Connect with People Using Twitter and Increase Traffic to Your Blog

1. Pick your twitter account name.
You should consider picking a name that will be connected to your blog title or a keyword.Google search results will use your account name.

2. Create a good Twitter profile.
Include keywords within your profile 'bio'. Google will use your public profile information just like a meta description of a web page.

Include the URL to your blog.

Increase your profile page rank by including links to your profile page within blog posts. You should include your link within a sidebar and footer section of your blog.

Seek out Twitter followers.

3. Follow Twitter users that have a similar theme.

4. Shorten the URL of link posts.
TinyURL, bit.ly, tr.im allow you to shorten the length of URLs you post in your twitter updates. You are limited to 140 characters so shortening links will allow you to use more keywords in your tweets.

5. Tweet often and include content keywords.
You will be limited to 140 characters and the first 27 characters are the most important. The first 27 characters will appear as part of the summary or title of your tweet.

6. Use keyword tags
Hashtags can be used to assist followers with finding you. A hastag is where you add a # symbol in front of a
keyword. For example, #hashtag. Visit #hastags.org or Twemes to find hastags.

7. Retweet posts
Retweeting is how you can share tweets from other people. You copy and paste the original tweet and give credit to the original author by using RT and the username of the original author.

An example of a retweet:

RT@cvillevisitor 10 Top Coupon Websites http://bit.ly/V4F22

You can use the following sites to track retweets.

Retweetradar
Retweetist
Tweetmeme

Read the article "15 Fascinating Ways to Track Twitter Trends" for more ideas for understanding how your tweets are working for you.