In this article, you will learn how to boost your blog traffic by implementing a Twitter summary card (Twitter meta tags) in your website or blog. You can add Twitter cards in Blogspot, WordPress or your custom websites.
What is Twitter Card
In short, a Twitter card is the preview of a URL tweeted by any Twitter user. It is automatically produced by Twitter and works like Open Graph tags. Twitter Cards are by default summary card and it contains tweeted URL, Title, Description and Thumbnail Image.
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Why do we use Twitter Card in Blogger, WordPress
Below are the usage of the Twitter Summary Card
- To engage your followers
- Boost website, blogger, and WordPress traffic
- Provide more visibility on Twitter
- Make your tweets more attractive in the sense of UI/UX
- Make your tweets more clickable
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How to add a Twitter card in google blogger (Blogspot)
Whenever you tweet your blog (Blogspot, WordPress, or website) post link on Twitter, only the post link appears on Twitter. By default, Twitter will not show Blog Post descriptions, Title, and Thumbnails. I am going to show you how to add a Twitter summary card to your google blog (Blogspot).
Below are the steps to add a Twitter card to a blogger
- Go to your blog and click on "Theme"
- Now clcik on "Customize" dropdown and select "Edit HTML"
- Now press CTRL+F and search for </head> tag
- Paste below code just above the </head> tag
- Don't forget to change @your_twitter_username with your Twitter user name
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To check your twitter card working properly use Twitter Card Validator. Just paste your blog post URL and see how's your twitter card displaying.
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