While this might be an easy way for you to present your blog post to the Twitterati, people soon realize that these are automated messages and tends to ignore them. Also, not 100% of your posts are good, but with this even the most silliest ones are posted on Twitter which tends to do more harm to your reputation than any good.

However, if you really want to use Twitter the way it should be and want your readers to Twit your good posts, you can do that as well. Just integrate some small code snippets in your blog and you are done.

Integrating Twitter with WordPress Blogs

Method 1

Step 1: Open the header.php file of WordPress and insert the following lines just before the closing tag.

Step 2: Open the single.php file and insert the following line just below the_content() function.


Reading:
Tweet This: Send Page to Twitter

Method 2

You can use the Plugin offered by Twit This. It’s really really good and easy to use however, it would require the users to give their Twitter user id and password.

Integrating Twitter with Blogger Blogs ( Blogspot )

Twitter with Blogger Widget Templates

a) Go to Blog layout and then click Edit HTML. You will see a link for “Expand Widget template” , Click on it.

b) Copy the entire code and save it in a notepad for backup. Never ever do any tweak to your widget templates without taking a proper backup, they can be pretty messy to fix once you break them.

c) Find the line that has got the class post-footer in the XML template.

d) Copy the code below and paste it near the class

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So here are some tips to SEO your WordPress Blog..

a) SEO Friendly Permalinks – One of the key steps in optimizing your WP Blog. the default structure of WordPress Blog URLs are like www.yourblog.com/?p=5. You need to change it to a SEO friendly format. Go to Options > Permalinks. Chose the option “Custom” and put in /%category%/%postname%/ Your URL structure becomes www.yourblog.com/category/this-is-your-post-title . Isn’t that simple ?

b) Page Title Optimization – As with any other websites Page Title also plays a key role when you SEO a blog. The default page Title structure for a WordPress Blog is “Blog Title – Page Title”. While this is not bad, it can be much better if you have it as “Page Title – Blog Title”. As your post specific keywords are expected to be in your Post title it becomes really helpful for SEO.
OR Use this Plugin to optimize your page title and meta tags as you want

c) Optimize Category Names – This is a very simple thing that we often miss. In point (a) we have mentioned about including the category name in URL, so using keyword rich category names can actually enrich your URL. For example, in this SEO Blog if I am to create an category for Misc. for all my non-SEO posts instead of naming it as Misc or Miscellaneous I might as well call it Non-SEO or Other Than SEO.

d) Make your Post Titles Click-able – Yes, some WordPress themes comes with this customization, some of them don’t . It is pretty easy to do and is really helpful in making your WordPress blog SEO friendly. In your main template and the Page template you should be able to find the code

[h2][?php the_title(); ?][/h2]

Replace this with

[h2][a href=”[?php the_permalink() ?]” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to [?php the_title(); ?]“][?php the_title(); ?][/a][/h2]

* note: We have used [] instead of used in the actual code.

e) Related Posts – Yes, here you would need a plug in and trust me the Word Press Related Posts plug in is a gem. Just install it and insert the code snippet in a suitable location ( generally after the post), you are done ! Related posts would start showing up against each post, this would not just enhance your internal site navigation but also add value for your visitors as they would be able to find al posts about the same topic in one place.

f) Site Map – Again it is advisable you use a Sitemap Plug in. If your theme is well planned and you have a few back links to your WordPress Blog, you should not have trouble getting your posts crawled, however, having a sitemap would cause no harm. Try using the WordPress Google Site Map Generator Plug in.

g) Content – This is probably the most important factor in optimizing your blog. Post regularly and ensure that you are sneaking in your targeted keywords within your posts wherever applicable. make sure your post titles have your keywords. Having said all that, a word of caution – Do not over do. If you would like read Characteristics of good website content writing.

There can be much more that you can do to SEO your WordPress Blog, however, if you are following the above tips you should be pretty set. Just build a few good back links and your WordPress blog should be well optimized.

In case you have any other SEO tips that you think would help optimizing a WordPress blog please feel free to add in comments.

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