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What Everyone in Affiliate Marketing Should Know About New Twitter URLs
Most of us in social media affiliate marketing are aware of Twitter’s plans to change the way their links work. In short, their new plan means that it’s going to get much, much harder for the people who use bulk follower tools and spam complete garbage to anyone who will click on it. They realize that those types of promotions provide an extremely negative user experience, and they’re hoping to minimize that.
In the future, all links are going to be routed through t.co links (Twitter’s own shortener) and also through the Promoted Tweets platform. This means that they’re going to get significantly more data on what’s going on, and they will ultimately be able to cut off the traffic to a URL if they find that it contains malware or negatively affects the user experience. They’ll also be adding a feature where users can hover over the URL to get a bit of information about it before clicking. To anyone who has ever clicked on a compelling Tweet’s link, only to be greeted with some junky site, this is no doubt a welcome change.
A final added benefit of the changes is that the URLs will be even shorter than in the past, with sites like tinyurl.com or bit.ly. It just doesn’t get much shorter than t.co. For users who have a tough time keeping their Tweets short enough, this will be a great addition.
The main takeaway for us affiliates, though, is that we’re going to need to add more value to stay alive on Twitter. If you Tweet out relevant links that your followers enjoy, you will see nothing but positive changes with this new format. On the other hand, if you spew out as much spam as possible as quickly as possible, you’re going to find your profits hampered.
Any tips or ideas for dealing with the changes? Feel free to share in the comments!
Affiliate Marketing Training: Simple Ways to Make Money on Twitter
When it comes to making money with social media, no affiliate marketing training is complete without a section on making money with Twitter. As marketing goes, Twitter is actually pretty straightforward. After all, there’s only so much you can do with 140 characters. Still, there are a few strategies that top users have in common.
- Follow thousands of users and unfollow those who don’t follow you back. This is the cornerstone of most Twitter building activity. The only caveat is that you must do it at a controlled pace in order to avoid getting your account banned. Don’t follow more than 50-100 people each day, and don’t unfollow in the same day that you follow.
- Encourage retweeting. It takes creativity, but eventually, you’ll get the hang of how to structure your tweets so that other people retweet more often.
- Tweet to famous people. If you can get people to reply, that’s a lot of eyeballs on your Twitter username – not to mention a subtle endorsement that you’re “cool enough” to get a celebrity’s attention for a few brief moments.
- Try Sponsored Tweeting. If you’re not having much luck promoting products, you may still be able to earn a tidy sum by accumulating followers and getting paid to tweet.
Have you had much luck with Twitter in the past? My hunch is that, while plenty of people are earning money there now, the numbers will only increase as we get better ideas about how to deal with this particular marketing channel.
Twitter Tools for Affiliate Marketers
Twitter can be enormously useful for affiliate marketers, but the downside is that Twitter can also tie up a lot of your time if you don’t have the right internet marketing tools for the job.
Although your specific needs will vary a bit depending on whether you will be pushing endless streams of affiliate links or building a real brand that you can maintain for years, there are a few needs that all Twitter marketers have in common.
The Need to Follow Many Accounts –
It’s not enough to “tweet” cool stuff and hope that people find you. You have to go out and actively search for people related to your niche and then follow them in hopes of getting them to follow you back. There are a couple of great tools for doing just that:
- Twadder Pro
- SocialOomph
The Need to UnFollow Many Accounts –
Unfortunately, Twitter limits the ratio of users followed to users who follow you back. If you are following 2000 people, you won’t be able to follow anyone new until your own follower count nears 2000. If you’re been following a lot of account and you need to quickly unfollow those who aren’t returning the favor, you can use the tools below:
- Twadder Pro
- SocialOomph
- Twitter Karma
The Need to Schedule Tweets –
With any kind of social media marketing, it’s important to be consistent. Unfortunately, life doesn’t always make it easy and it’s not at all difficult to forget about tweeting for a few days here and there. If you schedule a large number of posts ahead of time, though, you not only save time by batching, but you ensure that your messages are delivered consistently.
- SocialOomph.com
By adding a few of these tools to your Twitter marketing arsenal, you’ll be watching the profits pile up in no time.