From Twitter To Posterous

It’s been a busy week on Twitter again this week – and as per usual I have discovered something else worth pursuing as a result of my activity on Twitter.

I kept seeing links to interesting writing related material and when I clicked through to read it I discovered that it was on a website called Posterous. Now if you haven’t come across this yet I definitely want to recommend it to you. It is a social media website that basically gives you a kind of blog to promote via all your social media sites.

And you can post messages to it directly from your email account. Send an email with the message you want to publish, and they will do the rest. What’s more, if you set up your social media accounts with the site, every time you post a message on your Posterous (that’s how they describe it) they will automatically announce that fact to all the social media sites you are a member of. That’s how I found out about Posterous myself – I read an automated tweet relating to a new blog post someone had left.

They are adding new social bookmarking and networking sites all the time, but they do encourage you to email them and suggest new ones if you can’t find the ones you use.

So it all sounds very good so far, doesn’t it? But there is one more thing I want to share with you about Posterous – and it is the very reason I am really going into more depth with using the site. Now let me tell you first of all that to date I have added just two social media sites to my Posterous – Twitter and Delicious. Some of the others I simply don’t use, and the ones I do use haven’t yet been added.

But that’s beside the point here. The point is that I didn’t have too many links that pointed back to my Posterous page. Bear that in mind as we continue.

Within minutes of posting my first two or three posts, I had already seen over 100 hits to all of them combined. And the traffic kept coming too. Within a few hours my profile page had seen over 40 hits, and since then I have picked up a couple of subscribers and more hits to my blog as well. You can link to your blog, your websites and of course your social media sites on your profile page, which is very good news.

So I would heartily recommend giving this a go if you want to improve your traffic and your profile online. I have been delighted with the reaction mine has got in just 24 hours – I am eager to see what will happen after a month or so of using the site. You can visit it at http://posterous.com, so why not take a look now to see what you think?