Best Way To Use Twitter To Promote Your Blog [#9]

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In this ProBlogger Flip Tip, I answer a question submitted by Janet Johnson:

What is the best way to use Twitter to promote your blog?

There are two answers to this question:

  1. Use Twitterfeed to pipe your latest blog content into your Twitter account automatically.
  2. Be social.

When it comes to “being social”, I mean be yourself and interact with the Twitter community. You want to manually post things to Twitter which build relationships with your followers. Twitter is all about relationships. Be real, be personable, and you’ll do well on Twitter.

The value of sites like Twitter (aside from building relationships, of course) is to use it to draw people to your blog. You do that by letting them see your latest blog posts, and by being a person that they feel an affinity toward so as to get them to care what you have to say.

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  • http://www.lessnau.com/ John Lessnau

    I can’t believe you forgot to mention installing Twitterdoodle: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitterdoodle/

    It brings in relevant twitter content to your blog via mashup posts.

  • http://www.lessnau.com John Lessnau

    I can’t believe you forgot to mention installing Twitterdoodle: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitterdoodle/

    It brings in relevant twitter content to your blog via mashup posts.

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  • http://www.pcmech.com/ David

    John: You just did. Thanks!

  • http://www.pcmech.com David

    John: You just did. Thanks!

  • http://janetsmarketingbiz.com/ Janet

    Thanks for answering my question…I’ll figure this Twitter thing out yet!
    Thanks again!
    Janet

  • http://janetsmarketingbiz.com Janet

    Thanks for answering my question…I’ll figure this Twitter thing out yet!
    Thanks again!
    Janet

  • http://www.storyboardlife.com/ ATLANTA WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER

    Sometimes people for get what conversations are. So many times I have seen “marketers” get on twitter and just post what they are going and how they are helping those around them make a lot of money or something like that. They don’t contribute.

    One time I asked one tweet if he did anything else other than SEO. he wrote back (DM mind you) that he hung out with his kids and had a great time. REALLY. awesome! I would get glad to follow a dad who loves his kids enough to spend time with them. However, he just went back to what he was doing. Sad I know.

  • http://www.storyboardlife.com ATLANTA WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER

    Sometimes people for get what conversations are. So many times I have seen “marketers” get on twitter and just post what they are going and how they are helping those around them make a lot of money or something like that. They don’t contribute.

    One time I asked one tweet if he did anything else other than SEO. he wrote back (DM mind you) that he hung out with his kids and had a great time. REALLY. awesome! I would get glad to follow a dad who loves his kids enough to spend time with them. However, he just went back to what he was doing. Sad I know.

  • http://whizblog.net/ izzat aziz

    you should write about it in twitip as guest..
    sure it will be great post..

    in my previous experience with twitter,
    the one that subscribe me, just
    to promote themselve without actually
    care about me.. that why i stop
    doing twitter thing for a while..
    what you think about it?

  • http://whizblog.net izzat aziz

    you should write about it in twitip as guest..
    sure it will be great post..

    in my previous experience with twitter,
    the one that subscribe me, just
    to promote themselve without actually
    care about me.. that why i stop
    doing twitter thing for a while..
    what you think about it?

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  • http://stevenjones.blogspot.com/ Memphis Steve

    I signed up my blog in Twitterfeed, but it never did anything.

  • http://stevenjones.blogspot.com/ Memphis Steve

    I signed up my blog in Twitterfeed, but it never did anything.

  • http://www.travelalley.blogspot.com/ Doreen

    Hi David,
    I found your blog while searching for ideas to promote my blog. I’ve heard quite a bit about Twitter and was going to create an account as well. I’m a newbie to creatinhg blogs, web pages, etc. Still learning but I’m ready to start promoting my blog. I will try Twitter! Thank you for the information. Please visit my travel blog and feel free to subscribe and tell me your thoughts on the content. Remember I’m a newbie but have been learning fairly fast and I think it’s starting to look pretty good.
    Have a great day!

  • http://www.travelalley.blogspot.com Doreen

    Hi David,
    I found your blog while searching for ideas to promote my blog. I’ve heard quite a bit about Twitter and was going to create an account as well. I’m a newbie to creatinhg blogs, web pages, etc. Still learning but I’m ready to start promoting my blog. I will try Twitter! Thank you for the information. Please visit my travel blog and feel free to subscribe and tell me your thoughts on the content. Remember I’m a newbie but have been learning fairly fast and I think it’s starting to look pretty good.
    Have a great day!

  • http://www.craftandcreate.net/ CraftandCreate

    Can you tell me how you add the list of interesting articles below your post – “If you enjoyed this article, you might also like…?” Do you use a special widget to do this?

  • http://www.craftandcreate.net CraftandCreate

    Can you tell me how you add the list of interesting articles below your post – “If you enjoyed this article, you might also like…?” Do you use a special widget to do this?