Promote Your Blog Through Twitter

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“Twitter is without a doubt the best way to share and discover what is happening right now.”

This is the official description of Twitter. Is that true? Sure it is, even it’s more than this. Twitter is the best way to promote your blog or any of your products. From needle to locomotive. If you don’t know, read this post and learn how to use Twitter for your blog’s promotion.

Indirect Promotion

So, with sharing something on Twitter, you effectively serve the information to your followers. Important thing about the promotion on Twitter is the number of people who follow you. From mine (not so long) experience I know that first you will follow some people (especially bloggers), with which you have already made contact through other social networks like Facebook, or through commenting on their’s blog for ex., and that will result with following to you. Therefore, you still need to work a little bit, just to build a positive reputation among the bloggers. Later, all will run smoothly and the number of people who follow you will increase.

Appearance

The appearance of your Twitter page is one of the factors that could affect on the people who will follow you, or they don’t do that when will see your page designs. Suppose you’re an advanced user and want to be a serious blogger. You need to make custom background for your twitter page. You can do that with design tools like Photoshop or GIMP… Here are few sites where you can find free twitter backgrounds for download or just to inspire you to make your own:

• http://www.twitterbackgroundsgallery.com
• http://www.twitterbackgrounds.com
• http://www.twitterbackgrounds.org
• http://www.twitbacks.com

Or just search on Google.

Promotion

When you’re publishing a post, set up the Twitter status and notify your followers that a new post is published. At the beginning or at the end of your tweet add “[blog post]” tag or any other tag that is related to your blog. If the name is too long, try to shorten it and write the key linked to the post and it’s content. After you put the name of your post, add the address of the post. Usually we use sites like bit.ly to short our links. And in the end our status should look like this:

“Twitter is without a doubt the best way to share and discover what is happening right now.”