This Blog2Social Guide will lead you step-by-step through the installation of Blog2Social and everything you need to know to get started. Moreover, this guide helps you with understanding all setting options and awesome features such as auto-posting, scheduling and tailoring your social media posts. And, this guide also provides you with tips to make the most of your social media marketing for each individual social network.
- Getting started with Blog2Social
- Selecting the right Blog2Social license for your needs
- Connecting social networks with Blog2Social
- Sharing and customizing social media posts
- Sharing videos with Blog2Social
- Tips for Auto-posting with Blog2Social
- Tips for Scheduling and the Blog2Social Best Time Manager
- Re-sharing posts with Blog2Social
- Advanced network settings
- Reporting
- Affiliate program
- Conclusion
Blog2Social is a time-saving social media automation tool and WordPress plugin that offers an all-in-one solution for blogs and websites, social media marketers, businesses and agencies who look for easy ways to automatically cross-promote and share blog posts on social media platforms.
Blog2Social currently supports the following 19 social media networks to automatically schedule, share, and cross-promote your content: Facebook, VK.com, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Google My Business, LinkedIn, Xing, Bloglovin’, Tumblr, Torial, Medium, Blogger, Flickr, Diigo, Instapaper, Ravelry, Reddit and Telegram.
You can share on personal profiles as well as on pages and groups on Facebook, VK.com, LinkedIn and XING.
You can also easily share your video files to Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube and Vimeo with Blog2Social.
The plugin automatically turns all posts into an appropriate format for each social network.
You can auto-post or preview and edit your social media posts before automatically sharing them on all your connected and selected social media channels.
In the one-page preview editor, you can view and edit all your social media posts for each network and add individual comments, hashtags, handles, and emojis. You can schedule your posts once, multiple times or recurrently at predefined best times or at your personal time settings.
Getting started with Blog2Social
Blog2Social is easy to use. It just takes just a few steps and you will be able to share your first post. In this section, you can find helpful links which guide you through the installation process and provide you with information about getting started with Blog2Social.
24-minute video with a look into the tool and explanation of all features of Blog2Social by Jerry Banfield on YouTube:
Source: https://youtu.be/TknuQYnmHEU
More of Jerry’s social media strategy: https://youtu.be/pJuGiJymBEY
Requirements for installing Blog2Social
The following links provide you with answers to any questions you may have before installing Blog2Social. Find information about specific system requirements for installing Blog2Social, compatibility with other plugins as well as security information.
System requirements for installing Blog2Social
Compatibility with other plugins
Do I need special folder permissions to install the plugin?
Where does Blog2Social save my personal data, passwords and usernames?
Setting up Blog2Social
Downloading and setting up Blog2Social is easy! It just takes 2 steps and 5 minutes to share your first post. Have a look at the following links for detailed information:
How do I download Blog2Social?
How do I install Blog2Social?
Basic settings
After having installed Blog2Social, take a look at the basic settings to adapt them to your personal needs. You can easily switch the language of the plugin and change the password and email of your account.
I want to change the language of Blog2Social. How can I switch?
How do I change the email and password of my Blog2Social account?
Notifications you might encounter
A slow server might result in a server-side timeout and the notification “The connection to the server failed. Please try again!” Follow the included link to find several solutions for this request.
Selecting the right Blog2Social license for your needs
Blog2Social offers FREE and PREMIUM licenses.
With Blog2Social FREE you can connect and share on your social media profiles of the following networks: Twitter, Facebook + Business Page, VK.com, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Xing, Bloglovin’, Tumblr, Torial, Medium, Flickr, Diigo, and Reddit.
You can also
- Tailor your posts with individual comments, #hashtags or @handles,
- Cross-promote your content on all your selected social media networks at once.
- Manage all blog posts and share the blog posts of all users of your blog (administrator rights required).
- Select and share images with your posts.
- Keep track of your social media posts with the posting dashboard.
- Re-share old posts.
- Automatically generate hashtags from your WP tags.
By upgrading to Blog2Social PREMIUM your license can be used by multiple users and you have even more advanced features for sharing and scheduling your posts, such as:
- Auto-post on social media business pages and groups.
- Transfer your Auto-Poster settings to other users (Business)
- Connect multiple accounts per social network
- Assign connected social network accounts to other users (Business version)
- Auto-schedule your social media posts with the pre-configured Best Time Scheduler, or save your own best time setting for each social network.
- Use advanced scheduling options for scheduling recurring posts.
- View and change your scheduled posts in a drag & drop calendar.
