Facebook has now emerged as a main stream Social Media Platform for almost all the people around the world. It popularity can be largely be guessed by seeing its Alexa ranking which is now #3 after Google #1 and Yahoo #2. I guess it will be # 2 after 1-2 years but that’s not the point.

The point is the amount of traffic you will be generating to your site when you use facebook as a platform for promotion of your blogs and websites (not spam it). Imagine the amount of traffic when you blog posts will hit the live activity stream of each of your friends home page on facebook. It has other advantages also beside just creating the buzz, it will help your blog/blog posts to get indexed fast by search engines. It can also help make your posts go Viral among your friends and Fans but it usually depends upon the content. Facebook has become an important tool for Social Media Marketing these days.

In this post I am going to jot down the Ways in which Facebook can be used to spread the word around for your websites and blog posts (blogs).

1. Networked Blogs – It is the most easiest ways to get your blog posts show up in the activity stream of your and your friends. It is a facebook application which can be add to your profile just like the normal apps. It can be found at http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/. After going to this link you will find an option of ADD YOUR BLOG click it and add your blog feed or URL that you want to import in. This app also provides a Widget which you can place on your blog or website to show and gain more fan following. This widget also can be used to declare that you are an author of this blog. You can control which blog posts are shared and which are not. You can also become the fans of other blogs whic you find informative and useful. The benefit of this App. is that it creates a link that refers to your original post on your website.
2. Notes - This is also a good way to import all your blog posts automatically.  It is like a cron job which is run to check the new updates on your blog. This is the default app. from facebook. This has a limitation of only one blog imported at a time automatically. You can manually add notes also to this be clicking ADD NOTES button. You can add feeds to this by going to the APPLICATION SETTINGS menu  under SETTINGS and then goint to NOTES and EDIT APPLICATION SETTINGS. Unsubscribing from a feed is also easy.
3. Fan Pages- You can make pages for your business or website on facebook and then promote those pages among your friends and fans. This is also a default feature that is provided by facebook. You can have fans for your pages. Businesses and websites can show thier information and work profile and share latest news and companies blog posts with the fans.  You can create a Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/advertising/?pages
4. Links – This is also a default feature of facebook wherin you can share your favourite links which can be beneficial to your friends and fans. You can also subscribe to your shared links. Importing the links from particular blogs is also possible with this app.
5. Facebook Share – This works like normal DIGG IT  and Thumbs UP features on the sites. It will allow you to place a button on you website under blog posts or anywhere and let the visitore cominf to your site share it with their friends on facebook, as a result generating a VIRAL marketing technique. To get started with this click> http://www.facebook.com/advertising/?share
6. Facebook Connect – With this app you will increase traffic, increase registrations and increase activity to your website. You can gain access to User’s Identity: a user’s name, photos, Friends, Distribution: all of the integration points within Facebook, like stream stories and notifications, Integration: profile boxes, profile tabs, and publishers just like apps on Facebook. There is also a wordpress plugin to make this app. integration a Breezer.  To get started with this app click > http://www.facebook.com/advertising/?connect

The most important thing to mention here is not to overdo any of these things as this will make your sharing sound like a SPAM and please please do not make use of these features to promote SPAM. Let me now Promote this post myself.