However, since not everyone may want to spend the money to get the software to do it for you, there are several ways you can drive TARGETED traffic to your twitter pages that are free if you are willing to do a little bit of prep work first.

First of all, make sure that you have set up your Twitter profile with your link in the bio area to your website, landing page, or wherever you want your traffic to go to. This is critical for the first step because not everyone will see all of your tweets, or even click on the link of a tweet.

What will happen a lot of times (and I know because this is what I do a lot), is that when a person first follows me, I click on their name to see their bio and usually that is when I will click on their link in the bio to see what they are selling, etc. Actually, doing this has allowed me to find some really great blogs.

Anyway, now that you have that set up, how do you drive targeted traffic to your twitter?

Go to Twellow and register with your twitter account. Twellow is the yellow pages for twitter. So it is an invaluable resource.

Once your account is set up, type in your specific keyword into search field. For example, if I want to appeal to the MLM crowd, I would type MLM and find all the people who are listed under that category. Once the list has generated, start looking for those who have a lot of followers. Go ahead and follow them if you want, but the key is to find out WHO IS FOLLOWING THEM.

So you go to their profile, and then their list of followers. From their list of followers, start clicking follow to start loading up who you are following. This works, because at least half will follow you back.

Now be careful not to do too many at once. I would say don’t do more than 50-100 a day. You want to be careful not to get kicked off of Twitter.

Ok, now after about a week of doing this, you should have not only a large following but they are also quite targeted. Keep an eye on your inbox, because it doesn’t take long. I did this and within an hour I had increased my following quite a bit.

Of course, if you prefer to find a program that will automate all of this for you, then please check out Twitter Rocket.