How to use twitter card and get more Engagement on #twitter When Sharing URL

How to Get more Engagement When Sharing  Blog 

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As a Blogger i can't  wait for search engines to find my post and index it to be organic traffic .So I want to share how to use social media profiles to engage with readers and among them Twitter is One .

But the problem is, twitter don't show blog posts with image, they only show the url with some text and it doesn't attract much readers.A post need to be attractive to get readers from Twitter because limitation of 140 words and we all know it .


In comparison with Twitter -Google+ & facebook automatically generate preview from the link ,nothing special required but to generate a preview of any post twitter need it's card to be implemented in users site or blog .

So now we going to discuss how to get more engagement on twitter.





  • Without #twittercard
  • With #twittercard

How to get Readers Without #TwitterCard :

On twitter most readers are our followers so when sharing post try to engage and interact with them to get the best result .Coming to point how to get readers without #twitterCard . It is a simple and tricky thing , you have to be very aware and selective when doing this .

How it is done : 

  • Copy the url you want to share .
  • Take the photo you have added to that post .OR
  • Choose a good photo to share with that url .
  • Write A good short description of that post.
  • It's done Tweet it .
this is the process to keep your post attracting without implementing #twitterCard .


How to implement #TwitterCard :





Note:Before we proceed You must have Understanding of Code (HTML) and also the platform you are using .

Twitter offer many type of cards but to share blog post they have two type of cards and they are called #summaryCard.

1. Normal summary Card 
2. Large Image summary Card

To apply twitter card you first have to visit :
https://dev.twitter.com/cards/types/summary

see the sample there of summary card now copy the sample code of summary card and do necessary changes before implementing it on your blog .

Add this code at the Head section of your blog or site .Just change the content=("value")< portion with your twitter handle name and rest of others . 

<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary" />
<meta name="twitter:site" content="@SocialHelpNTips" />
<meta name="twitter:title" content="Here is Your Guide of Social Media" />
<meta name="twitter:description" content="We provide tips and tricks about social media" />
<meta name="twitter:image" content="https://source_of-photo.jpg" />


After adding this code on your blog or site you have to validate your blog or site with twitters card validator and twitter will whitelist the url to generate a preview with their card .
To validate visit https://cards-dev.twitter.com 

sign in and validate it just take less then 1minute .If after all this did not get minimum traffic from (t.co) twitter then you may need social media marketing or may be some twitter influencer tips .

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