Retweets plays a major role in ensuring effective twitter marketing of your website or brand. Often, websites providing free retweets are considered as the best way to improve your twitter marketing.

But, out of many websites that claim to bring free retweets on your account, most are just providing "mentions" instead of retweets. Thus, reducing the overall effectiveness of your twitter marketing.

The following are the great ways to get more genuine retweets:

1. Traffup - It is the only website online that doesn't go for mentions, but provides actual Retweets. Moreover, in case if users deletes a retweet after getting credits from it, it takes action against that user. It is the fairest, and fastest, way to get free retweets.

2. Post attractive tweets - Now, you need to post relevant, and attractive, tweets in order to garner people's attention towards your tweet.

3. Taking help of your friends - Now you need to ask your friends, and family members, on Twitter to retweet your (important) tweets in order to get the initial going. Also ask them to request their friends or followers to retweet your tweet.

Thanks for this post!

I stumble upon this site for the first time.

But how many people can actually retweet your tweet after you become member of this site?

nice tips on getting retweets

The the number two tip you mentioned really helps to get people's attention. Tweets should be constructed very well and carefully. Tweet with a bit of sense of humor in it usually gets many retweets from other Twitter users.

Good information I will have to look into Traffup

Being fairly new to Twitter I am learning number two!

I have been learning a lot of tips to help get your tweets noticed.

Using popular hashtags can be helpful.

Humor is always good (helps to be funny though...wish I could buy that in a jar).

Making sure that you take the time to craft each tweet rather than just throwing it out there is a good idea.

Some also say that you should tweet 8am to 8pm, weekends are good, and keeping it 100 characters or less is supposed to be good as well.