Blog to Facebook Syndication Sucks!

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Keeping it brief; RSS feed to Facebook syndication can suck! And the new spiderhousepr website is a perfect example of what can happen when you forget to turn it off!

We haven’t been blogging or being very social recently…we’ve had a lot of work on along with updating our own website to be more inline with our current services. So there hasn’t been much Facebook action.

Our blog is sync’d to our Facebook Page to save time – it always has been and all is good when we’re blogging in a normal manner….but when we add lots of new posts and hit Facebook with lots of irrelevant posts one after each other it’s not so good!

So firstly apologies to those of you who faced the barrage of posts just before the weekend and secondly….please use this as an opportunity to learn!

Much as syndication can be a god-send for busy folk, it can also pollute your social networks and cause a drop off in interaction. You have been warned!

Our Facebook Page Blog Syndication Advice

1. limit syndicated blog posts per week to two – unless they are extremely useful / helpful!
2. ensure you post something non-self at least once per week – something you feel your readers would be interested in. 100% non-promo!
3. respond to all comments! Try to leave them open-ended (use questions!).
4. research has shown that posting every-other-day is the most efficient way of gaining “likes” and viral spread. Going over 1 post per day will yield less ROI
5. for gaining “likes” and “shares” 8am and 6pm are the best times to post….with 3pm being the worst
6. contrary to popular belief…Saturday is the day of the week that most items are shared (by a long shot!). If you only post mid-week aim to get in on Tuesday or Wednesday

Of course, this is general data (thankyou Dan Zarella) and will vary from business to business…

6 Useful (or not!) Facebook RSS Blog Syndication Apps

Here are a 6 Facebook applications to link your RSS feed to Facebook…

1. RSS Graffiti
2. Social RSS
3. Notes (the built in “notes” feature)
4. Simply RSS
5. Simple RSS Tab
6. RSS for Pages (Involver)

With such a low number of weekly posts recommended on Facebook pages is there really a need for feed syndication at all?

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