Tweetlater is a must have tool if you intend to have multiple twitter accounts for your niche blogs. It's also very helpful even if you are only going to manage a single twitter account.

Tweetlater's primary function is to automate the posting of tweets and messages and can also be set to automatically follow anyone who follows you. Tweetlater can be a little intimidating if you have never used it before as there are a whole lot of buttons and links on the site.

I'm going to quickly walk you thru the process of setting up your Tweetlater account and also show you how to use it's many, incredible features.

Setup your account

This is really straightforward. Go to Tweetlaterand click on the big button in the middle of the page that says 'Register Now.' Fill in your details, confirm your email, and log back into your Twitter account.

Enable auto following and direct messaging

Enabling auto following and automatic direct messaging is optional but it's a great way to accelerate your listbuilding and grab some extra clicks on your url's. Once you have logged back into your Twitter account, click on 'accounts' on the right hand navigation screen.

A list of accounts will then appear. Select the account you want to edit settings for and click on 'edit.'

On the next screen you can enable the auto follow, direct messaging, manual vetting, and automatic unfollow options. Manual vetting allows you to manually review who you automatically message, follow, and unfollow.

Manual vetting is not recommended if you intend to follow large numbers of people across multiple accounts. Enabling automatic unfollowing automatically unfollows anyone who stops following you which is useful for making sure you don't have too much dead weight in your following list.

Automated Tweeting

With this feature you can post an unlimited number of tweets years into the future if you are inclined. This feature is particularly helpful if you are managing multiple twitter accounts but it's helpful even with a single twitter account because it eliminates the need to login to your twitter account every time you make a tweet.

To setup your automatic tweets, go back to your accounts page and click on 'automate.'

And then on the next screen click on 'add tweet' at the top of the screen.

Now you can enter and schedule your automatic tweets. Notice how at the bottom you can schedule tweets to post to multiple twitter accounts. This feature is really useful for your “what I'm doing” posts like “Watching a video on home repair...” or “Learning how to do the tango...” or something similar and distributing them to all of your twitter accounts. The “what I'm doing” kinds of posts are what allow you to develop your personal brand and develop a sense of friendship with your followers.

When you want to tweet a link to one of your blog posts or anything with a really long url you will need to use a link shortening service as tweets are strictly limited to 140 characters. By far the best solution for this is something called Twitpwr.com

With Twitpwr you not only get a shortened link custom made for your tweets but you also get 'bonus' traffic from Twitpwr's homepage. Every time you generate a link using Twitpwr your link automatically gets posted to Twitpwr's home page under the 'recent url's' section where it will remain for several minutes until it is bumped off the list.

If your url happens to get a lot of clicks, it will be featured in the 'hot urls' section where you can get even more traffic. Twitpwr assigns a ranking score to every user where a point represents the number of times you have used the service. If you use the service often enough and make it into the top 25 you will be permanently featured on the sites home page

All of these benefits mean more traffic with no additional work. And the service is viral, so the more you tweet with it the bigger the network grows and the more bonus traffic you can get and so on.

Setting up your keyword alerts

Keyword alerts eliminate the need to manually sift through posts every day looking for quality people to follow. To set up keyword alerts, select 'keyword alerts' from the right hand navigation menu.

On the next screen you can enter your list of keywords or generate a list of new keywords using power keyword wizard.

Notice that you can also enable different kinds of filtering including attitude, people, and location.You can select to receive email notifications every hour, every two hours, every four hours, or once per day.

Your email notifications will look something like this:

Automatically Tweeting Your Blog Posts

Whenever you update your blog, it's always a good idea to tweet your update several times on your twitter account. With Twitterfeed.com you can automatically have your blog updates and posts automatically posted to your twitter accounts. This saves you the time and trouble of remembering to tweet your new blog posts.

Once you have setup your Twitterfeed you can basically forget about it and never again have to worry about tweeting your latest blog posts again.

Alternatively, you can sign up for Tweetlater Professional and add unlimited blog and RSS feeds to your individual Twitter accounts.