How to auto-share your blog on Facebook

How to auto-share your blog on Facebook

10 Comments 20 April 2010

Since Facebook has been around everyone who is everyone online, well almost everyone, has joined. Now how do you attract those users on Facebook to your blog? If you are using WordPress as your blogging platform there is an option to allow you to auto-share your blog posts as soon as you post them to your Facebook Profile and the Facebook Fan Pages you are an admin for.

You have always been able to import your blog’s RSS feed into your Facebook notes but this keeps the readers within the closed facebook eco-system and doesn’t do much for your traffic.

When you are trying to monetize your blog with advertising this traffic is extremely important. There are also third party facebook applications that allow you to import your blog but again this traffic is kept within the facebook application where those applications monetize your content with ads. Great for sharing your content but not so great for generating revenue for your blog.

Continue reading to find out how to auto-share your blog on Facebook.

Well this shouldn’t be a problem any more with the WordBook plugin by Robert Tsai. This plugin will allow you to cross-post your WordPress(.org) blog posts straight to your facebook wall or the wall of your Fan pages. Looking at the growth in downloads Wordbook is experiencing this is proving to be a very popular wordpress facebook plugin.

Wordpress plugin that auto-shares your blog to Facebook

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Thank you for sharing useful links and information for newbies like me
http://www.igeek.co.za/ Gerhard
I use the Networked blogs application om my blog’s Facebook Fan Page, it gives a picture and summary with a link to your article. It also runs off RSS feeds so its platform independent.
http://www.webaddict.co.za Rafiq Phillips
What i like about this plugin is that it pushes the post from wordpress to facebook in real time. I use Networked blog as well but then have to rely on it to fetch my RSS feed usually hours after the post was actually published. I think the WordBook plugin gives me the instant gratification of real time updates from my WordPress blog to Facebook.
http://www.igeek.co.za/ Gerhard
Glad you mentioned that Rafiq, I only switched to Networked Blogs a few weeks ago and this was one of the first things I checked out. Currently my blog is being updated to facebook instantly, I think they are also making use of pubsubhubbub now. But what I don’t see from Networked blogs is the stats like WordBook is giving.
Stats is always a nice thing to have.
http://www.webaddict.co.za Rafiq Phillips
Those are not blog stats, those are the plugin download stats.
http://www.igeek.co.za/ Gerhard
Ah okay my bad, mistaken it for click stats.
http://twitter.com/ToobLippe Tobie Nortje
Yes thanks alot. I used to use the bit.ly sidebar or even use my own social promotion buttons. Think I will try this now!
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I almost passed your website up in Google but now I’m glad I stopped by and got to read through it. I’m definitely more informed now. I’ll be recommending your site to some friends of mine. They’ll get a kick out of what I just read too.
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That is that I have been looking for! Thank you for sharing!