Thread: Setting up Twitter to drive traffic to your blog

There are two main ways (well, two that I know, i'm sure there are other ways) to automatically update your twitter account with post from your blog, one is straight forward and simple, the other is long winded and complicated.
We will tackle the complicated one first and the simple one next.

Promoting your Blog with Twitterfeed
The main advantage of placing the blog feed into twitter is that your blog articles will automatically be sent to your twitter messages, though not all content of the articles will be sent, but only the title or the top paragraph including the link to your post.

Twitterfeed is a service that will automatically twitter any post that you publish on your blog. This makes it easy that you don't have to manually enter updates into Twitter, but of course you don't just want to set up your TwitterFeed and ignore Twitter either. TwitterFeed automatically adds a link to your latest blog post in your Twitter feed using your site’s RSS feed.

Steps for the setting in twitterfeed
You need to set up a Twitter account and also your OpenID account because the information for both of these accounts is needed to set up your TwitterFeed account. If you do not have these, please visit twitter.com and http://openid.net/ to set those up following the instructions on the site. You also need Your RSS Feed url.

Steps to set up include:

* First visit the site at http://twitterfeed.com

* Click Login/register on the top-right of your monitor

* Enter your OpenID login information. Click "login". This will take you to a page with a link that reads "go to my twitterfeeds (or create a new one). Click on that link.

* Click on the link that reads "create a new link". You will see a box that reads "create a new (blank) feed". In the (blank) is a drop-down box. Make sure that you have selected "twitter" in this box.

* Enter the requested information in the form such as:

• Use Twitter to drive traffic to your blogs
  
  You simply post a "tweet" when you have updated your blog, and all you friends, followers and admirer will be instantly notified.
  
  Promoting your Blog with Twitterfeed
  The main advantage of placing the blog feed into twitter is that your blog articles will automatically be sent to your twitter messages, though not all content of the articles will be sent, but only the title or the top paragraph including the link to your post.
  
  Twitterfeed is a service that will automatically twitter any post that you publish on your blog. This makes it easy that you don't have to manually enter updates into Twitter, but of course you don't just want to set up your TwitterFeed and ignore Twitter either.
  
  Steps for the setting in twitterfeed
  You need to set up a Twitter account and also your OpenID account because the information for both of these accounts is needed to set up your TwitterFeed account. If you do not have these, please visit twitter.com and http://openid.net/ to set those up following the instructions on the site. You also need Your RSS Feed url.
  
  Steps to set up include:
  
  * First visit the site at http://twitterfeed.com
  
  * Click Login/register on the top-right of your monitor
  
  * Enter your OpenID login information. Click "login". This will take you to a page with a link that reads "go to my twitterfeeds (or create a new one). Click on that link.
  
  * Click on the link that reads "create a new link". You will see a box that reads "create a new (blank) feed". In the (blank) is a drop-down box. Make sure that you have selected "twitter" in this box.
  
  * Enter the requested information in the form such as:
  
  
  • Username: fill with username of your twitter account
  • Password: Fill with your twitter password
  • RSS Feed URL: Fill with you blog URL includes /atom.xml.
  • Update frequency: Fill with your selection
  • Post up to: Choose some posts you want to display
  • Include…: Choose title & description if you want to display the article consist of title and description, or you may choose another one.
  • shorten link through: Choose the link shorten service
  • Post new items based on: leave it as pubDate
  • Prefix each tweet with: you may leave as blank
  
  * Click Create button
  
  * Wait 12-24 hours and then check your Twitter profile to make sure that your feed is automatically updating. If it's not, return to TwitterFeed. Enter the site the same way as before and then click on "my feeds" at the top right corner of the page. Make sure your feed is on the list. Click to edit. See if it shows up on Twitter. If not, contact TwitterFeed's help service.
  
• Username: fill with username of your twitter account
• Password: Fill with your twitter password
• RSS Feed URL: Fill with you blog URL includes /atom.xml.
• Update frequency: Fill with your selection
• Post up to: Choose some posts you want to display
• Include…: Choose title & description if you want to display the article consist of title and description, or you may choose another one.
• shorten link through: Choose the link shorten service
• Post new items based on: leave it as pubDate
• Prefix each tweet with: you may leave as blank

* Click Create button

* Wait 12-24 hours and then check your Twitter profile to make sure that your feed is automatically updating. If it's not, return to TwitterFeed. Enter the site the same way as before and then click on "my feeds" at the top right corner of the page. Make sure your feed is on the list. Click to edit. See if it shows up on Twitter. If not, contact TwitterFeed's help service.

TwitterFeed automatically adds a link to your latest blog post in your Twitter feed using your site’s RSS feed.

Thank you for sharing this howto. I was very helpful.

i think sharing your blog post in your twitter can help drive traffic.. also you can use some twitter widgets to increase your followers on twitter :D

Tweetburner is another tool for twitter app that can track the links you shared on Twitter. Tweetburner shortens the URL with a bookmark link (same as Twshot) and allows you to also see how many clicks were made on the link you submitted to your Twitter account.

Tweetburner shorten your shared links into twurl. After that you can know what’s exactly happened with your links you posted to twitter. Tweetburner stats will show you how many clicks your shared links got from your followers

well, i heard lot about twitter now a days from webmasters and bloggers , but i really didn't get how to get traffic from twitter or how to get lot of followers on twitter ??? because i am using twitter since last 7 month but still i have 70 followers and i never get lot of traffic from them , its really confusing me

Thanks for sharing this info :)

i've tried to use tweetfeed as a social bookmarking site.... and i think it's a very useful site to submit links :D

Thank I use that and found great this is automate tweet when I post article

Thank you for sharing this howto. I was very helpful.

Originally Posted by adaliabarclay

well, i heard lot about twitter now a days from webmasters and bloggers , but i really didn't get how to get traffic from twitter or how to get lot of followers on twitter ??? because i am using twitter since last 7 month but still i have 70 followers and i never get lot of traffic from them , its really confusing me

i think you can get followers, from the visitors of your site that have twitter account, or from twiiter site from the members.... you can get followers by following them first and then they will follow you if they like your updates...