Twitter.com has carved itself quite a media storm in the last few months with a army of stars and celebrities discussing Twitter on their podcasts , and marketing experts saying that we can leverage Twitter to new business leads , the exposure to Twitter is pretty high. You probably know people on Twitter and suppliers may have invited you to join them on Twitter . And that is what I want to discuss with you today . What are YOU doing about it for yourself?

Twitter doesn’t look like it will disappear any time soon. In the meantime some are jumping on the band wagon, while others sit in the sidelines bemused.

Regardless of how you feel about Twitter personally, there are some great strategies you should consider and there’s a great FREE training video about that at http://www.TrafficHug.com/twittervideo/ but whatever you do, you should be doing something. The least you’re likely to achieve is a handful of great relationships , ideally with some way of people finding you by your keyword, or your name. It could be embarrassing if surfers search for you and your competitor , or a cyber squatter, have taken your place to your own profile.

We have other articles on getting targeted traffic, but let’s look at something we can do in ten minutes We’ll take a more detailed look at building a targeted list but first let’s explore a quick and easy option.

Many people limit themselves to thinking Twitter traffic as being an internal affair . A concept most Twitter directories encourage . But , the advantages of having your existing customers follow you on Twitter are plentiful . So beneficial that we need to do something about it .

A very quick solution is to add a Twitter “badge” to your existing web entities . It’s simply a graphic saying who you are on Twitter with a link direct to your Twitter identity. In the videos I mentioned , you’ll see how , but the badge we can do now .

WHERE CAN I GET MY TWITTER BADGE ?
You can get your own customised Twitter badge for FREE from the following website ;
http://wwwTwitterHug.com/twitter/category/badge/ – FollowMe Twitter Badge .

You simply paste the HTML code it provides in to your website, store, or blog and your customised graphic with active link, will magically appear .

You can also paste the pure HTML in to most blog widgets. I’ve inserted one on all of my own blogs.

It is contained in its own HTML DIV so should integrate easily almost anywhere.

If you create a table or div tag to position it in , then you can just paste the code in easily . With WYSIWYG html editors, there is usually an HTML “object” box you can place in the desired location and just place the code in to that. Adobe Dreamweaver users can just insert an AP Layer (from the insert menu) and then paste the code in to that using the HTML code view pane.

Integrating your Twitter page with your existing web properties is an essential strategy. One you can do in the next 10 minutes, with a few mouse clicks,