13 Facebook Applications to Promote Your Blog
Posted by Ching Ya | Posted in Blog Traffic, Blogger Tips, Facebook, Social Media Tool | Posted on 07-10-2009
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Do you own a Facebook and a blog? If so, think you’re going to enjoy this week’s discussion. Thanks to S.Pradeep Kumar for bringing up the question during his visit at 16 Social Bookmarking Plugins to Promote Your Post. I’ve started a little journey digging through Facebook in past weeks, hoping to find some relevant ideas on how to promote your blog using Facebook applications. Before we’re getting into any of those, make sure you fill up as much information on your Facebook Profile as possible — digital name card for first timers:
13 Facebook Applications To Promote Your Blog
There are ways to frequent your blog’s visibility within Facebook network. Do bear in mind you don’t have to use ALL of them or keep your Wall busy with all the blog updates – especially if you are a productive daily-blog-poster. It may get a little annoyed and your friends may secretly switch off your news feed reminder so be smart on picking the ones that suit your network.
Basic Features:
1. Links & Updates
- Share your blog / post link with your friends to have them feedback or comment on it. Or easier, announce an update to have them all aware of the blog launch. Just a snap!
2. Notes
- Copy and paste your individual blog articles or import the entire blog feed into Notes so your friends can read them, either through link sharing or by tagging them. They can spread the notes on your behalf or comment on it as well. The notes can be viewed in Full or Compact (shown in pic) mode.
Blog/Posts Exposures via Additional Applications:
- Facebook Fan Pages can be a good idea for blog promoting when:
a. You plan to keep your personal Facebook account separated from your blogging community.
b. You can have discussion board, customized applications while sending email updates to ALL fans, as I like to call them supporters instead.
I have just setup my blog’s Facebook Page. Hope to see you guys there!
Suggested Read: you may be interested in 16 Facebook Applications to Boost Popularity of Facebook Fan Page
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- The most-used application to promote your blog on Facebook with the ability to network with other blogs easily through ‘follow’ option. Followers can post comment, rate the blog and enjoy meeting other followers. Not to mention it equips the ability to autopost from multiple blogs to your Facebook Page too! I had my Social @ Blogging Tracker all fixed up in NetworkedBlogs. It’ll be a privilege to see you there!
You can have your networked blogs visible at the sidebar, underneath your Facebook Profile or on your Facebook Pages. Displaying yours and other blogs you’ve joined or liked, served as an active blogroll apart from blog promotion.
5. Social RSS
- Provide RSS feed subscription for your blog through Facebook. Make your Social RSS visible by setting it appeared as box tab or at the sidebar. Tag the RSS with a familiar name like ‘blog’ so others will notice. Configure and fill up the required fields before activate it. The feeds will update automatically in accordance to your latest post.
Add To Info
Add To Facebook Profile
- Display your latest or chosen posts with or without graphic on your Facebook Profile (box tab or sidebar) or on Facebook Page. Normally latest posts will be displayed on your Facebook Wall as well if you preset it. Visibility is what Simplaris Blogcast do best, however the updating is quite slow sometimes and require manually setup (free version).
Indirect Methods:
7. Blog
- How about a little indirect method to promote your main site via ‘Blog’ on Facebook? This application allows you to blog directly on Facebook – by unmark the ‘private’ option you can make the post public in ‘Explore’ section to whoever is using the application. Extra audiences, why not? An idea I picked up from those who are using Tumblr and Posterous to promote their main blog.
8. Blog Box
- The efficiency of writing a post on Blog Box (similar to no.7: Blog) or import from your existing blog. If for the latter, it will update every 6 hours checking for new post on your main site. Unless you prefer to spend some dime on Pro version that may save time on the updating, for me that’s unnecessary. Blog Box is said to be visible outside Facebook too, so people can add your blog to Google Reader freely.
9. Blog It
- Ability to inter-posting between your social media sites and Facebook. Choices ranging from microblogging to various types of blogging platforms. I’m more into using it for microblogging instead of blog posts but that’s just the matter of preferences. Some similarities shown as Mirror Blog application.
10. Tumblelog
- The ability to display content from your Tumblr blog on your Facebook profile. If you own a Tumblr blog this application is worth a shot.
Extra Facebook Features:
- Create a group that you’re passionate about and have like-minded people to join in. Have on-going and active discussions, connect with members often. You may even find some new members interested in your writings too.
