How to add a ReTweet button to your email newsletters
Recently I did a post on how to add Twitter and other social media icons to your email signature. When that post hit Twitter one of my followers asked me if there was a way to at a ReTweet button to her newsletters. Interesting question as I’ve seen it on Copyblogger’s so I set off to find out how to do it.
The first thing you want to do is head over to the ReTweet Meme help page on email buttons. They have a lot of different options available and I chose to add the RT button that allows it to be retweeted from a certain source (in my case my Twitter name @mmangen)
Make sure to replace both <url> spots with the desired URL and change the <source> to your Twitter name without the @ sign – e.g. mmangen
Now all you have to do is add this HTML code into whatever newsletter service you are using (in my case: Aweber) and be sure to test the functionality of it by sending a test message to yourself.
Tips for this:
- You may have to play with the code a little bit (in my case I had to add </div></div> after the code listed in order for it to work
- In most scenarios that I tried if the button showed a question mark that meant something was incorrect in the code
- Although Aweber gives a unique URL for each newsletter if that URL is inserted into the code when your reader goes to RT the article it is only going to show the Mailer XXXXX that is assigned by Aweber – not a very pretty or easy to understand format when someone goes to ReTweet your newsletter
<a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=<url>&service=<service>&source=<source>"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=<url>" height="61" width="51" /></a>
A huge thanks going out to @pattyfarmer who is a Dallas, TX based Mortgage Specialist who is dedicated to finding the best loan program for you. Connect with Patty on Twitter – she’s a great woman and the inspiration behind this blog post.
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Hi. this is kind of an “unconventional” question , but have other readers asked you how get the side bar to look like you have got it? Is it just the theme that is doing this? I also have a blog and am really wanting to change around the theme, however am scared to death to mess with it for fear of screwing something up. I’m very new to all of this …so i’m just not positive exactly how to do it all yet. I’ll just keep working on it one day at a time
Thanks for any help you can offer here.
Clothes Drying Rack – with every WordPress theme there are different ways to work with the sidebars. What theme do you have? I am using Thesis and it’s so easy to work with. Is there a specific “thing” on my sidebar that you like? Let me know and I can help you out more.
Michelle,
How did you get the social buttons to float on the left side of your page?
Thanks for the great posts,
Scott
Hi Scott:
The floating social icons is with a plugin called: Cute Profiles. Very easy to install and configure with your own specific URLs.
Thank you for that. Should it work on auto insert (I’m using thesis as well)? I can’t seem to get it to work. Thanks…