Twitter is by no means the easiest way to stay connected to friends and follow persons of interest on the Internet these days. Sharing, updating or communicating via short status messages makes it fun, just like texting because you have 140 characters to get your message across. But what makes Twitter a life saver for us as bloggers?

I have been using Twitter for some times now to help me and my blog in a good way. So I will share with you 5 reasons you can use Twitter to boost your blog.

Use Twitter To Get FREE Targetd Traffic

If you have people that are interested in to hear/see what you have to say, then they will no doubt follow you. This is the first step in getting targeted traffic from Twitter.

But it all starts with writing great blog posts of high quality and adding your Twitter link or button on your blog. Place it in the sidebar with an eye-catching icon so that you can grab followers quickly.

Next thing you have to do is to tweet in order to get some traffic. Each time you make a tweet your followers will see it and if your tweet is interesting enough then you will have those followers coming to your blog. You have to be tactful when tweeting and to make sure use sentences which will entice your followers to want to read more.

If you do this then your followers can become targeted traffic.

Twitter Helps With Fresh New Ideas

I follow lots of bloggers on Twitter and when they make a tweet I will sometimes click on the link to read their article. After reading their article I will sometimes leave a comment and after that I sometimes get new ideas to start a new project or to write a new article on my blog.

You can spark new ideas for a blog post if you follow people who blog in your niche. So be sure to look out for their tweets and then brainstorm to get some cool new ideas for your next blog post.

Twitter Builds Relationship

I have gotten to know more about the people I follow on Twitter and they have also got to knowpre about me.

Blogging is about networking and building up relationships with other bloggers or your blog readers is the best way to go. This will make it easy to fellow bloggers to comment on your blog, it will also help you to affiliate market to your readers when it comes to that part of the making money online.

So don’t be afraid to be friendly to your Twitter neighbours.

Twitter Helps To Build Your Brand

You can build a brand for your blog by using hash tags in your tweets. Hash tags can also help to make your blog go viral and make your blog more popular.

A very popular blog or brand is always being tweeted on Twitter and never seems to lose it’s sparkle when it gets millions of tweets. Remember Twitter is filled with millions of people and using it to build up your brand is one of the best ways to go and it is also free.

Twitter Is Free For All

This is one of the best reasons why Twitter can be a life saver, because it’s free to use. Just imagine if you had to pay to use Twitter whether monthly or weekly. That wouldn’t be a life saver.

To make the best use of this free service is to use it to the full and get the most traffic that you can out of it. Build up your followers and the more you have then the more others will want to follow you.

QUICK TWITTER TIP

:Remember to be polite and not to flood the people that follow you. This will show that you have respect for your followers and they will be more likely to click on the links that you tweet.