- Create and schedule multiple social media posts per profile, page, and group in one step.
- Use more setting options for tailoring your social media posts, i.e. select different post formats and images for each social media network and post.
- Vary your posts by sharing multiple images (Pro and Business Version) on Facebook and Twitter.
- Define network bundles for different social media campaigns.
- Social media reporting to track the status of your social media posts.
- and many more
Have a look at the following link to find out which license suits you best:
How do I select the right Blog2Social license for my Needs?
If you are thinking about upgrading to a Premium version of Blog2Social, you can test the Premium features for 30 days for free and without any obligations. When your free trial expires you can upgrade or your account will be automatically switched to a Blog2Social Free license.
Once you have decided which Premium license suits you best, click the following link for more information about the purchasing process: How can I buy Blog2Social Premium?
Activating your Blog2Social license
Depending on the license you choose you can use your license key for multiple users on one or more WordPress websites/domains. The license key is a string of 16 characters with a combination of numbers and “-” characters. For example: “1234-1234-1234-1234”. The following links provide you with helpful information concerning your license key, like where to find it and how to activate it.
Where do I find my license key?
How do I activate my license key?
Can I use one Blog2Social Premium license for more than one blog?
How to add more sites, groups and users?
You can top-up your license with additional sites and groups with an active Blog2Social Premium or Premium Business license:
- Facebook groups
- Facebook sites
- LinkedIn sites
The following link will provide you with helpful information and all steps for social media account connection top-ups: How to add more sites, groups and users?
You can also unlock Telegram for your Blog2Social license to connect your Telegram groups and channels. Broadcast your posts and messages automatically across your Telegram groups and channels and save time for your Telegram communication at: Blog2Social Pricing
Connecting social networks with Blog2Social
Once you have chosen your Blog2Social version you can get started with connecting social networks with Blog2Social.
Blog2Social currently supports 24 of the most popular social media. You can share your posts on profiles, on pages and in groups (depending on the network and your license). You can also connect multiple accounts per network.
Below you find further helpful information for each individual network and how you can connect it with Blo2Social.
Autoposting to Facebook can help you to save time and tiresome manual work, and skyrocket your engagement rate and blog traffic. Follow these instructions to learn how to connect your blog to Facebook for auto posting.
You have the option to connect your Facebook profile, page and/or group with Blog2Social. The following links will guide you through the process:
Connecting Blog2Social with Facebook Profiles
How do I connect Blog2Social with my Facebook profile?
Connecting Blog2Social with Facebook Pages
How do I connect Blog2Social with my Facebook page?
I connected my Facebook page, but I still cannot post to that page. What can I do?
Connecting Blog2Social with Facebook Groups
How do I connect Blog2Social with Facebook groups?
I cannot connect Blog2Social to Facebook groups, why?
How to automatically post to multiple groups on Facebook?
With 353 million active users, Twitter is the second largest social media network in the world. Learn how to automatically post customized tweets with Blog2Social: How to automatically share your blog post on Twitter?
In February 2018 Twitter changed their terms of service (TOS) in order to prevent malicious activity and spam. Learn more about the changes and what they mean for your work with Blog2Social here: Twitter terms of service update February 2018 + common questions
Sharing your blog post with images on Instagram can significantly increase your engagement rate and blog traffic. Learn how to connect Blog2Social with Instagram and how to auto post to Instagram with Blog2Social by using the included links. In Blog2Social it is possible to connect Instagram Business Accounts and publish content in an automated way. Learn how to connect Blog2Social with Instagram Business account and how to auto post to Instagram and how to auto post to Instagram with Blog2Social.
Convert to an Instagram Business account
If you have a personal Instagram profile, consider converting it to a business account to take advantage of its many additional features.
An Instagram Business account has many more features than a private profile, such as running ads or setting up an online store on Instagram, as well as the ability to get insights into the performance of your posts on Instagram.
You can also make it easy for your followers to contact you with a dedicated contact button, add information about your business and industry, and much more.
You’ll only need a Facebook page to link your Instagram Business account to.
The following guide will show you, how to convert your Personal Profile:
How to convert your Personal Instagram Profile into a Business Account.
Connecting a Facebook page can be done from within Facebook or directly on Instagram.
The following guide will show you how to easily connect your Instagram Business account with your Facebook page step by step:
How to connect your Instagram Business Account with your Facebook page.
After you have checked and configured these two requirements, you can now connect your Instagram Business account with Blog2Social. You can find out how to do this in the guide:
How can I connect Blog2Social to my Instagram Business Account?
