How to Get Your Blog Post Retweeted

It goes without saying that in order for your blog to be successful...convert readers to clients...you need consistent, constant, compelling content. And, you need traffic.

If you're following my Online Visibility Secrets program or have attended any of my teleseminars or programs, then you know I adamantly insist that you connect your blog to your twitter stream so your posts are auto-tweeted when you publish.

On twitter, one goal of many entrepreneurs and marketers is to get their tweets retweeted (like forwarding an email). A great tweet can quickly go viral, reaching a much wider audience than you may currently have. This can generate new followers, clicks through to your website/blog, new leads and new prospects.

A great goal then is to get the tweets with links to your blog posts retweeted.

I read a good article on 5 Proven Ways to Get Retweeted by Kristen Burnham who shares Dan Zarrella's twitter tips. Dan has studied and analyzed the numbers and shares the best day (Friday) and time of day (3 pm to midnight) for retweets as well as the top 20 words/phrases that appear most often in retweets. What do you think the #1 word is?

You.

The top 10 words are: you, twitter, please, retweet, post, blog, social, free, media, and help.

57% of retweets also include links. If you're auto tweeting your blog posts, you're got a good thing going because there should be a link back to your post automatically included.

How does this relate to getting your blog posts retweeted?

1. Make sure your blog posts are being auto tweeted to your followers.

2. A link will be automatically generated to direct back to your post.

3. Weave in a couple of the top 20 words in your blog post title.

4. Publish your blog posts after 3 pm ET on Fridays.

5. Don't dilute your blog post tweets by tweeting other stuff with links less than an hour after your blog post is tweeted.

Of course there is no guarantee that your blog post tweet will be retweeted. The post title has to be compelling and give a clue about what your follower will learn on your blog. And, it has to be relevant to your followers. Could be an interesting exercise to be deliberate about your blog post titles and when you publish, then track your retweets. 

Any other tips for getting your blog posts retweeted? Let's hear 'em!

Comments

[Mike Consol]

Denise, excellent article from Kristen Burnham. Not your run-of-the-mill stuff. Bit.ly it is! Friday evening is more than just a good happy hour!

Thank you for sharing.

[Prasad1247]

i m really liking this article very much thanks a lot for this and corrected more information myself but one thing as to be remembered, the more important is your article sounds good for beginners just like me but to be success with this . . . i need lots of patience to make thing to reach to all tweets . . . m'i correct Denise

cheers,
Prasad 1247

[Clint Cora]

Wouldn't this mean that we would have to keep our blog posts 140 characters or less in order to be useful in Twitter?

[Rinaldi Syahran]

hi Denise,
I agree with you too, because i do like what you say when i use twitter will be retweeted.

[Extreme John]

This is the first time I have visited your blog, I am pretty excited about it especially due to the fact that your topics are topics I genuinly enjoy reading about.. Anyway.

Automatically tweeting your blog posts is a huge tip, I noticed a tremendous difference in the traffic and response to my articles when I installed a plugin to get that job done for me.

[Nick Johnson]

#5 has been the biggest problem for me. Even after posting a great post that I know will get some twitter traffic retweeting I always end up diluting it by staying active on twitter.

I really gotta work on that.

[neil kevin]

Thanks for the tips. Its a very valuable information for me. I am new to the internet marketing so this post will help me a lot to promote my site. Thanks for giving time to write this post.