Here are 10 magical tips that you may consider while tweeting which would help in your SEO campaign:

1. Brand Name

Your brand name or username should reflect your site name or services offered as this is what will be mentioned and displayed as your network. The more re-tweets your post’s get, the higher its significance.

2. Profile

Put your website link on your profile page for reference.  Make your bio content relevant and detailed since it’s an informative part of your Twitter. The link that you display in your twitter profile, point it to a relevant page of your website.

3. Links

Accompany your links with effective keywords since Google now displaying, tweets in SERPs even being nofollow. So putting your links on your posts would be an added advantage in your link building activities.

4. Hash Tags

It’s a feature that works like a Meta data for your tweets. Here are some examples of Tweets with “#” symbol like “#seo” or “#design and so on. Such hash tags helps in organizing tweets determining the trendy information on Twitter.

5. Mentions

If you need to mention any user in Twitter, put “@” sign before their usernames. It is like a re-tweet effect and the more your account is re-tweeted, the higher your relevance. So do not forget to put “@” sign before other usernames whenever you tweet or re-tweet other users.

6. Be a Help to Others

Do not re-tweet everything and anything that comes in your way. It would be considered as spam. Re-tweeting post that are of the same niche will help you to build your brand and promote your services. Re-tweets help your followers to come across some good links to view.

7. Tweet Interval

Do not post bulk tweets to annoy your followers. Post your tweets through out the day with regular intervals.

8. Blog Site

Promote your company blog is a good option. A blog can provide a good amount of information to your visitors which would help to interact with your followers via comments and also giving the option to re-tweet your blog.

9. Twitter Button

A twitter button in your website is of great importance. It helps to share pages easier.

10. Build your Online Brand

An effective twitter account will not only just help you in SEO but also helps to build new connections and increase visibility of your company and brand.

During the September visit to UK Twitter remarked that the company is looking to be less US centric in its monetization efforts. Though the company did not briefed in details yet but TNW Europe assumes that the new jobs would be much more focused on sales and business development.

Twitter earlier this year revealed that more than 60% of its users are not from US. Twitter is now available in different languages including French, Spanish, German and Italian. We should now wait and watch what more Twitter has to offer in future.

So, why should you use twitter? I’ve faced questions like this a multiple times as I am part of the Search Engine Marketing industry. I thought I’d now write a post answering why I use twitter! Let me not hide and seek and be very candid… my reason of using twitter actually depends on the types of audiences I have wanted to reach. Frankly, twitter is going to hardly appeal to my school days teachers and my parents and grandparents, but might more be common among web savvy people, who have interest in staying regularly updated, web promotion professionals and news buffs !

So, here’s why you should stop by twitter while you move on with your day’s work.

Building network of followers: I would always suggest you build a sound online persona, whatever job you are into. Whether you are a stay-at-home mom, a owner of a company/business or an internet marketing professional like me, building up a strong network across the web is of utmost significance, if you are looking for ways to make business online. Twitter is just one of the few great platforms that can generate relevant traffic. Building a network of followers can help you generate interest. With your twitter account, if you post helpful tips, offer useful advice for free – your network of followers might turn into customers. Some might even retweet your messages , thus spreading your message to more probable customers.

Source your information on twitter: Pre Twitter era, web professionals, internet surfers used to surf the net to read blogs in hope of finding newer information, updates on various topics. Post twitter era – with the arrival of micro blogging , people who have less time to read and sometimes interests – they get to stay updated just by following news sources such as tv websites, reporters, bloggers, sportsmen, public figures and even their friends’ profiles.

Business development: Twitter has ushered in a new way of getting business and business leads. There are so many people who often update their status on Facebook and Twitter. When they are in need of a solution, they truly update their status hoping to find recommendations on service providers, product selling websites and bug fixing. I myself have done it quite a few times … when I was looking for recommendations on buying a new AC and a new 32″ Television, I got suggested some model numbers and store names. A few days back, a web design agency in London was looking for a outsourcing partner in India, and one of his friends recommended Websys i.e. us.

Branding and Reputation Management: If you are somehow related to business, chances are there you have a website or at least a blog. Alongside other online media channels like social networking sites, forums etc. twitter can be a great platform to reinforce your branding online. That is what we have found to have really clicked with twitter. Nowadays, large corporates and local service providers also have dedicated team of agents scanning twitterosphere . When I was having trouble with my ICICI account, and I vented my anger about ICICI on my twitter status – suddenly i got a more personalized reply than I managed by going through their helpline number .

Direct traffic and new visits: This is probably what you have been thinking of if you are an online business or have a website or blog! I have been working as an Internet marketing professional since years and now I am happily working with Websys. In the time, I try to post links to our latest web development projects and websites for which we have ranked #1 in Google. I have happily noticed that we generate quite a bit of traffic from these links as well.

There are obviously dozens of more reasons why should you use twitter, which I will post in another edition. Stay tuned… more information to come up in this blog and join us on Twitter here .