Many SEO services providers have already reaped the benefits of using twitter and this is the right time you too join twitter the jackpot to higher traffic. Twitter is very simple to use and it might take you some time to get familiar to it.  For tweets you are limited by the number of characters meaning you have to use your own space wisely.

Profile is the first thing people will find about you. Hence it is important to make it eye catching and interesting. People want to know interesting things and hate to get bored. If you are having boring profile then forget your purpose of being on twitter. You can also include a few of the important keywords in your bio.

For selecting a username it is best advised to select one of your most important keywords as the username. This is because user names show in searches made by others. Make sure you mention the URL of the site or the blog you are promoting. Once you have a nicely made profile page send the link to many of your friends and ask for their opinion. Their opinions will help you have an interesting profile. 

Then comes the task of social networking, you can search for profiles that match your industry niche and invite them to visit your profile. The more the merrier is the way you do it. To be more participative visit your follower's profile and reply their posts so that even they can do the same for you. Tweeting should not be taken up as a onetime activity. You have to be active on it or else soon people will forget about you and you will lose the already established potential traffic. If in case you do not have anything interesting related to your niche you can at least paste a link related to your own blog or news.

You can also take advantage of Twitterfeed services by visiting twitterfeed.com. This will help you configure your feeds. Twitter gadgets are lovely to have. These not only make it easy for you to maintain your account but also are a huge fun. Daily new gadgets are introduced make sure you have all of them.