Make it easy to retweet your blog posts with Tweetmeme a most excellent plugin for wordpress which simply displays a “Tweet Me” button on your post to make it easy for your readers to promote your article on twitter.
If you run a wordpress blog, all you need to do is download Tweetmeme and install the plug-in to your WordPress Admin.
Activate it and navigate to the Settings -> Tweetmeme section
Here you can set whether the post goes in the top or bottom of your post (you can do both, but that can be obnoxious), you can also manually call the Tweetmeme button if you prefer not to automate it.
Select whether you want the mini version or the normal size tweetmeme button, for most blogs the normal size is fine, the mini version is small enough that people might not notice and use it.
You can choose to display the button on pages and your feed, or only your homepage, I recommend letting it display on all.
Change the source so that your twitterID is always included in the reply, this way you can always see when someone retweet’s your article with tweetmeme.
You can also modify the styling and spacing around the tweetmeme button with the styling section.
For most blogs I would recommend putting the Tweetmeme button at the top of the post (if you write shorter articles), but if you write longer articles you will probably want to have the button on the bottom of the post. Also, if you use adsense on your posts, the tweetmeme button and the all-in-one adsense plugin don’t play nicely together so you may want to put the tweetmeme button on opposite section of your adsense.
I highly recommend the tweetmeme plug-in, just by installing it less than a week ago, it has yielded me several unexpected retweets that I probably would not have gotten if I hadn’t had the button so easily accessible by my readers.
-Dragon Blogger
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May 13th, 2009 at 7:18 am
I use this plugin on my blogs, it’s great and now that you can actually add your Twitter name in the retweets, it’s even better, incidental I retweeted your post
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May 14th, 2009 at 6:06 am
Your posts are really relevant to me ! Its teaching me alot as I am trying to start a blog now myself! Please do continue posting!
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May 14th, 2009 at 6:39 am
Thank you, that is why I share everything I learn and do blogging, to help and show other bloggers so they can avoid my mistakes and emulate my successes.
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