Share It Again: New Social Media Features for Premium and Business Users
Premium and Business users can now re-share posts to social media, using our new Targeted Social Media feature.
Sharing your posts on social media is a great way to ensure your site or blog gets traffic. Our Publicize feature makes it easy to automatically share your new posts on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media networks.
But what about your previously published posts? For posts that are always relevant or valuable to new readers, you may want to share them again — weeks, months, or even years later.
That’s why we’re excited to introduce a new re-sharing feature for our WordPress.com Premium and Business users. Now, you can share your previously published posts on social networks — with custom messaging for each social network too.
Just go to the Blog Posts section of your site, select Share, and you’ll see the new sharing menu for reposting to your social accounts:
Then you’re all set!
A brief word on social media strategy:
Make sure your posting schedule and frequency of posts take into account your followers’ needs and expectations. For example: with social media accounts on Facebook and Twitter, we do not recommend sharing the same post over and over — your account should contain a mix of links to your blog, your thoughts, and comments, all spaced apart.
People around the world browse social media 24 hours a day, so repeating content in distant time zones helps widen your audience, but know that users may not appreciate seeing the same link multiple times.
You can learn more about growing your audience and specific tips for highlighting your archives in Blogging University.
We’re excited about these new features, and we hope you enjoy it.
- February 21, 2017
- Social
This is a great feature, but as a Business user, I don’t see it available. Is this only featured in the fancy overlay interface? Does this functionality appear in the original backend Admin area? If so, where?
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Yes, it is available only in our new interface. We don’t have it in the old one (“wp-admin”).
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Looks good, Also, it had be great if you guys could add a feature to automate this sharing?
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We currently have some level of automation – you can set Publicize to share to social media whenever you publish a post.
https://wordpress.com/support/publicize
If you would like more complicated automation schedules, we are looking into that. Just follow this blog 🙂
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It is nice and useful. I just hope that one day, it will be available to other users too.
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How do you predict this will affect SEO. I’ve read it’s not good to duplicate content because of peramaters set by google.
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Linking from social media actually helps your site, especially if many profiles publish your content. Even though it may be somewhat duplicating, Google realises that the more people share your post, the better it must be.
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Thank you, this is a great feature. Every little bit helps.
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This sounds great but how do you have your blog posted to instagram? There is no icon for that.
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Instagram doesn’t allow for any sharing integration yet, but if they ever do we will be first in line to support it.
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I just tried to use it, but it says I need to “Upgrade to Premium”. ??? I already have Premium, which is due for renewal in the middle of next month… there should be no issue with my using this feature.
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Since we JUST launched this feature, it is possible that your admin panel is not refreshed yet.
If you close all browser windows and open http://wordpress.com again, the option should be there!
If not – please contact support, we’re happy to help!
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How can I post my blog to instagram?
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Unfortunately, Instagram does not enable any tools to integrate.
It it not even possible to share your posts on instagram manually, since Instagram does not allow links anywhere in the photo description
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Ok thanks for letting me know; not very user friendly I think
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Would love to see sharing to Facebook and read as instant article
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Yippee! You know the “Share” buttons at the end of each post? Could you add the ability to download a .docx file with the post’s content. Thank you.
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Yup, I’m aware of scheduling on publicize. But, I was hoping if you guys could add automation to old posts being shared on social media.
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We are actively looking into that!
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Awesome Automattic 🙂
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The idea is superb… It’s very useful for users.
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This is exciting. I love this feature.
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This is a great feature.
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Great information.will help to increase business.
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Thanks for sharing the information about the new social media feature and it would definitely help doing it.
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Great information.will help to increase business.
Thanks
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Thank you very much for this new information 🙂 ❤
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