Much in the same way we encourage the sharing of images by including social media sharing buttons, we can also encourage Twitter activity by inviting visitors to tweet our pages and posts.

There are several tools and plugins available that can enable you to either automatically or semi-automatically push your WordPress blog posts to your Twitter feed. Again, most modern WordPress templates and frameworks have Twitter sharing buttons built in. If you want a more customized and powerful solution, one of the most full-featured and popular plugins is the Tweet This plugin. It inserts a very prominent Tweet This link on your Posts, so that readers can quickly and easily share your content via their Twitter feeds, which you can see in the following screenshot:

The power of Tweet This lies in the prominence of the sharing button. You are more likely to earn tweets with a prominent call to action, although; see the warning just below about overdoing...