Adding Retweet Button to Your Blog Posts

Twitter has become a big part of most bloggers promotion efforts, and is a key way to keep in contact with their followers. Twitter becomes even more powerful, for our blog promotion, and communications, when our readers retweet our blog posts, spreading the word about our blog wider and deeper through the market. The time when our readers are most excited about our post is the moment they have just finished reading it, and this is the exact moment we’d like them to tweet about our article. Most of our followers are not going to think about tweeting or take the time to open Twitter, login, type in a message about our post, and send it. If we want to have our readers help us by tweeting about our blog, we need to make it easy and immediate for them.

Once again, a Wordpress plugin can come to our rescue. If you use the Tweetmeme Button Plugin for Wordpress, you will add a Twitter ReTweet button for every post in your blog, including both new posts, and all of your past posts. The ReTweet button even has a cool counter, showing how many times it has been used to tweet about your blog post.

When your user click the Twitter Retweet button, it takes them to their Twitter login page, once they login, the plugin has automatically inserted the RT @yourblogname and the title of your blog post. All the reader needs to do is push send and the tweet is on its way. You can’t make it much easier for your followers.

If you’d like to start having your readers promote your blog, you can install the Tweetmeme Button plugin by following these steps:

  1. Logon to your Wordpress administration page.
  2. Click the tiny arrow on Plugin tabs and click “Add New”
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  3. Put “Tweetmeme” on the search field, and hit the “Search Plugins” button. Once the search result appear, click “Install” on “TweetMeme Button” plugin.
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  4. Click “Install Now” on the plugin description window.
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  5. Once the installation has complete, click “Activate Plugin“.
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  6. The new tab will appear on your Wordpress administration page. Click it to visit the plugin setting. You could modify how the button is shown on this page.
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  7. The TweetMeme button will appear on each of your blog post and ready to be used.
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Moving the button location is not as easy as I’d like to see. If you want to move the button from the left hand side to the right hand side of your blog posts, you would need to modify the code in your theme. It works great on the left hand side for most themes, I usually leave it there.

Install the plugin today, and give your readers a quick and easy way to Tweet about your blog, it is a great way to increase your readership without additional work on your part.