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Linking your blog to Twitter

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Hopefully everyone is in the habit of updating their blogs on a somewhat regular basis. I know right now I'm pretty far behind but with 5 blogs and a full time job - it's hard. I understand. There are some cool shortcuts available now thankful to Google. Now using Google's FeedBurner you can automate the posting of your blogs to Twitter. 

Why do this? Well really its more like why not do it. I talked about Twitter recently on my other blog so I won't go into that here. 

First things first lets create a FeedBurner account. 

Just go to FeedBurner.com sign in with your Google account. When you get to the next screen, it'll ask you for your feed address. All you really need to do is put in your blog address. For example 'http://www.lawfirmwebsiteoptimization.com/'

Setting up the Twitter link

Now just click on 'Publicize' then underneath click on 'Socialize', click on 'Add Twitter Account'. If you are already logged into Twitter you can just hit 'Allow' to hit everything happen. If you need to log in as a different user you will get that chance as well .

Make sure you hit 'Activate' at the bottom and you are ready to go. There are more options and settings you can play with but that'll get you up and running. If you haven't used FeedBurner much, I highly recommend it. It's also owned by Google if I didn't mention that already. 

Are you linked in?

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The goal of this blog, and my company OptiLaw is to help you increase business for your law firm. With all this new technology it may be confusing, what is the best thing to do? Where is the most 'bang for your buck'? I'll be honest, I don't think anyone really knows. Even if there was a right answer it certainly wouldn't fit for everyone. 

My view is to be out there as much as possible. I previously talked about using Twitter as a way to be out there, today lets talk about Linked In.

What is linkedin.com? 

Basically its another social site just like Facebook. However LinkedIn has a twist - its for business professionals. You could argue that Facebook can be used for that, and it is and it works great. LinkedIn may be viewed as less popular but its still used frequently by many - Including myself!

Once you create an account it will ask to invite your business associates and friends. You may be shocked to find out how many people already have an account. After you get a group of people in your network you will begin to network with them. Its really no different than a real life meeting, except its easier here to show everyone what you do. 

Without going too much deeper, LinkedIn is a great tool, its free and easy. Give it a try. Soon we'll go over some other details on how you can use LinkedIn.

Featured Clients on Twitter

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I wanted to take some time and show some appreciation for 2 clients of mine that have recently joined Twitter. What's the point you ask?  If you have a web site, you have a blog, the question is really - why NOT be on Twitter? Twitter right now is very young and I don't think anyone really knows the future of where it's ultimately going. 

What I do know is that it's going somewhere. Google & Microsoft recently announced that Tweets will be included in search results. So this means we have another way to be in front of potential clients. That reason should be enough to get on there and start posting.