If you want to connect Blog2Social with your Pinterest profile, use this link for instructions:
How do I connect Blog2Social with Pinterest?
With Blog2Social you can connect your LinkedIn profile as well as LinkedIn pages. Find out here how to connect Blog2Social with the business network:
How do I connect Blog2Social with my LinkedIn profile?
How do I connect Blog2Social with my LinkedIn page?
With Blog2Social, you can post not only to your XING profile and XING groups, but also to your XING company page.
How can I connect Blog2Social to my XING profile?
How can I connect Blog2Social to my XING page?
How can I connect Blog2Social with XING groups?
Google My Business
With Blog2Social, you can post not only to your XING profile and XING groups, but also to your XING company page.
Your Google My Business business listing is your digital business card. It is the first point of contact when customers and interested parties search for your company. As soon as someone searches for your business on Google, your business listing appears at the top right of the search results and is the primary focus of attention.
Publish your blog posts directly in your Google My Business listing and attract attention even before interested people visit your website.
With Blog2Social it is easy to share your WordPress posts and pages as Google Posts on your Google My Business business profile to bring your posts directly on top of page 1 of the Google search results for your brand or business.
You can also publish your social media posts on Google My Business and refresh your Google Posts automatically.
Learn more about how to connect and share on Google My Business with Blog2Social:
How to share your blog posts on Google My Business automatically
Connecting Google My Business – Things to check
The social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website Reddit allows users to submit content to the site such as links, text posts, and images, which are then voted up or down by other members. Find out here how to connect Blog2Social with Reddit.
Medium, Tumblr, Torial
Blog2Social enables you to not only share and post your WordPress posts to Social Media but also re-publish your whole posts on blog networks like Tumblr, Medium, and Torial. Find out here how to connect the networks with Blog2Social:
How do I connect Blog2Social with Medium?
How do I connect Blog2Social with Tumblr?
How do I connect Blog2Social with Torial?
You can also create and share posts consisting of links, video links, images and text on the networks Torial, Tumblr and Google My Business.
Bloglovin’
To boost your reach and visibility online and to put your content in front of a great community of readers, you should consider automatically re-publish your blog posts on Bloglovin’. Find out here how to connect Bloglovin’ with Blog2Social to automatically re-publish blog posts on Bloglovin’.
Diigo
The social bookmarking website Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community which allows you to bookmark and tag Web pages. Find out here how to connect Blog2Social with Diigo.
Instapaper
Instapaper enables you to save articles and links to be read later in a web browser or on mobile devices running on iOS or Android (operating systems) or on an Amazon Kindle device. The Instapaper platform allows you to save web pages that you select via “bookmarklet” and presents the articles they contain in a minimal, comfortable layout optimized for convenient reading.
For bulk processes, it is also possible to import or export bookmarks and links with .csv files. With Blog2Social, you can easily schedule and share your WordPress website links automatically as well as links from any other source to your Instapaper account.
>> Learn more about how to connect Blog2Social with Instapaper?
Flickr
Flickr is an image- and video-hosting website. Its community is home to tens of billions of photos and 2 million groups. Join it and find out how to connect Blog2Social with Flickr.
Blogger
Blogger is a blog-publishing and content management system (CMS) for blogs. It is free and easy to use. To use Blogger, people with existing Google accounts can use their existing account to sign up; new users will need to set up a Google account first.
>> Learn more about how to connect Blog2Social with Blogger.com.
Ravelry
Ravelry is a social network that provides a comprehensive tool for organizing handmade crafts such as knitting, crocheting, spinning, and weaving. Ravelry was founded to help members share and exchange ideas about their projects. For example, to discuss one’s patterns, yarns, designs or even finished products with other community members.
If you provide content or products for handcrafts, you can sign up to Ravelry quickly and easily if you don’t have a Ravelry profile yet. Just authenticate your profile with your access credentials in the Blog2Social network overview to connect your Ravelry profile to the Blog2Social plugin.
>> Learn more about how to connect and share content from my website on Ravelry?
VK
As one of the leading social networks worldwide, with over 410 million registered users and over 710 million hits per day, VK.com attracts a massive amount of traffic every single day. So find out here how to connect your blog to VK for auto posting.
Telegram
Telegram has become a major channel for connecting with people and sending messages to a virtually unlimited audience. Many Telegram groups reach hundreds of thousands of members. Blog2Social allows you to automatically share your WordPress posts, pages, and products as well as custom post types to Telegram groups and channels.
