First I hope you had a great new year. This is an announcement for the first of a few projects to help you with your blogging in 2009. Much more to come so stay tuned.
Now I spend a lot of time gathering news, the latest plugins and much more each week to stay on top of what is new and working. Using feed readers, daily stops at forums and checking the latest press releases can often be quite time consuming.
To help you I have created a new blog for this year where these items will be updated regularly. Figured as I was already gathering this information regularly that it would be good for others to be able to access it in one place.
You can grab the feed from the site or I am in the process of adding the updates to Twitter. Just follow WordPress News on Twitter. Should be up and updating shortly.
Just one of many new projects to help you with your blogging in 2009. So stay tuned and I wish you all the success in 2009.
If you are blogging Twitter is a must. It incorporates quite well with any blog traffic strategy. Twitter is basically micro blogging. You can post as often as you want but have to keep your post to just 140 characters.
It makes you get your thoughts into a very compact format. This makes it perfect as a lead in to your blog and like all social media others blogs.
Now lets look at how you can get traffic for your blog from Twitter. As there are books written on all of the ways that you can use Twitter for promoting you we will stick primarily to promoting your blog.
First like all social media you need to be participating in the community not just promoting your blog. Otherwise you are nothing but a spammer and people will not continue to follow you and no one will see your message. Nuff said.
There are some tools that can help automate the posting for you. Tweet My Blog will automatically post to Twitter and also allow you to show your latest “tweets” on you blog in the sidebar. You can also use Twitter Feed which will automatically post when it monitors a change in your RSS feed. There are probably others but those are two that I have used.
You should also remember like bookmarking it does not hurt you to “tweet” about posts that you have commented on. All of these can bring you increased traffic and enlarge your circle of influence.
Like all social media it is a matter of being a good resource and not just promoting your items solely.
As always your questions and comments are welcomed.
Ken McArthur is holding his Impact Boot Camp this weekend in Philadelphia had Twitter has been a buzz. I am actually sad that I can’t go but went to DC last week and two weeks in a row would cost me my happy home.
Now one of the things that Ken McArthur is good at doing is creating a family feel so quite a few of the people that are attending are people that I do follow on Twitter.
It started really early this am with various people heading to the various airports to catch their flights into Philadelphia. Quite a few are in the Florida area and have been watching Fay while trying to get there.
Some had flights cancelled and been an interesting day seeing what is going on across the country with our air transit system. Others have been checking in as they arrive. People like me have been sending regrets to old friends that we won’t get to see but the family is gathering.
Twitter has allowed all of us to keep in touch and I am sure that I will know what is going on all week end (though not as well as if I was there) through Twitter.
What does this have to do with blogging you are probably asking?
Twitter is like a mini blog and you build relationships and keep in touch with conversations there. Your blog should be doing the same thing with your tribe.
If you really want your blog to be effective the more of a community feel you can create the better you will do with it. Take the time to create your blog where you are asking Sterling Valentine’s Ice Breaker “How can I help you?” and then deliver the answers.
Your readers will appreciate it and become your biggest evangelists.
As always your questions and comments are welcomed.
Mike Paetzold
P.S. Michael Savoie glad to see you finally made it. You can check out Michael’s story at his blog and help out if you can.
You always here the buzz about Web 2.0 and for a reason - it works. Two of the things that work well together are Twitter and WordPress blogs.
I have been usnig the two together for a while. It can be time consuming as Twitter is like a mini blog but it is ever so effectiove at getting more readership to your blogs that it is worth the effort.
Today that effort just got cut appreciably. Tweet My Blog is a free WordPress plugin from Soren Jordansen and John Merrick. It will leverage your blog feed and Twitter automatically.
Now I have been using this for a few days and it ROCKS!
My Twitter followers are increasing at 3 times the rate they normally do.
I was using a different service to post from my feeds and because this is on the blog itself it posts my content much quicker than the other did.
Set it and forget it. Yep anything that can make me more active on Twitter without doing anything extra is huge. This is a must for any serious blogger and allows you to leverage your blog and Twitter to the advantage of both.
By the way the plugin is totally free but you should take a close look at
the special offer they have in store for you when join. I instantly grabbed my own copy, and I know it will skyrocket my marketing power when using Twitter and Wordpress.
As always your questions and comments are welcomed.
First I hope you had a great new year. This is an announcement for the first of a few projects to help you with your blogging in 2009. Much more to come so stay tuned.
