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6 Unofficial Ways to Increase Your Klout Score

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Oh no… not another klout blog post!! YES! another one. Several months ago, I had my internship in Singapore and I didn’t really have much time to tweet, so I expected my klout score to decrease. It fell from 80+ to 72 within a month. (Little tweets and engagement in a month)

So I thought it would be fun to try out how I could get the score back up again, therefore I tried several methods from simply tweeting and sharing tweets to trying the other types of tweets. The results? Here are

6 UNOFFICIAL WAYS TO INCREASE YOUR KLOUT SCORE.

1. CREATE CONTENT WORTH SHARING

Easily said than done, what type of contents or tweets are worth sharing?

  • Niche tweets: Tweets regarding your niche. If you’re a social media consultant, you could share tweets on social media such as tips, how-to’s etc. Share something that people can benefit from your tweets.
  • Quotes from your niche: Quotes are great because people can easily relate to them. Two years ago, I shared tweets that get retweeted easily and one of them is quotes. The reason is because it is short and people can easily consume it compared to the links to a blog post.
  • Photos: A picture is worth thousand words, in this case, pictures get retweeted easily. Like quotes, it is easy to consume and the funnier the photo, the more it gets shared.

Example:

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  • Share tips: Sharing tips is another great way to create contents that are content worthy. Be sure to keep that under 120 characters so people can retweet them with ease. One of my most retweeted tweets that has been retweet for more than a year is “retweet someone once, they will know you, retweet them a few times they will remember you”

2) START A DISCUSSION

Starting a discussion is tough, however when you have already built a community, you can start a discussion. One way you can increase your klout score is to have“feedbacks” from people or more “actions” taken upon your tweets. You can do so by posting tweets such as:

  • Questions regarding your niche: Ask questions or ask opinions and people will be more than happy to share their opinions with you. You can ask questions like, “What do you think the future of social media will look like?” or if you’re in another niche, try asking them questions regarding to your niche.
  • Wishes: Some twitter users say that you shouldn’t post tweets like “good morning” etc. I find that a bit ridiculous as it takes away the “human elements”. I don’t think there is any problem with posting such tweets. Usually every morning (In the US time), I’ll send out tweets like “Have a beautiful day/weekend” or “wishing you have a wonderful day ahead”. Tweets like these gets tons of feedback as people will thank you, and wish you have a wonderful day too.Join blog chats:
  • Blog chats are a great way to connect with new people and start a discussion. I find blog chats really active and good to start new and meaningful conversations with others. There are weekly blogs chats that you can join and participate in.

3) CONNECT OTHER NETWORKS

Recently klout allows you to connect other networks such as Facebook, Youtube, Foursquare and other networks. I recently connected my foursquare despite only having less than 100 friends there and It helped me to increase my klout score (only a point). Klout mentioned that adding new networks will not decrease your klout score, so you should try to connect it too. I’ve friends that were able to increase their klout score by 3 points by adding only one addition network.Start a small community

4) BUILD A SMALL COMMUNITY

This is a great way to increase your klout score. The reason is because when you have a small community of your own, you’ll be able to get retweets and drive conversations easily compare to just sharing RSS tweets which brings no value when you don’t have a community to read them.

5) ENGAGE WITH INFLUENCERS

The last method is to engage with influencer users in your niche. Jump into their converastion, tweet them, respond to their tweet but make sure that its something that they can respond back too.

Robert Lavigne (@RLavigne42) tested this on twitter and he manage to increase his klout score from 13 to 44 in two weeks.

6) USE BUFFER

Last week at iStrategy, I discussed how using Buffer will increase your klout score, in summary, buffer helps you to optimize your tweet to send out during high traffic hour, therefore giving you more exposure and increasing “actions” such as responds, clicks, etc.

The results? My klout went up from 72 to 83 in less than a month. What about you? Have you tried other stuff that has helped you increase your score?

Oh… I’m not trying to teach you how to game klout. Share your thoughts below.

This blog post is an updated and  republished a blog post i wrote at iStrategy blog 

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  1. Hi. This is Paolo. Klout score 65. I’m growing steadly, which is good. But my primary activity happens on youtube. The account is already connected, but according in my research, Klout still doesn’t count Youtube, no matter how yo perform on it. Any buzz about why and any changes in the near future?
    I guess this is an issue for many of other like me out there.
    Ciao to everyone.
    @paolocconti

  3. Interesting article – I wonder whether it’s worth spending time on improving your Klout score though. Sure if you are increasing engagement to gain authority to get more sales etc, then a higher klout score is a handy side effect – but working on your Klout score where other things are a nice side effect would be the wrong way around to do things.

  10. I connected my Instagram account to klout, and share photos with #hashtags. The result was, I gained 2-3 points in less than a month. It’s fun sharing what I cooked myself. 😀

  14. Thanks Aaron for posting this article. Yes – another klout article, but
    this one’s worth reading! I blame the social media managers. They shout,
    ‘write great content and everybody writes.’ So you can imagine how long
    it’s taken me to reach this one.

    I love the Twitter ‘good morning’ posts and your article highlights how
    important it is to be active within a niche. You’ll find that content is
    shared much better in the circles where your an expert, and where
    genuinally have something to contribute. I’ve subscribed to your posts. 🙂

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  17. Checking out Buffer. Thanks for the informative post. Excellent material. Excited about working to increase my Klout score. 🙂

  20. How often is too often for Facebook posts and tweets?

    I guess in the last week, I’ve been over-sharing a little and noticed my score beginning to plateau.

  24. How does Klout know when I post on Facebook? Or on my WordPress blog? Or do I have to share everything via Klout?

  25. I agree, Yelp would be great to be added since I do a lot of writing for YELP and they contribute a great deal to many places I love.

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  5. […] Aaron Lee explains a few ways to increase your score in this blog post from his site. One reader in the comments stated “When I was in university our prof assigned us to create a new twitter account and share ten tweets a day to blog posts from high ranking blogs. Just doing this and engaging with any responses, new followers, etc took me from 0 to 65 in the course of a month. Links are statistically significant way to gain both followers and increased Klout score.” This is a great tip. If you have a lot of followers, some of them are going to retweet your stuff. I am always surprised at what gets retweeted. Some of the simplest things strike people, and they retweet! […]

  14. […] Buzzfeed actually includes an “established social media presence” in its job descriptions. Other companies use Klout scores in their decisions to hire. Do you know what yours is? Mine has recently hit 82, the same as comic TJ Miller and journalist Kurt Andersen, a metric which I recently included in a bio for a press trip to show my appeal as an influencer to go on a trip to Morocco. This number alone is far more powerful than any flowery language I might include. Employers love stats, from traffic growth to Twitter followers to budget tightening. Showing your worth with metrics not only demonstrates a knowledge of said metrics but that you are savvy and hard science rather than goopy and amorphous in your promises and professions of greatness. Here are a few ways to increase your Klout if this interests. […]

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