{"id":2909,"date":"2009-01-06T18:13:21","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T01:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/06\/findings-why-you-dont-need-to-tweet-to-get-traffic-from-twitter\/"},"modified":"2009-01-08T12:33:18","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T19:33:18","slug":"findings-why-you-dont-need-to-tweet-to-get-traffic-from-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/06\/findings-why-you-dont-need-to-tweet-to-get-traffic-from-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Findings: Why You Don’t Need to Tweet to Get Traffic from Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

I used to promote my blog posts on Twitter, then when I left Twitter, noticed a significant loss in traffic. Yesterday, I did a blog post encouraging others to tweet then retweet my blog post, <\/a>as you know, being on a Twitter hiatus gives a unique opportunity to try out some experiments.<\/p>\n

By the numbers:<\/strong>
\nHere’s the stats from the experiment: In the last 24 hours, 199 folks tweeted these words “How Bloggers Should Inspire Retweets” within 24 hours.<\/p>\n

Although not all of them used the snipurl I created, there were 2,000 clicks and unique clicks 1,280. This means that the average tweet that linked to the post generated 10 clicks, and about 6.4 unique clicks per person.<\/p>\n

There were 145 new followers<\/a> to my twitter account, the daily average is new daily followers 88. This is a lift in follower increase of 60% beyond the daily average.<\/p>\n

Google Web Analytics showed that to be the top viewed page in last 24 hours, with 954 views, the graph below indicates that traffic returned to patterns before I took my Twitter hiatus. <\/p>\n

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\nAbove Graph: Last 30 days visitors according to Google Analytics to my blog, notice the dip when I started the hiatus on Jan 20th, also coupled by the holidays. On Dec 5th the twitter experiment started and brought visitors back up to normal levels.<\/center><\/p>\n

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\nAbove Graph: Twitter was the top referrer of traffic over the last 24 hours.<\/center><\/p>\n

This means that: <\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • My experiment on ‘energizing’ (word of mouth) was successful from blog to twitter, learn about my goals<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • You don’t need to be on Twitter.com as an active user to gain traffic to your site.<\/li>\n
  • Since my twitter account wasn’t involved, the number of Twitter followers doesn’t matter as much as we once thought.<\/li>\n
  • If you have compelling content, and make it easy for people to share, they will, and then it will rapidly spread through the twitter WOM network.<\/li>\n
  • While I do have a good sized blog readership, a marketer with advertising budget could easily generate eyeballs to a blog with less subscribers, and potentially get similar results.<\/li>\n
  • If you read the comments, there were several vendors that are going to offer a tweet icon at the bottom of your blog post, or wordpress plugin, so expect to see more of these.<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    This experiment isn’t completely scientifically done, if this were for an official Forrester report, that I’d have several control groups, sample with a variety of different websites, blogs, and twitter accounts to find a pattern. The one conclusion is that I don’t need to tweet to get twitter traffic.<\/p>\n

    Helpful? Copy, Paste, then Tweet it!<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Findings: Why You Don’t Need to Tweet to Get Traffic from Twitter http:\/\/snipurl.com\/9k5xy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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