How to Import Your Blog to Your Facebook Page

Posted on 23. Mar, 2010 by Adam in Blogging, Personal Development

There’s little doubt that social media is important to most businesses’ marketing efforts these days. But the time it takes to maintain your social media presence is sometimes hard to find, so anything you can automate makes life much easier. Facebook is of course right at the top of the list of social media sites you need to keep up with on a regular basis, and it can be automated in several ways. One such way is to feed your blog posts right to your Facebook page. Here’s how:

Step 1: In the “Account” dropdown on the top menu bar, click “Application Settings”. This will bring up a page with a list of your applications.

Step 2: On the resulting page, click “Notes”. Don’t click on “Edit Settings” or “Profile”. Just click the word “Notes”.

Step 3: The following page will bring up your current notes or state that you don’t have any. On the right side of the page is a box where you will click on “Import a blog”.

Steps 4-6: On the next page, enter the URL for your blog’s feed. Then click the checkbox to accept Facebook’s terms (basically saying that you’re entering your own blog), and hit “Start Importing”.

Important: Facebook is often glitchy at this step. If you get an error, and you’re sure you’ve entered the right URL, keep trying. You might even have to close out of the process and go back in, but eventually it will work. (Hopefully Facebook is working on this.)

Note: If your entire site is a blog (rather than a page on your site), you can enter the primary URL here too. In other words, we could enter “http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogtrepreneur” or just “http://www.blogtrepreneur.com”.

Step 7: If all goes well with the URL you entered, you’ll be taken to a page showing a preview of your blog posts. Don’t worry that they’re not in order here. It’s because they all show as being loaded on the same day. From this point forward, new posts will show up at the top as you post them. If all looks good, click “Confirm Import”.

Once you’ve confirmed your import, you can view the feed in the “My Notes” tab. That’s it! Your blog posts will now update your Notes page in your Facebook account automatically.

If you have a Fan Page

You can easily accomplish the same thing on your Facebook Fan Page. Everything is the same as a regular Facebook page, except the first step. On your settings page, where all your settings are listed, click “Edit” under “Notes”. From there, everything looks the same as above.

If you have a blog (and everyone should) and you have a Facebook page (and everyone should), this will help you combine those tools to improve your marketing, enhance your SEO efforts, and connect with more readers and customers. All in about 5 minutes of your valuable time!

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20 Responses to “How to Import Your Blog to Your Facebook Page”

Keith

23. Mar, 2010

I couldn’t agree more with your last paragraph! I wrote a tutorial on this, but I didn’t take the time to include images, that help a lot!

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John Sullivan

23. Mar, 2010

Thanks so much. That was super easy, I appreciate it!

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Web Design Beach

23. Mar, 2010

Great tutorial. It’s much easier when jobs like manually importing blog posts to Facebook become automated. Thanks for sharing.

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24. Mar, 2010

Thanks a lot, I’ve been meaning to figure out how to import my blogs to FB as I’ve started using it recently.

Till then,

Jean

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Cash Genie

24. Mar, 2010

I liked the post and found it very informative. I would be working on Facebook for a while and I am a bit scared as well, with all these things coming up One has to be upto date and changing strategies as per the demand.

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The XS Group

24. Mar, 2010

Hi,

We run two blogs, so how do we get both to show in FB?

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Dress Sandals

24. Mar, 2010

Good tutorial. Many people setup a facebook page for their website or business and then don’t know what to post on there. Automatically feeding your blogposts is one easy way to take care of that problem.

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Antonis

24. Mar, 2010

Nice tutorial. i didn’t know that it’s possible to feed automatically the posts of my blog. i have 4 blogs and will be very useful for me.

Thank you , thank you , thank you for this tutorial…

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kenshiro666

25. Mar, 2010

Thanks for the useful article,just a question:
as i run like 4 blogs,i’m trying to import all the feeds,
but seems that FB can automatically feeds only one.
There’s a way to import all of my feeds?
Thanks :)

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SEO Tricks

26. Mar, 2010

Thanks for the tutorial.
Found for the first time on net.
Now using facebook we can get even more traffic.

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28. Mar, 2010

I never thought of doing this – thanks for the great tip

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Laptop Briefcases

29. Mar, 2010

This sounds like a great way to save some time with social marketing. You don’t necessarily have time to build content on each network. So it really helps to be able to feed your blog into facebook. That exposes your content to a lot more people.

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dotcom

31. Mar, 2010

Good Article,Thanks for the great tips

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Romantic Room

08. Apr, 2010

We just use the Involver Application to create a Wall tab. You can see it at http://www.facebook.com/uberoom under the tab “News” if we haven’t changed it by the time you read this! Probably just going to write FBML code to remove the Involver “ad” and personalize the page in the near future.

Bryan

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Goldnote

14. Apr, 2010

Great article, never heard of this before. Most ideas you hear a hundred times over. Will be implementing this today for sure.

Thanks

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Josh

15. Apr, 2010

Fantastic advice and demo Justin. I never thought about doing this, so I will now keep it in the back of my mind =)

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Inexpensive Laptops

20. Apr, 2010

Thanks for that tip. Just barely started using my facebook account recently, even though I created my profile a while back. This should be interesting to help me add my blog onto it.

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chalikovas

20. Apr, 2010

good information about facebook. Thanks for sharing

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22. Apr, 2010

Good. i did not know about this, before :-)

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Kelvin Forex Indicator

01. May, 2010

Just 2 days back, I am still trying to figure out how to add my blog feed to my facebook. You are the answer to my problem.

I will try it out tonight.

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