WordPress Blogging Tip - Extend the Reach of Your WordPress Blog

Friday, September 26th, 2008 cathy
Jeff Herring over at The Great Article Marketing Blog has an excellent post on extending the reach of your articles.  Let's examine this strategy and apply it to your WordPress blog posts. 1.  Article Strategy:  Ezine Articles + Twitter = More Exposure Blog Strategy:  TwitterTools + Twitter = More Exposure for your blog. TwitterTools is a great WordPress plugin that allows your blog posts to be posted automatically to your Twitter profile.   To implement this strategy, get the TwitterTools plugin, upload it to the plugins folder at your hosting account, activate it in your blog, and configure it.  A configuration tip - set the option for creating posts from tweets to 'no'.  Don't clutter your blog posts with tweets - they look funny because they are so short.  The purpose of this strategy is to send your posts to Twitter to get people to come to your blog, not the other way around. 2. Article Strategy:  Announce your own articles on Twitter Blog Strategy:  Announce your own blog posts on Twitter After your blog post is automagically posted to your Twitter profile, go to Twitter and talk about your post.   Explain it, educate people from it and start a discussion about it - with a link back to it.  Keep your blog post alive for a longer period of time using this strategy. 3.  Article Strategy:   Get your ArticlesBy(yourfirstname).com domain name Blog Strategy:  Get your BloggingWith(yourfirstname).com domain name Is your blog url long or difficult to remember?  Why not purchase the domain name BloggingWith(yourfirstname).com and forward it to your blog url?  When I'm talking to someone, it's a lot easier to say, 'Go to BloggingWithCathy.com' than it is to say, 'Go to TheWordPressWizard.com'. By now you might be wondering how this post fits in with my previous post on plagiarism.  Here's the difference.  I am not claiming these ideas as my own - I am giving Jeff full credit with a link (trackback) to his post! There are 3 purposes of this post: 1.  To give you some really good blogging tips. 2. To show the difference between plagiarism and blogging about another blogger's great idea. 3.  To illustrate how closely article marketing and blogging are related. To see further how closely they are related, I'd like to invite you to go to BAM Secrets to find out even more about Blog and Article Marketing Secrets.

Comments

By Justin on October 11th, 2008 at 2:18 am

I keep holding back on adopting twitter. It seems like a possible time waster, so i've avoided it so far.

By cathy on October 11th, 2008 at 7:43 am

I thought that too, at first. I'm just sorry I waited - Twitter really DOES help.

By Lynn Jordan -- Authors Tools Blog on October 14th, 2008 at 12:43 am

This is great advice for mixing Twitter and articles. Twitter is amazing is so many ways.

By Paul on October 24th, 2008 at 6:24 pm

I really like the idea, blogging at or anything you want at(your name).com, that opens so many options for promotional domains. Thanks

By Dev on October 27th, 2008 at 11:13 am

Nice advise & the twitter Articles works great.i will follow you.
thanks

By Paul B. on November 4th, 2008 at 9:35 pm

This is great advice for those of us who want to use blogging as a source of promotion!
As an entrepreneur who has developed products to allow internet marketing newbies to find success, I love to see value added material such as this!

By Rod Tyler on November 4th, 2008 at 10:03 pm

The TwitterTools idea sounds interesting. I'm gonna have to try that. I really like the domain tip. That would make it so much simpler. Anything to make it easier for people to get to your blog. Thanks.

By james on November 4th, 2008 at 10:19 pm

Hey-Thanks for these configuration tips-

I'll take all the good wordpress tips I can. Been doing some research with twitter also so this really helps.

James

By Jimmy on November 4th, 2008 at 10:23 pm

I have been using article marketing for a couple of months and actually have a Wordpress blog that has a squeeze page sent up as the static page right now. But my tech skills are such that I dont want to cahnge anything on it for fear I will mess the squeeze page up

By Jim on November 10th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

This is a great plugin, and one of the reasons why we're moving to WordPress for both of our blogs.

Thanks for the tip!

 

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