Likewise, it is possible to simply schedule posts and then automatically publish them to Telegram using Blog2Social.
The following guide will lead you step by step through the setup/connection process in Blog2Social and Telegram:
How do I connect my website with my Telegram Group or Telegram Channel for auto-posting?
Creating profiles for network selections
Blog2Social also enables you to create profiles for your favorite network selections. This way you can bundle specific networks for different social media campaigns. This link provides you with more detailed information: Can I save a specific selection of Networks?
If you need help with disconnecting any of your social networks, click this link for more details: How do I disconnect one of my social networks?
Share links directly from your browser on Social Media with the Blog2Social Browser Extension
Besides, Blog2Social Browser Extension gives you the possibility to share interesting links instantly from your browser on major social media networks.
You can also share an exciting article with your followers or fans right at the moment you discover it. Or save it for later. Conveniently with just a few clicks in the Blog2Social browser extension.
The following instructions will guide you comfortably step by step through the setup process of the browser extension:
Share links directly from your browser on Social Media with the Blog2Social Browser Extension
Sharing and customizing social media posts
With Blog2Social you can easily share your blog posts on social media. Learn everything you need to know about sharing posts on your selected social networks and how to customize your social media posts.
Sharing social media post images
To get the very best out of images in social media posts, it’s helpful to prepare the images in the best size and format for each social network. In the following guide, you’ll find all the information and an infographic about the optimal social media image sizes for each available social media network in Blog2Social:
The best social media image sizes
Sharing social media posts
If you want to share your blog posts on social media, just go to the Blog2Social submenu in your WordPress admin panel, click “Posts & Sharing” and select the blog post you want to share on social media. Click on the green button “Share on Social Media” to access the preview panel.
Customizing social media posts
When you have accessed the preview panel, Blog2Social enables you to customize and tailor your social media posts for each social network. Learn how you can add individual comments, hashtags, handles, emojis, and images to your posts for each network:
How to delete the text automatically generated by Blog2Social.
How do I customize my social media posts individually?
How to share individual images on social media?
How do I select the image I want to share on social media?
How to share multiple images in one post?
How do I insert individual hashtags in my posts?
How do I add emojis to my social media posts?
When you write your posting text Blog2Social shows you a character count, and for specific networks also a character limit. You can see how many characters you have left in the upper right-hand corner of your Social Media post preview.
Save your customized social media post as drafts
Saving your customized social media posts as drafts makes it easier for you to take a break whenever you like and continue working at a later time. Or, use your drafts for repurposing your social media posts. Just save your customized and scheduled social media posts as drafts and re-use these drafts again.
Blog2Social helps you save your work, even if you need to stop right in the middle of your customizing and scheduling process. With the introduction of drafts, you can now save your customized social media posts in Blog2Social whenever you like and easily continue, edit or share your customizations at a later time.
This way you can easily create different posts with different texts, images, hashtags and formats for each network and save them for later. You can also save your scheduling dates or recurring scheduling in the draft.
How can I save my social media posts as drafts?
Customizing post templates
Post templates help you automatically customize your social media posts. Customizing your default post layouts will turn your social media posts automatically into a unique structure for each network and community. The post templates allow you to automatically customize your social media posts with a unique structure by defining the sequence of variables for the title, excerpt, content, and keywords.
WooCommerce variable:
Price: WooCommerce product price (prices from the WooCommerce shop can be selected as a variable in the posting templates. This requires an active WooCommerce installation in your WordPress environment.)
With the price variable enabled, you will see the product price as a digit in your post preview. In order to show a currency next to the price, you can enter a static currency character such as “$” or “€” following the variable.
For example:
{PRICE}$ – {TITLE}
{CONTENT}
Customizing post templates
Blog2Social offers the option in the post templates to enable or disable URL link integration to your website posts URL.
URL links can be optionally added to the following social media networks:
• Facebook profiles (image post format)
• Facebook pages (image post format)
• Twitter (image post format)
• Instagram – Business (not clickable)
• Telegram
By checking the box below, you can enable or disable the automatic integration of the URL link to your website in your posts.
Facebook network Post-Template URL option in the post templates:
Twitter network Post-Template URL option in the post templates:
Instagram network Post-Template URL option in the post templates:
Telegram post link option in the post templates:
How do I use post templates for my social media posts?
Quick access to social media network templates
- Google My Business
- VKontakte
- Bloglovin
- Tumblr
- Medium
- Torial
- Flickr
- Diigo
- Telegram
- Blogger
- Instapaper
- Ravelry
With the Blog2Social Business license you are also able to use custom taxonomies in the post-templates with the help of individually coded functions that are interacting with Blog2Social hooks.
