Can You Make Money Online With Twitter?

Twitter is one of the largest social media sites out there.  The idea behind it is to allow people to do micro-blogs or posts that are around 140 characters.  Most people use it as a way to backlink to their site when there is an update there, but in order for this to work, you have to get Twitter followers who will see it when you update, Tweet or backlink.  How do you get more Twitter followers to make more money for you?

Let Twitter Find you Followers

When you do up your Twitter profile, you will be asked after your interests, what your business is and other details.  This in turn can give Twitter an idea of whom you’d be interested and following and thus let these people know to follow you in return.  Simple Twitter etiquette helps you at this point: most people follow their followers in return, so you can start out with a small base of people who are interested in the same thing you are.  That makes it more likely that they will follow your backlinks and your updates back to your website.

Twitter Programs

There are lots, tons of programs out there that promise to deliver you hundreds of thousands of followers… if you pay the low, low price of $9.95.  Scam?  No, not exactly; you will get a lot of followers, but you may not necessarily get followers who will care enough about what you are doing to buy what you’re selling.  However, the benefits of having many followers means that you are more likely to be re-tweeted, seen by other Twitter users (and hopefully followed) and be seen as an expert.  When used in conjunction with a regularly updated and interesting Twitter accounts, these programs can give you a leg-up so long as you get one that is actually legitimate.

Retweet, Update, and Follow

Like any social media site, participation is incredibly important.  Even Twittter, with its microblogging, still relies on a certain level of participation in order to let you succeed.  With that in mind, make sure to devote even just a few minutes every morning to browse other peoples’ tweets, retweet the ones that seem interesting, update a more personal Tweet than just blogs and new products and try to follow at least five to ten new people a day.  All of this will take may ten minutes, but it can pay you back in spades.  The following of others especially will harness the power of ‘leverage’; you follow them, they follow you back and so your  numbers grow.

Twitter is a fast way to get your message out there about your website, new products and services and more backlinks.  This in turn means you make more money online.  Twitter should not be the only marketing tool you use, but it is one of the fastest, making it ideal if you only have a few minutes a day to commit to your social media marketing.  Just be sure to keep it updated regularly and make sure to follow others and you’ll get a larger following and thus more chance for higher profits before you know it.

What is a RRS Feed? And How To Make Money with RSS

On most blogs and websites, you may see a symbol that is reddish-orange in color and looks like a small circle with two curved lines going off the top right hand side of the circle; this is the RSS feed button.  They are most often found in a small orange box with the symbol in white, though it can be just a small text link at the top of the website.  But what exactly is it and why do you need one on your own site if you want to make easy money online?

RSS stands for Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication, depending on who you listen to. What it does is allow people to easily and quickly stay up to date on all of the new updates to their favourite blogs and sites; in essence, it’s like having a mini-subscription to the site, though of course the reader won’t get all of the same perks such as knowledge of deals.  RSS feeds are read on one of many different kinds of readers such as Feedreader and Newsgator, as well as many other smaller ones, such as through Yahoo or MyBlogger.  Subscribing to an RSS feed means that readers can keep up with what you’re doing and that means you are able to communicate directly with your customers and readers.

Adding an RSS feed to your website is pretty easy.  If you’re using a blogging platform such as WordPress or Blogger, generally the RSS feed is included as part of the platform and you don’t have to do much with it.  When you do it on your own website, you can install it as part of your Dreamweaver process or simply download a tool that lets you install it.  However, it is very important to remember to make an RSS feed to your money making website because they are extremely popular with readers.

Why?  RSS feeds are great for the readers because they allow people to subscribe to your updated work without disclosing personal information.  Many people are understandably twitchy about giving out things like their e-mail address because of fears of spam and hackers; an RSS feed requires nothing more than that the subscriber has a reader and no information is given.  This makes people more willing to subscribe to your blog or website and thus you get a wider range of readers and possible customers.

Having an RSS feed on your website is a small thing, but it can mean the difference between making a bit of money and making a lot of easy money.  They are incredibly convenient for your customers to use and they are easy or even automatic for you to install.  It’s hard to believe that something so easy can make a difference, but it really does.  Make sure you have it properly installed on your website as part of your campaign to get and keep readers and customers and you’ll make far more money than you would if you had left it off.

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