RSS Graffiti – Automatic Updates of your Facebook Wall with your Blog Posts

The popularity of Facebook has skyrocketed over the past few years, making it a valuable tool both for friends and families who want to stay in touch and businesses who want to market their products on social media sites. One great way to do either of these things is to set up an RSS feed on Facebook.

Using these steps, you can have your personal blog post automatically to your Facebook news feed, so your friends and family can keep up with what you are doing. You can even post your Twitter updates to your Facebook wall, and even make your Twitter status become your Facebook status.

For businesses, posting the company blog on Facebook can be a great way to keep customers informed. You can even post an RSS feed to a Facebook fan page. Setting up an RSS feed on Facebook can also do wonders for writers who want to promote their writing on the web.

To publish your blog posts to your Facebook profile or fan page automatically you need to add an application to your Facebok account first. There are many RSS applications to auto publish your blog’s content. These apps adds your RSS feeds, monitors for any update and publish it automatically to your Facebook profile and/or fan page so you don’t have to share your blog posts manually to your Facebook friends, every time you update your blog.

RSS Graffiti is one of the apps for this purpose I personally use and recommend to fellow bloggers.  

This RSS feed application is simple enough to set up in a few minutes, yet offers enough customization that you can really make your RSS feed appear the way you want it to look.

Some things RSS Graffiti can do:

1) Display your articles with or without the associated images.

2) Append a prefix to your article posts.

3) Display Twitter tweets in a short format.

4) Convert Twitter status updates to Facebook status updates.

How to install?

1. Sign in to Facebook.com

2. Open RSS Graffiti App

3. Choose your profile and/or fan page from left column and click green

“+Add Feed” button on the right.

4. Put in your blog’s feed URL and make other changes below that.

Click Preview to confirm the link and to view how it will look like as an update status.

5. Hit “Save” and that’s it.

Developers’ website: http://www.rssgraffiti.com/

Increase Blog Traffic and Web Presence with BlogUpp!

You are not satisfied with the rate of your blog exposure to blogosphere and WWW? You want to attract more readers? You have space on your blog sidebar for extra widget? Try BlogUpp!

How BlogUpp! Can Help You?

Enter your blog URL in the form on the BlogUpp! Website and get your promotional widget. It is easy like that. No need to register and sign up, no need to pay or fill any mandatory offers. Note that all submitted blogs are analyzed individually and approved manually in a timely manner. There are not accepted adult, gambling, and illegal or inappropriate content websites. As indicator of the approval status is the color of widget bar with BlogUpp! logo. Hence Grey stands for pending, Blue - for approved, and Red - for denied. Is the strict approval procedure good or bad? Depends… If you have an adult or spam site, this solution is not for you. But if your blog has legitimate content, you need to trust your partners, and be sure your page will be exposed to something inappropriate.

So, how that works:

• BlogUpp! snapshots each blog and reads its RSS on a regular basis;
• For every 10 blogs shared in your widget, yours is shared in 9 others;
• The widget shows interactively the blog image and its latest post;
• The blog clicked in the widget opens a new window, not closing yours;
• Approved blogs get also listed in blog directory for more blog promotion;
• And all this is completely free and with no effort whatsoever.

 When you get any freebies you want to understand why that is free, and where is the catch. With BlogUpp! it is clear and transparent, since every 1 of 10 feeds on your widget will be substituted with ads.

What makes BlogUpp! different?

• FREE. No Sign up
• Dynamic blog targeting
• Handpicked quality blogs
• Cheat-proof and fair sharing
• Blogspot, Wordpress and alike friendly
• Welcome bonus for every approved blog
• Best de facto exchange ratio (10:9).

 Developers’ website: http://www.blogupp.com/

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Update 12-25-12:

Starting from May 2010, the BlogUpp service also offers automatic Facebook & Twitter Cross-Posting. So, now BlogUpp will regularly update your Facebook wall and/or Twitter feed with latest blog post. This can greatly improve your blog promotion, now that your friends are mass syndicators of your blog across social web.

Why You Should Try Wowzio Widgets on Your Blog

With Wowzio you can take any feed, and with that feed you can generate attractive widget for your site or blog. You can even have up to 15 feeds streaming the data on the same one widget. Wowzio looks at the feed and pulls out the blog posts as well as the photos or images with each post.

Any blog that is javascript-enabled, can install Wowzio's widgets by simply pasting the javascript code into template. Note that if your blog is hosted by Wordpress.com, Wowzio widgets will not work, because wordpress.com strips off javascript from the embedded html.

After you input the feed (RSS URL), you can start with a version of the widget which can be customized as per your needs. The theme, color, size and interactions can be configured, using Wowzio's WYSIWYG designer.

Wowzio provides a wide spec of the widget customization options in the following categories:

Live Activity Widget

The Wowzio Live Activity Widget provides you and your users with a "live" feed of the visits to your blog or site. Every time a page that the widget is on loads, the widget detects the user's location and the page they are coming from. This information is fed in real-time to every other widget open at that time, to give your visitors a rare insight into the vitality of your blog or site! You can see the latest activity on your blog and so can everyone else. They can see where people are coming from and what they are reading on your blog.

