What are Twitter Cards? Why you should have one & How to Add a Twitter "Summary "Card to Your Blog or Website.

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What are Twitter Cards?
& How to Add a Twitter Card to
Your Blog or Website
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What are Twitter Cards?
Twitter cards make it possible for you to attach media experiences to
Tweets (or anyone that tweets) from your Blog.
By Simply adding a few lines of HTML to your webpages, when you and
users who Tweet links from your Blog or even to your content will display a
“View summary” link.

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What are Twitter Cards? (con’t)
Twitter cards offer several additional types of programs that you can use
with Twitter. The most common used one is the “Summary”

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When anyone clicks the “View summary” link, it will expand the post to a
snypit (description) of your article. (Note it also adds your featured image)

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Two Ways to Get Your Twitter Summary Card.
Method #1: Installing with the Squirrly SEO Plugin for WordPress
1. The easiest way to install the Twitter Summary is by installing the Squirrly Pro
SEO Plugin for WordPress.
2. Then from the admin menu goto “Squirrly”->”Settings”
3. From the “Let Squirrly automatically optimize my blog” see the the “Add
the Twitter card in your tweets” section.
4. Click the “Check here” link (seen in above image) and this will advance you to
the Twitter Card Validation.
5. Login to your Twitter Account
6. Choose “summary”
7. Click “Validate and Apply”
8. Type in your Blogs URL and click “Go”
9. Click “Request Approval”
10.Once validated, go back to the Squirrly SEO Plugin, type in your Twitter name
and then click “Save Settings”
11.DONE!!! The Squirrly SEO Plugin adds all the required code automatically! Now
all your tweets from your Blog will contain a Summary!

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Method #2: Installing the Twitter Summary Card Without Squirrly SEO
Plugin
Download the Twitter Cards Meta Plugin
1. Go to the WordPress Dashboard “Add New Plugin” section.
2. Search for “Twitter Cards Meta”.
3. Install, then Activate it.
4. In “Settings” locate the “Twitter Cards Meta”
5. Adjust the “Twitter Cards Meta Options”
6. Goto the Twitter Card Validator and enter your URL and click “Go!”
7. Click “Request Approval”
8. You are good to go!
After the Twitter Card Meta data has been added to your site (and this is
automatic doing it as described above), go to your Twitter page and you
will see any post you have tweeted from your blog will have a “View
Summary” underneath the Tweet. (Or tweet a new post from your blog to
view it.)
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