Getting started with BlogFlutter can seem overwhelming at first, especially if you have a vast content baae, or your content needs freshening.
So take it incrementally. Pick ten of your best posts to work with, at a time. Read each post thoroughly and compose a few tweets that fit. Pick your hashtags carefully. Before long, you’ll have quite a library of tweets.
After you’ve tackled thia project a few times, you may find your tweets leave open questions, pointing to holes in your content baae.
This poses a great opportunity to create new posts focused on content areas you have been neglecting.
Reviewing Your Tweets
Visit the tweet manager page and sort on the hashtag column. Each hashtag you are using should have an even showing among your tweets. If you have defined Magic Hashtags, make sure you are using all of them.
Make a short list of hashtags that seem missing from your content base. If you need to, divide them into categories, and select the most general tag in each list to be a Magic Tag. Add your new Magic Tags to BlogFlutter, and take a few minutes with each, searching for additional tags you can use.
Each of your new Magic Tags is going to become a post.
How to Turn a Hashtag into a Post
The next stage is selecting one of your new Magic Tags and brainstorming ideas for a post. Obviously, you have to start by searching your hashtag on Twitter.
While you’re searching, compose a few tweets that you might use later with these hashtags. Think about your spin on the topics covered.
Here are some ideas for brainstorming content based on Twitter searches:
- Follow a link and write a rebuttal post.
- Follow three links that seem popular and write a summary post
- Pose a question and write a post from collected responses
- Answer a question posed with the tag
- Answer a question you had after scrolling the feed
- Pick ten popular tweets and speculate why
- Follow popular writers and review their blogs. Write a post as if to them, or their audience.
The Finishing Touches
Remember, Twitter readers are used to sound bytes. If you get people to click your links, will they read your post, too?
Breaking your content into tweet-sized chunks helps.
Formatting tweets as quotations helps, whenever they get cited.
Staying fun and focused helps. See if you can get a rhythm going.
Now is the time to pull out the sample tweets you wrote before, and see if they fit.
Don’t be discouraged if not! You’re finding out that tweeting around real content has its own flair. WrIte up a few new tweets and pick the best two for your new post.