Want more traffic? Publicize now makes it easy
We’ve made some big user experience improvements to how the traffic building feature called Publicize works. This feature allows you to connect your WordPress.com blog to your account on social networking services like Twitter and Facebook, broadcasting your posts to your friends automatically for you.
In the past it took a few steps to figure out how to get going. Now it’s just a click away.
Starting today, when you publish a post, you’ll see a mention of the Publicize feature.
If you click Turn on the publicize feature, it will take you to the Sharing Settings page in your Dashboard. Here you can configure any of the Publicize services you like.
Pick one or more of the services you want to turn on. It’s required that you already have an account with each service you want to use, as you’ll be sent to the service and asked to log in to connect your WordPress.com blog.
Then, as seen above on the Edit Post page, WordPress.com will let you choose which services you want to send your post to. You can also customize the message you send along with the URL.
It’s now easier than ever to grow traffic to your blog. If you have more questions, you can read more about how Publicize works here. Happy publicizing!
- February 4, 2011
- Social
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AWESOMENESS! I LOVE IT! SERIOUSLY!
I use it on my site! THANK YOU so much!
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This is a really nice feature! Thanks.
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Fantastic!
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Wew, that’s a good idea
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This is a great feature! I enjoy using it to share my posts on Facebook and Twitter to let fellow homemakers and aspiring bakers know about my latest adventures and the advice I pick up along with it in my blogs! The more integrated the social networking worlds and the blogging worlds become the greater the audience the words we post will reach! Good work WordPress 🙂
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thanks a lot
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I absolutely love this but didn’t realize I could customize my message for Twitter! Going to enable the Twitter function again and makes it so easy now to let people know I’ve posted. 🙂 Thanks WordPress!
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i love the customizable message part – this is a great idea!
Since we’re in the spirit of sharing, does the customization of the message also include the small share buttons at the bottom of each post. ie when someone would like to tweet my post after reading it, will it offer the already customizable message?
thanks in advance guys for all your great work
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Convenient! Just to confirm, does this mean that, for example, if you choose to publicize a post on facebook, a message would be sent to each of your friends (which wouldn’t necessarily be ideal!), or would it just be publicized with a status update? Thanks!
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Everybody should use this features. 🙂
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I use the Facebook publicise feature all the time. I didn’t know there was an MSN feature too. Does that work like the others?
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I noticed publicize recently and found some use for it. It’s very convenient, and a most helpful feature!
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I’ve used this, though it is not clear that a Twitter link will be generated after the message. Anyway, the Twitter one works – I’m considering spamming my friends on Facebook, though I hate publicizing my own stuff.
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When exactly will this take effect? And is there a way to turn it on for posts I’ve already published?
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Took effect this morning – Sorry, but it will only work for new posts you publish.
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That’s a very helpfull step, thanks WP team!
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Love the Custom Message feature 😀
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I really appreciate any help you can give us to get more traffic to our sites. After all, that is what blogging is all about. The “how Publicize works here” link is good because it is in depth for each service we can connect our blog to, giving us the confidence to take our blogs to the next level.
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Superb idea – thanks, wp.com!
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Looks like a neat feature — but is there maybe an equivalent plugin for the self hosted WordPress(.org) version?
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Looking forward to trying it out! Thank you.
🙂
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Only “114 bloggers” on this entire planet like this post? Am I missing something? Well, usually, but now?
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Good am Sir:
Is it possible to post on different services ? I want to publish my post to yahoo ; twitter ; face book and buzz.
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Thanks very much, you are cool helping others to be seen!r
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I was waiting it! Thank you, great!
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Can we publish to a FB page? I was told months ago that this was in the works.
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Looks like a great plugin, does anyone know if the wordpress.org setup has a plugin very similar? They all seem to be specific to one social media outlet.
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nice
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With regards to Facebook, is it possible to post to my fan page I have setup for my business rather than my personal Facebook page? Some applications I’m using give the option during the approval process, but I didn’t see that when I just tried the new publicize feature.
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I just tried to add a post and the publicize feature did not come up. Please resond byemail jschmieding@msn.com
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You can manually go to Settings.Sharing in your Dashboard to turn publicize on.
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Great feature 😀
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Any chance of making this feature available when we publish new comments (e.g., beneath the articles that we post at our blogs)?
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Given how many comments some blogs get, this would probably annoy more people than not.
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Great features…currently using them.
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Re publicizing on Facebook – I have a personal account there and also a page for my business. One of my blogs is tied to my business activities and I’d like to publicise new blog entries on the business page, not my personal account. Facebook has an intricate process for doing this, which results in posts being imported as notes, usually two or three days after I publish the post! I’d prefer to just publicize the URL and have this happen in a timely way. Not sure if there is anything wordpress.com can do to facilitate this, except perhaps to nudge Facebook to allow pages to have their own identity for interaction with other social networks.
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We’ve been thinking about enabling Publicize for Facebook pages. Many folks have requested it and it is on our list, but can’t promise when we’ll get to it.
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Great idea. Cheers!
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Thanks. This will save me from having to link to my blog from Facebook. I like it.
