Probably many of you have friends or followers on different social networks. Moreover, some of them use only Facebook or only VKontakte. Well, Twitter is sometimes still present in various combinations with them. In this situation, such a simple action as publishing a link to a resource you like turns into a routine task. I was also fed up with this monkey work and I finally decided to set up duplicating posts on all social networks at once, publishing them in only one.

If you don’t know what cross-posting is, then Wikipedia states that it is “... automatic, semi-automatic or manual placement of the same article, link or topic in forums, blogs...”. I would like to add that usually a post subject to cross-posting is created once and then copied automatically.

My Crossposting Requirements

So, first of all, I’ll explain what mandatory requirements I have for cross-posting, so that when leaving one routine I don’t end up falling into another.

• Firstly, simplicity. I don’t want to install any applications created specifically for cross-posting - everything should be done using the standard tools of the social networks themselves.
• Secondly, the maximum functionality of all resulting posts must be maintained, i.e. saving links and, if possible, pictures.
• Thirdly, the absence of duplicates. If you get smart with the settings on different social networks, you can get a good mix of identical posts in all of them. And complaints about spam on your part are a bonus.

In principle, these are all the requirements. Let's get down to business

Method one: Crossposting Twitter → Facebook, VKontakte

Good and reliable way, works like a clock. Cross-posting from Twitter to VKontakte is achieved by assigning a hash tag #vk in the body of the tweet:

Using the hash tag #vk on Twitter

To export to Facebook, you need to link Twitter to your account on this social network. To do this, click on the gear icon on the top panel of Twitter and click on the item in the drop-down menu Edit profile. Once on the page Profile, scroll down and look for the button Connect to Facebook- click. Next, in the window that opens, click on the button Login via Facebook account , and in the next window we allow Twitter to publish on our behalf - button Allow. Don't forget Save changes on the profile editing page.

Connecting Facebook to Twitter

In general, the method is quite excellent. But there are several significant drawbacks for me.

If you like this method, click on one of the buttons (or better yet, several) on the left and start implementing it into your online life. I’ll experiment some more.

Method two: Crossposting VKontakte → Twitter, Facebook

Setting up this option is also quite simple. On your VKontakte page, click on the link ed. in the left column, then go to the tab Contacts and at the bottom of this section we see links Set up export next to the headings Twitter And Facebook. When clicking on the first link, we need to click a button Login to Twitter in a pop-up window. And in the next dialogue check the box opposite the point Export posts to Twitter and press the button Save.

For Facebook, everything is made even easier. If you are already logged in Facebook, then after clicking on the link Set up export Opposite the name of this social network, in a couple of seconds you will already see your first and last name. If not, then in the pop-up window you will have to enter your email and password and press the button To come in.

Do not forget to press the button after all these operations have been completed. Save In chapter Contacts.

Setting up export to Twitter and Facebook from VKontakte

So, now when publishing a post on VKontakte make sure there is a checkbox opposite the point Export to Twitter and Facebook and feel free to press the button Send. The post will be automatically sent to these social media.

Example of post export results

Advantages of the method:

• As you can see from the screenshot above, this method partially solves the problem of the lack of a thumbnail in the post. On VKontakte it fits perfectly, since this is, in fact, a parent post in this case.
• The problem with intimidation of users when clicking on a short link has also been resolved. VKontakte redirects to desired page when clicked, the link gets to Twitter in a shortened form and he starts following it without any stupid questions.

But even in this case it was not without shortcomings:

• Firstly, on Facebook it’s like that the picture didn't appear. If it is critical for you that the thumbnail be on this particular social network, you will have to use another cross-posting route, in which Facebook will be the starting point.
• Secondly (and this drawback is simply critical!), the link got lost somewhere along the way from one social network to another. Actually, in this case, this method is only suitable for publishing your own thoughts.
  Now this problem fixed - links are published normally.

And one more small note: likes and reposts of news from the VKontakte feed are not sent to Twitter and Facebook - only entries typed manually or sent using social network buttons, which caring webmasters do not forget to post on their websites.

