It is not easy to generate traffic to your website. In fact, it is probably the hardest thing of all to do on the internet. Some webmasters generate traffic to their websites or blog sites through using social bookmarking sites like Twitter while others prefer to make more of a contribution through adding real conversation to other people's blogs. So are you a Twitter critter or a blog slogger?
We can all learn how to make websites simply by applying ourselves to the technical learning required to do so and even if our first efforts seem a bit paltry, they improve with practice. But making the most outstanding, beautifully appealing website for the search engines and humans, will still only attract so much traffic in the short term. Yes, the traffic builds up as your beautiful website or blog rises in the search engine rankings but it takes time. Time is the one thing that we all have no control over but marches on regardless.
If you are a Twitter critter it means that you frequently tweet your activities and websites through using their micro-blogging service of 140 characters. If you really have something to say, this 140 character limitation is extremely frustrating. It also encourages brevity which is precisely what it is designed to do but with brevity comes nonsense and incomplete information.
It works best for those people who are time limited or don't enjoy writing. It also works to reach thousands of other Twitter users who may or may not even read your tweets. If you are a twitter critter with thousands and thousands of followers, when was the last time you spent more than 3-4 minutes reading other people's tweets or better yet, clicking on a link to follow up on more information? If you are like the majority of Twitter critters, you probably answered "a while ago".
Now as a real blog slogger you will have read the last post or two of a do-follow blog and hopefully added some real opinions into the conversation.
Being a blog slogger is time consuming but far more personally rewarding because you actually feel that you are, or have, participated in a real conversation. One of the more serious problems of working on the internet is the social isolation. For me personally I do miss the human interaction that one gets from going to a J-O-B every day. Whether you like your workmates or not, they are 'real' people in the 'real' world and one Socialises with them to whatever degree you like them. When you like them, then your workmates become real friends. This is something that anyone working on the internet full-time doesn't have.
Generating traffic to your website isn't easy but you can make friends more easily through being a blog slogger and taking the time to read what a blog is about and adding good information or differing opinions into the conversation.
If you are time short or hate writing then being a Twitter critter is right for you. The beauty of the internet is that whatever you want or want to do, all you have to do is find what works best for you personally and your website.
New terminology like micro blogging makes one think of very small writings which is precisely what they are!
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