Guest blogging on relevant niche blogs can send you a lot of targeted traffic your way. Directly through links on social media, bookmarking and networking sites as well as through search engine rankings.

Did you know that Twitter can help you find and track those guest posting opportunities?  Below are practical tips that will help you find those opportunities and perhaps could help you to increase your social media visibility and improve your traffic driving strategies.

1. Search Traffic Tool of Twitter

Twitter offers a great search tool where you can use the following queries to assist you in finding whatever it is you want. Since we are on the topic of guest posting opportunities, you may include the following keywords in your search query:

[guest bloggers]
[looking for writers]
[looking for contributors]
[interested in contributors]

Additionally, you could use a question mark in front of your queries to limit your search and concentrate on the particular topic you would like.  Examples would be:

? guest blogging
? looking for writers

2. Seesmic Application

Seesmic is actually a Twitter tool that can easily be installed in your desktop, in your phone (i.e. iPhone, Android & Blackberry) or you can simply use it via the web.  Aside from getting your tweets out there, it informs you of emerging trends in Twitter.  As I am a user of this application and have proven it’s value, I am strongly recommending that it’s really worth the download.  And did I mention that you can get it for free?  Below are the simple steps you can follow so you would know what’s in and what’s hot in Twitter:

a. Configure Seesmic to notify you of new tweets based on the filter you want.  To do this, navigate to Settings and then tick the Notify box for search results on.

b. Now, search for “guest blogging (in your niche)” using Seesmic search box:

c. Your search query will then be saved and you will be notified of future information regarding the search query you used:

3. Twitter List of Twitter

Aside from the search box of Twitter, you can also use and organize your Twitter list so you could easily keep track of your keywords (i.e. guest, guest blogging, etc.).  How do you do it?  Follow the simple steps below:

a. Are you following respectable bloggers?  If not, why don’t you?  They are a great source of information and of course, guest blogging opportunities as well.  If you already have a substantial list of respectable bloggers on your list, sort them and form a separate list for them.

b. Use the Seesmic tool to inform you (follow steps outlined in #2) for keywords guest, guest blogging, etc. based on your Twitter list which will look like this:

c. Once any member of the list you made on Twitter tweets about the keywords you indicated, you will receive an email.

It’s that easy.  Three valuable tips that may increase your chances of getting guest postings opportunities and eventually giving you the edge over others in terms of visibility and authority.

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