I was recently working with a client who asked me how to create “tweetables” for her blog posts and I realized that she might not be the only one wondering about that. A “tweetable” is a link, that when clicked on by your readers, allows them to tweet a phrase of your choosing. Obviously, this can be a great thing for you to expand the reach of your blog, especially if something you’ve written really resonates with your reader. Setting up a tweetable, is pretty easy, but takes a few steps.
First things, first: You’ll need to hop on over to ClickToTweet and sign up. ClickToTweet will generate the tweetable for you. Once you create the tweetable, ClickToTweet will give you a bit of code that you’ll need to put in your post. Don’t just put the bit of code straight into your post though. When you’re writing the post, you’ll want to put that code into the text tab (or code view) in your post. The text tab is located at the top, right corner of the WISIWYG editor when you’re writing a post. (The WYSIWYG editor – short for “What You See is What You Get” – is the place where you actually type the blog post in WordPress.) That will create the clickable tweetable that your readers will want to share.
Now, you could stop there, but a tweet from your blog is really only as good as it’s ability to get people back to your website, right? Your tweetable should really include a link back to your website. To do that, you’ll need a link shortener like Bitly to ensure that your tweetable (including link) fits within Twitter’s 140-character limit. Once you have your shortened link, make sure to paste that into ClickToTweet next to your written tweet.
And there you have it! It may take a few extra minutes to create a tweetable for your blog posts, but it’ll help your readers easily share your awesome blog posts.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t include a tweetable of my own on this post, so here it goes:
Tweet this: I just learned how to create a tweetable link for my blog! http://ctt.ec/7INVF+
Kate Moore Hermes 