Creating contents is not enough for a blog. You need to make sure that your posts are seen by the right audience. That is why sharing your blog posts to social media platforms is very important. Therefore I will show you how to automatically share blogger posts to social media platforms for free.
Most of the people today are using social media in one way or the other and almost most of the businesses today have one social media profile or the other. You might also have a social media profile yourselt.
So if you have not been thinking about talking about your business or what you do in your profile this is the best time start. If you don’t have your business page after reading this post you need to create it as soon as possible
How this technique of automatic sharing blog post to social networks works
The beautiful thing about the technique I want to show you now is that, you don’t have to always be on social media. You will just need to publish a post on your blog and it will be shared automatically without any effort.Â
But nevertheless, the little time you use to chat with your friends on Facebook, Whatsapp or to post on Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest or LinkedIn you can use it to start sharing your contents to your audience when possible.Â
However if you say, you are to repost all the posts you publish on your blog individually to every social media platform it will be boring and time consuming.
If you do that you will waste most of the time you are supposed to be creating more conten/posts on your blog on republishing what you already have published on your blog. That is why you need to learn how to automatically share blogger posts to social media platforms.
Unfortunately Blogger is not like WordPress where you have plugins design for mostly everything you need. Since blogger doesn’t have plugins support we need to use softwares like Zapier Trigger to enable us do the blogger to social media automatic posts sharing.
Definition of terms
Zap:Â this is what starts an action starts in zapier. For instance, when there is an update on your RSS feed it is Zap that starts the action of collecting your blog information from the RSS feed in your Trigger and perform the event in Action.
Trigger: this is where an action/event starts. This is where Zap starts, by collecting updates on RSS feed.
Action: when an even/action starts in Trigger the “Action” tells the Zap what to do with the action started in Trigger.
Don’t worry, you will understand this better before the end of this post.
How to create zapier account for free
To create a Zapier account simply go to https://zapier.com and click the sign up or create account. Provide the required information and proceed.
An email will be send to your email address. Go to your inbox and click confirm account from the Zapier email.
That is all. You can now proceed to create blogger to social media platforms automatic posting.
How to automatically share blogger posts to social media platforms for free
To share your blogger posts to social media automatically you need to create a Trigger on Zapier.
How to create Trigger on your zapier account
Step 1
Click “create Zap” on zapier
Under app and event search for RSS by Zapier and select New item in Feed.
Then click continue
Step 2
The next step is the trigger. That is where your actions start.
Under feed URL paste your blogger blog feed URL. Like. https://example.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default or https://example.com/feeds/posts/default for custom domain.
Is you want to use username and password to access the Zap create your username and password. But this is optional.Â
You are not required to edit the fourth option in this step unless you are a pro or else you leave it like that.
Click continue
Step 3
Test your Trigger. If it is successful continue but if not check your entries once again. Click continue
You have now created your Zap Trigger. You will now need to add where the action goes to or ends. That is your desired social media.
How to automatically share blogger posts to Facebook
Step 1
Click action bellow your trigger.
Under action select “Facebook page”
And under event select “create page post” (remember this is what will happen in your social media profile after you publich a page on your blog. so can choose what will happen wisely.)
Click continue
Step 2
Connect your facebook page to your trigger.
Follow the step carefully to connect your facebook account. You will need your Facebook login details to connect your account.
After a successful connection click continue.
Step 3
Action step. This is the step that you will specify how your page post or what ever you choose previously will appear on your Facebook page
Under page select the page you want the action to go to if you have more than one pages.Â
Now under message select what part of your blog post will be displayed in your social page.
E.g. Title +description +content etc you can also add hashtags in this step. eg. #hashtag1 #hashtag2
The last is the “URL Link” this should be the link to your blog post. Therefore select “link alternate”
Click continue
Step 4
Test your work. This step is to confirm if what you did is correct and can be fetch to your profile successfully.
After test remember to activate your Zap.
How to share blogger post to Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram
To share your post to other social media profile just click “add” other “+” symbol under your trigger first action. That will enable you to create more actions.
Follow the above steps to add all your socialmedia accounts.
Public a post on your blog and visit you social media pages to see how they look like. You can come back again to edit your trigger actions.