Method three: Crossposting Facebook →Twitter → VKontakte

If you carefully read the headline above, you probably noticed two arrows: the second appeared after Twitter. It's simple: in this case cross-posting is achieved linking Twitter only to Facebook, and already from Twitter the post will go to VKontakte, because we already know about the hash tag #vk- just add it to the post. Facebook does not directly support VKontakte linking.

Just to get started, let's immediately talk about the disadvantages:

If you decide to share only your thoughts in this way, then it will be quite suitable for this purpose. Remains only link Twitter to Facebook. Go to the address and press the button Link my profile to Twitter. In the next dialog, click the button Authorize. After that don't forget Save changes by clicking on the corresponding button.

Setting up export from Facebook to Twitter

Ready! You can also specify which Facebook updates you would like to share on Twitter. For this leave the daws only opposite the required items on the list.

Method four: Crossposting VKontakte → Twitter → Facebook

And finally, the method on which I stopped my search. This is also a consistent cross-posting method, like the previous one, only devoid of most of the disadvantages of all those described above. So it's advantages and disadvantages:

To implement this method you need first link VKontakte only with Twitter, as we did in the second case, and then link Twitter to Facebook- as in the first one.

How to avoid duplicate entries?

If you chose the fourth method, then you should check some details. If you have already configured export from VKontakte to Facebook, follows it disable:

Disabling export from VKontakte to Facebook

Otherwise, it will turn out that first the post will be sent from VKontakte to Twitter and Facebook, and then to Facebook the same post from Twitter will be duplicated. If you actively share your posts with friends, you are guaranteed to receive complaints about spam.

What about other social networks?

In this article, I did not touch on setting up cross-posting, for example, in LiveJournal and Google+. Firstly, I am not an active user of LiveJournal and on this moment not registered there at all. However, if you need instructions on setting up cross-posting with the participation of this social network, write about it in the comments.

Google+ for now doesn't have regular funds organizing cross-posting. However, it can be done using third-party services, such as Socialba or Piston Poster. I wouldn’t like to use another service for such a trivial task, however, if you need help setting up cross-posting using a special service, I’m looking forward to your comments on this matter.

That's basically all I wanted to talk about in this article. I hope you this information will be useful and helpful. If you want to thank me, then The best way to do this is to set up cross-posting, and then tell your friends about the article in all social networks using the buttons below Well, or at least in one

1. First, internal optimization:

1. First and most important, .
2. Second, also important - content optimization.

• Yes, exactly filling out the title tag and meta description tag.
• Use of keywords in the text.
• Correct formatting of article text using h2, h3 headings, subheadings and lists.
• Image optimization.
• Semantic content markup.

2. And also external optimization:

Essentially, links from other sites.
How can we get many links to our website quickly, for free, and even automatically?
Of course, by setting up cross-posting on social networks!

What is crossposting?

Cross-posting is the publication of posts on other sites, most often social networks. You can post manually if you are too lazy to bother with auto-posting. The buttons I wrote about will be useful for this.
Or you can automatically - auto-posting makes life much easier for webmasters.
I prefer to crosspost not from the site, but from the RSS feed.
This is convenient because we can customize posting exactly as we require.
But we only need to fast:

• post title,
• image from post,
• link to full post.
• and maybe a little announcement.

The size of the recipe is not large, so why create duplicate content all over the Internet?
Therefore, the announcement should not be big.
So that the RSS post is published as we require

If you don't need announcements, remove the variable $content.
You can specify any image size.
And to make your feed look beautiful, register it at http://feedburner.google.com.
The process of creating a feed is described on many sites that are easy to find, so I won't go into it here.
This is what the RSS feed of my culinary site looks like.
Let's move on to setting up auto-posting.

Login to your google account, go to http://feedburner.google.com, click on the name of your feed.
Next, select the tab Publish(Top Menu).
Follow this link Socialize (left menu).


First you will need to add your Twitter account.
To do this, click on the “Add a Twitter account” button and do everything that the system suggests to you.
Next, select the field values ​​that are shown in the picture.

