How I Reached The Top 10 Twitter Rankings For My Area In Under A Month

Greetings and Salutations!

I hope my message finds you in a time of connection and creativity.

First, I have no huge one step, secret or automated system to sell you.

I am simply compiling a list of things that are helping me on my way to becoming the number one Tweet in my area.

If you look under my handle VeronicaFitzHug at Twitterholic.com or other Twitter ranking systems, you will see that I am number 8 in friends in Charlottesville, Virginia. And, if you look at the other people listed in the top 10 or 100 in Charlottesville, I have been at this the shortest amount of time--approximately one month.

I learned about Twitter from this site. Curious, I began to participate in Twitter, because I wanted to know if I could create traffic to my site backyarddiamondsinc.com without using any type of fee based SEO. My site has been up for about a month, and I have had over 400 unique hits. And, I have been told that my page is in the fourth spot in Google searches for The Backyard Diamond Concept.

So, how am I accomplishing this?

1. Participate in forums about Twitter, and do not forget to include a follow request in your message.

2. Only follow people, whose lives, products, writing, etc. interest you and will provoke you to respond to their posts in meaningful ways.

3. Resist urges to automate. Instead, go to freelance groups, and let them maintain your following in creative, personal ways.

4. Register in Twitter directories.

5. Learn how to meaningfully incorporate trend topics into your copy.

6. Add Twitter widgets to your sites.

7. Report spammers to @spam.

8. Connect Twitter to your Facebook.

9. Peridiocally review your ratios at sites like FriendorFollow.com.

10. Share things about yourself not just your business.

11. Ask questions.

12. Let people know when they have shared something good enough to be under your Favorites.

13. Participate in #followfridays.

14. Say please and thank you.

15. Use the hash system. It puts you in touch with older, more savvy Twitter users.

16. Go to your local Tweet Ups. If your community does not have them yet, you start your own Tweet Up socials.

17. Focus on following local Tweeters.

18. Do not use the word guru or expert in your bio. Played.

19. Get a Twitter name that is close to your real name.

20. Do not follow or advertise people who advertise automated, impersonal follower generators. Or even ask them, are they following you based on your content or are you just a number.

If you would like further explanation as to why I made specific suggestions, feel free to add a comment to this article or private message me.

I am all for any way I can help bring more meaningful connections to Twitter and betternetworker.com.

Cheers!