You may have noticed a recent google update. It now shows twitter results as the first result on google for some of the terms. For instance, we own easysubmits, and when searching for “easysubmits” on google, it shows twitter posts before it displays our site result.

So, what’s the big deal? The big deal is it can be an easy way to get traffic to your site. For instance, the term “easysubmits” generates around 20 visitors every day for us. Even if half of the searchers will click on the link mentioned in your twitter post, you would get around 10 visitors. This is just an example, but don’t go for unrelated traffic. Look for something in your niche. Go to twitter and search for something niche specific to see the latest tweets and search for the key terms mentioned in those tweets. Spend half an hour and you may find a gem that may generate a good targeted traffic to your website. Make sure that you have shortened link to your site in the tweet.

It was pretty hard to get to #1 position on google before, but not anymore.  Tweet about the brands of your competitors,  industry resources, something interesting yet relevant, add your URLs, get traffic. At least while it is still there, after all, I heard its only a beta.

P.S. I wonder how much more traffic twitter receives due to this change. Please share if you know a good statistical resource.