Many people who publish blogs also have FaceBook pages - and one of the easiest ways to get traffic, to the blog, is to share the blog to a FaceBook page.
Some people want money for publishing their blogs. AdSense is a very popular way to earn from publishing. AdSense produces the best results, with lots of readers to read the blog, click on the ads, and buy the products and services advertised.
FaceBook, and similar social network sharing services, is not the best choice for advertising a blog that uses AdSense ads.
You can share your blog through social networks like FaceBook, if you wish.
If you emphasise social network sharing when advertising your blog, you will have a large, unfocused following population. Many people who follow you won't be interested in the advertisements on the blog - and won't buy the products and services advertised.
FaceBook and Twitter can provide traffic - but is it the right traffic?
Some people will use social sharing, and urge their friends to
Read my blog - and Like my FaceBook page!
This will simply send a lot of traffic to the blog, to have people "Like" their FaceBook page. AdSense calls this invalid / low quality traffic - and rejects such blogs from their programme.
Social networking, used to share a blog, sends lots of traffic to the blog - but is the traffic useful?.
Google+, and the search engines, can provide relevant traffic.
To develop a focused reader audience, publish informative, interesting, relevant, and unique posts. That encourages search engine activity - and gets search related traffic. If you emphasise search related traffic, you spend less time using FaceBook, and asking people to "Like" your blog.
Search related traffic targets the blog subject - and the ads provided by AdSense are relevant to the blog subject. This produces readers who are interested in the blog subject, and in the ads - and who will click on the ads, read about the products and services, and buy the products and services advertised.
With relevant traffic, the ad managers who provide the ads, for their company, are paid well - and AdSense can charge more for their ads, as the premium ad hosting service.
You can encourage your readers to share your blog, as they like.
This blog provides sharing to FaceBook, Google+, Pinterest, and Twitter - using two sharing toolbars. The native Blogger toolbar is linked from the "Share" caption, at the bottom of each post.
I added the Blogger toolbar to this blog, using the "Show Share Buttons" selection in the "Configure Blog Posts" wizard. Later, I added my personal AddThis toolbar, that floats in the left edge of each display.
Having added the toolbars, you have 8+ icons to choose from, to share this post and others.
I routinely share new posts in this blog, to FaceBook, Google+, and Twitter. If this post, or any other, interests you, you are welcome to share to any of 4 social networks (linked from the Blogger toolbar), or any of 200 (linked from the AddThis toolbar).
You can encourage sharing by your readers - if you include the AddThis, Blogger, and other third party sharing toolbars, in your blog.
Use the social sharing buttons, if you wish - selectively.
Both search engines and social sharing have their advantages - and disadvantages. You can get readers for your blog, using social networks - but try to get the right readers too.
To get readers who click on the ads and buy the services and products advertised, publish quality content - and get the blog indexed by the search engines with good position. Spend less time getting readers to "Like" your FaceBook page.
It's fun to advertise a #Blogger blog using social networking, like FaceBook - but if AdSense is part of the blog, you will get better results by publishing relevant and unique posts, and focusing on search engine indexing.
Not every blog owner understands the effect of a Blogger URL change, in FaceBook - and the resulting popularity of the blog.
I am planning on changing my blog name and redirecting my blogger blog to a custom domain. Why would that affect my Facebook followers?
A Blogger URL change won't affect your FaceBook Followers directly. Your existing Followers can continue to Follow your blog, under the BlogSpot URL - and under the custom domain URL - as it is Liked, and shared, in FaceBook.
The Likes count affects the possibility of a share, of a post in your blog, to attract new Followers.
URL changes, as permitted and provided by Blogger and / or FaceBook, are easy enough to make.
If you change the URL of the blog, when it's later shared in FaceBook, you will have a different blog. If you redirect your Blogger blog to a properly setup custom domain, you will have a blog that is shared under a different URL - and you'll have a new Likes counter.
A Like will be counted against the URL of the post that is Liked.
If someone Likes your blog in FaceBook, the Like will be counted against the URL used to address the blog, in the FaceBook post being shared.
You can either count your Likes under the current BlogSpot URL - or the new URL. Just choose the URL that's used, when it's shared.
If you publicise the blog, in FaceBook, using the current BlogSpot URL, the Like will be applied against that URL. This will not contribute to popularity of the custom domain URL - and the new blog identity. The custom domain will get no Likes - and the blog will continue to be seen, in Facebook, under the BlogSpot URL.
If you publicise the blog, in FaceBook, using the custom domain URL, the Like will be applied against the custom domain URL. The blog will not benefit from popularity of the BlogSpot URL - and the current blog identity. The BlogSpot URL will get no Likes - and the blog will be seen, in Facebook, under the custom domain URL.
