How To Link Your Blog To Your Facebook Profile With Notes

by Coree on June 7th, 2009

Using your blog as your hub is part of a smart and strategic social media marketing plan. I have found that Facebook offers the greatest linking capabilities so far. Not only can you link your blog in via the Notes Application, but I also use the Facebook Networked Blogs that gives added exposure.

I know there are female ‘tech geeks” out there, but I am not one of them! It takes me a little longer to understand how to do these things than most so I’d like to make it easier for other women if at all possible.

I’ve tried to take the steps to add Notes and link your blog in simple language that my female powered brain needs to understand. Hopefully, other women marketers will be able to understand how simple it is to link your blog to your Facebook profile using the Notes application from these easy steps:

1. You will need to log in to your Facebook account, then go the the Notes application page. You’ll see all your friends that use the app listed there. Click on “Go To Application” button on the left side of the page.

2. After adding the Notes Application to your profile, click on “Import a blog” under “Notes Settings”.

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If you don’t already know your blog’s RSS feed URL, you will have it memorized soon! It usually looks something like: “http://www.yourdomain.com/feed”, depending on what type of feed or service you use. If you don’t know it, just click on the RSS button on your blog and it will take you to the URL that you can then copy. If you use Feedburner you would paste the feed URL they provided you here.

3. Next you will configure how you’d like the feed to appear on your wall. Go to your Profile page and hover over Settings to see the drop down menu and click on “Application Settings”. All your apps will be listed here and you should now see the Notes application. Click on “Edit Settings” next to the Notes application and from there you can configure how you’d like to see your feed appear on your wall.

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4. Once you’re done configuring, navigate back to your wall to see your latest blog post appearing. That’s it!

Many of the social media sites offer linking capabilities to automatically post your blog to your profile along with a thumbnail preview of your post. Pictures are worth a thousand words, and with that thumbnail it draws more attention to your blog. Check around the social sites you belong to and you might discover you have been missing out on a linking opportunity there as well.

Remember, your blog is your hub and the social media sites are the tool to direct traffic back to it. What other social media sites have you linked your blog to? Are you a part of the Facebook Networked Blogs? If not, come back this week where I will show you how to link that up as well.

Don’t forget to add me to your Facebook friends!! http://profile.to/marketlikeachick/

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Enrico

Hi!
You know if can I update only a facebook page and not my profile?

darlabaerg

I want to put SOME posts on facebook but not all. When I import it, it only puts the name of my blog and then pulls in the my information ... every single time it says ... "Darla Baerg is a mother of four, etc. etc. when I want it to put a teaser of the particular post I'm linking to. Can you help? Thanks!

Alan

I hope so too - simple is good for me!

Waleed

Thanks for mentioning NetworkedBlogs. Looking forward to your next post. If you have questions or need clarifications on anything, please don't hesitate to contact us at networkedblogs (at) ninua.com .

Coree

@Waleed - Thanks for stopping by. Hit a few bumps in the road about the time I was planning on posting the write up on Networked Blogs, but look for it soon! It's a great marketing tool for driving traffic to your blog.