12. Facebook Ads
- If you’re willing to pay for publicity, another idea is via Facebook Ads. You can create a campaign to drive in traffic to your website or your well-known Facebook Page and more. The idea of reaching out to targeted readers varied by age, location, interests is what Facebook Ads do best.
13. Social Media Integration
- Ever since Facebook has decided to open up and willing to integrate with other social media and microblogging sites, sharing a blog post or promotion has never been easier. Through a well-written post you can gain massive exposure on Facebook when blog readers submit your post to: Digg, Stumbleupon, Delicious, Twitter and have it shown on their Facebook Wall ! As you’ve noticed I’ve tried a few on my Facebook, along with LinkedIn account info and Twitter updates:
b. LinkedIn
Now It’s Your Turn…
If you have any experience gaining popularity to your blog using Facebook applications, feel free to share in the comment section. If it’s relevant I’ll be including it in the post and credit you a mention.
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Nice collection, Ching Ya. I prefer Facebook Page than NetworkedBlogs, as the former is more flexible, easier to send requests and better to manage.
Welcome Joseph,
I agree, especially when you have a group of people who are into what you’re sharing. I’ll say Facebook Page is simply fantastic and great networking tools, definitely an easier application to manage.
Hope to see you here again.
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Very useful information on facebook applications i haven’t know all of them. Thanks for sharing this with us
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Vivek,
Thank you for the comment. Have you been trying some of them as we speak? Do share your experience on the apps.
At this level, this list has got the quality to get blogs promoted very well.
Spot on guys.
SEO Manchester,
Thank you for your kind words. I hope they helped in your blog promoting with Facebook. ^^
I tried the Free Version of Social RSS and Believe me it takes too much time to fetch the latest feeds from Blog.
BTW Nice list, I’ll try out Blog It and Network Blogs Apps
Thanks and Wishes
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Mrintech,
Thank you for the feedback. Yes, I do find sometimes there’s a delay for Social RSS.
For now I’m using it at the sidebar while NetworkedBlog updates on wall posts. It worked well for the time being.
Thanks for visiting!
Great article,
here is another facebook application i use to promote my blogs and twitter. The application was done by “Bloghology Network for Bloggers”
check it out
http://www.bloghology.org
Vasilis,
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve never tried that before, will head over for a look.
Thanks for visiting.
You are a professional and thanks for that.
I/we teach folks to be a pro in our system.
Way too many folks don’t get that coming straight at folks with your productor, service or prelaunch of the week …etc…simply truns folks off.
You add value in your way with good teaching.
I’ve realized since I’m free at home for the last 6 months that is the only way others will interact with us.
We must learn,do , then teach and connect to like minded folks and this takes patience and consistency in what your information teaches.
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Welcome Nicholas,
Nice meeting you here!
You shared a very important point that made me think: To educate others and encouraging usage for mutual benefits — that’s very true. I remember some blogger friends who never tried Twitter/Facebook finally started to sign up after we ‘nagged’ them time after time how helpful the tools are, which is wonderful!
That’s what I love about info-sharing. The world is so much different now — to give/share will help both us and others to work towards productivity. I’m no pro, just a lady who’s so excited about social media and meeting like-minded people. ^^
Thanks again for your kind feedback. Hope I get to see you here often. Best wishes in the new year!
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Cool! Hey, thanks for letting us know about these. I only knew of a couple of the applications, and am trying to promote my blog as much as possible. Thanks for the help!
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Well, how fun, Ching Ya! I’m sitting here hitting the old Stumble Upon button on Weblogs, and up pops this post of yours!
I’m going to give it a Thumbs up!
xo
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Thank you for sharing a summary of Apps. I love to social media and that is why I like your list very much.
I already know about some applications but after reading this article, I am going with full tool of social marketing.
Thank
Very good Research Ching……
No doubt Facebook is becoming the next twitter and is a lifeline for bloggers but facebook is so varied and there are so many features that it beocmes difficult to explore……
Thnx for exploring them and sharing ur knowledge with us
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See this page
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Dear; Chingya
Your Facebook application is very good and I appreciate your application. Its usefull for facebook user good job keep going. Thankx for your Sharing.
Thank you so much for the info Chingya. Facebook can be so useful and can make or break your promotion campaign. I also found that connecting personally with other bloggers in your niche is extremely useful because you can learn from them and you can even maybe create blog networks and joint ventures with them
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Thank you for sharing these resources. Hopefully I can use them to promote my new blog to prominence!
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Dear; Chingya you done an awesome job and I hope you give this type of great ideas in a future thanks.
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