Maintaining a WordPress Blog is not an easy task. In addition to updating it regularly, you need to manage it on the social media to increase its traffic, i.e. urge more people to visit it on a daily basis. And when it comes to integrating a WordPress blog with a social media network, twitter is considered the best platform to do so, mainly due to the fact that it is the second most popular referrer of the traffic tomy blog (next only to Google). So ensuring your presence on Twitter would definitely ensure high traffic to your blog. And here are a few effective ways in which you can do just that!
Share your Blogs Socially
One of the best ways to increase traffic to your WordPress blog is to place a couple of sharing buttons at the bottom of each post that would enable the reader to share these posts online in other social media networks.
WordPress has many applications like Jetpack which would let you insert social sharing buttons automatically at the bottom of a post as soon as you publish it. Do not use too many buttons and create a clutter. Rather, stick to those buttons that would enable you to gain traffic from the networks that would most suit the target market.
Publicize your posts automatically
Another striking feature of the Jetpack application in WordPress is the publicize button that enables you to share your blog on different social networking sites, including twitter automatically. And this happens as soon you as you finish the blog.
Another similar service for automatic sharing of blogs is Dlvr.it, a limited free service that works along with Wired Advisor clients. Once you publish a blog here, the service would automatically share it on twitter and several other social networking platforms, thereby increasing the traffic to your blog manifold.
Add ‘Tweet This’ or ‘Click to Tweet’ Links
Face it! Not many individuals are active enough to read your blogs and then actually log into their twitter page. and insert a reference to your WordPress blog in their feed. You can make it easier for them (and more effective for yourself) by inserting ‘Click to Tweet’ or ‘Tweet This’ links into catchy phrases or sentences in your blogs.
This way, if someone is impressed with your blog, they would simply click on the links to share the blog on their feed. When they click on the link, the sentence to which it is attached will be displayed on their twitter feed (along with the link of course). And this would prompt more twitter traffic to your WordPress blog.
Keep Tweeting Posts
The more posts you tweet from your blog, the more traffic it would generate on social networks like twitter. Another way to keep the twitter traffic flowing to your blog is to retweet evergreen posts at regular intervals to keep twitter users hooked on to your blog.
The posts you choose for this purpose should be very popular and should have content that is relevant to both past and present day scenarios. And the Evergreen Post Tweeter plug-in helps you do just that. The plugin would enable you to tag a post that you want to be retweeted. You can add a number of posts to this plugin which then randomly retweets them at regular intervals. This way, twitter users who liked your older posts would keep on visiting your blog for more interesting posts.