Guest Post - Our host is Laura Burkey, every blogger uses Facebook to drive traffic to their blog but are you using the right techniques ?.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog. Blogs and social media sites go hand in hand. They reference one another and drive visits to one another, as well. There are many aspects of Facebook that can help boost clicks on your blog, but you have to be wise about the tactics.
Posting too often on Facebook turns off your friends and page fans. If they “hide” your posts (or worse yet unfriend / unlike your page), you’ve lost a connection and a few extra clicks all because of your overzealous posting.
Managing your Facebook page ethically is vital for your online reputation. Without monitoring what people are saying about you or your work publicly could damage your success severely. Also, it could cost you readers.In addition to keeping an eye on your reputation, there are ways to increase traffic to your personal or company blog by utilizing your Facebook page.
In this Video Post we look at a feature of Facebook some of you may not know, I didn't know myself until recently.Most of you will have a Facebook Fan Page or 
The other day i posted 3 very cool sets of icons you could use to let people subscribe to your Rss Feed, Twitter and Facebook Page.In that post i gave you the code for the icons ready to use, you just had to add your URLs then copy and paste.Two of the icon sets were very similar both having a Polaroid Picture Design.One was fresh and bright while the other had a vintage worn look.This lead me to thinking wouldn't it be cool to have the worn vintage Polaroid icons in your sidebar and when someone hovers over them they switch to the bright clean icon.This is called a rollover effect. I'm sure you have seen image rollover effects before and this is a great way to use it.
Today as i was replying to the Emails from my contact form i got a bit of a surprise.One Email asked "I like to add Facebook share and tweet buttons to my blog post same like your blog (share and tweet buttons at the beginning of the post text). thanks:)".So i went to my list of posts page for Spice Up Your Blog to get the link to the tutorial for this to send back.Then i realised i have never actually covered it in a post.
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In previous tutorials we have seen how you can automatically share your latest blog posts on you Facebook profile and Pages.One of the options we looked at was Twitter Feed which has since added a 'Paid Pro' option making the free option poor at best.Twitter Feed and other options we previously looked at were outside websites that you granted permissions to update your wall.In this post we will see how you can use Feed Graffiti to automatically grab your latest posts and share them on Both your Facebook profile and Fan Pages.Feed Graffiti is an application on Facebook making it much easier to use and more reliable and in my opinion the best auto update app available.Rss Graffiti give you the option to share three types of update to your profile and pages walls.Standard - Publishes a text excerpt and any available media (image, audio or video).Compact - Intended to publish short stories from microblogs like Twitter without changing your Facebook status.Status Updates - Similar to "Compact" style, but instead of just writing on your wall it will also update your Facebook status.
One of the things all bloggers strive to achieve is building a following.Be it getting readers to subscribe to your RSS Feed, Email Feed, Follow on Twitter or become a Facebook fan.Here on Spice Up your Blog we have published lots of posts with tips and tricks to make it as easy as possible for people to connect with your blog and get the updates.In this post i have a smart gadget that will display icons for your Rss, Email Rss Twitter and Facebook on the side of your blog.The icons have a 'Follow' message above them and are Fixed so when the visitors scroll the gadgets moves down the page also.
