The Twitter Experiment – Day 5

Today is March 19, 2011, the 5^th day into the Twitter experiment and I do suppose it’s time for an update. If you missed the first installment, you can read it here.

Current Stats – Twitter

Following: 1,893

Followers: 1,031

Listed: 4 Lists

Tweets: 102

 

Such a cute monkey!

Current Stats – Amazon Associates (last updated March 18)

Ordered Items: 0

Clicks: 331

Conversion: 0.00%

Total Earnings: $0.00

Amazon stats

Basically my strategy over the past few days has been the same as I mentioned on day 1 – I’ve simply been trying to follow as many related tweeters (twitterers?) as I can, whenever I have time to take a break from work. It’s about as much fun as watching a log rot, but I can’t complain. A major part of my strategy is amassing as many health conscious followers as humanly possible, something I think will be necessary since I’m not making use of a landing page or any other literature to pique viewers’ interest before they get to the part where they need to buy. Here’s my setup for following:

Movies Make the Time Fly By

I learned something new today. Twitter allows you to follow up to 2,000 people with a certain ratio of followers. This is obviously to cut down on spam accounts, so I backed off on following until my number of followers catches up. Twitter doesn’t release the exact ratio, but it gives me a break anyway.

I have several hundred tweets scheduled through futuretweets.com at the moment. This includes about 2 dozen Amazon products as well as informational links to articles and health pages that people can use for education.

There isn’t much happening yet so I’m going to keep this short, but 331 clicks is very promising. My plan is to keep going with this strategy for a few weeks and try to think of some new ones in the meantime. Any suggestions would be helpful, so please feel free to leave comments down below, I’d be happy to hear from you. To keep up with the Twitter experiment subscribe to my RSS feed or email notifications.

Again, the experiment account is NaturalMonkey

My actual Twitter account is HandleyNation.

- Andrew Handley

Check out the latest updates here:

Day 11 and Doubts

Day 15 and First Sales

11 Blog Posts You Need To Read

This guy like blogs, and you should too!

These blog posts have all been extremely helpful to me, so maybe they can help you out too. The information they share is timeless and can be put to use by anyone with an interested in online business, including bloggers, marketers, webmasters, and downright curious folk.

How To Drive Traffic to Your Blog – The Advice of a 12 Year Old

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/02/13/how-to-drive-traffic-to-your-blog-the-advice-of-a-12-year-old/

12 year old blogging prodigy shares his personal advice on how to drive traffic to your blog or website. He offers some unbeatable advice, tips, and words of wisdom to snatch that traffic out of the ether and funnel it right into your site. I especially like his tip to “Be daring, be random!” something that can always spice up a blog like paprika on stewed mutton.

How to Get Blog Traffic in 5 Steps

http://www.blogtrafficexchange.com/how-to-get-blog-traffic-in-five-steps/

These are the tips we all hear over and over yet somehow need to keep seeing so that the advice gets pounded into our thick skulls. Syndication, building links, RSS use, good content, comments. These 5 tips are the golden tangerines of Valhalla. Always remember: Add RSS Feed To Website!

21 Advanced Link Building Strategies

http://kaiserthesage.com/advanced-link-building-strategies/

This in-depth outline of link building strategies really gets you thinking about different ways to build up your incoming links. There are a lot of tried and true methods as well as some novel ideas that I’ve never tried before. All really good info.

101 Ways to Make Money Online

http://www.experienced-people.co.uk/1042-top-ways-of-making-money-online/

This exhaustive list covers everything from buying and selling domains to affiliate marketing to suing people. It isn’t just a title- there are actually 101 different ways to make money online in this post. The post author has a great (British) sense of humor but the information is solid.

How To Make Money From Your Blog

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/how-to-make-money-from-your-blog/

Steve Pavlina explains, in extreme depth, how exactly you go about making money with a blog. I linked back to this post previously in this blog post but I really feel that this post deserves a re-mention. There are a lost of possible posts on stevepavlina.com that I could include in this list, but I think I’m going to leave it at this and just let anybody who’s interested take it from there.

8 Websites You need To Stop Building

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/websites_stop

This isn’t exactly helpful, but it came across my Twitter newsfeed while I was typing this so I thought I’d throw it in for laughs. The Oatmeal is run by Matthew Inman and features buttsmacking hilarious comics and blog posts. Some people might get offended, but they’re generally just dumb anyway.

8 Ways To Do a Strategic Link Search

http://kaiserthesage.com/link-search/

Kaiserthesage offers yet another informative and detailed post on how to search for links and find out exactly what your competitors are doing. I may be posting more links from this blog later in the list, so keep an eye out for them.

5 Mostly Unheard of Ways to Make Money Online

http://webupon.com/money-making/five-mostly-unheard-of-ways-to-make-money-online/

Written by none other than yours truly, I don’t want to sound cocky by saying you NEED to read this, but I’ve had feedback letting me know that it was helpful to some people. 5 ways to make money online that you probably never thought of.

Big Achievers Share the Greatest Risks They Ever Took

http://www.forbes.com/2011/03/07/greatest-risk-they-ever-took-2011-entrepreneurs_slide.html

This is a compilation slide show of 39 entrepreneurs who shared the biggest risk they ever took for business. Includes big names like Mark Pincus, founder and CEO of Zynga, the online gaming community. If you’re stuck in a slump with your blog, give this a read for some much needed motivation.

5 Ways To make Money With Facebook

http://toprich168.co.cc/Make_Money/ways-to-make-money-5-ways-to-make-money-with-facebook/

Social media marketing has literally exploded into the blogoshere, but it seems like a lot of bloggers still don’t know how to implement the techniques, or even what some of the techniques are. This list provides a few unique methods of marketing via Facebook that anyone can use.

Keyword Ranking- How to Reach the Top Page in No Time

http://kaiserthesage.com/keyword-ranking-top-page/

2 well defined methods for greatly increasing your website’s SERP ranking. It looks at the exact requirements for finding relevant websites on which to post do-follow backlinks that will have the most effect on your pagerank.

 

Andrew Handley