Twitter is all the rage these days and it does not look like it will go anywhere anytime soon. However, it often surprises me that a lot of WordPress blog owners do not offer a convenient way for readers to retweet their content. Anyone can get a WordPress plugin for Twitter Twitter their new content as it is published, but what about your old content?

Instead of passing all possible traffic, I noticed that provides a link from somewhere within the message (in an optimal way to the bottom of each post) is a good way to help readers and inbound traffic search engine to promote your content. When people are a lot of content you want to share it with others, so why not make it easier for them?

Not only the addition of a “Tweet This!” Forcing a great variety, but it is very easy to do. Chances are, if you do a Google search to find the code to use something like the following:

<a title="Click to send this page to Twitter!" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Currently reading <?php the_permalink(); ?>" target="_blank">Tweet This!</a>

This code works fine, but not the most optimal, in my opinion. According to the permalink structure your blog using WordPress, combined with the length of your domain name, which can be difficult to integrate the link into a tweet of 140 characters. Leaves no room for anyone to add their own comments to Twitter.

As a proposed solution, I recommend using WordPress code as follows:

<a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=RT @fmys_dot_com<?php the_title ();?> <?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>/?p=<?php the_ID(); ?>">Tweet This</a>

This code will automatically insert the “RT” and the name of his Twitter account (the example above uses our Twitter account, @ fmys_dot_com) and then use the entry form its position in the tweet. When users click the link in the tweet, then you will be redirected to the actual position of the selected blog permalink structure, making a comfortable URL usually of short duration.

It has integrated Twitter into your WordPress blog? Share your strategies in the comments!