In a previous post I showed how to get traffic to your blog from Facebook. This is an easy way to get traffic to your blog via Facebook and if someone likes your article and share it with his or her friends you can be exposing your blog to a new audience as well. In that post I showed how to use "Notes" application in Facebook to import the posts from your blog. Although its a useful way to promote your posts on Facebook it does have some limitations. Blog Box tries to solve some of the limitations in "Notes" and give you more options with the posts you publish to your Facebook feed.Lets take a look at some of the features in Blog Box.

Features you get with Blog Box

I will list down the features in Blog Box and how it compares to the importing your blog posts through the "Notes" application.

• Automatically import posts from your blog. ( same as Notes )
• Editing your posts from Facebook. This will come in handy if you want to edit the excerpt a bit more to suit your Facebook friends or you want to add an extra link in your post shown in Facebook.
• Link to the original post and proper link shown in the post. This is one of the biggest benefits of using Blog Box. Under the excerpt there is a link to the original post instead of a redirect shown in Notes ( http://rumblinglankan.com instead of http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=74751075689&h =b4484e60153c636&url= http%3A%2F%2Frumblinglankan.com ). Also inside the posts the proper links are shown instead of redirects.
• Original post tags are shown. The tags given to the blog post are shown on Facebook and if the reader clicks on them posts relevant to that tags are shown.
• Profile box and profile tab available ( same as Notes )
• RSS feed available ( same as Notes )
• If you are not importing post but using it as a stand alone blogging application in Facebook there are some additional features like Adding YouTube video to your posts etc.

As you can see Blog Box offers lot more functionality than the "Notes" application that comes with Facebook. If you already using "Notes" to import your blog posts to Facebook then Blog Box is a far better way to do it. If you are not importing your blog posts to Facebook then I suggest you give it a try using Blog Box.