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Monday, October 24, 2011

How to connect my blog to Facebook and Twitter?

I had a rather difficult time trying to figure out how exactly to link my fresh new blog ( its already a day old!) yesterday. Needless to say my excitement to announce to the world that I'm now a father of my new site, (fine,blogger) died down a bit when what I thought should be a simple point-and-click process didn't quite turn out to be what I expected.

Anyway,here's the thing. If you want to link your blog to your Facebook or Twitter or any other social media site, you will need your blog's RSS Feed URL. I think I'll just assume that's the first time you've heard the term as I was when I stumbled upon it after searching around the web and skip the technical mumbo jumbo.

DISCLAIMER: I am NOT a marketer/representative/advocate for either TwitterFeed or NetworkedBlogs. This is merely the easiest tutorial I can make to help people link their blogs to social media sites. I am in no way profiting from this post.

So here's what I did to successfully link my blog to my Facebook and Twitter account.

1)You can get yourself started by creating an account ( it's free) with TwitterFeed .
I found many websites as well as applications on Facebook itself such as NetworkedBlogs which are useful in their own way but I would have to say TwitterFeed was the most beginner friendly. The best thing about it is that you are able to automatically link your favorite site to your blog. They support more than just Facebook or Twitter.


2) After that fill in your email address and preferred password.


3)This next step asks you for your blog's RSS Feed Url like I mentioned above however, TwitterFeed allows you to just enter your blog's full URL into the box and it will set up everything for you! You must enter a Feedname. I just entered the title of my blog, GitaOtaku.  After all the blanks have been filled, just click on 'test feed" and you should get the "Feed Parsed" message at the bottom along with a green tick for your efforts.



4)Finally we get to the point for you to decide which of the social sites listed below that you want your blog to be linked to. Just pick each of the one that your interested it and click on "Authenticate Account".



5)Voila, Your're done! Next give yourself a pat on the back and start firing up your social networks with the latest happenings in your life. 

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