Is building a follower list in Twitter important to SEO?

Many customers ask me if building a large follower list on Twitter is worth it in combination with SEO.

The short answer, absolutely. It is a vital piece of Internet Marketing. In the first part of this blog I will explain how you can get a large and targeted audience to follow you.
How can you build a large Twitter follower list? It’s simple but it will take time and effort on your part on a regular basis if you don’t want your New SEO Company to do it for you.

6 simple steps to become a Twitter Superstar:

1. Do NOT settle for a Twitter background. You appear to be a lazy person by settling for the easy way out. Go to Twitbacks.com and design your own background. This is a very user friendly, free service. And, after you design your background, it will even be automatically uploaded on to your Twitter account.

2. Now it’s time to select people/businesses you want to follow. Click on the “Find A Person” link in your upper menu and place the type of person/business you are seeking. For example, if you are seeking to reach people interested in food, type “food” in the “Find A Person”. Click on the first listing and then click on their followers. Next you click on the “follow” button for the first 5 to 7 pages of that listing. After that go to the next listing under “food” and do the same. Try to follow approximately 100 people per day.

3. Cleanse your list (or unfollow) of those who do not follow you in return. Do this every couple of days and do NOT waste your time doing it manually. Use the free online unfollow service Huitter.com. This will automatically delete those who do not follow you. This is critical when you approach 2,000 people that you are following as Twitter usually will not allow you to exceed more than 10% of those following you once you hit 2,000 people that you are following.

For example, suppose you have 1,200 followers and you exceed 2,000 that you are following. You might have your account frozen or not be able to follow any more people. So it’s vital that you cleanse your list to only follow those that are following you.

4. How many Tweets should you send out each day? 1 or 2? No. More like 15 or 16 sent out on an hourly basis. You’re thinking, you want me to send out a tweet on the hour, every hour, are you insane? (Your New SEO Company can do this for you). You can set your tweets up for the day or week and we will do the rest.

5. Shorten any link that you tweet using a service like www.bit.ly . Remember you only have 140 characters in your tweet, one area to conserve characters is your link.

6. Answer all PERSONAL direct messages. These are message where someone has taken the time to type in your name. All the others are probably automatically generated. Don’t waste your time on those as the sender will never read your reply.

Complete these steps every day and you will become a Twitter Superstar.

Thanks

Oscar Bos
New Wave SEO