the best time to be tweeting (for increasing web traffic)
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Learn how tweeting at a certain time will get you more traffic to your website."Ever since we began blogging on HilalSpark as well as regularly posting on our Twitter account, we have been closely watching our analytics to better get to know our audience. One of the things we keep a close eye on are the sources of our traffic - such as what blogs are linking to us, who's tweeting about us, as well as a few other metrics that help us understand what others are expecting of us as an Islamic media company."TRANSCRIPT
The Best Time to Be Tweeting(for increasing your web traffic)
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Ever since we began blogging on HilalSpark as well as regularly posting on our Twitter account, we have been closely watching our analytics to better get to know our audience.
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- What blogs are linking to us
- Who's tweeting about us
- As well as a few other metrics that help us understand what others are expecting of us as an Islamic media company
One of the things we keep a close eye on are the sources of our traffic, such as:
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• 29.41% of our traffic is direct
• 41.21% of our traffic is from referring sites
• 29.27% of our traffic is from search engines
The Metrics
29%
41%
29%
Direct Referral Search Engines
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A Closer Look
Some of our top referrals are Facebook, Twitter, and my personal Tumblr page.
•On Facebook: Users visit our website before deciding to “Become a Fan” of our page
•On Tumblr: I have a certain audience who like what I post, so they usually end up clicking the “HilalSpark” link in the sidebar.
•The most interesting source of traffic for us at this time is Twitter.
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How Twitter Works
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Remarkable Content =
More Followers
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“What a dinner! Headed to the bathroom now to take care of some business!”
“Err, stupid itch on my back!! Won’t go away!!1!1”
“OMG!! Kutner died in House! This is CRAAZZYYY!”
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Having thousands of followers doesn't mean anything.
It's better to have
100 real followers who are interested in your content rather than
10,000random followers, of which many are likely spam bots.
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We took a closer look into our Twitter stats to see how many clicks we were receiving on the links we tweeted. We also looked at what days of the week we were getting the most clicks.
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Here’s What We Noticed
•The days of the week that we were getting the most clicks on our links were Tuesdays and Thursdays (Thursdays slightly more).
•The time of the day we were getting the most clicks was between 10am and 2pm EST.
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What worked for us, may not necessarily work for you since everyone has a different audience.
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Garry McCaffrey made a blog post about the time of the day when he receives the most traffic through Twitter, which was between 9am and 3pm.
As you can see, our stats were very close to his.
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Also, some people state that Friday evenings are the best time to get the most clicks on Twitter.
It didn't work for us, but it might work for you.
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The more closely you watch your metrics, the better you will understand how to utilize the most out of these social media networks.
Conclusion
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Saad MalikCreative Director, HilalSpark
Web: http://www.HilalSpark.comFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/HilalSparkTwitter: @HilalSparkEmail: [email protected]
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