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Automated Social Sharing - Tips, Plugins and Services
The social web offers bloggers good opportunities to attract more attention and get more traffic with social sharing.

However, it takes time to log in to Facebook, Twitter and Co. manually and share new articles.

What possibilities there is to automate the social sharing and whether that is recommended, I describe below. I also go into my own experiences and give plugin tips

Automated social sharing
As a blogger one should use the possibility to create own profiles on Facebook, Twitter and co. And to promote their own articles there. If you have built up a certain number of fans or followers, not only ensures direct traffic, but the fans often share their own articles, so you also their fans and followers reached and builds up a greater range.

The result is additional users who visit their own blog and you always get a few new backlinks.

But the problem is that it takes time to go to each social networking site after each article, and to manually share the article there. It is certainly feasible, but additional effort is still.

One way to avoid this in social sharing is to automatically post content in your own social media profiles.
advantages
The most important advantage of an automated publication of blog articles in various social networks is certainly the time savings. Anyone who visits 3, 4 or more social networks after each article spends some time with it. Anyone who publishes several articles every day will feel this even stronger. Here an automated publication saves a lot of time.

The automatic publication is also possible with older articles, which ensures that the own article archive gets more attention and also that can have a very positive effect on the number of visitors.

disadvantage
However, there are also disadvantages in automating social sharing. Thus it is not possible with an automation to individually address the aspects of individual networks. It is e.g. always the same headline or the same description used.

Likewise, this does not make it the most important thing to do in social networks: communicating with fans and followers.

If you overdo it and publish your own articles too often, it can annoy one or the other follower.

Plugins and services
To automate the social sharing of new and older articles you have 2 options.

On the one hand one can use plugins, which are e.g. mostly available for free for WordPress. The Revive Old Post plugin enables new and older articles to be published on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. There are many setting options, such as the time between the publications.
By contrast, the WP to Twitter plug-in only looks at current articles and posts them automatically on Twitter. The plugin Microblog Poster, which publishes new blog articles on various social networks, including microblogging services such as Tumblr, also works automatically.

I have already introduced interesting plugins for older articles here on Blogprojekt.de.

An alternative to such plugins are special online services that perform automatic publishing. A well-known option is ifttt.com, where you can link various services together, including your own blog and e. G. Twitter.

Or dlvrit.com, where you simply enter an RSS feed and then new articles are published on Twitter, Facebook and Co.

You should try one or the other plugin or one of the featured services to find out what works best for your own purposes.
My experiences with social sharing
I already tried out the plugins as well as the services myself and gained different experiences.

So I find it interesting to automatically share older articles, but this only makes sense on websites and blogs where content does not become obsolete. In some blogs, some of the articles will eventually be out of date and I would then no longer promote them on my social network profiles.

Current articles, on the other hand, work pretty well in automatic publishing, and it's often okay to automatically include the title. Mostly I use this anyway and do not write something new for publishing in social networks.

Nevertheless, I would use the automation only for side projects and not necessarily the main blog. Otherwise the disadvantage of the lack of communication with the fans and followers becomes too noticeable.

How do you do this? Do you automate your social network releases or do you do it all manually?









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Automated Social Sharing - Tips, Plugins and Services




Automated Social Sharing - Tips, Plugins and Services
The social web offers bloggers good opportunities to attract more attention and get more traffic with social sharing.

However, it takes time to log in to Facebook, Twitter and Co. manually and share new articles.

What possibilities there is to automate the social sharing and whether that is recommended, I describe below. I also go into my own experiences and give plugin tips

Automated social sharing
As a blogger one should use the possibility to create own profiles on Facebook, Twitter and co. And to promote their own articles there. If you have built up a certain number of fans or followers, not only ensures direct traffic, but the fans often share their own articles, so you also their fans and followers reached and builds up a greater range.

The result is additional users who visit their own blog and you always get a few new backlinks.

But the problem is that it takes time to go to each social networking site after each article, and to manually share the article there. It is certainly feasible, but additional effort is still.

One way to avoid this in social sharing is to automatically post content in your own social media profiles.
advantages
The most important advantage of an automated publication of blog articles in various social networks is certainly the time savings. Anyone who visits 3, 4 or more social networks after each article spends some time with it. Anyone who publishes several articles every day will feel this even stronger. Here an automated publication saves a lot of time.

The automatic publication is also possible with older articles, which ensures that the own article archive gets more attention and also that can have a very positive effect on the number of visitors.

disadvantage
However, there are also disadvantages in automating social sharing. Thus it is not possible with an automation to individually address the aspects of individual networks. It is e.g. always the same headline or the same description used.

Likewise, this does not make it the most important thing to do in social networks: communicating with fans and followers.

If you overdo it and publish your own articles too often, it can annoy one or the other follower.

Plugins and services
To automate the social sharing of new and older articles you have 2 options.

On the one hand one can use plugins, which are e.g. mostly available for free for WordPress. The Revive Old Post plugin enables new and older articles to be published on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. There are many setting options, such as the time between the publications.
By contrast, the WP to Twitter plug-in only looks at current articles and posts them automatically on Twitter. The plugin Microblog Poster, which publishes new blog articles on various social networks, including microblogging services such as Tumblr, also works automatically.

I have already introduced interesting plugins for older articles here on Blogprojekt.de.

An alternative to such plugins are special online services that perform automatic publishing. A well-known option is ifttt.com, where you can link various services together, including your own blog and e. G. Twitter.

Or dlvrit.com, where you simply enter an RSS feed and then new articles are published on Twitter, Facebook and Co.

You should try one or the other plugin or one of the featured services to find out what works best for your own purposes.
My experiences with social sharing
I already tried out the plugins as well as the services myself and gained different experiences.

So I find it interesting to automatically share older articles, but this only makes sense on websites and blogs where content does not become obsolete. In some blogs, some of the articles will eventually be out of date and I would then no longer promote them on my social network profiles.

Current articles, on the other hand, work pretty well in automatic publishing, and it's often okay to automatically include the title. Mostly I use this anyway and do not write something new for publishing in social networks.

Nevertheless, I would use the automation only for side projects and not necessarily the main blog. Otherwise the disadvantage of the lack of communication with the fans and followers becomes too noticeable.

How do you do this? Do you automate your social network releases or do you do it all manually?









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