After seeing one of my all-time favorite bloggers, Jack Humphrey of Friday Traffic Report, doing it — I knew if Jack was doing it, there had to be something related to traffic happening. What is it? Well, it’s an automated weekly digest post of all a user’s tweets for a specified period of time. You can accomplish this using a tool like Twitter Tools for Wordpress plugin.
Sure enough, after testing it for about a month on several of my other blogs, I discovered why Jack was doing it — or at least why I will be doing it 
Here’s what happened in that short time.
- I recieved more traffic to additional posts on my blog, from each digest post — where my latest blog posts tweets were published along with all my other tweets. People are coming to my digest posts and digging deeper into my blog.
- On the tweets where I used a tracking service like BudUrl, I found that people were finding great resources on my digest posts and clicking through to them — sharing a ton of traffic with my favorite bloggers (I’m sure they like that.)
- On a page by page basis, my digest posts are #3 as far as getting new subscribers for my blog. In other words, my digest posts are the 3rd largest subscriber catcher for me than any other posts I have on the blog. That’s powerful.
- I haven’t investigated yet, but I’m sure there’s some link value there… Jack is super sharp at recognizing even the smallest link building opportunities
Jack’s Twitter digest post:
Twitter Tools Wordpress Plugin
It’s super easy to set-up and makes creating a Twitter digest post (daily, weekly, or whatever) very easy.
Download Twitter Tools, upload to your plugins folder, activate on your plugin page and then just set your settings.
I’d suggest a weekly digest setting, like above… it creates a very long post, but publishes in a non-intrusive way for your readers who are not interested in going through it all. For your readers who do dig in, it’s a great way to share with them your Twitter activity and let them dig deeper into what you share on Twitter.
Here’s the latest Twitter digest post from Jack
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… looking forward to connecting with you!
Maria
About the Author...
Maria Reyes-McDavis is a colossal geek brainiac, certified genius IQ with university degrees in Finance, Economics, Business Management and an MBA. Maria has served over 300 pro-level, digital marketing clients as founder of online marketing firm Digital Peas & Carrots. Maria is Founder and Editor of Hyphenated Americans, a conservative politics blog and Proverbs 31 Project an online women's ministry. Most importantly, Maria is a wife to her king, mother of 3, lover of basketball (Go Lakers & Clippers!), classic cars and is currently training for professional women's roller derby!
