3 Plugins To Integrate WordPress And Twitter Together
Twitter can be a great source of traffic to your blog and with plugins it has become very easy to integrate the two. Integration makes it easier and saves you time because it automates things leaving you free to do what is most important on your blog – Create Great Content.
Here are 3 plugins that can make your blog more interactive and save you time.
Now lets look at what each does.
Tweet My Blog – This will automatically tweet each time you add a post and allow you to display your latest tweets on your blog. This lets your Twitter followers know about your latest post which can draw extra visitors depending on the size of your Twitter followers. Having your tweets displayed in your side bar helps you to always have fresh content for the spiders if you are active on Twitter.
Tweet Meme – This will add a button to your posts (you can see it above right here on the blog) that allows your readers to retweet your post with a single click if they are signed into Twitter.
When this happens your new post shows up on all of their followers timelines. Now at the time I am writing this I have over 18000 followers so if I click this on your blog it goes out to all of those people.
Now it is very easy for me to click that button if I like your post (back to having great content) but the odds of me telling my followers about it if I need to do it manually are slim and none unless you really wowed me.
Twitterlink Comments – This will allow you to reward your commenters. It adds a box where commenters can add their Twitter id and it will add a link to their Twitter page. This is another way of helping your commenters and as long as they are adding to the conversation. Anything I can do to reward those that take the time to add valuable content to my blog and get them to comment more is a plus.
These 3 plugins will definitely help you integrate Twitter with your blog but it is only valuable if you are adding good content and active on Twitter. Two things you should be doing anyhow.
Your questions and comments are always welcomed.
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4 comments
Andre Arnett on February 10, 2010 at 11:10 am
These appear to be some interesting plugins. I have used one but not the others. I will be adding to my arsenal and hope it will generate some extra traffic. Every little bit helps. Thanks.
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Leslie West on February 10, 2010 at 6:24 pm
I am still not convinced that twitter is worth a hoot. It reminds me of cb radios of our past. Just a lot of noisy nonsense being transmitted.
I do have a couple of twitter accounts with some followers.
I prefer using other social media to get backlinks and whatever traffic they might generate. I especially think blogs are better for creating a linking network.
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Richard
Twitter: rwperkinsjr
on February 10, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Like Andre above I have also only tried one of these plugins. I’m not sure if I will like the auto tweet to twitter on every post but I will give it a try.
I normally have to do 2 or 3 revisions before I am happy with my posts and if you are like me you will notice little stuff all the time and want to fix it so a auto tweet may not be all that attractive to me. I really don’t want to tweet out to 6,000 followers a inferior post.
My fix will be to use the preview feature more and really proof what I post BEFORE I post it but… The other two plugins are no problem, I already use TweetMeme, and I really like BTW, but have yet to try the Twitterlink Comments plugin.
Thanks for all these good tips Mike, I really use and enjoy your blog. Good stuff here!
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Joel Osborne
Twitter: JoelOsborne
on February 10, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Thanks Mike. I don’t have all of these plug-ins installed, but will take a look at them, as like you said, it can make it a lot easier to tell others about your new posts.
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