You are allowed to change the blog URL, by both Blogger and FaceBook.
You are allowed to change the URL of the blog, in Blogger. You can change the BlogSpot URL, to a different BlogSpot name. You can change the domain URL, to a custom domain. You can change both the BlogSpot and domain URLs, if you wish.
Either way you change the URL, you will end up with a different URL, when shared in FaceBook. And with your posts shared using a different URL, you will have Likes counted using a different counter. This isn't a question of what FaceBook lets you do - it's a question of how they count the Likes, that apply to your blog.
You will need to move forward, using your new custom domain URL, and starting with 0 Likes - or stay where you are, using the current BlogSpot URL, and continuing with the current Likes counter. FaceBook will let you do either. They just won't be able to help you do both, at the same time.
This is really just one more detail, in re indexing a blog, after a URL change.
If you change the URL of a #Blogger blog, #FaceBook popularity will be affected. You (or any reader) can share the blog using either the current or new URL - and any Likes received for a share will apply to the URL used.
The blog will appear under two (or more) different URLs - a known effect of republishing.
As both custom domain publishing, and social sharing networks, become normal with many blogs, we see anguish when blog owners change the URLs of their blogs, without planning for the effects of the change.
What happened to my Likes?
This blog owner - and many others - do not realise that FaceBook counts Likes, based on the URL, not the blog.
FaceBook Likes, and Google+ +1s, are counted by URL - and are not controlled by DNS redirection, or simple name changes. If you rename your blog, you get a new URL with a new popularity counter, in FaceBook and Google+.
Some social sharing services allow for URL changes.
BlogLovin lets you transfer Followers from one URL to another.
BlogLovin, for instance, provides for transfer of Followers, to a new URL - as long as the blog owner owns both the old and new URL.
First, make sure that you've claimed both of your blogs.
Once both blogs are claimed, navigate to "My blog" and select the "Edit Blog Info" option next to your original blog.
From the "Move Followers" dropdown menu, select the blog you'd like to move your followers to and click "Move". This will remove your original blog and move your followers to your new blog of choice.
Start from any BlogLovin page.
Select "Blog analytics" from the drop down menu.
Click "Edit blog info".
Select a blog, from the drop down blog menu, in the "Edit blog info" wizard - and click on "Move Followers".
Whether you have a blog with a new URL, or a blog with multiple feeds and groups of Followers, BlogLovin lets you consolidate / move Followers so you can address your Followers, conveniently.
Blogger Followers stay with the blog, automatically.
With a Blogger blog, and Blogger Following / Google Friend Connect, your Followers Follow the blog - not the URL. You can rename the blog, and change the URL - but as long as you don't change the BlogID, your Followers remain with your blog.
FaceBook and Google+ give you a new counter, for each URL.
Neither FaceBook or Google+ provide a similar option. To both FaceBook and Google+, if you change the URL of the blog, you have a new blog. Google+ Followers - unlike Blogger Followers - Follow the URL.
With custom domain publishing, and the BlogSpot to domain redirect, the attention of your Followers may end up on your redirected blog - but the +1 counter and Followers community, that was based on the BlogSpot URL, stays with the BlogSpot URL. With the blog published to the domain, your blog gets a counter and community for the domain URL - and starts over.
With a BlogSpot to BlogSpot URL change, and a domain to BlogSpot URL change, everything starts over.
FaceBook Likes are counted, within FaceBook - and Google+ +1s are counted, within Google+. Both are based on the URL of the blog which accrues the Likes and +1s. If you change the URL of the blog, you get a new counter - and a new Followers community.
A URL change is effective for different changes, to a Blogger blog.
- BlogSpot to BlogSpot name change.
- BlogSpot to custom domain republishing.
- Custom domain to custom domain change.
- Custom domain to BlogSpot republishing.
All of these are URL changes - and are treated as a different blog, for most social sharing services.
BlogLovin supports URL changes. Neither FaceBook, Google+, or LinkedIn provides this ability. You change the URL, you start over with +1 / Like count, Followers community, and sharing reputation.
With most social sharing services, if you change the URL of a #Blogger blog, you start over accumulating +1s, Followers, and Likes. BlogLovin appears to be alone, in letting you transfer Followers from one blog to another - if you create a new blog, or change the URL of an existing blog.
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As we add social networking accessories and gadgets to our blogs, we need to appreciate the nature of the connections, which we are adding.
Some Blogger blog owners fail to understand the relationships between the different Internet services, such as Blogger / Google, FaceBook, and Twitter.Why do I have to solve a CAPTCHA when I post on my Wall?
andWhy does my "Share to FaceBook" wizard not let me include a snippet or thumbnail from my blog?
