My informal poll asking bloggers about their favorite application for pulling their blog posts into their Facebook page, revealed a clear winner with NetworkedBlogs.
At 38.8% of the vote and more than double the votes of its nearest rival ("Other"), it's clear that NetworkedBlogs is a popular choice for posting your blog articles on to your Facebook page.
The responses to "Other" included:
- SocialOomph
- TypePad widget
- Posterous
- Smart Tweet for Pages
- Custom feed
- Aweber
- Tweetdeck
- Amplify.com
- Addthis
As I shared in the comments of the Poll post, I used NetworkedBlogs for awhile, but after it failed to post three weeks of queued posts while I was on vacation, that soured me on the application. Social RSS worked well during the free trial, but when I didn't upgrade to the paid version, it became sporadic about posting the feed.
What I like about RSS Graffiti is that I can choose to post as me, from my Denise Wakeman profile, or as my Blog Squad page - with most apps, anything you post on your Page shows up as being posted by the Page, not you, the person. I can customize how the feed shows up (title only or with an excert), add an intro to the feed and get reports if a feed fails to post. Images I use in the post are also displayed.
If you're attending the Blogging Success Summit (kicks off on Tuesday, February 1), Mari Smith is doing an entire sesson on Turbo-Boosting Your Blog Traffic With Facebook and promises to reveal proven tactics, strategies, and tools for maximizing your blog's incoming traffic by taking full advantage of all that Facebook offers. You'll discover creative ways to drastically grow your blog readership as well as powerful ways to engage readers with Facebook plugins. I've heard her promise to reveal some of her secret Ninja tricks for getting Facebook to blog traffic.
Although I don't have proof and can't find any info through a cursory search, I'm convinced that links to blog posts that are manually posted show up more frequently in the Top News Feed, than do posts that are added via RSS feed. Anyone have info about this? Or am I imagining things? :-) My experience is that when I manually post a link, I get a lot more interactions (likes, comments) than on posts that are automatically posted via RSS.
In any case, regardless of which application you choose, make sure you're feeding your blog to your Facebook page. If you're not, you're leaving a lot of traffic "on the table". And traffic is an essential ingredient for getting more visibility, leads, prospects, opt-ins, gigs, clients, opportunities...
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I'm a big fan of dlvr.it, a syndication tool that does not pull the entire post into Facebook, but a hyperlinked title, post summary and thumbnail image to the Wall. It has great stats as well.
Posted by: Paul Chaney | Monday, January 31, 2011 at 07:59 AM
I don't know really except that in my experience, links posted by NetworkedBlogs tend to show up too. But you might be up to something...Oh, and if you use Facebooks Notes to import your rss feeds, those show up too. I'll keep watch though and see.
Posted by: dotCOMreport | Friday, February 04, 2011 at 01:42 AM
No, networked blogs is the worst. Believe me. They never work.
Posted by: Sean Serritella | Friday, February 25, 2011 at 01:20 PM