You will find a detailed overview at: Blog2Social hooks: Filters & Actions
Sharing videos with Blog2Social
You can easily share your video files to Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube and Vimeo with Blog2Social. With the new video feature, sharing your video content integrates flawlessly into your social media sharing workflow.
Simply select your videos from your media library or upload videos to your WordPress media library to share them with Blog2Social.
To share your video files, simply go to Blog2Social -> Social Media Posts -> Video Upload (NEW).
If you upload a video file to your media gallery, add a description and a strong title to your videos and matching hashtags !
If you select a video from your WordPress media library Blog2Social automatically imports your video title and caption from your meta tags into the video post templates.
If your video file is not labeled with metatext, you can enter or edit a descriptive title and description for your video in the post preview editor.
You can optionally customize all fields for each social platform individually, for example to add specific #hashtags or links.
Please note that you need to have a verified YouTube profile to add clickable links to your video description.
You can share your video content to Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube and Vimeo to promote it in one simple and convenient workflow!
Learn more about how to share videos on social media
Tips for Auto-posting with Blog2Social
Auto-Posting is the fastest and easiest way to share your blog post on social media.
The Blog2Social Auto-Posting feature enables you to automatically share your post immediately whenever you publish a new WordPress post. Or, you can automatically schedule your social media posts for a specific date, with the Best Time Manager or with your personal best time settings for each network.
In addition, you also have the option to automatically post blog posts imported via RSS feeds to Facebook, Twitter, Google My Business and Telegram. The Auto-Poster for imported posts also provides you with extended filtering functions to include or exclude specific post types and categories.
1. Share blog posts via auto-poster: Your posts will be shared fully-automatically on your social media channels as soon as you publish or update a new post.
How do I auto-post and auto-schedule blog posts on social media with the Social Media Auto-Poster?
You can easily configure the auto-poster settings in the specific menu in Blog2Social.
Path: Your WordPress installation -> Blog2Social -> Dashboard -> Share posts automatically.
Alternatively, Auto-Poster can be enabled or disabled on a post-specific basis directly in the WordPress post, giving you full control over which posts, pages or products should be published automatically.
Share blog posts by auto-poster on a post-specific basis:
Path: Your WordPress installation -> Posts -> Edit -> Right sidebar menu -> Blog2Social.
Steps:
1.Click Advanced Settings.
2. Activate auto-posting specific to the post.
3. Define when the post should be published. There is an option to automatically share the post with Blog2Social immediately after publishing or publish the post at the previously configured “best times”.
2. Share imported posts from RSS feeds via auto-poster: Posts that you import via RSS feeds are shared on your social media channels in a fully automated way.
How to auto post imported RSS feeds and blog posts on Social Media
Tips for Scheduling and the Blog2Social Best Time Manager
Cross-promoting your blog posts on social media and putting them in front of your target audience will help you to drive more traffic, new readers, and potential customers to your blog or website.
But the outreach of your post is depending on the level of activity in your community at the time you publish your post. The time when your community is most active can vary across the various social networks.
For example, posts on Twitter and LinkedIn are most likely to get the most attention during rush hours in the morning and afternoon, that is before and after office hours. On Facebook and Pinterest, your posts are most likely to get the most attention in the afternoon and evening hours.
In order to extend the lifetime and reach of your posts, you should also consider sharing your posts on different days and times across your networks.
With Blog2Social you can easily schedule your social media posts at the best times when your community is most active to increase your outreach, likes, shares, retweets and finally your site traffic.
In Blog2Social, you are also able to set the time format to 24h or to 12h (am/pm) in the Blog2Social settings.
The following links provide you with information about scheduling your posts once or recurrently:
Also, learn about the Blog2Social Best Time Manager to auto-schedule your posts at the best times and how to set and save your own best time settings.
The following blog post highlights the best times for social media posts depending on the individual social media networks available in Blog2Social.
Infographic: The best times for social media posts
For the compilation of the “Best Times for Social Media Posts”, social media posts from 60,000 companies and bloggers from around the world were analyzed. For the analysis, posts on the most important social media networks were evaluated according to time and engagement rate.
How to schedule your social media post one-time, multiple times and recurrently
With Blog2Social you can either schedule a blog post to be shared once or on a recurring scheduling scheme. You can choose whether you want to repeat your content every week, every month or according to your own chosen interval. Find more information here:
How do I schedule blog posts to be shared only once?
