New Column ~ How To: Practical Help For Writers, Bloggers & You!

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These step-by-step directions on Networking your blog comes from Alanna Moses.

Thanks so much Alanna for your help in solving this problem of getting my blog on both my Facebook sites.

• Go to www.networkedblogs.com
• Click the “add your blog” button
• Click the “grow my blog followers – add it on Networked Blogs” button
• Click the FB login button
• Enter your FB information
• Click the “grow my blog followers – add it on Networked Blogs” button
• Under the Register a new blog page, enter the blog web address
• The next tab that comes up will have your blog link and blog name already. Enter any topics you want and change the language to English. You also need to click the bottom button for terms of service
• You should then see a screen that says your blog is registered
• You will be asked if you are the author of the blog. Click yes
• You then need to get confirmed as the author
• Click “install the widget”
• Enter the html code under a new gadget on your blog design
• You should now see the networked blog item on your blog
• Now click “verify now” on the page that says install the widget on networked blogs
• The next page will have a section where you can invite people to follow your blog. From here, you could send out an email or a FB message.
• This same page should list your most recent blog posts
• On the left side of this same page, there will be a link that says “syndication” – click this
• Choose the blog name you want to syndicate. Then choose where you’d like to publish the posts to
• Click add facebook target and then select your FB profile
• Click the publish test post link
• You should now be able to go to your FB page and see your most recent blog post show up in your FB timeline