Hello, this is Rob here from Rob cabin calm. Now there's another thing you can do to make this article more shareable. And to break it up in terms of adding something like a graphic inside the body of the article. And that's to add click to tweet buttons in the body of the article. This is something I've had a lot of success with to increase the social shares on a blog post and that is to just ask for share within the blog posts that people are reading it and you can say, don't forget to share this article at the end. However, the click to tweet button is one stage further and even more successful.
So there's a great plugin that you can use to do this. And if you go to plugins, add new, and then you go click to tweet, the one to choose is better click to tweet here. Only 20 people have given a five Start writing and there's only 6000 active installs. But as you can see, this sort of plugin isn't that popular anyway, so this is the best one to use, activate plugin. And again, we could either go settings there, or settings, better click to tweet. And the only thing we really need to do here is to add a Twitter handle and use the short URL.
This will give us more characters in the tweets. So save changes, and then we'll go into the post. And you'll notice there's the better click to tweet button there. And what we want to look for is at the beginning of the article, always good to do one at the beginning look for something that is very tweetable. and here we can see that Alibaba is the largest e commerce business in the world. Last year, they had a total online sales of 248 billion this is more than eBay and amazon.com combined.
So that's quite an interesting fact, we'll do a return. So we've got a space after that paragraph. And now we'll get the best click to tweet button. Before we do that, we'll just copy a little bit of that, but we're going to change it a little bit. So click the better click to tweet button, paste it in there. And I'm going to make this tweet a little bit better.
Okay, I've made that into the most tweetable sentence that I could think of. Last year, Alibaba had total online sales of 248 billion more than eBay and amazon.com combined. And here I have checked this checkbox here to make sure that the tweets includes the Twitter handle. And this of course will let us know if somebody has tweeted this out. And you will find that these are successful and it will be helpful to know which ones are successful and which aren't. As that will tell More about your audience as well.
So we'll okay that and we'll update. And now we'll refresh that post. And then you can see the click to tweet in the middle of the article. So if you just click on that, ah, actually, you can see it's gone over the, the Twitter character range, I was a bit worried about that. So always good to check it, we'll go back. And here you'll see the shortcode of the click to tweet.
And I've changed that to a shorter sentence. That still means the same thing. Update, refresh. And there we can see that's the tweets last year Alibaba has total online sales for more than eBay and amazon.com combined. There's the link, and there's the Twitter handle, so we can tweet that out. And it asks if you want to follow the Twitter handle as well.
So you might gain more Twitter followers this way as well. But it's another way of breaking up the paragraphs as you can see, the click to tweet is quite attractive. You can use that images and the all important subheads as well as bullets and everything else to break up the text of your blog post. Okay, I hope you enjoyed that how to add click to tweets in your blog posts. My name is Rob coven. I'll see in the next video