It’s probably safe to say that Facebook gets more traffic than your blog. Of course, it’s not your blog’s fault. Even the best content, sweetest design and most vibrant blog community can’t compete with the over 500 million users that log onto Facebook across the globe.
But it’s not a competition; you can use Facebook’s massive popularity to help increase your own blog’s readership with the latest verion of Sharepress.
Sharepress is a great efficiency tool for individuals and companies that want to take advantage of Facebook’s audience for marketing and promotion but don’t want to spend extra time posting and reposting the same content across multiple websites.
You need to be focused on cranking out more quality content for your blog, not endlessly signing in an out of Facebook, parrying its many conversational, entertainment and snoop-worthy time snatchers.
What does SharePress do?
SharePress does only one thing: It posts your content on your Facebook Wall without you having to log in and copy and paste. In their own words:
Sharepress is a WordPress plugin that publishes your content to your Facebook audience, then efficiently monitors likes and comments, helping you measure your success and identify the most passionate voices in your tribe.
When installing the plugin, you’ll have to set up a Facebook app for your site, but it will guide you through the process. After that is set up, you’ll be able to automatically send content from WordPress to Facebook as it posts.
Once you’ve set it, you can truly forget it. Sharepress will continually update your Facebook wall with each new post you commit to your website.
You can also register to stay up to date on the upcoming Sharepress Pro that boasts even more features, including the ability to share posts on any Facebook page, share simultaneously on multiple pages, edit content on a post-by-post basis and easily track your comments and likes.
Take a few minutes now and save yourself tons of time in the long run. Give Sharepress a try and up your efficieny today!
http://twitterfeed.com/ does a pretty good job of this too.
Hey, Sarah! Thanks for the great write-up. I’m cranking on the Pro version – it will be available very soon. @IsraelWebDev: Twitter Feed is a great service, no doubt, but I think you’ll really love the way Sharepress Pro gives you more control over your message, and more insight into your audience’s behavior. Contact me if you’d like to be a beta tester.
Hey Aaron,
I bought the pro version. The security code failed to work. I have since lost it. Is there a way of getting it back and preferably one that works?
Let me know, I tried contacting your support page but got no reply.
Mark
Will sharepress post scheduled wordpress blog posts to FB as well?
This is great info. Thank you very much.. I was looking for exactly this.
i am fan of wordpress!
George.
Do Sharepress settings allow WordPress blogs to publish to a Facebook page (as a subsidiary business page)? Or will it post only to one’s personal page? Thanks.
@Charles – SharePress Pro ($24) allows you to post to Pages as well as your personal Wall. Without paying for a license, you can post to your personal Wall, but you cannot post to Pages. I hope that helps!
@Aaron – does Sharepress also have an option NOT to include a blog post/category/page on Facebook? I am currently using 1Click from LinksAlpha, and that plugin doesn’t have this kind of granularity and thus control.
Cheers,
Helmar
it work for me. thanks for sharing this information..
I love the concept of SharpPress, however, it breaks the form builder built in to my themes… I would use this all the time if they sorted this out.