At the end of the previous page I displayed an image of a tweet from my Twitter account that was all text. It had three hashtags along with my link. Sometimes I use a link shortener from Google to shorten my links, especially when they are affiliate links. But when I am sharing a link to my website, I use my own URL because regardless of which I use, Twitter shortens it on their end to 22 characters.
USING IMAGES IN TWEETS
That being said it is quite beneficial to use an image in your tweets. The saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words” really holds true for any kind of social media post and Twitter is no exception. Using an image, an animating gif or even a video will help to enhance your tweet and make it stand out.
TWITTER HAS MADE SOME GREAT CHANGES
It used to be, back in the first half of 2016, that in order to use an image, gif or video in your tweet, you needed an extra 23 character spaces, limiting your tweet to only 117 characters. NOT ANYMORE!
Now these visual perks do not subtract from the character count. The text portion plus url can now go all the way up to 140 characters, and you will still be able to add an image.
As you can see in the image above, I used a simple yet effective statement with only one hashtag, the shortened affiliate link to a Wealthy Affiliate training tutorial and the image. I chose an image that was relevant to what my tweet was all about, Making Money Online. And as you can see by the number 2 next to the star underneath the image, two people favorited my tweet.
So when constructing your tweets you want to be as short and to the point as possible. Remember, you have only 140 characters to work with. In actuality you only have less and here is the exact amount you have to write your tweets.
- WITH OR WITHOUT AN IMAGE: 118 characters for your message because 22 characters are used for your website/url link.
UPDATE, Even though the character count has now doubled to 280, as of November 7, 2017, the above training still applies.
NEXT UP = Where to find hashtags for your tweets.
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Being that it is important to use social media to advance the traffic and rankings of our websites, I will eventually be doing more training on the other social media networks as well.
When I did the Google search for #workfromhome and links to your content came up in positions 6 and 7, I noticed that your picture was adjacent to those search results. I thought Google Authorship was gone though. How did you manage to include an Authorship picture?
Thanks!
Dennis
Those images you are seeing are from two different Google+ posts of my website in which I used the hashtag #workfromhome. Being that my website is associated with my Google+ profile and I am the author it will show my Google+ profile image next to my links.
Though Google Authorship is dead the process of setting it up is actually the same as connecting your website to Google+. Authorship was only an option of website to Google+ connectivity.
This training was a big help for me and, to be immortalized on page 5 of one of your trainings is also an honor!
Can't wait for your training of Facebook as, I have absolutely no idea what to do there which is odd because, according to my Google Analytics, I receive more traffic from there than any of my other social media but, It is the one I use the least
I'm happy you enjoyed the training and I will eventually be doing a training for both Facebook and Google+ in the near future.
