Promoting blogs and driving traffic to a blog is one of the major concerns for any new blogger. Even though you might have quality content, your blog could go unnoticed if it is not promoted well. There are various techniques provided by expert bloggers to drive traffic to your web sites.
Marketing and promoting the blogs through social media profiles is one of the most popular techniques. There are hundreds of plugins to share your articles,tutorials,posts on social media profiles in just a one click. But most of these will use the page url and hence the complete article will be shared.
That is actually a great thing.
But have you thought about sharing specific sections of your articles?
In most websites you can find the social sharing links at the top of the post or at the end of the post. Latest technique is creating a floating social bar which stays at same location even when you keep scrolling. Readers does not share content unless they are interested. So in the above techniques reader need to have interest in whole article in order to consider sharing.
What if reader likes a specific portion only?
We can allow the readers to share part of the content by providing tweet links inline with the content. Pick up the most important and interesting techniques in your article and put inline tweet link to share specific content. So the users dont have to look for social sharing buttons. Instead they can click and share whenever they see a inline content with tweet link.
This technique provides higher possibility of sharing your content on twitter. Consider the quote given below which demonstrates this technique.
Google before you tweet is the new think before you speak. – Click to Tweet
Once the link is clicked you will be redirected to twitter with a tweet containing the specific content and link to your article. Since there are is link back to the article, there is a higher possibility of more readers visiting your site.
Where Do We Need to Place Tweet Links
It depends on the type of article and content you have. We cannot place tweet links for each small section of the article. Following are some of the common content types you can use to place tweet links.
- Popular quotes used in the articles.
- Important codes or theories, which we normally use as blockquotes.
- Questions we use in articles.
How to Create Inline Tweets?
First you have to visit www.clicktotweet.com, where you can find the tweet creation editor. Inside the textarea, include the content you want to be tweeted. It should be lesser than 140 characters. Then get the URL of your article and use a URL shortner service to get a external URL with limited characters. Then include the generated URL after the tweet content in the textarea.
Finally click the Generate Link button and get the clicktotweet link. Then go to your article and place the link inline with the content you want to tweet.
Add inline tweet link to your article and see how it goes using statistics. Looking forward to hear about your results.
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