I’ve seen various blogs that rewards top commentators with some sort of ad slot on their blog or give cash prize. It is good way to thank the commentators on your blog. But today I’ve another way of increasing traffic to your blog that is similar to top commentators one. Lets start:
The new method : Top Re-Tweeters
- Yesterday, I came across a friend blog DailyTut owned by Robin, there I saw his post titled Top Re-Tweeter of the month.
- In his blog, instead of top commentators, he uses another way to drive traffic. He tells his readers to re-tweet his articles and greets the top re-tweeter of the month with an award. Isn’t it a great method to increase traffic.
- I recommend everyone to try this method at least once, I am sure it will really feed your blog with lots of new visitors.
Few tips to follow before you start Top Re-Tweeters awards
Before you start top Re-Tweeters of the month on your blog, here are few things that Robin told me to follow.
- Tell you readers to re-tweet only those articles that are in the archive list.
- You must use a unique hash-tag (eg. #cbi-june) while re-tweeting the articles. Why? I’ll tell later in this post, keep on reading.
How to find the top Re-Tweeter
To find the top re-tweeter the unique hash-tag is used. Robin told me that
I use search.twitter.com to find the total re-tweets with the use of HASH Tag. That’s the reason I ask my participants to use a specific hash-tag to make the search easier. A unique tag.
Great mind! In this way you can find the top re-tweeter.
Note : Robin says that, the search.twitter.com indexes tweets with the hash-tag, but still it is strongly advisable to take weekly records of your total tweets to avoid any tweet loss. If your contest exceeds a week time, then it is advisable to go for this technique. Keep a track of your tweets and make it transparent with the contestants
I am sure that you will benefit a lot by starting top re-tweeter of the month. Thanks DailyTut for the idea and helping me with your tips. Thanks again !
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This is really a gr8 contest kinda stuff to increase RTs. Am going to implement this! ^_^
Kudos to Robin!
Thanks Pradeep. would love to participate in your blog contest
Thanks for featuring me in this great blog Gagan
i am so happy to see my blog title here. 
To be honest, i actually learned this technique from mashable.
I like to mention one more important point here. The search.twitter.com indexes your tweets with the hashtag, but still it is strongly advisable to take weekly records of our total tweets to avoid any tweet loss.
If your contest exceeds a week time, then it is advisable to go for the above technique. Keep a track of your tweets and make it transparent with the contestants.
If you have any best recommendation than this, then please do share it in comment. Thanks gagan.
Robin has implemented quite a good idea in his blog. Maybe I will also try it out sometimes. It is a great way of promoting our sites. Thanks Robin for getting this idea up
I am so glad that you like it bro.
- Robin
Wow robin that’s a new innovative idea… I hope you will come up with more good idea like this.
Wow! This is an excellent idea. Very innovative indeed. This will work like free promotion. Thanks to Gagan and Robin (and also Mashable “To be honest, i actually learned this technique from mashable” )
Yep… It’s a great idea to drive more traffic to our website. I’m actively participating in that contest.
Hello,
Because of this post, I found you doing a Google search, and I’ve added you to http://topcommenters.com . It’s a great place to add blogs with top commentator widgets. Please stop by and add some! It’s nice to see you giving top commentators – I mean tweeters – a shout out too.
-James
Hi James,
Thanks for your first visit and comment on my blog. I hope you will enjoy reading my article and waiting for your next visit and comment too.
I’m sure I’ll be visiting quite often. I like what I see. Nice Joost interview.
Hello Guru, what entice you to post an article. This article was extremely interesting, especially since I was searching for thoughts on this
subject last Thursday.
I hope you will come up with more good idea like this.
Awesome idea mate, I think this can bring long term profits to our blog reader wise
Nice idea Robin…
A good alternate to top-commentator award…
will surely write a post regarding this in my blog…thanks for this innovative idea
Nice Tip. The hash tags # works really good. Also, for rewards I give away PLR eBooks.
Best you could edit the page title Top Commentators? No ! Top Re-Tweeters : Blog Traffic Series Part 22 to something more better for your webpage you make. I enjoyed the post however.