Using your RSS feed URL to share your blog posts on social media

You can automate the sharing of your blog posts on social media by using Hootsuite and SmarterQueue with your DropInBlog RSS feed link. Hootsuite and SmarterQueue are both social media scheduling and management tools.

This is the only way you can share your blog posts on social media due to social media platforms not fully supporting JavaScript-generated content. We explain this issue with more detail here.

You can check out Hootsuite and SmarterQueue to determine which platform to use as there aren’t any significant differences between the two tools if you are just using them to solve this social sharing problem.

Step 1: Get your RSS Feed link:

The first thing you need to do is retrieve your DropInBlog's RSS feed URL, which is done by first accessing Settings:

Click Social Feeds (RSS) under Blog URL




Then copy your Main Feed URL

Step 2: Setting up Hootsuite or SmarterQueue

Once you have your RSS feed URL, follow the instructions below to automate social media posting with Hootsuite or SmarterQueue.

Hootsuite:

You can install the Hootsuite Syndicator app by Synaptive to set up auto-publishing for your blog posts to be automatically published on your social media accounts.

Create an account. Then...

Follow this detailed article by Synaptive on how to use the DropInBlog RSS feed URL to set up automated publishing on your social media accounts.

SmarterQueue:

Create an account. Then...

Follow this detailed article by SmarterQueue on how to use the DropInBlog RSS feed URL to set up automated publishing on your social media accounts.

Updated on: 04/01/2024