Extending your blog to Facebook

It’s really easy to have Facebook post your blog’s news feed to your Facebook Notes. Here’s how, with pictures! This is a great way to let people who are just on Facebook and not active blog readers know about your blog and what’s going on with you.

First, you need to find your blog’s feed URL – it’s probably a link labeled something like “RSS” or “Atom” or “Feed” in the sidebar or at the bottom of each blog page. You’ll want the one that has just your posts – some blogging entries will have multiple feeds – for example, one that is just comments other people have made. Copy this URL – you’ll need it later.

Next, log into Facebook, and in the left hand navigation click on where it says “Notes” – you may have to click the “more” link to get it to show up:

Once your notes have loaded, in the right column where it says “Notes Settings”, click “Import a Blog >>”:

In the next screen, paste the feed URL into where it says “Web URL:”, click the checkbox (after reading the copyright warning of course) and then press “Start Importing”:

In a little bit, all the blog posts in your RSS feed should show up as Facebook Notes, with a link back to your blog. When you make a new post, it will be automatically added as soon as Facebook scrapes your RSS feed.