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I can’t wait to try it,
http://magniworkgeneratorforthehome.com/articles/
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I’ll use whatever works- Thanks
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My wish is that I could have it post only to my Crafty Staci Facebook page, but not my personal wall. Thanks for a step in a good direction, though!
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Cool feature!
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well glad it’s easier. but I already do all thay to publicize. I’ve done all the blog setup routines for yahoo and google. I use keywords. i manually tweet updates and thank users for their comment via FB and Twitter. I do a variety of writing, humor, pix, and polls.
what other tips do you have to help increase blog traffic?
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will it allow me to choose which posts I want to share? (not necessarily every post I write)
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Yes, you can unchecked the Publicize option on the Write Post screen.
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This is really cool and I can’t wait to use it, but am not seeing it in my Edit Post screen as explained. Do I need to go somewhere else to turn it on?
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never mind…I think you answered it above…only works on new posts as of today. Thanks!
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Once again WordPress.com is super awesome. A very high proportion of my posts are on the first page of Google search results when searching for topics they cover. Thanks guys!
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Nice .. i like it !
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Grazie a WORD PRESS che mi consente di portare il messaggio di speranza che viene dal Vangelo di Gesù Cristo.
Grazie !
mons. Virginio Fogliazza
archimandrita d’Antiochia
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Awesome!
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I love this feature and have used it forever; I believe since WordPress first offered it… It totally Rocks!
Silly me, I had assumed everyone used the feature. Must add this to my post on PostADay lessons and update.
Have a great weekend all! 🙂
Eliz
Mirth and Motivation
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Thank you! Now I have one less thing to do to get my Blog “out there”!
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This feature is awesome. Looking forward to using it on my next post. Will save a lot of time.
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Very cool. Saves a little time. And makes me write sexier headlines. I’ll be tracking my success with this, which can only be a plus. Thank you!
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A lot more accessible and easier to manage. Thanks!
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Thank you! Sharing posts to my friends made easy with this feature!
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What about the WordPress.org blogs ?
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Thanks, thats awesome!!
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thankyou should make it easier to gain awareness and spread word about my gaming review blog. Thankyou.
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Super Dooper! When will this be available on Self-hosted WP sites? I need it yesterday. ; )
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This is great.
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I’m a control freak so It may be a bit before I use the service. Glad to know its there for that day when I decide to lighten up. Keep up the good work.
Damon
Helfman Cars
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really it is very nice
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You never cease to amaze me! This will definitely make things easier going forward. Thank you very much!
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Scott Berkun
我喜欢你们的网站,很想将我的资料例如在新浪,msn的，有照片，日志，微博，视频，歌曲，文章，全部搬家到你们这里，可是有两个问题不好解决，一是你们网站的中文网址，始终都打不开，无法登陆，上你们网站实在太麻烦，希望你们能够做到简单易用，二是，介绍给我们一个简单办法，如何搬家到你们网站，而且在搬家过程中不丢失资料，请尽快将解决办法用邮件告诉我，这个办法越简单实用越好，这些问题解决了，肯定今后有许多人搬家到你们这里，我希望每天都能够登陆你们的网站。
sdl0110
2011,2,5,
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In my new wordpress i”m not find this feature, is this plugins? where I can get it? please help me. thanks.
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In the Settings menu under Sharing.
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Maybe I’m missing something, but haven’t I been able to do this for quite a while now? I set all my posts to automatically connect to facebook and twitter several months ago. How is this different than what I’ve already been doing?
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This is awesome – thank you sooo much!!
You guys are doing great!!
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Niiiice!
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ever since i have Windows Live Writer, i always use it to compose/publish new posts.. it’s much more convenient than go to WP.. few months ago i activate Facebook and Twitter connect on WP, and since then, every time i publish a post via WLW, it’s automatically posted to my Facebook and Twitter account. Not that I have many readers or wish to have more.. I just love it! ha ha ha..
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I love it
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yaaaaay
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What is different from how it use to work? I’ve been using “publicize” for both Facebook and Twitter for quite some time now, and this looks exactly the same as it did before. What exactly is new?
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A new simpler to use interface to set it up.
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cool. wordpress is growing younger.
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thank you thank you thank you thank you!
I’ve been waiting for a feature like this.
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Thanks WordPress!
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Great addition, going to try to use it RIGHT NOW~!
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I’ve been using this feature for some months. Previously I had a different way of uploading to Facebook from WordPress. Since I activated Publicize all my posts appear twice on my Facebook page which is annoying. Has anyone else had this experience? Has anyone managed to overcome it?
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Thanks for making my life a little bit easier!
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is this cheating?
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This will save me time…which, I never seem to have enough of. I can’t wait to try this out.
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Great idea, especially the customize message message part. Thanks WordPress!
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wow ive been waiting for this one! thanks!
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Love it :0 Thanks
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I echo Judith’s request a few comments above mine…
Please, please, please give us the option of choosing between our personal FB profile and our own FB pages. This would be RAD! 🙂
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Thanks a lot! This is very helpful, funny I was just here brainstorming how to link my blog to my other pages and attract more viewers.
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I’d like to know how it works. New to the scene, but it’s very important. I’ll get there….
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Great! This will make things so much easier.
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i use this too on my blog..
but, is seem didn’t work for facebook..
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