That indeed is the question.
But in usual Affiliate Man style I’m going to disagree with the status quo.
Auto Follow back is a great thing, in fact, a really great thing that can increase both traffic and sales to your website.
You hear many (gurus) say don’t auto follow back. That it isn’t the way to go, well that’s ok when you’ve got over 50,000 people following you, but in the real world it is better to follow back especially with affiliate marketing.
Keep it Personal..
Have your own personal Twitter account and only follow those you are interested in. Twitter is a great way to get a heap of information. Make sure you follow me in the personal account (@affiliatemanm)
Twitter for Targeted Traffic…
Twitter can be a great source of targeted traffic for your site.
With each website you have, create a Twitter account for it
Follow and follow back as many people as possible that would be interested in the niche of your site.
How to get Targeted Followers?
So how do you get a heap of followers?
Simple, just find the main person (the expert) on Twitter in the niche your marketing to. If your niche is woodworking, then you want to follow people interested in woodwork.
A quick Google search of “woodwork magazine twitter” will find the expert on Twitter in that niche. Now follow the people that are following the woodworking Twitter account. Chances are you will have people genuinely interested in your niche.
A little rule of thumb – Don’t follow people without a profile picture or with links in their tweets these are usually bots (fake twitter accounts)
Start off slow and follow people everyday, after about a week you will notice some will follow back. Unfollow those who haven’t followed you back in that time. With just 10 minutes per day you can build up your niche Twitter account with some decent followers interested in what you’ve got to sell.
If you’re Twitter account is brand new then wait 5 days after that follow 40 people a day for a week, leave it day and then go ahead and follow 150 to 200 at day (random). Unfollow those who don’t follow back after 7 days. After a while you will amass an army of people on your niche twitter account who like what you’re selling and you will get traffic because of that.
Another tip – make your niche Twitter account look personal, pick a pen name and add a picture. Fill out the bio and add in a location closest to where you think your core audience is for that niche.
I Have Many Niche Websites, Would Take All Day??
If like me you have many websites, this process would literally take all day, but this is where a handy piece of software comes in.
Enter Tweet Attacks, this software fully automates the follow/unfollow process and it does so in way that emulates a real person’s behavior. (Check out my Tweet Attacks review here.)
Once setup Tweet Attacks will (in the background) log in and follow/unfollow for each niche account you have. It will wait a random amount of time between follows, unfollows and logging in to get a “realistic” look that will keep your Twitter account safe from being suspended. Most if not all other software I’ve used for this simply don’t keep accounts safe from suspension.
Once set up Tweet Attacks requires very little maintenance. You can have it running and working on your accounts while you sleep. I use the pro edition, but the free edition is great just to get you used to using the software. Once you easily master it you’ll see why the pro version is so powerful.
In upcoming posts I will show some of my techniques that get waves of traffic to my affiliate sites with no maintenance at all.
Resources
Fake Name Generator – http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/
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This is going to assist me one heck of a lot. I am fairly new to the twitter marketing thing, and I can only see this guide helping me to achieve the resluts I want; people actually interested in what you can offer them and also to keep those others just very far away.
Thanks a mil!
No worries Ruan, plenty more to come.