Now that Twitter is proving itself to be a hotbed of traffic for bloggers, getting a post retweeted is a big score in terms of getting viral exposure for your blog.
Many bloggers, yours truly included, are using the Tweetmeme "Retweet this" button on their blogs to make it super easy for their readers to retweet a post. Tweetmeme offers two visual choices of buttons:
Here is where you get the Tweetmeme code for each button option.
Blogger and Wordpress
If you use the Blogger or Wordpress platforms for blogging, here's further explanation on how to integrate the Tweetmeme "Retweet This" button into your template:
- Integrating the button into a Wordpress template
- Using the Wordpress Plugin
- Integrating the button into Blogger
TypePad and other blog platforms
If you use TypePad or any other blog platform that Tweetmeme does not currently have integration options for, or you use Blogger and Wordpress but get deer in headlights when thinking about integrating anything into a template, you can simply cut & paste, the "Retweet this" code for the button style you like into each post.
For example, I use TypePad for Everyday Tweet. I go into the "Edit HTML" tab of my post, and insert the Tweetmeme code at the very bottom of the post. Yes, for now, I have to cut & paste for every post. Hopefully soon, Tweetmeme will have an integration option for TypePad.
Make your blog title retweet friendly
Now that getting retweeted is a factor in your blogging efforts, it's even more impotant to create a blog title for each post that is retweet friendly. In this post: "3 Ways To Make Tweets Easier For Others To Retweet" #3 is specifically about writing blog titles for use with the Tweetmeme button.
