WordPress Blogging Tip - Extend the Reach of Your WordPress Blog

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.