So you’ve spent a decent chunk of the 1,440 minutes allocated to you by Life today, writing an exceptionally cool blog post. Don’t you now owe it to yourself to give that post every possible chance to get eyeballs attracted to it?

Sure, your name may not be @problogger or @copyblogger, but there are things you can do to get your post “tweeted” more in the Twitterverse.

My favorite technique I recommend to you is this: create a Retweet Link with every post. These are links you click (like this one) that instantly fill the “What are you doing?” box on Twitter with a message that you specify (assuming the visitor is logged in to Twitter).

Now, there are Wordpress plug-ins that do something like this for you, but I avoid them because (a) they don’t let you create a text link (which is everyone’s favorite form of link), (b) they don’t give you a whole bunch of control over the text link, and (c) they plug themselves in your retweet message.

That’s why I prefer to create them manually – but they take all of 2 minutes to do. Now if you’ve spent an hour or more carefully crafting a well-written, content rich blog post, why wouldn’t you spend an extra 2 minutes making it easier for your visitors to “retweet” your blog post?

So assuming you’ve just written your blog post, here’s how you do it… it’s very simple:

1. Get the URL (i.e. web address) of your blog post, and shorten it with Bit.ly. (I recommend this service, because you can track your retweets using it!
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2. Now go to RetweetLink.com, type in the retweet message you want your blog visitors to use on Twitter and press “create link” to get the Retweet Link. I recommend the following format:
   RT @yourtwittername Name Of The Blog Post http://bit.ly/blah
   … where RT means “retweet”, and @yourtwittername is your user name on Twitter.
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3. Edit your blog post, adding a short message at the end (with the Retweet Link) asking visitors who use Twitter to click the link to retweet about your blog post.

After you’ve done that a few times, you’ll find it takes you no more than about 2 or 3 minutes each time – but you’ll greatly increase the chances of visitors from Twitter retweeting about your blog post!

There are lots of other cool ways you can use Retweet Links which I couldn’t include here (but which you can read about in my free report, “Retweet Links – Your ‘Secret Weapon’ For Getting More Traffic And Followers From Twitter”) , but this single technique I shared with you here will increase your chances of having your blog post retweeted – and every retweet can potentially bring you fresh visitors!

So use today’s 1,440 minutes wisely, and start using Retweet Links in all your blog posts.

Twitter users, your fellow bloggers need this information as well, so please click here to retweet about this blog post. Your followers will love you for sharing this with them! You can also follow me on Twitter at @paulhancox