Increase your twitter followers & attract retweets

How to increase twitter followers and  retweets 

Social media and SEO together can give excellent results, but the key element to get more retweets and twitter followers is the quality of content. Your content should be unique with proper keywords in it, so it helps generates maximum traffic.A single tweet can multiply the number of average visits substantially. However, quality content does not always ensure that you will have many visits from a single tweet especially if you do not have high CTR (click thought rate) on Twitter.

Here’s a list of few things you should focus on Twitter..

Tweet Title

Similar to blog titles a tweets first few words should also attract attention. Here’s a great article by Jake Hird  on twitter copywriting.

Your tweet title can make all the difference. So, make sure that the title is unique and eye-catching. The secret of using an attention drawing title is by making comparisons, urgency like “Top ten books to read!”, “5 best places to visit” and others.

Your title’s first two words are the key to your success. This will help you get maximum clicks which will ensure that you get a good CTR score on Twitter. As per the survey conducted by Nielson Usability Studies, user perception is restricted to the first two words when a text is analyzed.

ASK for RT (yes it still works)

Another option that you can use to get more retweets and Twitter followers is by publishing a tweet which simply asks for a RT. Your mentions increase significantly on Twitter with the number of re tweets that you get. Bear in mind that you should only ask for a RT in cases that are exceptional, for instance, if you need help with something that is extremely important to you. This is simply because people generally ignore spamming and re tweets if one keeps on using RT without any reason.

A/B Testing with copy style

If you fail to get a high CTR score from your last post or tweet, then you can change the title and other things to ensure that people post comments. It is always a good option to change the titles of your tweets, if it is ignored after thirty minutes. Even after the modification that you have made to your tweet post, you fail to get any clicks from others then you can repost the same with a new title after a gap of few hours.