The Top 5 Facebook Apps To Promote Your Blog.
Blogging is the recent popular activity that all of us do regularly or in our free time. We share our thoughts and interests on a blog or give a comment on others blog or even become a blogger’s fan!
Many people have taken up blogging for their livelihood. The concept of guest blogging allows people to post articles in somebody else’s blog as a guest blogger giving each of the parties an advantage
of content, branding, traffic and good writing skills. Starting a blog, writing relevant content doesn’t comprise a good blog. Getting readers to read your blog is the most important task.
To have a steady flow of traffic to your blog, you need to promote your blog effectively. Facebook is giving us so much everyday. It is the largest social networking website in which millions of people connect with each other. Facebook is very good platform to publicize your blog. Let us see how FB apps can help you promote your blog.
I. Facebook Pages:
Creating a fan page is one of the top facebook applications which will help you promote your blog. When you decide to create a fan page, keep your personal FB account away from your blogging community. You can boost your facebook page by:
- Discussion boards: Once you create a fan page, a discussion board tab is available to share views on with one another. The discussion boards resembles a forum in which you and your fans can start and carry out discussions thereby building relationships among fans.
b. Polling: Create a poll and get your users vote their choice. An easy way to gather data and responses. You can publish the results of the poll and get opinions from your fans.
c. Static FBML: If you think your blog needs a bit of customization then you need to be familiar with HTML codes. Static FBML(Facebook Markup Language) feature allows you to add tabs and modify them in your fan page. You can use HTML codes or FBML in the fan page to setup landing page for fans and non-fans.
II. Social RSS:
Add a RSS Feed subscription for your blog for users to get updated content. Let your Social RSS be visible and configured accordingly before you activate it. According to your latest post, the feeds will update automatically.
III. Notes:
Notes is one of the Facebook applications available on your tab once logged in. Importing blog posts is easier with the help of Notes and it is the reason why many use it. You can either import the blog or copy and paste your individual articles into Notes and share it with your fans. They in-turn can share the note with others or add comments on it.
IV. Blog:
The Blog application is the quick and easy way to start blogging on Facebook. You can promote your main site using Blog on Facebook. Another application similar to this is Blog Box which allows you to write, add a blog post or import articles from an existing blog. If you have imported articles, Blog box will check your main site for any new post and update content every 6 hours.
V. Facebook Ads:
Placing an Ad in Facebook is the quicker way to get visible but with a charge. FB Ads reach out all people and have the ability to attract visitors to your blog or fan page.
