Blogging Advice: My Twitter Analytics Review ~ Top Tweets 1st Quarter of 2020

This blog, My Blog Stop!, was not my first Blogger blog.  But it is my oldest Blogger blog.  Google owns this platform and they are very generous.  They will allow and indeed encourage bloggers, no matter their experience level (newbie, intermediate, advanced) to start blogging.  The publishing platform is free and if your blog qualifies it can be monetized to display Ad Sense ads. 

Using this blogging tool is so easy I became emboldened to start publishing several blogs.  I have experimented with the various templates to try to customize and create my own "blog personality".  The links of the blogs I am currently publishing using Blogspot are shown on my Blogger profile.  



Twenty-Twenty in the eye doctor's world means you have a great vision.  I like to think that regarding my blogging projects, my 2020 vision of continuing and moving forward is "great".  But in order to move forward, you should probably take a look back.  

I created companion Twitter accounts to promote my blogs.  In the profile of the Twitter account, I share the link to my Blogger blog and tweet links to my blog posts as well.  The Blogspot/Twitter connection is proving to be very useful.  I analyzed my Twitter activity for the 1st Quarter of 2020 and shared them at the blogs that are showing the most promise.  Are you curious?


My Twitter Activity for 1st Quarter of 2020

• My Blogging World
• Joie de Vivre Magazine Blog
• EES Presents Food Ways

Yep yep. And if you make it to Plan Z and that fails, then try Plan AA to ZZ, then AAA to ZZZ, then ... 26 letters in the alphabet. But numbers are infinite. Just keep multiplying the letters. You still living? "Where there is life, there is hope!" LOL. https://t.co/bA5u17oElS pic.twitter.com/1dW5beZZ5d

— Treathyl Fox (aka cmoneyspinner) ~ #Freelancer (@cmoneyspinner) March 20, 2020

Social Media Marketing Advice : Use Twitter to Share Affiliate Referral Links

Social networks may have originally been intended for socializing, but if you are a business or a self-employed individual with an online presence ~ you must know the importance of using social media for your business efforts. 

Anybody who tweets for business and income purposes knows that Twitter is an important tool to have in their social media marketing kit; especially if you are an affiliate marketer. Twitter allows account holders to tweet affiliate referral links. But did you know that according to Clickbank “99% of the affiliate marketers on Twitter have zero idea how to market correctly”. 

I humbly confess to being among the 99%. But I happily admit to not being guilty of using the methods described in the CB article. Whew! My ignorance did not go that far.

My first Twitter account (@cmoneyspinner) was created April 2012. It was not used for affiliate advertising even though I had become an authorized affiliate for several vendors. Why? I didn't know how. (O.o)  Years passed and as I learned more about how to use Twitter, I learned that "Twitter users are big online buyers" AND multiple Twitter accounts are allowed. 

Following the advice of SMM experts, I created a few niche accounts and began using those accounts for affiliate marketing purposes. My niche accounts were created to advertise/market affiliate products for:

• food and drink; grocery and gourmet (@EverydaySpices; July 2015);
  
• entertainment – movies, music, and books (@FoxMarks_ATX; July 2015); 
  
• general “wishlist” shopping (@goshoppingbees; Oct 2015); and
  
• health, beauty and personal care (@Rx4Wellness2018; Feb 2018).
  

How do I use Twitter for affiliate marketing purposes?


Two methods: indirect and direct.


INDIRECT: I create webpages suggesting affiliate products at sites like Wizzley and Webnuggetz; and publish my own websites / blogs : Everyday Exotic Spices, Insurance Mart and Insurance Smart, My Shopping Channel, and Go Shopping Bees. Then I tweet the post links.


DIRECT: Since affiliate links are allowed, using RSS feeds for affiliate products provided by the vendor and automation tools like dlvr.it and Google Feedburner, tweets are posted to the various accounts. Also, I manually compose specific tweets. Tweets can be created manually either as text; text with photo, video or GIF; or as a poll.


Using both of these methods keeps my tweet stream flowing.


Below is the first tweet ever composed using Twitter's POLL CREATION feature for affiliate marketing purposes.

Twitter is one tool in my social media marketing kit that has proven to be invaluable.

“Justice? — You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.” — William Gaddis, "A Frolic of His Own" ( https://t.co/IgktdKYrIT ) #Paperback #books #ThrowbackThursday #TBT #quotes

— My Shopping Channel (@goshoppingbees) April 13, 2018

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