Promote your WordPress blog on Facebook application

Posted by Anonymous on 1/22/2012

This blog is receiving around 20% of its whole blog's traffic from Facebook. I hope you have seen in recent days even big reputed companies started creating their Facebook fan page to advertise their brands, building customer relationships and increase their reputation with their sales. You might have seen there are thousands of applications in Facebook are promoting their business and creating their online reputation. Even you can create such a Facebook application for your WordPress blog and enlarge your blog's readers.

Now blogger's trend has started using their Facebook account in a more professional way. From past few years Facebook is turning out to be traffic generating engine for bloggers. Here are some bloggers groups on Facebook you need to join. the as it is one of the best media to promote your blog. If you need to drive maximum traffic to your WordPress self-hosted blog from Facebook then you need to create a Facebook application for your blog. It helps you in establishing reputation for your blog name and online reputation for your blog's brand name as well. If you have loyal readers for your blog and you are much relied on affiliate marketing started then creating a Facebook application for your blog will help you in increasing the sales of products you promoted on your blog. Here I will let you know how to create an Facebook application for your self-hosted WordPress blog.

Steps to create an Facebook application for your WordPress blog:

1.Every blogger can create Facebook application for your WordPress blog its simple and easy. You don't need any developer knowledge to create those applications. You need to install a plugin called WpBook to your WordPress blog. After installing that plugin now your blog can be published as an application in Facebook. Soon you publish your application in Facebook the Facebook users will start giving access to that application and install it in their account. Now Facebook users will be visiting your blog from Facebook itself and they will read your articles from Facebook itself which helps you in gaining traffic from Facebook. If they are interested in your articles they will leave a comment on your post by revealing their identity in Facebook application of your blog which will notify their friends that your friend has read this topic and if they are interested in that topic they will also give access to your application. This will help you in increasing your blog readers and start increasing your blog's loyal readers in Facebook and helps you in building your online reputation.

2. If you don't know how to install WpBook plugin on your blog then I will give you a small tutorial now. First of all you need to keep in mind that your blog domain can be accessed via https protocol otherwise the WpBook plugin may not work for you because it clearly violates Facebook privacy policy. Facebook privacy policy clearly states that the applications that runs on Facebook should be given access via https protocol.

3. Make sure your blog is enabled to give access to https protocol service then follow the below steps to create a Facebook application for your blog.

4. At first you need to create a Facebook application in Facebook developers site and get your secret and API key of your application.

5. Now in your WordPress blog you need to install this WpBook plugin.

6. After installation of WpBook plugin activate that plugin and move on to Settings -> WpBook and fill out the required information and enter your application secret key and Facebook API.

That's it! You have successfully created an Facebook application for your WordPress blog. After creating the application you basically need to invite your friends to access your Facebook application and tell them to leave some comments in it. Now start building a network around your readers and start generating traffic to your blog from Facebook. If you need to make any of the customization in Facebook application you need to edit the CSS part in the theme and modify it.

How the WpBook plugin helps in generating traffic from Facebook to your blog:

You can customize this application according to your desired looks.
You can get easy comments from Facebook users as they need not to enter any sort of data before commenting.
You can enable to post the notifications on Facebook users wall whenever a user logs into your application and start reading the post.
You can also enable the comment importing system that is when an user share your blog post from that application and if he gets comments on his wall regarding that post your application will start importing those comments.

I hope you are interested in enjoying free traffic from Facebook as well. If you like this application do share it with your other WordPress friends also. But unfortunately I can't use WpBook plugin for this blog because this blog is hosted on blogger platform. As you know blogger platform doesn't support any plugins.