Comments on: Marketing your blog on Twitter

By: jfouts

jfouts — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:10:41 +0000

Hey, that's great to hear Luis, glad the post was helpful.

By: Luis Lopez

Luis Lopez — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:20:07 +0000

This post opens my eyes about my twitter strategy, right now I am going to correct some mistakes, I was doing.

Thanks I'm already following you

By: wbw_Jeff

wbw_Jeff — Sun, 10 May 2009 02:13:07 +0000

I'm not sure if everyone knows that you can click 'Show Preview Information for Short URLs' on the Tweetdeck Settings page. It will give you the click counts not only for your own URL's but, for the curious and nosey, the counts for other's links as well.

By: jfouts

jfouts — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:48:25 +0000

As for the URL shorteners I'm fond of is.gd and bit.ly because you can track clicks and I also use ow.ly, mostly because I like the ease of use of Hootlet. Ow.ly links give you a lot of informationin in your Hootlet.com dashboard, however Google doesn't index those links, so I don't use it for marketing my own material.

Did you see this post from Marshall Kirkpatrick at RRW? http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_crow...

By: tim

tim — Sat, 09 May 2009 07:43:50 +0000

I thought this a good post on the best way of using Twitter to market your blog. As wbw_Jeff refers to there are tools to shorten the URL. I use TRIM out of habit but I think they all are much the same. They allow you to track the traffic from Twitter.

By: wbw_Jeff

wbw_Jeff — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:17:02 +0000

Good points on an important subject. Need to remember that the basic rules of click marketing still apply. You need to stress a benefit and provide a call to action. AND leave room for a ReTweet. Picture the zeitgeist that the Twitter users are viewing – why should they click on YOUR link?

Also, in terms of feedback, I just noticed that TweetDeck will give you click counts for certain URL shorteners, including, of course, bit.;u