How do I publish blog posts on a recurring scheduling scheme?
How do I schedule the posting of not yet published blog posts in advance?
Once you have scheduled your posts you have the option to have a look at them again, change their planned posting time, edit or delete them. Find out:
How do I see scheduled posts?
How do I change the time of already scheduled posts?
How do I delete already scheduled Posts?
Re-sharing posts with Blog2Social
With Blog2Social, you can not only share your latest WordPress posts on social media, but you can also re-share your old posts.
You can also republish your posts on blogging networks like Tumblr, Medium and Torial.
Path: Your WordPress installation -> Pages & Blog Content -> Shared Posts -> Select Post -> Re-share this post.
Take a look at the following link for more detailed information:
How do I re-share shared posts?
Schedule your posts at the best times to maximize engagement
By sharing your posts at the best times you can catch the time slots when followers are most active. This will increase the likelihood of grabbing their attention when you appear in your followers’ feeds. For your convenience Blog2Social provides a ready-to-use pre-configured Best Time Scheduler you can apply with a simple click. If you know which times work best for you, you can also save your own preferred times as Best Time Settings. Learn how to use the best-time-scheduler and how to set your own times:
How do I schedule blog posts to be shared on social media in advance, using the best-time-scheduler?
How do I set my own time setting to post on social media?
Path: Your WordPress installation -> Blog2Social -> Networks -> Right-hand side of each connected social media network
If you are really active in social media and have many social media posts scheduled in Blog2Social day by day, it can become quite hard to keep track of your scheduling. Find out how to access the Drag & Drop Social Media Calendar to get a better overview and easily edit your scheduled posts: How do I access the calendar feature of Blog2Social?
Failed social media posts
In Blog2Social’s social media calendar, failed scheduled posts are displayed with a warning symbol. The notification, why your post didn’t get shared, is displayed by mouseover & mouse click on the exclamation mark now.
By clicking on the warning symbol, a detailed error notification for the respective post is displayed in the calendar overview in a pop-up window.
Social Media Posts: Share text messages, links, images or videos from any sources on your social media accounts
Beside your original website content, Blog2Social allows you to share any content from any source you want to share with your followers on social media. Schedule your social media posts with any text, link, image or video to automatically fill your social media feeds with a consistent content mix of your original WP content and any other content you wish to share.
How to create social media posts and share images, text, and links on social media
Learn how to share any link with Blog2Social
Learn more about Content Curation for Your Blog and Social Media Marketing
Advanced network settings
Below you can find further helpful information regarding your individual preferences for specific network settings which help you to work with Blog2Social even more efficiently:
Re-publishing blog posts
Blog2Social provides you with the option to re-publish your posts on blog networks like Tumblr, Medium, and Torial. Take a look at the following link for more detailed information:
How do I re-publish blog posts on Tumblr, Medium, and Torial?
Post settings
For some networks, such as Facebook, and Flickr, Blog2Social provides you the option to insert the complete text of your WordPress post as a comment for your social media post. Find out here: how to insert the full-length text of your post.
Open Graph and Twitter Card Parameters
In order to control the look of your link post preview and image, you can add or edit the Open Graph meta tags on your websites. Open Graph tags were developed by Facebook to improve the correspondence between websites and social media platforms. This information in your meta tags tells the respective social network which image to pull and display in an automatically generated link preview when sharing a URL.
Find out more about open graph tags by clicking the following link:
What are open graph tags and what do I use them for?
In the sections below you can find specific instructions for the individual networks.
Post Format
Blog2Social enables you to choose between the post formats Image Post and Link Post. This gives you the opportunity to select the best post format for each of your social media posts.
The image post format sets the focus on your image. If you click on the image, the image will enlarge. When using Blog2Social, your link is inserted as a clickable link below your text.
The link post format sets the focus on your link and blog content. A link preview is automatically generated by the network with the information pulled from your blog posts’ open graph tags.
Use the following link to learn more about the differences between Image Post and Link Post.
Find more detailed information concerning the selection of the post format for specific networks below.
When posting on Facebook you can choose between two post formats: a link post or a photo post. See this link to find out the difference and learn how to select a post format: How do I select the post-type of my Facebook posts?
Please note that this option is displayed as soon as you choose the image post-type.
Share multiple images
With Blog2Social you can also share your WP blog posts with multiple images to Facebook (pages and groups). You can easily do this by going to your Blog2Social Site & Blog Content and clicking on “Share on social media” at the post you would like to share. When you edit the post you can choose up to 4 images from your blog post or media gallery.
