Learn how tweeting at a certain time will get you more traffic to your website. "Ever since we began blogging on HilalSpark as well as regularly posting on our Twitter account, we have been closely watching our analytics to better get to know our audience. One of the things we keep a close eye on are the sources of our traffic - such as what blogs are linking to us, who's tweeting about us, as well as a few other metrics that help us understand what others are expecting of us as an Islamic media company."

1. The Best Time to Be Tweeting
(for increasing your web traffic)
Saturday, February 27, 2010

2. Ever since we began blogging on
HilalSpark as well as regularly posting on
our Twitter account, we have been closely
watching our analytics to better get to
know our audience.
Saturday, February 27, 2010

3. One of the things we keep a close eye on
are the sources of our traffic, such as:
- What blogs are linking to us
- Who's tweeting about us
- As well as a few other metrics that help us
understand what others are expecting of us as an
Islamic media company
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4. The Metrics
29% • 29.41% of our traffic is direct
29%
• 41.21% of our traffic is from referring
sites
41% • 29.27% of our traffic is from search
engines
Direct Referral Search Engines
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5. A Closer Look
Some of our top referrals are Facebook, Twitter, and
my personal Tumblr page.
• On Facebook: Users visit our website
before deciding to “Become a Fan” of our page
• On Tumblr: I have a certain audience who like what
I post, so they usually end up clicking the
“HilalSpark” link in the sidebar.
• The most interesting source of traffic for us at this
time is Twitter.
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6. How Twitter Works
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7. Remarkable Content
=
More Followers
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8. “What a dinner! Headed to the bathroom now to take care of
some business!”
“Err, stupid itch on my back!! Won’t go away!!1!1”
“OMG!! Kutner died in House! This is CRAAZZYYY!”
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9. Having thousands of followers
doesn't mean anything.
It's better to have
100
real followers who are interested in your content rather than
10,000
random followers, of which many are likely spam bots.
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10. We took a closer look into our Twitter stats
to see how many clicks we were receiving on
the links we tweeted. We also looked at what
days of the week we were getting the most
clicks.
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11. Here’s What We Noticed
• The days of the week that we were getting the
most clicks on our links were Tuesdays and
Thursdays (Thursdays slightly more).
• The time of the day we were getting the most clicks
was between 10am and 2pm EST.
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12. What worked for us, may not necessarily work
for you since everyone has a different
audience.
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13. Garry McCaffrey made a blog post about the
time of the day when he receives the most
traffic through Twitter, which was between 9am
and 3pm.
As you can see, our stats were very close to his.
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14. Also, some people state that Friday evenings are
the best time to get the most clicks on Twitter.
It didn't work for us, but it might work for you.
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15. Conclusion
The more closely you watch your
metrics, the better you will understand
how to utilize the most out of these social
media networks.
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16. Saad Malik
Creative Director, HilalSpark
Web: http://www.HilalSpark.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/HilalSpark
Twitter: @HilalSpark
Email: saad@HilalSpark.com
Saturday, February 27, 2010