These are typical questions, seen recently in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken. The people, asking these questions, probably do not understand that services like FaceBook are not part of Blogger or of Google.
We have been combining our Blogger blogs, and our Blogger blogs and our non Blogger web sites, for a while.
Similarly, we can combine our Blogger blog posts with our FaceBook Wall, and with our Twitter Stream. As we combine these various Google and non Google services, we need to observe the support responsibilities for these services.
The "Share to FaceBook" button, added to our blog, contains code written by FaceBook staff - and problems with the "Share to FaceBook" wizard are, generally, the responsibility of FaceBook.
Blogger / Google wants to prevent bogus and malicious Blogger blog content, and FaceBook wants to prevent bogus / malicious FaceBook Wall content. Anything that you attempt to post in FaceBook - including links to, or photos or snippets from, your Blogger blog - is subject to FaceBook security decisions. If FaceBook wants you to solve a CAPTCHA when you post, or simply blocks you from posting, that is their decision.
Blogger / Google gives some us tools from FaceBook and Twitter. Other tools are provided by third parties. We may use any tools provided, as part of our blogs - but our use of these tools is subject to actions of the people who create them.
Report a FaceBook Problem
To report a problem with FaceBook, you start from the "Gear" icon at the top right of any FaceBook display. Select "Help", "Report a Problem", and "Report a Problem" again. That gives you the "Report a Problem" wizard. This procedure, too, may change as FaceBook changes their website.
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Today, we're seeing a significant number of reports in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, from worried blog ownersMy blog reloads in peoples browsers, and causes high pageview counts!
andMy blog crashes my readers browsers when loading!!
When a resource monitor is run while the reported blogs load, you can watch memory usage increase rampantly, as the main page of the blog, in question, loads.
Various conversations in Webmaster Central Help suggest the code associated with the Google +1 Button, which is part of the Share Button array, that's an optional part of the posts, as being involved in the problem. Some folks have noted that deselecting the "Show Share Buttons" in the "Blog Posts" gadget has provided a workaround to the problem, on the blogs noted.
It's also noted that many of the blogs in question have one or more posts which contain YouTube movies, or similar Shockwave Flash accessories. If your blog is suffering from this problem, and you don't wish to remove the Share Buttons from your blog, you may find removing any YouTube movie content to provide an alternative workaround - at least as a diagnostic procedure.
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Every week, we see the anguishHow do I get user xxxxx blocked from commenting on my blog?
because many people enjoy FaceBook and Twitter, where there is no spam, and no unwanted comments. They think that Blogger comments should be controlled, as social networking like FaceBook and Twitter are controlled.
With FaceBook, each person controls their own Wall, and their own neighbourhood. With Twitter, each person decides exactly who they wish to Follow, and sees tweets from only those folks that they follow. Neither FaceBook or Twitter encourages you to open up your neighbourhood to the world; both allow you to establish each contact, one by one, at your discretion.
With Blogger commenting, you are encouraged to allow anybody - or anybody with a required level of authentication - to comment on your blog. This encourages freedom of speech, and extends your neighbourhood far beyond the walls that you setup with FaceBook and Twitter. Some commenters, and other readers of your blogs, may later become part of your FaceBook and Twitter neighbourhoods - but at their discretion, as well as yours.
With both FaceBook and Twitter, any established account has some implied value, which is a function of the size of its neighbourhood. Nobody can use a FaceBook or Twitter account for persistent spam, because people control their own neighbourhoods. If offended, they can easily discontinue a FaceBook or Twitter contact. There is no real anonymity in either FaceBook or Twitter - each contact there is identified and validated, by its neighbourhood of contacts.
With Blogger, anybody can setup one or more Blogger accounts, for posting comments on any blog that permits comments. A Blogger account has no value, equivalent to a FaceBook or Twitter account. A Blogger account won't be identified, or validated, by its neighbourhood of contacts.
The owner of any blog has a few options, as to what level of anonymity may post comments.Who Can Comment?- Anyone - includes Anonymous Users
- Registered Users - includes OpenID
- Users with Google Accounts
- Only members of this blog
- (For private blogs) Only members and readers of the blog.
Beyond those 5 choices, there is only the Blogger heuristic comment filter, which has to be persistently trained, by each blog owner. You, as the blog owner, moderate either actively or passively. You allow / disallow / tag as "spam" before publishing comments, or you delete / don't delete / tag as "spam" after comments are published. That's the choices that you have, as a blog owner.
You cannot negatively filter comments, by blocking specific individuals. If you were to add a filter for one individual, the owner of the filtered Blogger account could setup another account, and pester you from that account, with impunity. They could even use multiple different accounts, using botted computers, if they wished.
When you publish a Blogger blog and allow commenting on your Blogger blog, you open yourself to the world. For good, or for bad.
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