Social media are the goldmines of anthropology, sociology and ethnography. Among the social networking sites, Twitter’s connection capability remain a steady buzz and it is continuing attract many people’s interest, beside the tweeting, do you know it also enabling you to connect with customers and potential customers, as well as use Twitter to build backlinks.
Building backlinks is crucial for a website to growing your online business and making it a success. You probably learn or heard lots of talks about – the more diverse your backlink sources are, the more weight search engines will given them.
In order to keep your sources diverse while you add backlinks, continue working on and find new people in your niche who are influential in the niche market you are in, who would like to link to you become an important task to do.
This is where Twitter and WeFollow come in. WeFollow is a website that is a Twitter directory of sorts.
You can search by keyword and find Twitters who have identified themselves as connected with the query. For example, here’s what a search for ‘travel’ turned up:
From above graphic you can see the list of people who are tweeting in your niche, also a count of their followers that includes a breakdown of how many of their followers are new, from the statistics you can see whether their influence is growing or it has reached a plateau.
Building your list of backlinks is a much-needed major effort. Backlinks boost your search engine results page ranking, it creates new traffic paths to your site and your blog, it enhances your site’s visibility and its presence online. Backlinks are not only important to your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts, it also important for your general business efforts.
WeFollow gives you a good list of leads and people, thus, you should start building relationships with them to increase your backlinks. The easiest thing to do is to start following them, and check out their websites, reach out to them, let them know if you like their content, or if you retweet their tweets. Once you have established a connection or pattern of communication, you can request a backlink.
However, bear in mind of that – don’t just go for the clear leaders, those with the most followers, because it is harder to get a backlink from those with millions of followers, go for someone who has just thousands followers. It is true that link up with authority sites are great, but diverse sources provide power for your optimization efforts as well.
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