Below you will see what your Twitter posts will look like.
If necessary, adjust the settings.
Now activate the service - button Activate bottom left.
Save all settings - button Save.
That's all - the first task of setting up posting on Twitter is solved.

2. Auto-posting on VKontakte, Facebook, Linkdin

To set up cross-posting, we will use the site https://time2post.ru.
It doesn’t even require registration; you can log in immediately through your VKontakte, Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn account.
Setting up auto-posting on VKontakte:
Click on the tab Settings, choose a social network for auto-posting.
For example, for Vkontakte, click the “Connect Vkontakte account” link.
Then, step by step, you do what the system asks you to do - give it access to our VKontakte account.


Now you need to create and configure a channel.
The channel brings together social media pages to which your messages should be sent.
For example, if you want to send the same messages with the same schedule simultaneously on VKontakte and Facebook, then you need to create only one channel.
Create new channel and configure it.
Everything is simple there - go to the "My channels" tab, "Create channel", enter the name of the channel and click the button Save.
The channel settings page will open.
Opposite each social network (via the drop-down list), select the page where you will post.
Next, enter the address of your RSS feed and save the settings.

Attention! We created the feed on feedburner for the convenience of users and sending messages to Twitter.
But, cross-posting to all other social networks and all other Twitter accounts must be done from the standard feed of your site. You want to receive links from social networks to your website, and not to feedburner?

The wordpress feed address for a wordpress site looks like this: http://site.ru/feed.
Click the "Schedule" link (left menu) and indicate the time for checking your feed.
Set up a schedule for Monday, and then simply copy it for other days of the week.
You can also specify how often your RSS feed will be checked, for example, 12 or 24 hours.
Setting up auto-posting on VKontakte is complete.
This is what it looks like Vkontakte community with posts sent via time2post.ru.
You probably have a question - why set up auto-posting on Twitter via feedburner.com, if you can set it up along with posting to other social networks via time2post.ru?
But why - no one is stopping you from creating two or even three Twitter accounts and posting news from your site there.
As you know, PS robots practically live on Twitter.com, so the more links you have from Twitter, the faster your site will be indexed.

3. Auto-posting to My World

A service with the funny name pistonposter will help you set it up.
Register, go to page http://www.pistonposter.com/rss and add your RSS feed.
Next, you need to click the “Groups” link (in the same menu) to create a group.
After that click the link http://www.pistonposter.com/service- Blogs.
In the list of blogs, click on the icon of the desired blog and do everything that the system requires to add a blog.


Below the list of added blogs you will see the inscription “With selected blogs”, under this inscription select the name of your group. Click the "Add" button.
This is all!

5. Auto-posting on liveinternet

We will configure it using the built-in livinternet functions.
More precisely, we will set up posting to our RSS channel on livinternet, which we will create at the same time.
Follow the link http://www.liveinternet.ru/synd.php#lnk/service/feed/add, on the right we find a form called “External RSS source”.
Enter:
- Source Address (RSS feed from which posting should occur),
- Broadcast diary name (name of your livinternet diary).
Click the "Check and Add" button.
This is all. We have created our own RSS feed on the livinternet website.
This is what this channel looks like with added news.

4. Auto-posting in livejournal

Can be configured using the service http://ljimport.idzaaus.org.
To start using it, enter your username + password for the LiveJournal website.
Next, you need to click the “Configure” button (site menu) and fill out the configuration form, indicating:
- RSS feed URL,
- the journal into which you plan to import entries from the feed.
That's all.

5. Auto-hosting on Google+

Posting is possible through the website http://hootsuite.com.
In short, it is configured like this:

1. Let's register.
2. Let's log in.
3. In the left menu, select "Settings - RSS/Aton".
   In the window that opens, click the cross and add your RSS feed.
4. Adding a social network. For this:
   • You need to click the "Add Social Network" button (top panel).
   • Select a social network.
   • Connect to this social network by first logging in.

   We repeat all this for each social network we need.

5. Adding tabs to the HootSuite panel. To do this:
   • You need to click the "Add Ribbon" button (top panel).
   • In the window that opens, Select a profile (if there are several of them) or Page and click the cross next to the name of the feed to add it to the current tab.

