Integrating social media – Make your blog add links automagically

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at 6:47 am

One of the easiest ways to generate backlinks to your blog is through the use of various social media. The best part is that most of these will allow you to make it happen automagically.

Yes I know that automagically isn’t a word but it does create an accurate description of what happens using social media.

For example you can automate and show your updates on Twitter, Facebook and Friend Feed quite easily.

I like things that happen automagically when I do what I normally do.

Create a blog post and have it show up on your Twitter page right after you add it. Add your blog feed into your Facebook account and it shows there too. Friend Feed works the same. There are others but those are the big 3 that I like to use.

The leverage in setting these things up once is the key. I know I would not necessarily log in to each of these services and add the information manually. I should as it would create extra links and be another way for people to find my content but lets face it, with out setting it up to be automagically done it would not happen most of the time.

There are quite a few ways you can do this.

To integrate Twitter there are a variety of plugins that will automate this. I use Tweet My Blog but there are quite a few others that you can use just do a search for Twitter plugins.

On Facebook you can add your RSS feed to import to your notes.

On Friend Feed you can add numerous feeds into your profile to draw in the content.

So there are 3 ways to integrate social media with your blog to generate more back links automagically. (Yes I know I have a thing about that word )

About the author

Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy.

After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably.

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