I know, I have written about how to get more retweets before, but this is different.

I believe that you need a strategy in order to get other people to tweet your tweets on their accounts.

One of the reasons why this retweet strategy is so interesting, is that you don’t need many followers at all. If just a few of your followers will retweet your blog post, the growth potential can be huge.

I’m not going to tell you the importance of retweets, because you already know this.

The reason I’m writing is that I have discovered seven reasons why my tweets get retweeted.

1. The Best Time To Tweet

You should know when it’s the best time to tweet for maximum twitter traffic and exposure.

For instance, Friday afternoon is one of the busiest times on Twitter. Therefore, you might want to consider tweeting then. However, nine to three is generally the best time to publish your tweets during the weekdays.

Since I’m living in Norway and the busiest time on Twitter is not when I’m ready to publish my tweets, I’m scheduling my tweets using HootSuite.

2. Add Please RT

One of the best methods is to ask your followers to retweet. When I really want a retweet I always write “please rt” at the end of the message. I was surprised how many people who retweeted after I asked them to (it really helps to add please).

3. The KISS Principle

KISS is an acronym for the design principle “Keep it simple, Stupid!”. But it also stands for “keep it short and simple” or “keep it simple and straightforward”.

Always use KISS, because you want to make it really easy for people to retweet your message. And you don’t want your tweets to be longer than 120 characters, because then people can retweet without editing your tweets.

4. Your Followers

You should concentrate on the activity level of your followers, and not how many followers you have. The size means nothing.

I would rather have a list of one hundred very active followers, than one of 13,000 inactive (as I’m writing this, I have 12,570 followers). The more active they are, the better our chances are of getting retweeted.

5. You Need To Retweet

If you’re not active on twitter, and if you’re not retweeting other people’s tweets, they won’t be helping you.

Do to others what you want them to do for you.

6. Links

The most popular tweets contains links. And what you’re really looking for is traffic, therefore you should add links in your tweets.

7. Value

Always think about the quality of your tweets, and make sure that your tweet matters. Think about how much value it adds. Your tweets should be interesting. Valuable information is what matters.

What do you think, do you have any other tips on how to get retweeted?

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One of the great things about Twitter is that it’s very easy to share information.

When you’re using a Twitter client, you’ll find it even easier to use Twitter, but the sharing is fairly the same. I’m talking about retweeting.

If you find the information on Twitter, you can share it with just a single click. That’s the power of retweets. But when you find some interesting information on a blog, you’ll have to write your own tweet in order to share the information.

This doesn’t take a lot of time, but it’s usually not a single click.

Make it as easy as possible

When you want people to share information, you’ll need to make it as easy as possible. A single click would be awesome, but if that’s not possible, try to think of a way to make it as easy as possible to share.

If it’s not easy, people won’t share it.

Ask people to share it

If you don’t ask people to share the information, people are not as likely to share it.

I’ve read a lot of awesome and really powerful articles, but as soon as I finish reading I jump to the next article. This happens a lot. I forget to share, even though I really wanted to.

I need a message, something like, “please share this article”. If you add this, I’ll share it if I enjoy it.

The power of retweet buttons

When it comes to sharing on Twitter, one of the most powerful things I’ve experienced is the retweet buttons.

By having a retweet button, you’re really asking the reader to retweet your blog post / article even though you haven’t asked the question.

If I read a blog post, and I see a retweet button, I’ll click. I often click on it just because it’s there, even though I didn’t really think that the blog post was that good. It just feels good clicking and thinking that I shared what I just read with all my friends.

About that.

I’m a little curious about where to add the retweet button. Is it better to have it visible at the top of the blog post, or at the bottom? Should it be fairly big, or the small version?

Here’s a few screen shots of some of my favorite blogs that are using the retweet button.

Seth Godin

Online Marketing Vault

TwiTip

I’m not sure if it matters, but I’m sure that what’s really important is to add the button.

Finally.

Here are some retweet buttons for you:

Easy Retweet Button
Get a ReTweet Button for your blog (TwiTip)
9 Useful Twitter Retweet Button Scripts
Topsy Retweet Button for Websites
Best WordPress plugins for adding Twitter Retweet buttons on your blog