If you haven’t heard of it, Twitter is a microblogging tool that is all the rage these days. The basic premise behind Twitter is one of short, simple messages that are “twittered” or posted to the twitter platform from the web, text or desktop applications. Twitter can be a valuable source of information, connections and trending news and you shouldn’t miss out.

Here are a few ways to get more traffic to your website through twitter:

1. Post your RSS Feed to Twitter

There are multiple tools available that allow you to post your RSS feed in realtime. The most popular tool that most people use is Twitterfeed. Your followers will get immediate knowledge that your post has been created on your blog. This is excellent because not all of your followers on twitter will necessarily be readers of your blog, but by tweeting your feed they will gain knowledge of your blog.

2. Follow People In Your Niche

Follow other bloggers, send them tweets and become friends with them. Twitter allows you to communicate much more easily and build relationships faster then email ever would. Once you have become friendly with them, you can start guest posting, asking for more exposure, and getting your posts more readers and your blog more subscribers.

3. Hold Contests Via Twitter

Give things away via twitter. You will gain more followers, who will become more aware of your blog, your brand and will start reading your blog and its posts. The best way to do this is similar to the way the Affiliate Summit gives away Free Passes – ask people to twitter a reason why they should win the contest, the answer to a riddle, or what they think about your blog, for example.

4. Solicit feedback on Twitter

Ask friends and followers to give you feedback on new content, get their reactions, and continue the conversation on your blog or on Twitter.  Social media and Twitter are all about being interactive, so make sure that you continue the conversation in any and all appropriate mediums.

5. Embed a Twitter box on your web page

Let visitors to your web site know that they can always be instantly updated – install a twitter box on your web site that updates with your latest tweets, and invite your website visitors to follow you on Twitter. Why have your subscribers follow you on Twitter? It helps you build a brand, it increases loyalty, and it gives you more exposure for very little extra work.

Hi bloggers, as you know leaving comments in other blogs can be a great way to get traffic, expand your brand and impose your authority on Internet. I like to leave relevant comments in the most of the blogs I daily visit, receiving many exposure in front of many people.

Today, I want to introduce a tool which can help you in this task. May be you have heard about Traffic Kahuna, a paid tool which you can boost your website, getting a lot of traffic and ranking better on search engines. The same team has a free tool called Comment Kahuna, which you can get targeted backlinks to your blog, without using risk techniques that can destroy your search engine rankings.

As you could see, this is a powerful tool which you can make quicker the process of commenting in other blogs. Also, by searching for blogs without no follow you can get some backlinks, useful to increase your PR.

Recently I was reading some posts via RSS, and I visited some of them to leave my comments and share my opinions. This is something very common between bloggers, and it is something very useful that can give you a good amount of traffic, with the possibility to catch new readers.

While I was doing that, I noticed the diversity in the names used by the people, and it made me think about what name is best to leave comments in other blogs. Depending the case, the impact will be different, giving you more or less reactions to your comment. I thought in three possibilities of names to leave comments in other blogs, and my options were the following ones:

1. Leave comments under your own name: This is the first alternative I thought due to it is the most obvious. The problem resides in that if you leave comments under your own name, many people will not easily recognize you. I could start leaving comments under my complete name, and I’m pretty sure that nobody will know who I am. But this can be relative, I’m going to talk about it in the following lines…
2. Leave comments under your blog’s name: Leaving comments under your blog’s name could be an advantage, because at the same time you are pointing your link in a comment, you are “broadcasting” the name of your blog. The people will remember your blog’s name, making it a good technique to get direct traffic. Also, this could be better if the name of your blog can give a hint of what is your blog about, giving you more traffic if you comment on other blogs related to your same blog’s niche.
3. Leave comments under your brand’s name: Every blog have a brand, logically. Many of them are a contraction of the name, others a kind of tagline… The fact is that commenting with your brand’s name will cause a good impact in the other commenters, because they will be catching your brand’s name at the same time they are catching your blog’s name. Why? Because when they visit your blog, they will associate both names, something great for you.

But no matter under what name you comment in other blogs, there are some facts we need reconsider. In my case, my brand’s name is the same that my blog’s name. And also, it is how I’m named, so what’s more perfect than that? I comment under the name of “Mr. Javo” and everybody associate it with my little caricature in the header of my blog.

Also you can perfectly comment under your own name, just if you promote it. As I said, I could not start commenting under my own name because nobody will know who I am. But if you use your own name to promote your blog, commenting with it could work perfectly.

The conclusion of all this post is simple. You can post under the name you want, my tree presented alternatives are perfectly valid, but you need to be consistent. If you comment the first time under your own name, you need to keep commenting with your own name, forever! You can’t go away commenting with different names, and if you do, what is the point? Don’t you want to be recognized?

Daily, many people visit my blog looking for blogging tips or information to monetize their blog. Some of them, read a couple of posts and get a subscription by e-mail, visiting me constantly and taking part in this community. Others, simply read something of their interest and never come back to my blog.

Once, I was a fan a John Cow, I visited his blog everyday and commented on all his posts. But eventually, for some reasons I lost the interest. I don’t want to lose you! Keep coming to my blog please! So In this post I will share my secrets with you, about how I keep my audience coming back to my blog.