Sharing content with your followers on Facebook is now easier than ever with Instant Sharing for Facebook. Instant Sharing does not only let you share content on your Facebook Profile but also in Groups, Events and more. Learn how to use all the new features of Facebook Instant Sharing including @handles, emotions, and more customizing features.
Sharing content with your followers on Facebook is now easier than ever with Instant Sharing for Facebook. Instant Sharing does not only let you share content on your Facebook Profile but also in Groups, Events and more. Learn how to use all the new features of Facebook Instant Sharing including @handles, emotions, and more customizing features.
All networks are different and follow different rules when it comes to images sizes. Find out here: What is the best image size for Facebook Posts?
If you post to Facebook and no image or the wrong image appears in your post, please see the link included to find out why.
If you want to monitor the reach of your Facebook posts you can do so in your Facebook business manager. This link provides you with instructions: How can I monitor the reach of my Facebook Posts?
If you want to change your privacy settings to adjust the visibility of your Facebook posts, see this link for more information: How can I change the visibility settings of my Facebook Posts?
Notifications you might encounter
Use this link to find a solution to the question: Why do I receive the error message “Post not found” when posting a link post to Facebook?
When posting on Twitter you can choose between two post formats: a link post or a photo post.
Selecting an individual image for Twitter
Twitter provides different post formats for tweets. You can either share a link and an automatic preview of your post or an image with an additional 280 character comment. Use this link to learn how to select an image for your Twitter post: How do I select an image for Twitter?
All social media networks are different and follow different rules when it comes to image sizes. Use this link to find out what is the best image size for Twitter: What is the best image size for Twitter Posts?
Share multiple images
With Blog2Social you can also share your WP blog posts with multiple images to Twitter. You can easily do this by going to your Blog2Social Site & Blog Content and clicking on “Share on social media” at the post you would like to share. When you edit the post you can choose up to 4 images from your blog post or media gallery.
Using Twitter Cards to control the appearance and post format of tweets
If you want to control the appearance of your photos, videos or link tweets on Twitter, setting the right Twitter Card Meta Tags in your blog posts’ metadata is important! But what are Twitter Cards and why are they so essential? Find out here: What are Twitter Cards?
Important changes to Twitter’s terms of service
In February 2018 Twitter changed their terms of service (TOS) in order to prevent malicious activity and spam. Learn more about the changes and what they mean for your work with Blog2Social here: Twitter terms of service update February 2018 + common questions
Notifications you might encounter
If you are notified that Twitter has blocked your account, please log in to https://twitter.com to unlock your account.
When posting on Instagram you can choose between two post formats: An image with a frame or an image cut out.
All networks are different and follow different rules when it comes to image sizes. If you have posted to Instagram with Blog2Social and your image is not displayed the way you wanted it to or not at all, the size of your image could be the reason. See this link for more detailed information: Why doesn’t Instagram post my image or display my image incorrectly?
If you have posted an image with a comment and hashtags to Instagram and only the image is published on the network, you might have used too many hashtags. Find out more details here: Why does my Instagram post appear without captions and hashtags?
Notifications you might encounter
If you are notified that Instagram has blocked your account, please follow the included link to find a solution.
An activated Hotlink-Protection might cause the following error message: “Your post could not be posted because your image is not available”. Please use the included link to find a solution.
All networks are different and follow different rules when it comes to image sizes. If you have posted to Pinterest with Blog2Social and Pinterest does not display your image or not in a way you want, the size of your image could be the reason. See this link for more detailed information: Why doesn’t Pinterest post my image or display my image incorrectly?
Notifications you might encounter
If you are notified that Pinterest has blocked your account, please follow the included link to find a solution.
An activated Hotlink-Protection might cause the following error message: “Your post could not be posted, because your image is not available”. Please use the included link to find a solution.
Reddit runs on a special policy. Each member receives “karma points” depending on how well his/her comments or posts perform. If your post was not published on Reddit, it can be due to the fact that you need a certain amount of “karma” to be able to submit your content Use this link to find a solution to the question: I submitted a post to Reddit but it was not posted, why?
If you are wondering why you cannot select all the subreddits you have subscribed to, follow this link: When I submit to reddit I cannot select all the subreddits I’ve subscribed to. Why?
Please note: The Reddit network does not support emojis!
Medium, Tumblr, Torial
This link provides you with instructions on how to automatically publish blog posts on Medium, Tumblr or Torial.
