This article will be short and sweet, but very important to your hyperlocal blog.

Twitter. Plain and simple. Go to Twitter and sign up. Start using it. There are a zillion articles written about Twitter, so I will not go into the details here. It’s easy enough to find out, just Google it.

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This article will be short and sweet, but very important to your hyperlocal blog.

Twitter. Plain and simple. Go to Twitter and sign up. Start using it. There are a zillion articles written about Twitter, so I will not go into the details here. It’s easy enough to find out, just Google it.

Twitter will send traffic to your site. Every time I post an article on the Monroe Scoop, I will tweet a link to the article maybe 2 or 3 times that day spaced out so as not to aggravate those following me. When I check my stats, I do get traffic. I don’t get a ton of traffic but that’s ok. For the most part, the majority of my followers are not from my hometown and I’m sure many of the links I post on Twitter would not be of interest to them. Those folks are not my target either. If you only have 10 people from your community following you on Twitter, those readers are your target audience.

In my case, I joined Twitter over a year ago and didn’t really understand the principal behind it. I use my own name as my Twitter handle. You can view my Twitter Page here. Now that I understand Twitter a bit more, I use it quite often. There is a bit of a learning curve. The premise question behind Twitter is “What are you doing?” Many people take it literally and all they ever post is what they are doing. Do not fall into that. People will “unfollow” you if you never add any value. I could care less if you are at Target buying some shampoo.

Here is my advice to you if you are just starting a new hyperlocal blog. Take out a Twitter name the same as your hyperlocal blog. You can have as many Twitter accounts as you like so I recommend that you take one in your personal name and also a Twitter name for your hyperlocal blogging efforts. For every new site that I start I will certainly take out a new Twitter account and use it with my site.

I have taken out a Twitter account for this blog. @Hyperlocalblog. I have not posted a single remark to it yet, but it’s there waiting on me when I do.

Right now, if you have not already done so, go get a Twitter Account in the name of your hyperlocal blog.

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