Twitter is a bloggers best friend. Not only does tweeting your latest blog post help it get picked up by Google, Twitter can be an awesome channel for driving a torrent of traffic to your site.
With the seven tactics in this post you will learn some awesome strategies for getting more Twitter traffic to your blog.
Team the tactics in this post with my tips for getting more Twitter followers and getting more retweets and you will be ready to make your next blog post an epic Twitter success!
1. Tweet Your Blog Posts
I tend to send all of my tweets manually since this gives me complete control over the timing of my tweets. I like to space my tweets out so that I do not flood my Twitter stream with too many tweets at any one time.
For those who like to automate there are some cool Twitter tools out there.
TwitterFeed is one of the cool (free) tools you can use. With Twitterfeed you can auto-post your new blog posts as tweets.
After creating a Twitter account, you provide Twitterfeed with the URL for blog’s RSS feed, and then configure how often you want to post to Twitter.
After that, every time you publish a post on your blog, it creates a post on Twitter announcing its availability. If you have multiple blogs, you can a single Twitterfeed account to promote all of them.
2. Encourage Your Readers to Tweet Your Posts
A tool that I use to do this is called click to tweet.
To use click to tweet you jump over to their website and insert the tweet that you want tweeted. The tool will then compress this tweet down into a link.
Then simply insert some text with a call to action asking your readers to tweet this post and you’re good to go!
3. Include a link to your blog in your bio
Most people think that they are limited to one link in their bio.
The fact is that you can include two or more links, although I recommend you limit your linkage to two links at most.
For a second link to work you will need to begin it with the http:// prefix.
I use this strategy in my Twitter bio as you can see from the image below:
4. Install a Commenting Plugin With Twitter Integration
The free commenting system that I use and recommend is called Livefyre and it is my favorite for a few important reasons.
- It is simple to install
- It offers the most options for signing in to comment
- It makes sharing on social media sites like Twitter very easy.
The easier you can make it for people to share your content the more people will.
With Livefyre commenting with one click users can easily share comments with their friends on other social networks. This empowers your community to spread the best reactions to your content and bring more traffic to your site.
Even if your blogging platform does not support Lifefyre, try to enable Twitter sharing if the option is available, and even if it is not make sure to use tools like click to tweet to get your readers sharing your content.
5. Install Official Twitter Buttons
Tweet buttons are a great way to get your blog content to spread on Twitter.
There are several different official Twitter buttons that you can install and Twitter makes it easy to configure and install them.
I recommend installing a tweet button into every post to help people share your content.
If you have a WordPress blog you may want to consider using the WP Tweet Button plugin. I use the WP Tweet Button plugin on this blog and it automatically adds a tweet button to every page and/or post you have published. This plugin is also highly customizable.
6. Use Twitter to Run a Blog Contest
Twitter can be a great way to get contests happening for your blog.
There are a few different ways you can use Twitter to promote a contest.
You can run a comment contest, where you send tweets out about the prize you will give away to whoever has the best comment.
Another option is to run a contest where the winner is the person who drives the most traffic to the contest page. Simply tell entrants to use bit.ly links to track the traffic they send, since bit.ly links can be tracked simply by adding a + to the end of any bit.ly link.
7. Promote Your Blog(s) on Your Twitter Background
Despite the many Twitter Tools that are out there and free to use most people still use the web based version of Twitter to send their tweets.
This means that your background is basically a billboard that you can use to promote your blogs and any other social networks you want to build.
This is how I have used my background, with a link to this Twitter blog and other links to my social profiles. Although these links are not clickable their visibility has undoubtedly caused some people to check these links out.
Even if you are not a graphic designer you can still create an awesome background without too much effort. The Twitter Background designer Themelon is a good place to start, as it makes creating a custom Twitter background base very easy.
Once you have a background base design you can link up with a background designer on Fiverr and get a custom background for five bucks. Or you can download a free trial of Photoshop and tackle the customization yourself.
Conclusion
Did you like this post? Then you should send a tweet about this post on Twitter! 
How do you promote your blog on Twitter? Leave a comment and let us know!
Hey Garin, I'm thankful I found these very useful tips. I just posted a new blog post (You can check it out here:  ;http://www.magicactionbox.com/boosting-conversions-using-powerful-calls-to-action-on-your-blog-posts/) and learn about twitterfeed from you. I'll be using it now. Thanks a lot and continue your awesome work!
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Thanks, Garin, that's tremendously handy information. About Item No. 2, though, is your phrase "the tweet that you want tweeted" referring to a blog post (on WordPress, in my case) that I would want tweeted ?- If not, why use Click-to-Tweet on my Twitter account when there is already the Retweet button on Twitter ?
This all helped. I'm a beginner in many ways, being a sort of hobbyist who likes to promulgate the verses of the Irish poet Clarence Mangan (1803 – 1849).
Cheers,
~Q~
I struggle so much on Twitter it's not even funny. I struggle with everything social media to be honest. Thanks for the help
Thanks for this post. I just started blogging, this would really help.
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