Using LinksAlpha for Network Publishing

Are you a social guy? Do you like sharing your blog with your contacts, friends or followers? How do you do that? 🙂

I try to be as much social as I can be. This is the arena of “social business” and I don’t wanna miss the extra traffic I get from my online society. Yes, social networks could be a very good source of online traffic; not to mention that additional help you get from companies like The Marketing Heaven to increase the inflow of traffic. The people who follow you on twitter or connect you on facebook usually share similar likes / dislikes. Typically these people would interact with your contents and spend time on your blog. The drawback is you have to keep them updated about new contents on your site. I linked my Twitter to Facebook and used to share new posts on Twitter and occasionally on both networks.

But do you feel comfortable with manually sharing your posts? No? Keep reading! I came across LinksAlpha.com. It collects data from your websites and publish the contents on your social networks with your username / account. Guess what, they even have a nice WP plugin.

First go to linksalpha.com and get an account. I used Google OpenID. Then add your social networks. In the free version you can add up to 5 networks. I added one facebook fan page, my facebook profile and my twitter.

Then install the “network publisher” plugin into WP. This plugin will ask you for API Keys. These keys are auto generated when you connect to a network on LinksAlpha. Please note the API key for each of the networks and add them one after one in the WP plugin settings.

Now you’re done! Whenever you make a new blog post, your world knows about it! 😀