UPDATE: Facebook no longer allows RSS Graffiti Podcast feeds to play on your page.
On the Facebook Page for Basic Blog Tips, I strive to provide my followers with content that differs from what can be found here on the blog. The reason for this is two-fold; I want the Facebook Page to be much more than just a “clone” of the blog and at the same time provide a venue where we can have a deeper connection and a different level of engagement than what might be achieved on a blog.
Based on the popularity of the videos tutorials on my YouTube channel, I got the idea to use an audio podcast to help reach my “Facebook Page Goals”! I researched and tested quite a few podcating sites and formats. For example, I checked out the following sites:
- Spreaker
- AudioBoo
- Mixlr
- MixCloud
- BlogTalkRadio
- Podomatic
I found advantages and disadvantages to each of them, but none of them seemed to get me any closer to my goal of posting the podcast directly on the Facebook Page! They allow posting to your Facebook profile, and quite frankly they do a good job of it, but I wanted a solution for sharing the podcast so that you guys could listen to it right on my Facebook Page.
RSS Graffiti Posts to Your Facebook Page!
Honestly, I started to get frustrated and I was about to give up. Then I finally stumbled on the solution over at The Podcasters Studio blog. Ray Ortega, mentioned RSS Graffiti and how he uses it to post on his Facebook Page – and at that moment – I remember saying to myself “DUH!! Why didn't you just ask Ray in the first place??”
I recorded this screencast to demonstrate how easy it is to set up RSS Graffiti. In this case I'm adding the audio podcast, but it doesn't matter, you can share any feed to your Facebook Page with this app.
In the video I mentioned another podcasting service I use called MixCloud. MixCloud is very popular and they also have an app for your Facebook Page which adds a tab on the left. This is another solution that I also added, just in case someone wants to hear all of the episodes from the podcast at once while they're on Facebook.
What Apps are you using on your Facebook Page
Thanks for listening to my “podcast-posting-story” here on the blog. Please follow along with my adventures in podcasting and get some additional tips for using social media and driving traffic to your blog.
And now, I want to hear from you – what apps are you using on your Facebook Page to increase engagement and improve your page's EdgeRank? What are some strategies you use to promote your Facebook Page?