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This free application will ‘Automatically Add Tweets To Facebook‘. If you are not already doing this, you really should explore the facebook applications more often.

Follow the ‘go to application’ link under the profile picture to get started.

This facebook application is simple. You enter your Twitter Username, Twitter Password and then click the Allow button. Then when you are prompted to do so, you click the box next to your ‘Facebook Profile’ to ‘Allow Twitter to post updates to’  that profile.

Be sure you click ‘transfer photo’ button and both permissions boxes to complete the process.

Do you like the above tweet image?

A simple one line link in your website will automatically show your last tweet as a picture. It looks good, and it is clickable. It’s a simple and free tool that looks better and fits easily into any type of website.

Notice that the top left image is your twitter profile icon and that your user name is bold!

Tip: Add rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank” to the code

A critical element of ‘Search Engine Optimization’ are links from good quality relevant websites. But did you know that ALL of the external links in twitter are ‘no follow’. This means that there is no page rank benefit to your tweet links.

Most of the links in the tweets are also shortened automatically when you use outside tweet tools. You can override them manually or you can go directly to twitter and put in the full link code. However, if your link is very long it won’t leave much room for a message. Of course some people love those url shorteners because they mask where you will be going if you do click on them.

But the majority of people want ‘do follow’ links so that they can get some SEO benefit from them. Even the web link above your bio is no follow. The only link that is do follow is your profile name that links to your twitter profile.

Twitter is not the only major site that uses no follow links. Facebook and Youtube links are also no follow. With youtube you may get some benefit from sites that auto add selected videos to their sites – but those are usually stripped of any live url link.

You can install the free SEOquake firefox plugin to easily see whether links are no follow or do follow. If you’ve got the plugin activated it’s like looking at the world with a different set of eyes. If you are a webmaster trying to develop good backlinks, this will be the best free tool you’ll find all month!

Tweet “Tweet This Page” is a common need for website owners. When you create a page you want to send it to your twitter followers right away. That’s were those ‘add this’ or ‘tweet this’ links come in handy.

This is especially important and vital when you have user or visitor input that you know they want shared. For instance, if you run a video upload site you want the people uploading the videos to tweet their video page to their users. You as a website owner ‘love’ that type of activity. Users are promoting your site!

While this code tweets a shortened link for the page url from which it is clicked, there are other codes that tweet only a static message. When you are trying to promote more than just your home page, this code will work best for that need.

Twitter has a simple input form that you can use on any page of your site to send the shortened page url to their profile. There are other codes that do the same, but this one from twitter has no third party system involved. That is useful if you don’t want your customer sidetracked to other website with it’s own agenda.

However, if you want maximum shareability then you’ll definitely want to include the “AddThis” code on your website.  This third party code has 316 share site options for sharing including Google Buzz, PDFmyURL, LiveJournal, Gmail, Folkd, Mister Wong, Identica, Hyves, Xanga and FriendFeed. It also includes a ‘like this’ button as well as free analytics. This is the best share tool we’ve even seen. And the price is right – FREE.