How to Register Your Blog on NetworkedBlogs.com (for Facebook)

August 25, 2010

Have you added your blog to NetworkedBlogs yet? Or, are you following blogs on facebook using the newtoworked blogs “follow” feature? More importantly, what exactly is NetworkedBlogs, and could it benefit you? I came across NetworkedBlogs a few months ago on facebook when I started to notice that several friends had begun promoting their “networked” blog on their facebook page. With the traffic that Facebook gets, it certainly makes a lot of sense to "network" your blog there.

According to their website, NetworkedBlogs is the “coolest blog directory on the web.” That could mean many things, but here are their three main bullet points:

- Get Found: If a blog is not read by anyone, does it really exist?
- Visual Blogroll: Show off a thumbnail image of your blog on your Facebook profile
- Discover: Find top blogs in humor, politics, technology, and more.

They boast 300,000 blogs (and growing). I would imagine most people come across NetworkedBlogs on facebook, instead of on the NetworkedBlogs homepage. For this reason, I’m going to explain the process that was involved for me to add my blog to NetworkedBlogs on facebook.

How to Add Your Blog to NetworkedBlogs

Go to www.NetworkedBlogs.com

Click on “Add Your Blog” – this will take you to the NetworkedBlogs page on facebook, then click on "register a blog".
Follow the steps to register your blog (see example below…I’d already registered this blog so the example is my jewelry blog)
Answer “yes” when asked if you are the author of the blog
You now have two options to “verify” that you own your blog. For this example, I’m going to select the second option, which is “use widget to verify ownership”
Copy the HTML code you will find in the box on the next screen under “copy the following HTML code”
In a new window, login to your blog. If using blogger, click on “Design”, “Add a gadget” and then click on the “+” sign next to the HTML widget option
Name your widget “NetworkedBlogs” and paste the code you copied into the box, click “save” to close the widget and save when it returns you to your design screen
Click back over to your facebook window where you are on the NetworkedBlogs screen

Click on “Verify Widget”

You will be verified and see a green bar, click “next”

You’ll see “This is your blogs page, now let’s activate publishing to Facebook” text with a “Set up Syndication” button. Click on the blue syndication button.

Now you can choose to check the “auto-publish to perfonal profile” so that each new post you make on your blog with auto-publish on Facebook. Note: if you have a facebook business page for your company blog, you may choose to not check this box (see next step).
If you have a facebook business page for your company, it makes great sense to configure the page to auto-publish new blog posts. To do this, click on “Configure” button next to your fan page, then “install”
Click “add networked blogs”. This should bring up your facebook business page. Be sure you checked “auto-publish posts to page wall”

This will bring up a Request for permission window. Click “allow” to allow auto-posting of your blog posts to your wall.
Click “publish a test post”, then click on “view your page to see it”. You should see a post like the one below on your facebook business page wall.
You’re all set! You may choose to click on “back to blog page” at the bottom of the networked blogs screen. From the networkedblogs page on facebook, you can search for friends blogs, or browse by type.
When I clicked on “friends”, it displayed a list of networked blogs that my friends have added to facebook. At this point, I can click “follow” to add any to my networked blogs facebook feed.
In the future, when you login to Facebook, just click on “NetworkedBlogs” below your news feed to find the blogs you follow.