I was browsing a random travel blog today and noticed that they were using an extremely cool plugin that I immediately wished I’d thought of myself…
It’s based on the concept of “trackbacks” where if someone links to a blog post of yours they get credit with a link in the comments section of your blog. The benefit is that it encourages people to link to you because there’s something in it for them too… the exposure they get on your blog.
This plugin allows you the ability to do the same, but with Tweets!
So when someone tweets your blog post, mentions something you’ve written on your blog on Twitter, they get a “twitter trackback” on your blog! In other words, your blog post registers a comment that links to that person’s Tweet. It’s kinda like giving them a quick “thanks for tweeting about me!” as well as giving them incentive to do so again in the future.
Check out the pic of it below:
But even more so than that, this is a tremendous relationship building tool.
Imagine if you could be instantly notified when someone talked about your blog on Twitter (without having to do your own Twitter search)? You can get in touch with them (AFTER having done them the courtesy of giving them a link), follow them, follow the feedback that their tweet about your link got, and in doing so, potentially get in touch with a whole new group of people interested in your content.
You can download the plugin here.
Implement it on ya blog and let me know what happens!
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Excellent, there is reciprocity , and stuff like this should add a lot of free traffic to blogs. I’ve just doubled my daily traffic and subscribers today because a marketer with a lot of followers twitted my blog.
Franck
This looks like a great little plugin.
Installing it now.
Thanks.
Very cool find Andrew! I’ll have to test that one out.
Very cool plugin Andrew! I will definitely try it and let you know the results! -Norene
Perfect timing for me to come accross this, I’ve just set up my new site and want to add a blog to get more traffic. This looks a perfect fit.
Sandra
Nice find Andrew!
looks like a very cool way of combining twitter with your blog to build relationships, gonna have to add it to a few of my blogs!
thanks.
Matt