linking my blog to twitte

[Saxophonist]

My web designer linked my blog to my twitter account and I have managed to unlink it.
I know I could ask him to redo it, but I feel like I am always asking him to do stuff for me, and also I would like to be able to do it myself.
Could someone tell me what to do?

 

[JD@fifty6]

How do you mean linked? You were posting automatically to Twitter when you wrote a blog?

If that's the case, there's many ways you could go about doing it. What sort of blog are you using? Mine runs on Wordpress, and as such (if I wanted to) I could install a plugin to do this easily enough. Or you could use If This Then That (ifttt.com) to detect a new post in your RSS feed and do it that way.

However, I would always recommend doing these tweets manually so that you can attribute relevant hashtags to them and whatnot.

 

[Websitehandyman]

Do you know how you "unlinked" it ?

IF you did via twitter apps you are most likely using Woordpress and a plugin like Tweetly. You'll need to login to Wordpress wp-admin and click on the plugin setting and then either enter your twitter name or register Oauth with Twitter.

Another way around it is to use something like Twitterfeed to tweet your feed.

 

[Saxophonist]

How do you mean linked? You were posting automatically to Twitter when you wrote a blog?

If that's the case, there's many ways you could go about doing it. What sort of blog are you using? Mine runs on Wordpress, and as such (if I wanted to) I could install a plugin to do this easily enough. Or you could use If This Then That (ifttt.com) to detect a new post in your RSS feed and do it that way.

However, I would always recommend doing these tweets manually so that you can attribute relevant hashtags to them and whatnot.

What I mean is that when I posted a blog, it automatically tweeted.
Can you explain your final paragraph?
What do you mean by "relevant hashtags" and why does it matter.
Many thanks and sorry to be a pain.

 

[Saxophonist]

Another way around it is to use something like Twitterfeed to tweet your feed.

What do you mean by this? I am an absolute novice.
Why is that better?

 

[JD@fifty6]

What I mean is that when I posted a blog, it automatically tweeted.
Can you explain your final paragraph?
What do you mean by "relevant hashtags" and why does it matter.
Many thanks and sorry to be a pain.

What I mean is that automation in something that is, by definition, 'social' means that you're ignoring everything that platform is about. I won't link to it, but my blog post from today is about how brands often shout rather than listen on social networks.

If I were you, I'd be putting some time into researching what conversations are going on Twitter around the subject of your blog and then aim to add to that conversation, rather than just broadcast into it.

What's the blog about? That'll help give some information.

 

[Saxophonist]

How do you find out what conversations are going on around your subject in twitter? Is that the "trending" topics on the side?

 

[JD@fifty6]

Use search.twitter.com and plug in some things that people might be saying. For instance, I just started working with a retailer of hair products and we're running 'Wacky Hair Wednesdays' to get some interaction from people having bad hair days. So we'd keep an eye on conversations that are happening around 'bad hair day' or 'bed head' and suchlike.

 

[JonathanSEO]

Nothing wrong with auto tweeting / sharing blog posts. I'd recommend it to save time and speed up the process.

Use http://dlvr.it/

 

[helmuc]

Well, it is a simple process, if you know what to do.

But there is a sequence of actions to be maintained, so I would suggest - save your nervous system and call your web designer.

Let the job be done by a pro and focus on your main business activities.

Good luck,
Helmuts


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[helmuc]

its very simple my friend

just open your .html page in notepad

than find twitter on same page

and just remove code of twitter and reupload same on server and you are done

Don't touch f... html files!!!!

If you do - contact me and I will charge you at least £750 for rebuilding your website (this isn't an offer).

Helmuts


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[Websitehandyman]

What do you mean by this? I am an absolute novice.
Why is that better?

What mean is you can do it from a free service like http://www.twitterfeed.com

You just choose Twitter from the dashboard and add this as your RSS feed url http://www.fifty6.co.uk/blog/feed/

 

[JD@fifty6]

Nothing wrong with auto tweeting / sharing blog posts. I'd recommend it to save time and speed up the process.

Would you like to send me and your wallet instead of you next time you were planning on going to the pub?

Be social on social networks. Automatically posting is not the way to do that.

What mean is you can do it from a free service like http://www.twitterfeed.com

You just choose Twitter from the dashboard and add this as your RSS feed url http://www.fifty6.co.uk/blog/feed/

I'm not sure that they want to automatically post my blog posts, but thanks!

 

[JonathanSEO]

Be social on social networks. Automatically posting is not the way to do that.


I'm not sure that they want to automatically post my blog posts, but thanks!

Anyone offering a Twitter Management service would say that. But then again, if you're doing Twitter management, you have to automate some aspects of the process otherwise it doesn't scale. So catch 22 here, which route do you take?

There is nothing wrong with auto publishing blog posts to Facebook, twitter or any other social network. It works, and it works well.

I have a number of blogs and auto publishing to social networks saves me a ton of time when I publish a new post, with zero effects on engagement or click throughs.

I tweet freely, reply to mentions and tweet others all manually when I need to - which is social. I even sometimes share my posts manually when the timing is right. So it's a perfect balance, I automate the tasks that can be automated, and manually do the ones that can't.

When I hit publish on a new post I want it out there immediately, not having to faff around putting it on 6 different platforms.

If you're managing 100 twitter profiles for clients and they all want a new blog post sharing, are you going to do that manually? Good luck.

 

[JD@fifty6]

True and fair points, absolutely. However, I'm not giving advice on how to run a scalable Twitter campaign across 100 clients, I'm giving advice for one person who's talking about one blog and one Twitter account. (That's obviously an assumption, but it's one based on the fact that the OP wasn't clued up about linking the blog to the Twitter account).

I'm sure you've heard of Wil Reynolds in the SEO world, in which case my advice simply revolves around RCS when on such a small scale.

You're simply giving someone who hasn't really dipped their toe into the power of Twitter yet a reason to continue doing that. In a years time, when zero enquiries have come through Twitter because every Tweet is an automatic mention of a blog post, then he'll come to the conclusion that Twitter doesn't work and never realise the potential of that for himself.

Personally I'd rather people had the reason to check the platform and organically learn how it works, and as such how it can work for them. Each to their own though, eh?

 

[JonathanSEO]

You're simply giving someone who hasn't really dipped their toe into the power of Twitter yet a reason to continue doing that. In a years time, when zero enquiries have come through Twitter because every Tweet is an automatic mention of a blog post, then he'll come to the conclusion that Twitter doesn't work and never realise the potential of that for himself.

Personally I'd rather people had the reason to check the platform and organically learn how it works, and as such how it can work for them. Each to their own though, eh?

If the OP was planning on setting and forgetting then obviously that's going to yield little to no results. If they have a timeline full of auto tweets it's going look pretty poor.

But if they were looking to automate a process that has no added benefits when it's done manually so they can spend more time actually being social on there then it makes perfect sense.

As for Billy Reynolds, just so you know his companies guest blog request emails are automated #rcs

 

[JD@fifty6]

As for Billy Reynolds, just so you know his companies guest blog request emails are automated #rcs

Haha! That's put a smile on my face for the afternoon, that's for sure.

Sounds like we're on the same page on the other bits - also looks like we've clogged up this here thread. In summary, OP:

Be social, automate with caution. Use one of the tools mentioned if you really want to automate your blog tweets as opposed to making sure they fit a variety of criteria (length, formatted shortlink, trafficked hashtag, etc).