I’ll admit that I was slow to come around to Twitter, but now I have several different Twitter accounts in different niche markets.  I also have over 4,000 targeted followers for my personal Twitter account.

One of the problems that people have when they write articles is that they have trouble getting people to read them.  If you’re in very competitive niche markets, it is going to be tough to target certain keywords and get your article on the front page of search engines.

I’ll have to admit that I hate SEO.  It is so damn time consuming and takes a bunch of research and then there is the trial-and-error part of it and you still might not see any results.  If you aren’t going to rely on the search engines, then you need to rely on another way to get your articles read.

One of the ways to do this is to get a targeted group of Twitter followers and tweet about all of the new articles that  you submit.  The first thing that you want to do is find people who are interested in your niche. 

There are sites like www.twollo.com where you can target certain words that people are tweeting about.  Another simple way is to simply follow the followers of gurus or authority figures in you niche market.

The second thing you want to do is build a relationship with your followers.  You don’t want to be selling to them right away.  People want to follow real people and not bots or people that just self promote.  Sure, you can tweet plenty about the niche, but also tweet about your life.

The third thing that you want to do is continue to build relationships with your following.  Continue to grow your following by adding more targeted followers.  Continue to meet new people and network and work out some joint venture projects.

Whenever you have a new article out, Twitter about it.  If you have built up a targeted following and have built some relationships, people will check out your article and maybe even re-tweet about it.  Go out and Twitter!