Utilizing the New Design to Promote Your Blog

December 1st, 2008 | by jessestay |

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We’ve discussed before on how you can promote your blog using Facebook Notes. In the new design, you may have noticed that your blog posts have either stopped showing at all, or are only showing titles.

With the new design you can actually modify how Facebook displays your imported blog posts. Through Facebook Notes settings you can choose to either just display the title of your posts, display a summary, or display the entire post as a whole.

Here’s how you set up how your blog gets displayed in Facebook:

  1. On the right-hand side of Facebook after you log in, click on “edit” in the upper-right of the Applications box on the right side of the page.
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  2. On the following page, scroll down to Notes, and click “Edit Settings”.
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  3. A popup will appear allowing you to configure how your Notes display on your profile. On mine, under “Allow Notes to publish specific story sizes automatically without prompting, I made sure that was selected, and selected the “Full” option. “Full” means the entire story will be published. “Short” means a summary of the story will be published. “One-line” means only the title will be published.
  4. Hit “Okay” and you’re done!
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I’ve found that the more you import into Facebook the stronger likelihood you’ll get interaction around your blog posts in Facebook. My experience has shown that users generally don’t like to click outside of Facebook if they don’t have to. Visit my profile at http://jessestay.socialtoo.com and you can follow my blog posts there!

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  1. 6 Responses to “Utilizing the New Design to Promote Your Blog”

  2. By Dana King on Dec 2, 2008 | Reply

    Good tip.

    I went to my profile after I completed this and noticed that my post from yesterday was still just the single line. I clicked edit (from within my profile page) and was able to expand existing posts as well.

  3. By mjh on Dec 17, 2008 | Reply

    Thanks. One question though, I’ve noticed that when I put anything in my notes (whether imported or created directly on FB), they *never* show up in my friends’ newsfeed. But when my friends publish notes, I see their notes in my newsfeed. (I know this because I’ve been testing and watching what shows up on my wife’s FB newsfeed.)

    It appears that the only way that my friends ever see my notes, is if they go to look at my wall. Is there something that I’m doing wrong? I can’t find any setting on my page that indicates how to make my notes postings more exposed. I’m really hoping for comments from my friends. But they don’t even see that I’m posting things.

  4. By Jesse Stay on Jan 25, 2009 | Reply

    mjh, Facebook decides which friends see those notes. The chances are, if your wife goes and views your notes on your wall often (and clicks on the actual note), she’ll start seeing them in her feed. There’s no guarantee though, and Facebook hasn’t published how they decide what appears on your feed. I’ve found the more they interact with items you want to see, the more they’ll see them in their feed, though.

  5. By rks on Mar 27, 2009 | Reply

    Thanks Jesse, awesome work. The blog within notes does not reference the original blog name. Is this normal or is there a way to display the blog name or url withing the note. Clicking on the link at the bottom will take me to the blog but that is outside of FB.

  6. By Natalie on Apr 6, 2009 | Reply

    when i do this the only options i get are “one-line” and “short” - what’s going on with that>?

  7. By Jesse Stay on Apr 7, 2009 | Reply

    Natalie, unfortunately with the new design Facebook killed the full story option. You will want to be sure it’s short though.

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