Importing Your Blog Into Facebook

Facebook has made the impact over the worlds today, can be gauged by the fact that President Obama himself chose to visit the social networking site's headquarters recently. With more than 500 million regular users and counting, Facebook is one of the biggest platforms to share your views with a worldwide audience. What better way to promote your personal blog, than sharing its posts on Facebook. That way, all of your friends can read your latest blog posts, as and when they are published.

Two of the most powerful features of the Facebook website are the 'Share' button and the 'Like' button. Whatever you share, appears directly in the recent news feed of all your friends. Instantly your thoughts, links, videos or any kind of shared content can reach hundreds of people. When any one of them 'Likes' what you've shared, the post further appears in the news feed of his or her connected friends.

Thus the 'Like' button triggers an avalanche effect which multiplies the number of people who see and may read your post. That's why, importing your blog into Facebook makes abundant sense and you should know how it's done. Once you have imported the blog, you don't need to individually share every post. The posts that you publish thereafter will automatically appear on Facebook as you publish them. In the following lines, I will guide you through the procedure of importing your blog posts to Facebook automatically.

How to Import your Blog Entries into Facebook?

The facility to import blogs into Facebook and automatically share posts has been made available through an application called 'Notes'. In case you haven't used it already, it's an exclusive Facebook application that lets you share your thoughts and publish them in a plain note form. It's a great application to share insights, thoughts and excerpts from texts which you like. This Note application has a built in function to share your blog post by importing them via an RSS feed link. Here's how to go about it.

Type 'Notes' in the search box provided at the top of your Facebook home page. Go to the Notes application. On the left hand side, you will see a link called 'Edit Settings'. Click on it and a new page will open with a box where you must enter the RSS feed link of your blog. Once you have copy-pasted that RSS link from your blog homepage, hit the 'Import Blog' button and your job is done. The RSS feed will automatically provide the link of any new posts you publish on your blog, which will then be visible on Facebook news feed as entries in the 'Notes' application. Your previous posts will also be made visible as notes.

If you still have any doubts regarding import of your blog into Facebook, refer to the help section of the social networking site, which has a detailed FAQ section regarding the same, that should take care of any doubts you might have. As mentioned before, it's essential that you enter the RSS link of your blog in the Notes application settings to have your posts shared on Facebook. It saves you the hassle of having to post every one of your post links whenever you have blogged. The integration of blogs into Facebook and linking of Twitter account with the Facebook can make your life simpler. Connect your blog with Facebook and watch the number of your blog followers soaring.

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Marketing Through Facebook

The popularity of social networking has increased immensely in recent years in all circles. The Internet has exploded global communication. However, social networking is the feature that really got everyone connecting. People are successfully utilizing social networking to get jobs, influence friends, and generate truly new social connections. Facebook is one of the largest social networking sites that the Internet has seen. These days, it seems that people don’t really have an online identity unless they’re Facebook members.

Every day, people use their Facebook profiles to network with other people that have the same interests, play games together, and communicate on an unparalleled level. This must obviously sound like a proverbial gold mine for you to find new customers in. It would be perfect! Now that people everywhere are realizing what an amazing advertising medium Facebook can be to attract targeted customers, the popularity of Facebook marketing has soared. There are millions of users on Facebook and they have varied interests, which is a perpetual Goldmine for online marketers. This article will be talking about how Facebook can help you promote your business in the best possible way.

The social ads service on Facebook is the most prevalent method of Internet advertising that’s done through that particular service by businesses. Social Ads are the simplest and most direct method of advertising on Facebook. With social ads, you have the added advantage of gearing your ads to whatever demographic you need, depending on their interests, age, gender, etc. This turns a normal ad into a super targeted one, which means you won’t be having random people clicking your ad, and your click-through-rate will naturally increase.

When you have a high CTR, you’ll have more visitors coming in and get a better return on investment. You can also include a picture in your promotion, and that can also improve your CTR. So how does this work? Well, an ad with a picture will grab the audience’s attention more readily, and give you better responses. You should also try your best to make the ad into something that will catch the attention of someone just browsing through. You can always hire a professional to create your ads if you don’t know how to do it.

If you want to go the free way, instead of spending money on ads, then you can try creating groups or fan pages on Facebook. If done correctly, you and your product can gain popularity and a large audience. It seems users of Facebook are addicted to joining groups that represent what they are interested in, or possibly becoming a fan or a certain page. So make use of their compulsions by writing appealing fan pages and attracting people to it. Best of all group pages allow members to invite other Facebook users to the group. However, in order to get the most out of your fan pages is to advertise and promote them through the use of Facebook’s Social Ads and other marketing tools. Even though Facebook fan pages and groups can expand by thousands of members literally overnight, you will still have to have a plan for converting them into traffic for your site.

If you want to go beyond what your competition is doing, and if you want to reach a larger audience, then give Facebook a try. It will do nothing but assist your company in reaching new heights. Not everyone likes taking risks and experimenting, but ultimately that’s what determines how far you go.

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