Detailed instructions for setting up posting through hootsuite.com are here - https://help.hootsuite.com/entries/21626925-Quick-Start-Guide. It's in English, but http://translate.google.com.ua/#en/ru/ to help you.

6. Auto-posting in odnoklassniki

It will help you set up the service http://rsstranslator.net.
1. After registration, you need to click on the tab Blogs to add an RSS feed to your site. The channel address should be specified as follows - http://your-site/feed.
2. Next, follow the link Broadcasts and add a broadcast.

• As the Source Blog, select the RSS feed added at the previous stage from the drop-down list.
• And specify the group in Odnoklassniki as the recipient blog.
  To do this, click the green cross next to the field to add, enter the group address in the window that opens and click the “Next” button.
  Enter additional data to access your account - login + password and click the "Create" button.
  In this case, the small window disappears, and the name of the added blog should appear in the “Recipient blog” field (broadcast parameters form).
• In addition, you need to select Broadcast Mode. I recommend choosing “Scheduled”, for example, Every day 12:45 or “Fixed interval”.
• All that remains is to click the “Add” button.

Attention!
1. To broadcast to Odnoklassniki, the group URL should look like:
http://www.odnoklassniki.ru/XXXX - for groups with a short URL;
http://www.odnoklassniki.ru/group/XXXX - for groups with a regular URL.
2. On the Odnoklassniki website, the interface language must be set to Russian, otherwise the broadcast will not work.

Posting through rsstranslator.net can be done for free, or you can pay for it.
If you have one site and you want to post once/day, it’s free, but if you have a lot of sites and posting is required several times/day, it costs money, but for very little money, about a couple of dollars/month.
And the first 5 people who register using this link will receive $5 to their account.
That's all!
Of course, there are a great many sites on which you can publish posts, but the ones I indicated are quite sufficient.
Let me remind you that we set up posting in order to improve site indexing.
Now the most interesting thing is what does cross-posting on social networks give?
I’ll tell you from the experience of my culinary site:
The site is a month and a half old.
Google indexed it after 4 days, Yandex after 6.
There are currently about 40 recipes on the site.
There are 72 pages in Yandex results, 199 in Google results.
New articles are indexed very quickly.

Crossposting is an automatic tool whose capabilities are aimed at website promotion. Organizing the process will require some effort, but in the near future it will pay off in increased traffic to your site.

Crossposting is one of the most effective means of increasing the link mass of a site for free or for a small fee, increasing the growth rate in search results, and increasing traffic by publishing announcements of articles and links to a site, forum, or blog.

Proper use of the tool allows you to attract new clients, increase the number of sales and the popularity of the project.

Some users confuse cross-posting with spam, but the two concepts have significant differences. Thus, the tool in question involves the publication of announcements and links to materials, rather than full-fledged articles. Thanks to this, it is possible to avoid claims against the resource from outside search engines.

Types of crossposting

There are several methods for publishing materials:

1. Manual placement. An outdated method in which the author creates several options for text descriptions, adding keywords and a link to the source, after which the content is posted on the desired platforms. Manual publication has the only advantage - the high uniqueness of the text content, which speeds up the indexing process. Among the disadvantages is a considerable amount of time + money spent on the services of a copywriter.
2. Semi-automatic content placement. It is necessary to create materials yourself and post them on the appropriate services that provide cross-posting services.
3. Automatic cross-posting. Announcements are duplicated from RSS feeds and shown on social networks.

If you are not familiar with RSS feed, get Additional information from the developer of your site. If a part is missing, you need to create it.

Where to publish announcements?

The most effective platforms for posting announcements are social networks. They are visited by different audiences, which allows the optimizer or webmaster to attract potential visitors to their project.

To post content, special services are used that offer high-quality tools for simple and fast cross-posting. To start working with such a company, you need to choose the right one and register. Next, they determine sites suitable for publication, set the date and time, add content, and allow automatic posting of materials. Within the specified time frame, the announcement will be published on the social platform account.

