Welcome to The Ready Room, where I explore random topics to help you kick off your week.
This week’s topic explores adding blog posts to Twitter and how to make those snazzy, linkable images show up. In my CP circles, I’m sort of the tech nerd, so I get asked a lot about images, blog sites, or anything computerish. I love it, because often times I’ve already got an answer up my sleeve.
One of the questions I see a lot is how to make those pretty, linkable images show up on Twitter posts. There’s a couple ways to do this, but let’s start with the basics.
Images
If you’re using a feature image for your blog post, it must be 500 x 500 at the minimum. The image should be clear and crisp, always. Anything smaller (or blurry) and you run the risk of an image that looks blurred, jagged, or pixelated. Basically, a messy image that screams amateur.
Use Your Blog Tools
If you’re reading this article, chances are you use WordPress or Wix for your blog. There are others (and I can get to that in another post), but these two are the big ones. If you’ve created a blog post and want to share it, go to the bottom of your article and click on the Twitter share icon. This should pull a pop-up box with the article title and a link to the post.
Note: If you’re using a WordPress.org blog site, check out the plugins for social media sharing. I’ve found a few that are easy to install, and you can turn this feature on and off per post.
Use Facebook
This one takes a few minutes to setup, but if you have a Facebook account, take a peek at this step-by-step. Once the accounts are connected, you can post once on Facebook, and your posts will appear simultaneously on Twitter.
Upload an Image
This final one doesn’t give quite the same effect as the two above, but it makes your post look pretty. Pull up your tweet box, write the tweet and add the link to your article, then upload and image to accompany the link.
Note: This method does not make the image clickable to your article. It only offers a pretty aesthetic.
If you have any further questions on this process, feel free to leave a comment below. Good luck and happy Tweeting. 🙂
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Hello ,
I saw your tweets and thought I will check your website. Have to say it looks very good!
I’m also interested in this topic and have recently started my journey as young entrepreneur.
I’m also looking for the ways on how to promote my website. I have tried AdSense and Facebok Ads, however it is getting very expensive. Was thinking about starting using analytics. Do you recommend it?
Can you recommend something what works best for you?
I also want to improve SEO of my website. Would appreciate, if you can have a quick look at my website and give me an advice what I should improve: http://janzac.com/
(Recently I have added a new page about FutureNet and the way how users can make money on this social networking portal.)
I have subscribed to your newsletter. 🙂
Hope to hear from you soon.
P.S.
Maybe I will add link to your website on my website and you will add link to my website on your website? It will improve SEO of our websites, right? What do you think?
Regards
Jan Zac
I don’t use ads… I talk to peers. And they talk to their peers, etc etc. It’s the longer road, but I’ve found that the people who come to your site this way are valuable followers. Not just numbers. 🙂
For analytics, I always recommend. It will monitor how your web traffic interacts, then you can come up with strategies for improving that interaction.
Cheers!
I use WordPress, and find that I have trouble getting my main image to load properly on Facebook. I have figured out how to post to both my personal and author pages, but instead of my featured image, I get my logo.
Are you using a direct link for Facebook or the share button on your blog? I always use a direct link for FB. This pulls up the image with the block of text beneath, or (if a smaller feature image) a block with the image on one side and leader text on the other.
I get my logo as well if I link my main blog or use the FB share. it’s a whole different beast. 🙂
I’ve managed to link my WordPress to both Facebook and Twitter (a major achievement for tech clueless me!) and my FB author posts cross post to Twitter just fine. One issue I have, though, is that when I post a blog on WordPress, the post won’t show my selected main image for my post, it will only show my generic logo. Any ideas?
I think I answered this just above.
For Twitter, use the share link.
For Facebook, copy paste the url of the article.
Also, if you’re WordPress.org (not .com) as it looks like you are, there’s a fantastic plugin for sharing, and you can turn off the built-in one: AddToAny Share Buttons.
Cheers!
Sorry about posting twice, I didn’t realize it took a while to show up on your post. I did find that plugin and install it, and I’m working on figuring out how it works. Thanks!