Build Traffic Efficiently With Twitter Using This Wordpress Plugin
Everybody says Twitter is an important way to promote yourself. At least most people. Armand Morin, who I respect enormously, thinks its a waste of time.
More properly, Armand things that spending all day on Twitter is a waste of time. Anyone with anything important to do would have to agree. I agree with that.
Effective Twitter use is minimal Twitter use. Spend as little time using it as possible. Don’t go to the Twitter website at all if you can help it (getting sucked in to reading and responding to other people’s tweets).
Reusing your blog content on Twitter is really efficient!
I needed a WordPress plugin that tweets each time I post on my website, and spend considerable time searching for it.
I like this because with little or no effort, each post on this blog gets posted on Twitter.
My choice was WP to Twitter. It seems to be easy to use and has many features … yet not bloated.
The no extra effort option is just exactly that: just post, and a tweet magically appears saying I just posted to my blog.
The little effort option produces better results: I can type a custom message when creating a post, and that message appears, instead of an uninspiring message saying “New post: [title] [url]“.
Custom message or standard post, you can get Cligs to insert a shortened link to your article with no additional effort. Set it and forget it, I love it!
While we’re on the subject of Cligs, the tool offers some cool analytics tools so you can see how many people click the link and when. It also integrates with Google Analytics. Since I just set up this blog a few hours ago, and the analytics account to match, I have yet to see how Cligs activity from Twitter shows up in Google Analytics.
All this statistical tracking will eventually answer the question: is Twitter a good way to promote your blog?”
And this is really cool: train your Twitter followers to follow your Clig links,then you can drop in the odd promotion into your Twitter stream - as long as it is very relevant, useful and of high value to visitors, otherwise you’ll lose credibility.
Install WP to Twitter, so you can effortlessly post to your blog, and at the same time, you will be providing your Twitter followers with interesting links to follow and good stuff to read.