Crossposting services offer paid and free services; visitors can enjoy the following benefits:

• Publishing posts simultaneously on several social networks;
• flexible time planning (per hour, day or week);
• recommendations for the optimal schedule and content format;
• generation of shortened links;
• the ability to add specific materials for different sites;
• image adaptation;
• publication of texts, videos and photographs;
• analytics that allows you to track the behavior of your potential audience;
• import from RSS feed;
• working on several projects simultaneously.

Cross-posting to social networks saves time, allowing you to effectively promote sites using social networks. A competent choice of a reliable service will ensure the most effective solution of assigned tasks and active business development.

Everyone knows that social networks are an effective channel for disseminating information and receiving traffic. It’s not for nothing that many online stores (other sites are no exception) maintain their communities in one or even several social networks at once. This gives them certain advantages.

Crossposting— automatic, semi-automatic or manual posting of the same article, link or topic on social networks, forums, blogs. Link .

Autoposting— automatic broadcasting of messages to websites, blogs, microblogs, social networks, etc. Link .

As you can see, the terms are very similar in meaning. But cross-posting is a broader concept that includes auto-posting. In essence, cross-posting is the automatic posting of materials, for example from your online store, blog or website, to several social networks.

To clarify, we need to talk about another understanding of the term “autoposting”. Sometimes this is called delayed posting on a schedule on social networks. Link . That is, this is not a broadcast of materials from one source to several (as in the previous case), but preliminary preparation list of materials for publication and setting the frequency of their posting in selected groups and social networks.

This article is about first version of the concept this term, when materials from one source, in our case an online store, are automatically published on several social networks.

What does cross-posting give to an online store?

Everyone knows that social networks are an effective channel for disseminating information and receiving traffic. It’s not for nothing that many online stores (other sites are no exception) maintain their communities in one or even several social networks at once. This gives them certain advantages:

1. Allows you to present your site well on all major social networks;
2. People are more willing to like and repost within the social network. There this is a natural behavior scenario;
3. Helps the search engine correctly identify the original source of content.

The primary source of content is determined by the search engine based on the date of indexing and the authority of the site.
Links from social networks speed up the indexing of content by search engines and add additional authority to the site.
— devaka.ru

Is it possible to get a ban from a search engine for this?

It depends on how you are going to do it. If you spam everything you can get your hands on with your content, nothing good will come of it.

Another thing is that no search engine will impose sanctions on your website for having a presence on social networks and actively working with them. It is your right. Therefore, a completely safe way is to open groups on major social networks and broadcast selective materials from your website there. Moreover, if we are talking about uploading articles from a blog in your online store, then you do not need to upload all the text, but only the title, image, short description and a link to the full material. Thus, firstly, interested visitors will come to your store to read the article, and secondly, this will avoid unnecessary duplicate content.

It's about the same with unloading goods. All you need to do is upload product images, name, price and row important characteristics(for example, sizes and colors that are available). If there are a lot of products, you can group them several times in one post (this possibility can be provided when developing export to RSS).

It is also possible to provide for unloading different materials to different social networks. This is convenient if the store’s target audience is predominantly different on different social networks. Then, for example, it is logical to upload new arrivals of dresses to Odnoklassniki that may be of interest only to mature women, and upload youth assortment to VKontakte.

As you can see, with the right approach, automatic cross-posting is not only not dangerous and will not lead to sanctions from search engines, but on the contrary, it is useful and will work well, making life easier for the content manager, increasing target audience and online store traffic.

Replacement of manual labor with female labor

Is it worth automating the process? Often there is a lot of material on the site, and the content is varied (text, photos, videos) and you need to quickly post it on several social networks.

You can hire a special girl for the position of content manager, who from morning to evening will only cross-post materials from the site to social networks.

But even this solution is not effective. Manual cross-posting of a description of one product (or one news) with a photo, video, headline and text in the 5 main social networks for Russia (Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki, Facebook, Twitter, Google+) can take up to 20-30 minutes of working time. Thus, in 7 hours of working time, you can manually post only about 20-25 elements (products, news, articles, etc.) This is very slow, and the speed of posting materials on social networks is critical, especially when the volume of materials to be published is large. Therefore, replacing manual cross-posting with an auto-posting service will greatly save the content manager’s time, allowing him to do much more in a working day (in fact, he only needs to post materials on the website) and will make publishing on social networks more efficient.

