Publicize Your Blog Feed with Feedburner Socialize
Posted by: dragonblogger // Category: Twitter, bloggingThanks to Google Feedburner now you do not need to add a wordpress plug-in to post your article to twitter whenever you publish a new post.   You can set this up under your Google Feedburner account, click on your feed and click on “Publicize Tab”, then you will see the new “Socialize” button on the left.
From here you can configure your twitter accounts to publish your feeds by adding the twitter accounts one at a time but you have to log out of twitter after adding each account before adding the next one. You have a variety of options including making sure that room is left for retweets, adding hashtags to allow articles the potential to trend or join trends, and adding some custom statement before each tweet. Please note that 1 feed can only publish to 1 twitter account, so even though you can add multiple twitter accounts, you can only set 1 feed to publish to each twitter account.
Since you can select the drop down of the twitter accounts you have added, you should have had the ability to “filter” your feed and define keywords and match them to category or your blog title, and only those specific articles that match the category or title will be fed to that twitter account. This means if you run a magazine style blog and you have multiple twitter accounts, one for technology, one for entertainment and one for food, you can filter your feed stream so that only your technology category articles post to your technology twitter account, food ones to your food twitter account and so on. To accomplish though you have to copy your feed and have multiple feeds setup on feedburner for your blog, so you can devote 1 feed to technology, 1 for entertainment..etc.
I predict Google Feedburner Socialize will negate many people using twitter feed plug-ins and the flexibility opens up a whole new world of publicizing your articles on twitter under a variety of accounts.
One thing to note, URL’s are shrunk using Google’s new “Goo.gl” URL Shortening service, which should be interesting to see how well it works and tracks metrics and analytics. At this time I don’t know if Goo.gl URL shortening passes the full 301 redirect so that your site reflects the traffic, or it is limited to 302 redirects and your analytics won’t see the visit. It would make sense for Google the owner of GA to have GA track the clicks and visits from its own URL shortening service.
Here is a full video demonstration I created to show you how to setup Google Feedburner Socialize for your blog feed:
Please leave me a comment and let me know if you think Google Feedburner can be beneficial to your blogs and if you will be replacing your wordpress plug-in to use Feedburner post to wordpress instead.
-Dragon Blogger
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December 15th, 2009 at 7:17 am
Very cool! This is new service. Plus, I didn’t know Google now also has link shorteners or whatever those are called. haha.
Thanks Justin!
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December 15th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Justin! Thank you! I’ve been all over Feedburner recently and didn’t even know this existed. I just set up my feed to Tweet my new posts. This will help me, because I usually forget. Awesome!
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December 15th, 2009 at 8:22 am
Google just added this feature yesterday, it is breaking news.
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December 15th, 2009 at 8:22 am
Pretty cool feature. Also enjoyed the msql featured video thanks
Gives me an excuse to go into feedburner I haven’t been in there in months
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December 15th, 2009 at 8:23 am
Thank you, I was wondering if people were watching my video tutorials, I am trying to do more of them. You think they are coming out okay?
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December 15th, 2009 at 9:28 am
I wondering now if I should use this instead of twitme for wordpress, what would you say?
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December 15th, 2009 at 9:52 am
I liked that TwitMe was using Bit.Ly but I just dumped TwitMe this morning, because its 1 less plug-in to drain RAM from my web server, and it caused duplicate tweets when conflicting with Feedburner. No need to have 3 or 4 at same time, looks like spam.
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December 15th, 2009 at 10:15 am
@DRagonblogger: I’ve done the same it is one less plugin, when you can have feedburner doing it, so thanks for bringing this option to my attention
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December 15th, 2009 at 10:58 am
I didn’t even think, that showing video demonstration of this would be somehow useful..
Well. I guess, that it is.
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December 15th, 2009 at 11:36 am
It’s nice that u posted a video tut.
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December 15th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Thank you, I enjoy doing screencasts when I can.
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December 15th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Very good! I use feedburner, but hadn’t check up on new services. I’ve used a couple of plugins, etc., but glad to keep it in one place.
I hope they will do the same with other services, like FaceBook — if they haven’t already — you can bet I’ll be checking on that today!
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December 15th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
They do play on adding more services in the future, so keep checking.
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December 15th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Really useful post, didn’t know feedburner did this, one less thing for us poor under appreciated bloggers to worry about
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December 15th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
They just released this feature this week, so I reported it within 2 days of it being available.
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March 3rd, 2010 at 5:56 pm
this is awesome thanks…i just did all of it and it shows up on my blog…very cool
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