TagCloud Widget

This is a cloud of all your popular tags, extracted from your blog as well as from Technorati. It helps revitalize the rich content that is deeply embedded in blog posts. When a user clicks on a tag, the widget displays the matching blog posts inside the tagcloud widget frame, thus keeping the user on the same page.  If your blog post does not contain native tags, nor Technorati tags, Wowzio extracts tags using Yahoo's Term Extraction API, one of the APIs provided by Web Services by Yahoo! For each tag, the widget factors in its recency, frequency, and placement, and than assigns it a rating score accordingly. Finally, the tags are ordered by their score, and the top tags are picked first to display in the tagcloud widget.

Photo Gallery Widget

This widget provides an elegant and simple way for users of your blog to discover the awesome content created by you. Every photo provides backlink to the related blog post. This results in increased engagement of users on your blog, causing an increase in page views. This is great if you want to put together Flickr feeds of your favorite photographers. You can select a specific display option for the gallery and with auto sizing it should fit nicely to any blog template. The widget automatically displays the most recent 50 photos from your feed(s).

Panoramic Slideshow Widget

This widgets extends the capabilities of the Photo Gallery to the Slideshow, using the similar guidelines for the pictures, extracted from the RSS feeds. In this widget, the images just are smaller and you have additional previous and next buttons to flip through images.

Feed Content Widget

The content widget is a syndication and content distribution mechanism. You can aggregate feeds from multiple sources (up to 15) into one widget. You can use it for cross-promotion of content, or syndication via 3-rd party channels. This will display the content from your feeds including blurbs about each posts and images.

If you do not have a Widget yet, but you would like to get it, you need to send email to the authors at invite@wowzio.com, with a pointer to your blog. The members of the staff are giving away just 25 invites every 24 hours by email. So, you might need some patience, waiting “in line”.

If you already have a Wowzio widget on your blog, you can make changes to your widget by simply clicking on the "Grab This" link at the bottom of the Wowzio widget. That will take you to the Wowzio Widget Designer. After you make your changes, you will need to re-install the new html snippet/code.

Get more information and order invite at http://www.wowzio.com/.

The best review on the topic 10 Reasons Why You Should Try Wowzio Widgets On Your Blog/Site will give you more insights and considerations, while you are deciding if you need these widgets on your blog. 

Free Automatic RSS Submit Utility

Allscoop RSS Submit Pro instantly and automatically submits your RSS feeds and blogs to all of the major RSS feed directories on the Internet.

RSS feeds are the fastest growing way to promote your site. Submit your blog or other RSS feed to directories will help to drive traffic to your site and blog. RSS Submit Pro can site submit your site to all the major RSS directories in just a few minutes. This freeware RSS software works on all Windows platforms and is a snap to install.

At the initial step, you record the required information to the offered form for every feed, and next you submit to all included site in a single click. Feed resubmission will leave you to make several clicks to initiate automatic submission process.

Website: http://www.allscoop.com/tools/rss-submit/

Download: http://www.ziddu.com/download/4957498/Allscoop-RSS-Submit-Pro.zip.html

Mobilizing your Blog with Feed-Mate

FeedM8 (feed-mate) is a whole new way to enjoy mobile web browsing. You can now get your favorite blogs or feed-enabled websites on your mobile device in the good manner. This means you get all the popular sites, top news, social networks, sports, celebrity and weather updates all on your mobile phone anytime and anywhere. The content is designed for your mobile phone and it is optimized for mobile access, so it is fast and uses smart data transfer technique and little device resources.

There are a few ways to get started with FeedM8 as a feed reader.
1) Go to m.feedm8.com on your phone’s browser. Shortcuts are accepted for fast search. Simply choose from the top picks under "CHK IT OUT" or type what you’re looking for in "WRU L%KN 4?" (i.e. What are you looking for?)
2) Go to www.feedm8.com on your desktop PC. Choose one of the featured websites or enter your own. Type in your phone number when prompted and you will receive a FeedM8 link by SMS.
3) Add the button “My Mobile” (presented on the developer’s web site) to your bookmarks as follows, depending on your browser type:

- Internet Explorer: Right-click the button, and choose "Add to favorites."
- Firefox: Drag the button above into your Bookmarks Toolbar
- Opera: Right-click the button above, choose "Bookmark Link"

To send a website you’re browsing to you mobile, click the "Send to My Mobile" shortcut you’ve just added.

Currently the following operators are supported in US and Canada:
US - AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Nextel, Alltel, Metro PCS, Helio
Canada - Rogers, Bell, Fido, Telus, Virgin Mobile, Sasktel, MTS

Developers Web site: http://www.feedm8.com/web/faq_reader

The following detailed video tutorial will instruct you on how to prepare your and configure your blog to use the FeedM8 features, allowing readers to access it with ease on their iPhone, PDA or cell phones.

Mobilizing your Blog