Services for cross-posting to social networks

There are quite a lot of online services that automatically cross-post (publish) content from a website to social networks. There are also scripts and modules for CMS that perform the same function (scripts will also be discussed below).

If you don’t know what an RSS feed is, ask the programmer, or the studio where your website was made. If you do not have such a tape, then you will need to order its modification. In the basic version, this is a simple modification; it should not require large expenses from you. For example, implementing such an upload for 1C-Bitrix will take no more than half an hour. Which in terms of money is no more than 1-2 thousand rubles.

Novapress.pro

I’ll start and dwell in more detail on the NovaPress.pro service, which I use on all projects (including this blog) and which I recommend to my clients. The service allows you to post simultaneously on VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LiveJournal, Pinterest and even Instagram.

Price: There are 10 days free. Then 350 rubles per month.

The paid nature of the service may seem like a disadvantage (more about the free ones below). But if your project is commercial, I recommend choosing paid solutions.

Why is a paid solution better? The logic here is simple:

1. Paid solutions are more reliable;
2. There is technical support that helps customers if questions arise;
3. The main thing is that they quickly solve their internal technical problems of integration with social networks.
   For example, something changes in social networks and auto-posting stops working. Paid services They are better motivated to resolve such issues promptly, since they have obligations to clients and lose money if their service does not work correctly. For free services, everything works as long as the creators have the mood and time.
   I don’t know about you, but I don’t want my projects to depend on the availability of time and mood of people I don’t know.

Setting: The service is easy to set up. It takes 10 minutes of mouse work.

All you need to do for site content to be automatically posted on the social networks you need is to add your RSS feed with site materials to Novapress, and then select the necessary social networks: add groups and personal pages, and set up the frequency of auto-posting in them.

It just sounds complicated. In fact, it’s not much more difficult than setting an alarm on your smartphone :-).

In another 10 minutes, if desired, you can set up auto-posting on VKontakte and Facebook through applications. Novapress took care of step by step instructions, on setting up publication through the application, so you shouldn’t have any problems with the setup.

You can do without this, but publishing through the application allows you to change the signature on the social network under your post to “beautiful”, whatever you want. For example, the address of your website. This is what the signature on my VKontakte page looks like:

If posting is done through an application, then the signature may look like this.

Publishing through the application does not require the work of a programmer. The “application” in this case is not developed by a programmer; it does not need to be ordered. To put it simply, this is a “ secret code", which you can create on Vkontakte or Facebook with the mouse, and then add to Novapress. Just follow the instructions that are in Novapress.

The service is also suitable if the online store uses not a group (community), but personal page manager or owner on a social network (for example, VKontakte). It's the same with other social networks. You can simultaneously autopost to a personal page on Google+ and a Business page on Google Plus. By the way, not all services can do this.

Delayed posting

To complete the picture, we need to talk about another function of the same online service - auto-posting to a group on a schedule or, more simply put, delayed posting.

This function is useful for maintaining communities when you need to automate scheduled publication on social networks (Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki, Facebook, Twitter, Google+), but there is no website.

In this case, the material for cross-posting on the social network is added directly to personal account service (not the website). Charged 20 posts, with an interval of 24 hours, and the service will automatically publish one post from your list once a day for 20 days.

In my opinion, the function is not very necessary for online stores, unlike cross-posting from an RSS feed (which was discussed above). It is much more convenient to autopost from RSS to all your social networks, adding the material only once to your website.

pistonposter.com

Quite a worthy solution. Does cross-posting to a large number of services, social networks and blogs, a good part of which you have never heard of: Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, Blogger, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Wordpress, My World, Plurk, VK note, OK Share, RuTwit, Viadeo.

Has its own chips. For example, it allows you to uniquely publish information using pre-specified synonyms.

