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Findings: Why You Don’t Need to Tweet to Get Traffic from Twitter

Source: Web Strategy by Jeremiah

Jan 07, 2009

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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, as you know, being on a Twitter hiatus gives a unique opportunity to try out some experiments.

By the numbers:

Here’s the stats from the experiment: In the last 24 hours, 199 folks tweeted these words “How Bloggers Should Inspire Retweets” within 24 hours.

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.

There were 145 new followers 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.

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.

Above Graph: Last 30 days visitors according to Googl

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Comments (1)

Egculbertson,

Jan 09, 2009

This is fascinating -- a super-easy way to make ideas spread. Jeremiah is a leading figure, and his content is a perfect match for this type of word of mouth, but it is a simple thing to try even if you never tweet yourself.