Comments on: Put Facebook on a Blog Diet

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:53:39 +0000

I’ve since found that it doesn’t and have reverted to the standard practice. Actually, the thing that brings in more traffic from any social media site is to be actively engaged with your contacts on those services, treat them like friends rather than statistics, make it personable and personal.

By: Asdas

Asdas — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:14:10 +0000

Have now got this set up on a couple of my sites, hopefully it’ll bring in a bit more traffic from Facebook, thanks David!

By: Zath

Zath — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:36:06 +0000

Yeah, but the question is how, I’m guessing the Twitter application for Facebook for re-publishing tweets wouldn’t work with a fan page?

I’ll have to look into later today!

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:29:56 +0000

Make it more like a tweet in other words rather than showing an excerpt…maybe I’ll try that next, thanks.

By: Zath

Zath — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:11:06 +0000

Interesting findings! I’ve not got that comparison to look at and haven’t properly tried to promote the fan page as yet, however I’m wondering if there are one too many clickthrus from a Facebook user’s news feed to get to your blog using this method – perhaps having a system that auto posts a “facebook link update” showing the post title and simply a straight URL would be easiler and quicker for people to use?

What do you think?

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:30:21 +0000

Well, my plan to persuade Facebook friends to actually visit the site instead of simply leaving comments on my full-text posts on Facebook doesn’t seem to have worked. Stats show that visits to the Sciencebase blog from the Facebook domain have actually dropped significantly since installing the plugin and using the excerpt feed. So I’ve switched back to full text mode for now to see whether syndicating sciencebase to my Facebook page once again boosts the traffic to the site from Facebook.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:45:38 +0000

Happy to help! Good luck with it.

By: Zath

Zath — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:22:29 +0000

Have now got this set up on a couple of my sites, hopefully it’ll bring in a bit more traffic from Facebook, thanks again David!

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:10:07 +0000

You could use the feed URL anywhere you can run an RSS…doesn’t even have to be Facebook. The plugin just creates a version of your feed that shows only excerpts.

By: Zath

Zath — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:53:10 +0000

Thanks for highlighting this plugin, I’ve been wanting a way of integrating my blog posts into my Facebook fan page without having the whole thing displayed and missing out on people visiting my site.

Does these excerpts and links appear as actual fan page updates or are they only posted onto a notes-style page which your fans wouldn’t receive an update about in their news feed?

Thanks!