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Tips to get your blog auto-published on Facebook

If you want to automatically publish your blog post to Facebook, this article will help you do it in less than 5 minutes.

In the next few minutes, we will see how you can automate your Facebook updates from your WordPress blog. Then we’ll see why (in my opinion) you should NOT automatically post your blog to Facebook.

WordPress is the most popular platform on the internet and is used by countless people to write blogs. If you’re familiar with WordPress, you’ve probably searched for WordPress plugins to help you automate your crossposting. However, in this case (and for once), we won’t need a WordPress plugin but a Facebook app.

The Facebook app that you want to connect to your Facebook account is called “Social Rss” (you can find it using Facebook’s search function). Just add it to your page, enter your blog name and RSS address, and finally make sure to grant access to your newsfeed. Voila – every WordPress blog post will automatically post to Facebook!

However, I must stress that, in my opinion, you shouldn’t automatically post your blog updates to Facebook, unless you want to scare your friends (or ‘fans’). In fact, Facebook is a platform where people communicate with each other on a personal level, and it probably isn’t receptive to an automatic update from WordPress. If you decide to stick with automatic updates, it’s recommended that you mix it in with some genuine status updates from time to time.

As you have seen, automatically linking your WordPress blog to Facebook is relatively easy thanks to a Facebook application called “Social RSS”. However, always make sure you don’t scare off your Facebook friends with too many impersonal automatic updates.

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