The best part about being involved in multiple projects, is that I get the gratitude of learning and discovering new ideas, blogs, apps, plugins, etc… and the list can go on forever! In this article (originally posted on my other site which is moving here) I discuss how I discovered how to feed multiple feeds to a fan page. If you just need one feed added, skip through the “Google Reader” section down to the “Facebook Fan Page” section and follow the instructions inserting your feed in the notes section of your Fan Page.
I use Google Reader to aggregate all my RSS feeds and I filter them with folders (I really like this feature) so I can read on topics easily. The first step in adding multiple feeds to your Facebook page is to sign up for Google Reader if you haven’t already.
Next go to the “add subscription” button and add your feed links (ie: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/HotBlogTips) or whatever the url is to the feeds you want to add.
After adding all the feeds, click on the “manage subscriptions” link at the bottom left of your reader home page. There you will be able to add each subscription to a folder(s), if you don’t have folders it lets you create a new folder when you click the “add to folder” button on each subscription.
I would create a new folder and name it whatever your fan page is called on Facebook. After you have put all your feeds in this folder that you want to stream on Facebook, click on the “folders and tags” link in the navigation bar.
From here you can make the folder “public” that you are wanting to feed to facebook. After changing from private to public (click the button next to where it says “private”), click “view public page”. it will open the public version of that feed.
On the right is an “Atom RSS” link, right click and select “copy link location” (that is in Firefox browser, might be different if you use another browser, but get a copy of the link somehow).
Next go to your fan page and click on the notes tab. Click on the add new note button, which will bring up the page where you add and edit notes. In the upper right is a set of small icons, one is a notepad, click that (says “notes” when you hover over it). From there you can import a feed by clicking that option and inserting the feed from the Google folder you created. That’s it, now every time you add a feed to that folder, it will stream on you facebook page.
Don’t forget to look in our sidebar and become a fan! Have you built a Fan Page yet? Leave your link in the comments so we can share some Blogger Luv!.
Update: If you haven’t made a fan page follow this link and follow the instructions, it’s really easy! http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php
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Thanks Keith – this was exactly what I was looking for
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@Heather, Your welcome Heather!
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@Keith Bloemendaal, And now, I have my Facebook page. Will probably be setting it up for a while longer – but here’s the link!
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@Heather, I became a Fan!
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@Keith Bloemendaal, Thanks!
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I have not expanded my blog into facebook yet. I have seen a few bloggers doing it, and I might wait a while to see if it is just another method that takes away time from my actual blogging, or whether it will actually benefit my blogging.
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@Tom@Free Squeeze Pages, Mine doesn’t take anytime yet because Ionly have 15 fans, and all I do is send the feed there right now.
Really good tip this one, most people use facebook and twitter as two seperate things, mostly facebook for fun, important though because a fan page can bring in new people all the time.
Top tip brother
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@TheInfoPreneur, After I wrote that guest post on your site about the top social media sites and it said Facebook was number one with 350 million active users, I changed my mind about it.
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Thanks Keith, I was wondering how to do that ever since I seen it on yours. I just learned to setup a fan page a few days ago. I’ll get right to work on the feed posts.
It looks like your more recent posts have pics with them. Do you need to add an image tagged with ‘thumbnail’ or something to get those to show? Great topic.
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@Brian D. Hawkins, That must because I started putting the pics at the top of the posts so they would show on the home page here…
Much thanks Keith … I’ll do apply this on mine …
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Already told you this is a great tutorial on the other blog. I do need to actually DO it though…
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@Anne Moss, Thanks Anne, I had several questions about this over the last week so decided this post needed to move over here…
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@Keith Bloemendaal, Finally did it. The hardest part was at Facebook – I never get how an application with such lousy user interface got to be so successful.
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That is great info . Now if I can just do that I would be better off I think. I need lessons on how to do everything LOL
@Dana, If I can help you let me know Dana
I’d like to learn more about facebook opportunities.
Actually, I am just a user: friends, chating. And i wonder how is it to promote products and services by FB
Thanks, Keith! I was manually updating my links in Facebook and noticed John [as in Extreme] and a few others posting in this manner and wondered about it. I set it up and everything seems to be in working order. YAY
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@Anne, Glad I could help Anne! Just followed you on facebook and twitter too, checking out your blog now…
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Good tutorial Keith, I may have to reincarnate my FB presence one of these days.
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I’m still struggling with setting up a Facebook fan page. It seems so egotistical. Hey love me.
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@Ralph, I think you are looking at it all wrong Ralph, Facebook has 350 million active users, more than ANY other social media site. I look at it as a great place to network and promote.
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This sounds like a wonderful idea. I’m just curious – this is probably a stupid question, but are you saying this will allow me to include feeds from my favorite blogs – not just mine, but others into my Fanpage stream?
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@Kiesha @ Highly Favored – Christian Inspiration Blog, The only stupid question is the one you never ask
Yes, I fed 6 or 7 feeds into one fan page for all the authors of that blog, so every feed you put into the designated folder in your Reader will go to that page.
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@Keith Bloemendaal,
Thanks to Anne, I get to come here and enjoy a little scoop of how she got inspired with the blogroll idea from the feeds. Very smart, I’m glad Reader is prepared with these handy features to accumulate feeds and combined into one for sharing. Well done, Keith. ^^
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I use the Note feature to add feeds automatically to facebook
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Wow, that’s a lot of interwebing going on, man, I have a lot of learning and catching up to do. That’s great you are a part of so many different projects, etc..And setting up fan pages, etc..Thanks!
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Nice post bro! I have already made a fan page and added the feeds to it
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face book is really a great social media and wonderful to read this ,thanks for sharing
I have just revisited this page as the content was so useful! I only signed up to Facebook after reading Gary Vayerchuk’s book Crush It. Basically you need to develop some traffic and with over 400m folks on Facebook you need to be where your likely visitors are.
The reason I’ve come back is that I’ve found that a lot of people are adding me as a Friend rather than becoming a Fan, which is fine as my ‘personal’ page was only ever set up because I wanted a Fan Page. So the reason I’m back is to work out how to get the feeds automated again!
Thanks, awesome info!
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Nice trick…
my facebook page is http://facebook.rahulsharma.in
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