Let’s do a little bit of marketing trickery.
So, we’re on Facebook, just like everyone else. Cool, huh?
Some time ago, they started allowing all of us to publish Feeds to Facebook’s notes section.
The cliffs notes:
Go to http://facebook.com/editnotes.php & enter your blog address. This will auto-publish stuff from the feeds that you run. The catch?
Team Facebook only wants you running one feed at a time. See picture for details, click to embiggen:
We hate limitations. We hate rules. And most of our clients work with multiple blogs. So here’s how you do it.
1.) Go into your host and create a new WordPress blog. You don’t need GoDaddy for this–it can be “bigbadfeed.feedblog.com”
2.) Get one of two plugins, depending on how you set up your feed. Install in the “plugins” section of your blog. We’re using WP-O-Matic or Feed WordPress. Neither of these plugins work perfeclty–it depends on your feed and other info. They both have good results from Feedburner streams.
3.) Go through the screens and give it your feeds. See the video below–it’s not hard.
4.) They may require a Cron job for best accuracy. So if that’s the case, go ahead and email your support with how to do this. Don’t overthink this unless it’s not working on your host for a couple days. Some hosts do allow it and others don’t. Don’t sweat it.
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That’s it. You’ve now added all of your feeds to your notes section. I don’t know what the limit is here, but it seems that as long as you’re not posting more than 2-3 times a day you’re not going to be canned via Facebook. We’ll see.
A shout out to Phil Gerbyshak that showed us the import notes section.
[Edit: If you want us to do this for you, we'll do it for you for $75 bucks. Just contact sales@flatratewebjobs.com and we'll set you up as a client and get you started.]
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Or you could just mash up your feeds with Yahoo Pipes. Then add the new complete feed to Facebook notes. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes
Reggie- Sure, that’s a way to do it, no arguments there. We try to eschew 3rd party tools and have self hosted, “under our thumb” solutions so we’re not at the mercy of other venders TOS changes.
Great trick guys! It’s posts like these that help people like me stay one step ahead in an ocean of e-marketers. I’m going to try this on my Facebook later today.
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