Eat free plan, but it does not allow you to post images from RSS, only text. In addition, the RSS feed is checked for updates every 6 hours. Those. For prompt publication of materials that contain pictures, this tariff is not suitable. Paid tariffs start from $5 per month.

PublBox

Here is another interesting service for delayed posting on social networks that is worth paying attention to. The resource is designed for a wide audience: businessmen, bloggers, SMM specialists.

Developed by the Information Technology Workshop company (gold certified partner of 1C-Bitrix).
Price: 1000 rub.
Despite more low price, the list of social networks to which the module carries out auto-posting is larger: VKontakte, Facebook, Odnoklassniki, Twitter, LiveJournal.
The functionality of the module is described in more detail on the promotional page.
Marketplace page.

Title: “Twitter Poster”

Developer Blackbutterfly (Gold certified partner of 1C-Bitrix).
Price: 1000 rub.
From the name of the module it is clear that its purpose is to post only to Twitter.

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“Crossposting on the Internet is the deliberate automatic, semi-automatic or manual placement of the same article, link or topic in forums, blogs, or other forms of websites or public correspondence...
Crossposting goals: building up link mass and TCI and Google PR indicators; attracting traffic from free blogging platforms; ."

I already wrote about it on my blog once. Then the “ ” button, the ribbon, the short and .
And it also seems like by default they share a link to a note with friends... But all this is good on a small scale and for one site. For complete automation, it looks like we will have to tackle this topic more thoroughly!

Free cross-posting to social networks

1) The simplest thing is plugins for popular engines. For example, WordPress. I think they can handle automatic cross-posting just fine. And they themselves write this based on the API of social networks.

2) Install a “ ” block on the site with the necessary blogs and manually add a link to your site Vontakt, Odnoklassniki, Twitter, Facebook, MoiMir, Google+.
You just have to take into account that in the block with counters (as well as in the interactive form) there are much fewer social networks than in the full one.

3) For autopost to the Contact group- you need to connect an RSS feed to it (this can be done upon request in). After this, the RSS feed can be easily added in the group or page settings.
Also, Live Journal (LJ) can broadcast entries there by default.

4) Upon publication on your VKontakte profile wall, it is possible to automatically send everything to Twitter and Facebook. And from Twitter - set up normal publication of tweets in LiveJournal.

5) in the “Settings => Rss/Atom” section allows publish your feeds on Twitter and Google+. But only to the Google page, and not to your profile. It also supports Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare, WordPress and mixi.

6) - also copes well with RSS and social networks. Among other things, it promotes cross- posting to Odnoklassniki, MoiMir Mail.Ru, I.UA and LiveJournal. But I try to use it for Mail and Odnoklassniki, since they are supported by a small number of services due to the need to emulate the browser.

7) - quite good if you need to scatter once a day one RSS feed with your website by social network accounts (Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, Blogger, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Wordpress, My World, Plurk, VK note, OK Share, RuTvit, Viadeo). But if you need to do this more often, add more RSS feeds or Pictures- this will already be paid. $5 - $30 per month.

8) - there is an AutoPost function in several groups at once. You can also place advertisements in groups (from 1000 subscribers). Supports Contact, Odnoklassniki, Facebook and Instagram.

All of these methods work great, but have some limitations on the number of accounts and feeds. In principle, it will be very easy to repost your blog and 2-3 other sites to third-party services. But they will be updated completely at different speeds. And in most cases - no more than once a day, which is not very suitable for a commercial project.

Paid crossposting

What should serious sites do? If you have, for example, or, then I advise you to connect one of the paid broadcast services. This will allow you to update content almost instantly and immediately for a large number of blogs. So where is the most convenient place to do this?

My favorite option. Payment by month and without restrictions on tapes and their number. Able to manage multiple profiles, make automatic publications and work directly from the site. Supports cross-posting on Odnoklassniki, Vkontakte, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LiveJournal, Google+, Telegram, Pinterest.

Payment is made for each launch. Ideal if there is little news or they need to be published 1 or 2 times a day. Supports reposts in MoiMir, I.UA and other popular social networks.