After you have written your blog and published it online, you may wonder how you can reach out to people. The question sometimes is, do you manually go to different social media platforms to share the link? Or do you need a software system like WordPress to do this for you?
Sharing your blog manually is always a good thing since you can add an individual touch to your posts in comparison to sharing all your posts to social media with similar touch.
However, this method is time-consuming, and you may end up not sharing if you have limited time. This has made bloggers resolve to auto-sharing of posts because it’s convenient, easier, and user friendly.
Tools to Auto-Share Blogs on Social Media Sites
1. Hootsuite
This is one of the best apps that can automatically share your posts on social media. It has comprehensive coverage of social media networks; hence it can share all your posts.
Below are its main traits:
- It can post to LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, Google plus, Mixi and Foursquare
- It has a Chrome and Firefox extension that enables one to post; you can also use apps in your phones
- The app can also monitor activities of all your social media platforms
- It can directly share posts from different social media platforms
- Ability to schedule numerous post sharing at various social media sites
It has two types of accounts which are basic account that enables you to auto-share to only five social media platforms as well as message scheduling.
The second account is pro accounts that enable you to share with all social media platforms, analyze your history stats, able to schedule numerous posting, and share your feedback.
2. Buffer
This tool helps you to auto-share your blogs on social media. It is user friendly since its interface is simple and clean. It has extensions to Chrome and Firefox search engines as well as available to Android and iPhone systems.
Buffer is classified into three packages which are:
- Free: You can only post up to 10 posts a day
- Awesome: Enables you to post up to 100 posts a day
- Business: It enables you to post up to 2000 posts a day
This tool can schedule posts within your package on different dates and multiple social media platforms i.e, you can have a different schedule on Sunday, another one on Tuesday, etc.
It can also help one to determine what best time your post will be mostly viewed and also give insight on relevant topics that the audience connects to.
Buffer guides and suggests to bloggers on which content to post on each social media platform
3. Mentionlytics
This is a tool that monitors and analyses social media activities, but it recently added features of publishing, and this made it a full platform for managing social media. This advancement won’t cost you any fee since it is incorporated into the basic model and the lowest paying package as well.
The tool enables you to post to your social media multiple profiles at ago. It’s different from any other basic tool since it helps you to analyze your post against your competitors’ performance. You can as well monitor other users’ posts that can give your insight on improving your post.
4. Dlvr.it
It enables you to deliver your blog to multiple social medial platforms. Using the Dlvr app, you can easily auto-share your blog across different social medial using an RSS feed linked to your social account.
Its advanced feature can enable individuals to market to their blog widely at a fee to different non-social-media platforms like search engines etc. Another feature of Dlvr is that one can filter blogs they share as well as blogs by bloggers.
5. Sprout Social
This is the most straightforward tool to use so far on the automation of blogs to your social media accounts. It is effortless to work with and easily links your social media accounts.
Its main advantages are good reporting system, beautiful dashboard, RSS capability, and ability to post from your timeline feed.
It has extensions to Mozilla Firefox and Chrome as well as it has apps on Google store and Apple store.
6. OnlyWire
It’s a free tool that can post over 30 numerous posts at ago to multiple social media platforms. To enjoy this, you only need to register online and have an account with them then link your social media platforms and RSS feed.
It’s available on search engine extensions as a button for sharing as well as a plugin to WordPress. It has an advanced package that can link up to 3 RSS and can share over 50 posts.
7. Post Planner
This is a Facebook management model that enables you to share your blogs on Facebook. It can help one know the content that is relevant to your Facebook users. It automatically shares blogs as per the time you schedule.
8. Zapier
It works on self-automated posts referred to as zaps. They collect your blogs and share them to your social media accounts. The app can sustain up to 250 tasks that can be made according to your preference and liking.
9. Social Oomph
It has the best features on the automation of blogs like queuing and reserving. The app stores your content for future acquired followers who can easily be referred to your blogs. This feature is set by the user who will then select when content can be shared and the duration of which it can be re-shared.
One good advantage of this tool is that it will make your blog different, ensuring that your followers don’t realize that you are sharing the same content.
10. IFTTT
It links all your social media accounts and makes it easy for you to monitor blogs that have been automatically shared on your IFTTT dashboard.
This tool can as well schedule the posting of blogs to different social media at different time intervals. It reduces spamming of your shares on your social media accounts.
11. socialpublish
It automatically shares your blog to Facebook and Twitter once you have published any. This tool does not need you to use any app; instead, it works by creating an account with Socialpublish and linking your account.
It is a web-based tool that enables you to select the preferred social media, and your posts can be sent to and in a rare case. Also, you can customize messages that can be used when sharing your posts.
12. Jetpack Publicize
This is one of the commonly used plugins that automatically share your blog on multiple social media platforms at ago. It helps you to select which social media platform to share by post. Currently, you can share to Yahoo, LinkedIn, Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter
13. WP Social Media Auto Publish
This type of plugin requires a blogger first to have a Facebook and Twitter app so that it can be able to share the blog automatically. It automatically shares your blog to Facebook and Twitter with a preset message.
Its advantage is that you can easily track your blogs since it embraces shortening of URL like bit.ly.
In Conclusion
Automated blog sharing saves a lot of your time, and as discussed above, each model has its benefits such as post-analysis, content suggestions, monitoring of your blog reviews, time schedule, and preferences of the audience for each blog. From above, you can select a model that best supports your budget and your blog requirements.
