I recently wrote a post on Facebook fanpage customization where I demonstrated how to add a Twitter tab to a Facebook fanpage. The post also has a demonstration video, so don’t forget to check it out.
Now its time for another Facebook fanpage tutorial. This is about adding an RSS feed tab to your Facebook fanpage.
Integrating your blog’s RSS feeds to your Facebook fanpage is a nice addition and helps your fanpage visitors to know more about your blog.
Here are a couple of screenshots that show the tab in action.
Don’t worry that if you dump your entire blog (as RSS) in your Facebook fanpage then visitors won’t come to your blog.
In fact after installing the tab on my Facebook fanpage, I found that the traffic from Facebook got a significant boost.
This is because, once your Facebook fanpage visitors are inside the RSS tab, they’ll not only see your posts (in full or partial, depending upon your feed set up), but will also see the link to your blog, the original blog post and link to your blog again at the end of the feed item as “source” (as shown in the figure above).
So if your content is catchy and worthy people will surely click through your links!
In my opinion this tab gives your Facebook fanpage visitors a pinch of the feeling about your blog. Its totally worth it.
I’ve made a video on how to add this tab on your Facebook fanpage. Let me know how it goes.
Link to the Facebook fanpage app
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=23798139265
RSS tab on Facebook Fanpage
I personally find that this tab is a cool addition to any Facebook fanpage, since within days of using it, I’m really seeing some good results from Facebook. Plus it gives me a feel that it makes my fanpage sort of complete.
If you liked this post/video, please share it so that others can make use of it too! Please share your thoughts in the comments.
Hi Jane, I tried to watch the video but there’s something wrong with my speakers I could barely here you… I will book mark this however on blog engage or should I say “Save” and I will 100% watch the video when I’m in a better environment. I’m so excited I’m going to add the blog engage feed to this Facebook page this is exciting for me. Thanks so much for sharing.
Brian, did you manage to view the video at last?
Hi Jane,
Great tutorial.In all your posting you explained each point very beautiful and it makes easy to everyone to understand what you want to share.Thanks for sharing your information on how to add an RSS tab
Hi Pete, I’m so glad I could make it useful to you
rohit kothari says
hi jane thanx for this post i was searching this thing only and landed on your page must say effective writing
It’s a very useful tutorial. Now, I’ve learned a new way to optimize my page. Thanks!
You’re welcome Alexis!
This is awesome Jane.. What I did with the fanpage I made is enable a third party app from Evolver to fetch our blog’s feed. I will definitely try this one
Sure, let me know how it goes Herbert!
Hi:
I’m new to RSS and it’s only mandatory , if i regularly update my blog/site. so,some site owners who often not update their blogs/sites ,then rss is not mandatory.I left RSS since long time,How can i know advantge of RSS.Ms.Jane has provided some useful information to adding live to facebook fan page with RSS.
Any one provide me the best advantage of RSS in Blog/site.
Thanks for sharing your views with me.
Hi (Your real name please?) hope you make use of this technique. Let me know how it goes!
Thanks for this tips, this is what I really want.
You’re very welcome Rajesh. Facebook is a powerful platform, the more and effective use we make of it, the more we can reap!
Hey Jane,
I have been using RSS Graffiti which automatically fetches my post link from my blog’s RSS each time I publish a new post and automatically publishes it in my Facebook Page. Recently I have been finding that automatic sharing of the posts certainly does not bring much attention from the Page fan’s and I am thinking of dropping RSS Graffiti and Manually sharing. I think this application you shared can be a good idea to add a seperate tab for showing the RSS feed of the blog for fans who want to check
Regards,
Shiva
Nice! I think with the PANDA updates focusing on subscribers and RSS feeds is definitely the way to go. Thanks for the tutorial.
I am on the way to learn more about face book. This is very important tutorial for me to learn more.
Glad that I could help you learn more about Facebook. Shoot me any questions if you need help!
Hi,
So far i didn,t make much use of facebook for my blog promotion. Now i am trying to optimize it for effective results. I will use your tips to make best use of facebook.
Pratap, Facebook is an amazing platform for blog promotion. It is my #2 source of traffic. It has much lesser noise and your chance of getting noticed is higher than Twitter. So I insist you make good use of it!
Involver has a fairly nice looking rss feed app you can add to facebook. The appearance is very clean and easy to navigate and understand. It is similar to your previous post about adding the twitter one. If I remember right you have to grant Involver some kind of permission to your facebook page or account or something. I would imagine there are probably quite a few different rss things you can choose from to add to facebook out there.
Cool tool, I’ll try it out.. actually i was thinking to add my blog RSS feed to my fan page.. Now is the best time to do it
Thanks a lot for sharing this tool with us.
I recently read about the twitter tab on Facebook and it’s working well, getting more daily followers than I usually do. One day I did a small traffic research on my blog and I couldn’t ever had expected that 10% of my traffic comes from RSSes. I never thought that RSS is that important and much used. I will definitely try this RSS tab out.
Big fan of you Jane. Another comprehensive tutorial in here. The message was well presented like crystal clear.
This is really awesome i am going to try in on my Facebook fan page.
Isn’t to start a business facebook well.It is usually advisable to build your individual business strategy.
mahesh says
i was wondering how to get more traffic to my fanpage.this post make it clear indication to get traffic to my fanpage
Rather glad i stumbled upon your blog. Definitely a lot of useful information within your pages, and I’m finding quite a few answers to questions on various topics i had about social media and questions i didnt even think of asking. Many thanks
Hi J Sheeba
My friends told 10% of my traffic comes from RSS. It has proved by this Article. We can share various topics and update them by this RSS feeds.
A good tutorial piece for all of us, who would like to become a bit more famous on Facebook. I am sure that many of us have wondered how to set up a Facebook ad, and there have been way too many confusing tutorials, which are not helpful at all. It’s nice to see that someone has paid the time and effort to do everything in detail. That way, even we pure amateurs will be able to take the process into our own hands, and create our very own Facebook ad. Keep up the good work!
Hey Jane thanks for the post.Looks pretty interesting.Facebook fan page is an effective means of marketing and things like customizing by adding on tabs will add meaning to it.
Lionel says
I am so happy to read this. This is the kind of manual that needs to be given and not the random misinformation that is at the other blogs.