How to Link Your Twitter Account with Your Blog or Website

Why should I link my Twitter account to my Blog?

When you blog or run a website, the most important thing to do, is to build your brand. To get people to buy into you as a writer or into whatever it is you use your site to promote. You want people to know when you have fresh material for them to read. One way that is great for promoting your blog and new material is Twitter and the best way to get them linked with you on Twitter is a simple advertisement on your blog or website.

This is a gadget that you can add through Blogger in the “layout” section of your dashboard. It is a floating icon that will display on the screen of anyone visiting your site and allows them to follow you on Twitter by clicking it.

How to add this gadget to your blogger Blog

-Go to the “layout” section of your dashboard
-Add a new gadget, look for the HTML/JavaScript one
-Then paste this code into the box;


Twitter Static Badge Generator

Thank you to Allblogtools.com for providing this code! I hope this helps you advertise your blog, your ideas and you!

Enjoy this day,
Matt

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Tips for Becoming a Better Writer - Use Twitter

OK, so lately I’ve been reading articles on how to become a better writer and a lot of times the advice to cut your stuff down is offered. To be able communicate the most important part of your message in the shortest amount of time is a gift, but it’s a gift that can be developed.

After reading the advice about editing your stuff down I also read someone say that Twitter is a great way tool to help you get better at this. They felt this way because when you use Twitter you’re only working with 160 characters or less so you’re stretched to be creative and to cut unnecessary stuff out. When I first read this I was a bit skeptical. Lately though I’ve seen how Twitter has helped me become a better communicator, here’s how.

Writing headlines to advertise my posts is where I’ve seen Twitter help me the most (with more visits to my site as well!). Like I mentioned earlier, this is because I’m forced to get better at writing with less space.

Twitter not only forces me to be creative, but it also lets me follow the real pro’s at this like Seth Godin who writes really good headlines.

It might not seem like much, but I’m glad to get to use Twitter if only for those two reasons. I’m also glad that someone passed on this advice of using Twitter to help me in my writing, because if they hadn’t, I wouldn’t have taken advantage of it.

I hope it helps you also!

Enjoy this day,
Matt

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