.

Cover Picture

• Image size for cover photo or header photo is 1500 x 500 pixels. Be careful if you add words (like a web address) ort a logo that it does not clash with the profile picture
• Maximum file size should not exceed 5 MB

Timeline Pictures

• In-stream image when expanded is 440 x 220 pixels.
• Size of in-stream photo when expanded is 1024 x 512 pixels.
• Timeline picture size propagates at 506 x 253 pixels on desktop.
• For photos, the maximum file size is 5 MB.
• If using animated GIFs, the file sizes should not exceed 5 MB on mobile or 15 MB on desktop.

Google Plus Images

G+ is more of a B2B type network and I have to confess to not really using it. I nly have 13 followers on Google Plus – that’s poor! Funnily enolugh if you search Google for “how many G+ users”…Google fails to provide an answer. Now that is coy However, if you check out Wikipedia they’ll tell you it’s 111 million users.

Profile Picture

• Image size should be at least 250 x 250 pixels.
• Maximum dimension is around 5200 x 5300 pixels.
• Maximum file size is 100 MB.

Cover Image

• Recommended cover image size is 1080 x 608 pixels
• The cover image must be a minimum of 480 x 270 and a maximum of 2120 x 1192 pixels (it will propagate accordingly).

Shared Image / Link / Video

• The “in-stream” image in will propagate at a width of 426 pixels.
• Minimum image width must be 497 pixels.
• Maximum upload size is no more than 2048 x 2048 pixels.
• Width of shared image can be 506 pixels
• If sharing video, it can be bigger than 506 x 284 pixels, but will propgate accordingly if above this size.
• Shared link image thumbnail should be 150 x 150 pixels.

YouTube Images

Profile Image

• Recommended upload size for the profile image is 800 x 800 pixels
• Image propagates as 98 x 98 pixels

Cover Image

• Recommended cover photo size is 2560 x 1440 pixels. Watch the video below to see how this image propagates. This is important!
• Maximum file size is 4 MB

Display Image Sizes

• Tablet display size is 1855 x 423 pixels
• Mobile display size is 1546 x 423 pixels
• TV display size is 2560 x 1440 pixels
• Desktop display size is supposed to be 2560 x 423 pixels (this is what YouTube says, but again, watch the video, this is NOT what happens on desltop)
• The dimension of any video uploads for the header must be at least 1280 x 720 pixels.

Instagram Images

Instagram now has 600 million users, mainly in the age group of 16-29. If you taregt market sits in this demographic, fill your boots on Instagram!

Profile Picture and Thumbnail

• Profile picture should be at 110 x 110 pixels.
• Thumbnail will propagate on page at 161 x 161 pixels.
• If uploading square images it is important to ensure you maintain 1:1 ratio
• Shared image is 1080 x 1080 pixels
• Width of any shared videos should be 1080 pixels

You are probably getting fed up with hearing me prattle on about the importance of social signals pointing at your website by now. However, I only do this because it is a fact of life and something we have to deal with if we want Google to take notice of our sites.

Added to that the fact that social media can (and will) provide traffic in its own right as well. And, traffic that comes from social media tends to be warmer, so it is a big tool in your online marketing weaponry.

Today I have made a six minute video for you showing you some ideas and tips for getting traffic and engagement from Twitter, I hope you find it useful.

Check out our Facebook Traffic Videos as well

And, here’s the free Twitter Traffic Cheat Sheet for download