Facebook is a big provider of traffic to news sites because of people who submit news stories into their news feeds. If you want to be sure to get people you know on Facebook to your work published on our site or on social network sites, you should share it in your news feed.
To share a link to a story or other online content
1. On your profile or home page, there’s an area with your photo that says, “What’s on your mind?” Click inside of the empty text box there and it will give you options to post a link, photo, music or video.
2. Click on link. In the box that appears, paste the link to your story, photo gallery, interactive, etc. Click Attach.
3. Facebook will generate how the link will look in your outgoing news feed. You can’t really change the text it selects, but you may have option with photo thumbnails. If it shows you an image, try to click through the image options to see which you like best.
4. Add some context to the link if you like by adding some text in the box above, such as “Here’s my story on XX.”
5. Click Share.
Add your blog, RSS feed and/or online accounts to your Facebook page
If you go through this process one time, you will never have to tell your Facebook friends about your blog entries – it will happen automatically.
- On your profile page, look below the status update box for a magnifying glass with Options next to it. Click on it.
- Click on Settings
- From here, you can pick all kinds of accounts to add into your wall feed, from your blog’s RSS feed to other accounts you may have on the social web.
Add your Twitter updates to your Facebook page
There are several ways to go about doing this, but I’ll only outline two here.
One option is to have your Twitter post to Facebook as your status message. This shows up at the top of your profile and in your news feed. You could have it do this with every tweet you make, or you can specify certain tweets to send to Facebook.
To have every tweet update your Facebook page (not recommended)
1. Search for the application for Twitter in the search box.
2. Select it and add it to your page. Give it all permissions and Twitter sign-in info it wants.
3. Somewhere in the application settings (it depends on which application you use), it should give you an option to “Allow Twitter to update your Facebook status”. Allow it.
4. You can change how Twitter posts to Facebook by clicking on Setting > Application Settings in the blue bar along the top of the screen.
To have only certain tweets post to your Facebook page
1. Search for the application Selective Twitter Status
2. Select it and add it to your page. Give it all permissions and Twitter sign-in info it wants.
3. When you want the tweet to show up on Facebook, add #fb at the end of your tweet.
** You can also do selective updates to your Facebook status if you use certain Twitter desktop or mobile clients like Tweetdeck, Hootsuite or Seesmic
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