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		<title>How To Get More Retweets And Traffic For Your Blog Posts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Hancox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you&#8217;ve spent a decent chunk of the 1,440 minutes allocated to you by Life today, writing an exceptionally cool blog post. Don&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So you&#8217;ve spent a decent chunk of the 1,440 minutes allocated to you by Life today, writing an exceptionally cool blog post. Don&#8217;t you now owe it to yourself to give that post <em>every possible chance</em> to get eyeballs attracted to it?</p>
<p>Sure, your name may not be @problogger or @copyblogger, but there <em>are</em> things you can do to get your post &#8220;tweeted&#8221; more in the Twitterverse.</p>
<p>My favorite technique I recommend to you is this: <strong>create a Retweet Link with every post</strong>. These are links you click (like <a title="Retweet Link" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=RT+%40paulhancox+How+To+Get+More+Retweets+And+Traffic+For+Your+Blog+Posts+http://bit.ly/IJsLk" target="_blank">this one</a>) that instantly fill the &#8220;What are you doing?&#8221; box on Twitter with a message that you specify (assuming the visitor is logged in to Twitter).</p>
<p>Now, there are Wordpress plug-ins that do <em>something</em> like this for you, but I avoid them because (a) they don&#8217;t let you create a text link (which is everyone&#8217;s favorite form of link), (b) they don&#8217;t give you a whole bunch of control over the text link, and (c) they plug themselves in your retweet message.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why I prefer to create them manually &#8211; but they take all of 2 minutes to do. Now if you&#8217;ve spent an hour or more carefully crafting a well-written, content rich blog post, why wouldn&#8217;t you spend an extra 2 minutes making it easier for your visitors to &#8220;retweet&#8221; your blog post?</p>
<p>So assuming you&#8217;ve just written your blog post, here&#8217;s how you do it&#8230; it&#8217;s very simple:</p>
<ol>
<li>Get the URL (i.e. web address) of your blog post, and shorten it with <a title="Bit.ly URL shortening service" href="http://bit.ly" target="_blank">Bit.ly</a>. (I recommend this service, because you can track your retweets using it!<br />
<span style="color: #ffffff;">.</span></li>
<li>Now go to <a title="RetweetLink.com - create twitter retweet status links" href="http://retweetlink.com/?ph" target="_blank">RetweetLink.com</a>, type in the retweet message you want your blog visitors to use on Twitter and press &#8220;create link&#8221; to get the Retweet Link. I recommend the following format:<br />
<em>RT @yourtwittername Name Of The Blog Post http://bit.ly/blah</em><br />
&#8230; where RT means &#8220;retweet&#8221;, and @yourtwittername is your user name on Twitter.<br />
<span style="color: #ffffff;">.</span></li>
<li>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.</li>
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<p>After you&#8217;ve done that a few times, you&#8217;ll find it takes you no more than about 2 or 3 minutes each time &#8211; but you&#8217;ll greatly increase the chances of visitors from Twitter retweeting about your blog post!</p>
<p>There are lots of other cool ways you can use Retweet Links which I couldn&#8217;t include here (but which you can read about in my <strong>free</strong> report, <a title="Retweet Links - Your Secret Weapon For Getting More Traffic And Followers From Twitter" href="http://retweetlink.com/?tt=report" target="_blank">&#8220;Retweet Links &#8211; Your &#8216;Secret Weapon&#8217; For Getting More Traffic And Followers From Twitter&#8221;</a>) , but this single technique I shared with you here will increase your chances of having your blog post retweeted &#8211; and every retweet can potentially bring you fresh visitors!</p>
<p>So use today&#8217;s 1,440 minutes wisely, and start using Retweet Links in all your blog posts.</p>
<p><em>Twitter users, your fellow bloggers need this information as well, so please <a title="Retweet Link for Twitter users" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=RT+%40paulhancox+How+To+Get+More+Retweets+And+Traffic+For+Your+Blog+Posts+http://bit.ly/IJsLk" target="_blank">click here</a> to retweet about this blog post. Your followers will love you for sharing this with them! You can also follow me on Twitter at <a title="Paul Hancox is on Twitter!" href="http://twitter.com/paulhancox" target="_blank">@paulhancox</a><br />
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