Increase RSS Subscribers with Facebook
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When I first heard of this I was a bit wary, but I guess it seems to be working for me, although I’m not really sure. I know most of you have heard of Facebook. If you haven’t it is the less spam version of Myspace that allows you to connect with old classmates from college and high school. Facebook has a feature called Notes, which is much like a blog type system. You can post notes and all of your friends will see them in the recent notes section. This is cool and everything, but I have my own blog and I don’t want to write posts twice.
So how does this increase your RSS subscriber account? Well every time someone reads one of your notes that are counted as a subscriber. Since implementing the system I have seen a 10-15 reader increase in my RSS. This is really easy to setup and even if it does not help you out a lot it still lets all of your friends from school know what you are up to.
Thanks to Michael for the tip!
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Would that potentially cause multiple site returns using a google search string? How would someone searching for your content know which to click on when multiple urls show the same word string? I have a facebook acct. and am tempted to try this. Also, how many people truly find your content on Facebook? Apparently in your case it’s around 15.
Hey Bob, thanks for the linkback. For anyone interested, here’s the link to the specific post Bob is talking about: http://btr.michaelkwan.com/2007/05/05/an-evil-way-to-increase-rss-subscriber-count.aspx
Interestingly, since posting up that entry, when I go into my Feedburner account, I no longer see “Facebook” as one of the “readers”, but my RSS subscriber count is the same. Perhaps the Facebook RSS reader is included in one of the other figures now.
I was thinking about doing this as well. But I already have my college email for my network at UCSB. I was thinking maybe I should create a new account and just add everyone, and join every network. Hmm, maybe I will try that haha.
How many people do you have in your facebook? I want to see how many rss subscribers that can potentially add, by how many contacts in facebook. what the subscriber rate is.
Nope, it won’t be seen as duplicate content. Facebook notes aren’t searched by google. =)