The next is a list of 7 things to keep your visitors coming back to your blog, as a magnet attracts the metal!:

1. Giving them what they want: As I told you some lines above, most of my audience are bloggers and marketers. Here, they look for blogging tips, affiliate marketing programs and these kinds of stuff. What if I start to write about Poetry? You don’t need to be Nostradamus to know what will happen here, because it is so obvious that the people will start to leave! So, to avoid this, give to your visitors content related to your blog’s niche.
2. Sending them E-Mails: Let’s face it, nobody will visit your blog everyday. Sometimes, your readers forget about your blog with all the content in Internet waiting to be discovered. In these cases, is good to send them an e-mail reminding them about your existence, maybe with some promotion or just saying hello could be fine.
3. Poking them on social networks: There are many social media networks there. MyBlogLog, Sphinn, Mixx, Digg, Facebook, Propeller blah-blah… There are many social networks where you can interact with your readers. Sending them a simple message in these communities you can attract (again) their attention, and they will come back to your blog to see your advances. Also, you can forget all what I said in this point, and send them a message by Twitter!!.
4. Replying their comments: In an active community, many people leave a message in the posts expressing their thoughts about the topic in question. Although you get several messages, try to reply all (or at least the most) of them. Also a general message replying many of them could be good, but replying your reader’s comments it is the key of this. If you don’t reply their comments, they will feel ignored, and they will not participate in your blog.
5. Referencing their blog: If your visitors have blogs, you should reference them. This idea is not new, but it was getting more importance in the blogosphere the latests month. Referencing to your reader’s blogs, is a signal that represent that you care about them and their blogs. In addition of that, with this you help to increase their backlinks. This is a good way to attract simple visitors and make them your friends.
6. Commenting on their blog: If you referenced their blog, surely you have commented on it. Commenting in other blogs you are spreading your image and brand with many people. For each comment you do in other blog, at least 1 person will visit your blog through your comment, that’s sure. I have attracted some readers through this way.
7. Bribing them: Hahaha I have not reached this level of despair, but still being an alternative . Giving entrecard credits, dollars, free backlinks or whatever you want to give (for free) should work!

Good tips uh? You have 7 choices to keep your visitors coming back to your blog. You don’t need to do all them, but at least the points: 1, 3, 4 and 6 should be constant. Do you have another trick beside mines? So help me and my readers sharing it!

Happy Blogging

Hello readers, every week, I will share with you posts that I find useful through other blogs. Today I will be brief. This week, I collected some useful posts while surfing the web.

Top 5 Ways To Boost Your Technorati Authority: Tim from Yimto wrote this great post the last week. Here, you could find five tips to improve your technorati authority and rank. I was looking him blog these latest month, and two months ago he had 200 of authority. Now, he has almost 600! He know what is doing, worth the read.

Get Paid to Blog: Career Blogging: Suzanne from Ez-Money-Online wrote a great post about getting paid for writing posts. She collected several good programs, which pay you to write reviews about services, products or websites.

Remember to Keep Your Chin Up: in this post, Jeff from Buzz My Blog makes a comparison between the blogging and a roller coaster, talking about the downs and ups.

Cultivate Your Writing Skills to Improve Your Blog: Plonkee from Blogthority give us a good post, talking about how important is your writing to improve your posts, a very important point when we talk about blogging.

Why You Need A Blog: in this post of The Wealthy Blogger, he talk about the power of the blogs, and how it can be used to promote your Internet marketing business.

40 Tips for Better Life: this is an off-topic post, is not related to my blog’s niche, but I found it very useful to everybody who want to improve their life.

Well my dear readers, enjoy! I hope you like these posts, I found them very useful. By the way, I don’t know what happen with my feed counter, do you noticed that it drops by 50? I was talking with other fellow bloggers and their counter is fine. So I don’t know what happened with mine, I hope that tomorrow it return to the normality. My counter is fine, it was an error of feedburner.

PS: By the way, my birthday is in 3 days! You still having time to enter in my birthday contest. Good Luck

Nowadays, the blogs are one of the bigger sources of information on Internet. There are many facilities that services like WordPress, Blogger and Typepad provides, giving all the basic resources to create and manage a blog, for free. Due to this, many people over the Internet have given themselves the opportunity to create a blog and experience its managing, writing about their hobbies, day to day activities or whatever their want. Now, the question is: why the blogs became so popular?

What Make Them So Attractive?

You never asked you this question? Me neither, until now. The blog is a great way to communicate many things such information, experiences and news. Many people who use their blog to write about their daily experiences, commonly do it to share all that information with their family and friends, without monetary aims, just for fun. Other people use their blog to share tutorials, giving away all their knowledge. The reasons can be many, they can feel good just doing it, others do it because their content is limited on Internet, or just because they are getting paid.

In any case, the reason why the blogs are so attractive is because they are readily accessible. Being on Internet there are several opportunities, because it can be consulted by everybody whenever they want, from any place of the world. This propriety of popularity is what has made the blogs so attractive for everybody. In addition of that, the opportunity to edit your blog easily by writing new posts and keep informed to the people who read your content.

Their Presence On Internet

Wherever you look, there is a blog. If you type anything on Google, whatever the topic, at least a half of the results will be linked to a blog. It seems like the blog became more easy to create and edit than a standard website. If you check a company’s website, you will see that they will have a section reserved to their blog, where they announce their latest products or offers.

Of the way in the blogs were established on the Web, they caused the birth of communities which offer all the support the blogs need. Communities like BlogCatalog can provide you thousand of blogs related to any topic. Something curious that I noticed is that all the communities are getting connected with the others, for example if you are a BlogCatalog or MyBlogLog user, now you can see the activities of your friends on the others networks like StumbleUpon, Digg, Twitter and more.

Something amazing is happening there. If you noticed it, everything is getting connected, even more than ever. When it happens, the blogs will be the most popular method of socializing on the web, altogether with the social media networks.