With Blog2Social you have the possibility to edit your blog posts before publishing them on Medium, Tumblr or Torial. For more details see this link:
How can I edit my blog post in the HTML editor for re-publishing on Medium, Tumblr and Torial?
Please note: Supported HTML tags: <p><br><i><b><a><img>
Posting to XING Groups is a great opportunity to share news related to a specific field of business and to reach and engage with target groups. However, when posting to XING groups there are several dos and don’ts considering posting frequency and cross-posting to multiple XING groups. Find out more by following this link: Dos and Don’ts for Posting to XING Groups
Learn how to connect and post to XING.
Bloglovin’
Bloglovin’ is a platform that allows users to read, organize, and discover their favorite blogs within the Bloglovin’ network on mobile and desktop devices. With Blog2Social you can easily publish and re-publish your WordPress posts and pages on your Bloglovin’ account.
Since your Website/Blog URL is invisibly implemented in your posts, your Bloglovin’ audience will drive more traffic to your Website as well. All clicks on your Bloglovin’ page will go straight to your page views. This is a great way to promote your content and multiply your reach and visibility.
Please note: The Bloglovin’ network does not support emojis and GIFs inside posts.
When posting on Linkedin you can choose between two post formats: a link post or a photo post.
You can read more about it at: How to automatically publish blog posts on Medium or LinkedIn Pulse?
Reporting
With Blog2Social you can keep track of your planned, scheduled and shared social media posts.
Whenever you share a post on social media, you will get a one-page report of your current sharing scheme (shared and scheduled social media posts with links to the respective network postings).
Blog2Social offers an easy-to-use social media reporting dashboard:
- View the complete list of your blog posts with links to the one-page preview editor to share and schedule the respective post
- View the list of all scheduled social media posts, grouped by blog posts, with links to every single scheduled social media post to edit date and time and the option to delete single or all scheduled social media posts
- View the lists of already published social media posts, grouped by blog posts, with deep links to the post in the respective social network.
- Each user can see their own posts
- Administrators can see all posts
To see your shared posts on social media or to delete them, you find detailed instructions in the following links:
How do I see shared social media posts?
How can I delete published social media posts in Blog2Social?
How can I delete shared posts in the freemium version of Blog2Social?
URL Shortener Integration
Make the most out of your social media marketing efforts by tracking your posted links with Bitly, Rebrandly or Snip.ly. To do this, activate one of these services in the Blog2Social settings and link your account to Blog2Social. Log into your account to track your engagement and see how your posts performed across all social media networks.
How do I activate / deactivate the link-shortener?
Learn how to use Bitly links for your social media posts
How to use the URL Shortener Rebrandly for your Social Media Strategy
How to use the URL Shortener Sniply and add CTA snips to your short links
Affiliate program
You like Blog2Social and you want to tell other WordPress users about the plugin? Do you review and recommend tools? Then monetize your promotion with our simple and effective affiliate program! It’s free and easy to join.
With our affiliate program, you will get 15% commission on every sale you generate using your referral link. And you will receive 5% commission for each of your recurring sales. Payment of the commission is possible at any time. There is no minimum turnover.
To join the Blog2Social Affiliate Program, you can register in just a few steps. Find detailed instructions here: How can I join the Blog2Social affiliate program?
If you are a part of our Affiliate Program, see these links to find out:
Where to find your affiliate link and
Where to find advertising material for Blog2Social.
Blog2Social provides various sales triggers for converting FREE users to PREMIUM upgrades. Affiliates can benefit from these sales. You can include your affiliate id into the wp-config.php of your own blog or any blog you install and configure for your users or clients. See the following link for detailed instructions: How can I place my affiliate ID in the plugin?
Also, find out how to get your commission in just a few steps by using the following link: How do I get my commission?
Conclusion
Whether you are an agency, a corporate blogger or writing for your own personal blog, automating your social media marketing with Blog2Social will help you boost your social media exposure and gain more outreach and traffic for your blog.
This step-by-step guide has led you through the basic and advanced social media marketing features of the Blog2Social WordPress solution.
If you have any questions regarding Blog2Social that have not been answered in this guide, please take a look at our FAQs or join the Blog2Social Support-Community to provide you with more qualified help and support for technical issues and to ask all your questions about working with Blog2Social.
You can easily join the Support-Community from your Blog2Social WordPress plugin dashboard.
You will find by following this path: Your WordPress installation -> Blog2Social -> Help & Support
You will also find detailed information and instructions about how to join the Blog2Social Support-Community at:
https://community.blog2social.com/register
