How to Share Old Blog Posts with Social Snap

Time spent thinking of a new blog post? 2 hours.

Time spent writing the new blog post? 3 hours.

Time spent editing the new blog post? 1 hour.

You get the point.

It takes hours to put out top-notch content. We get it.

Between the time you’ve spent to start a blog, design your site, gain a following, etc. Why let all that hard work get stale?

When it comes to creating fresh content for your site, you know the time it takes to put out quality content. It’d be a shame to think all your hard work is only shared the one time you share across your favorite social networks.

Lucky for you, Social Snap gives you the ability to share old blog posts with our “Boost” add-on.

Revive your existing posts automatically

It’s easy to let your old content die and become stale. With the ability to share old posts with Social Snap, you can keep your content fresh. Additionally, you have full control of where and when you want to share your content across the compatible social networks.

By sharing your old blog posts, you can build up even more social shares and offer more social proof. Social shares help with social proof. That’s why it’s important to keep them running. If you’ve had an issue losing your share count, check out how to recover share counts with Social Snap.

By using the “Boost Old Post” add-on feature from Social Snap, you can easily revive your existing posts by automatically posting them on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. It’s a great way to leverage all of your existing content and reach new visitors.

Important: Facebook has made a change to their API so that third-party apps don’t have permission to automatically share posts to Facebook Pages and Profiles. This affects the Boost Old Posts addon. If you have any questions regarding the new API, please head to Facebook Help Community.

Step 1. Install and Activate Boost Old Posts Add-On

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When you log in to your Social Snap account, you’ll see a “Downloads” section at the bottom. You’ll see access to download your additional social sharing add-ons.

Download the Boost Old Posts AddOn.

Step 2. Enable and Setup How You Share Old Blog Posts.

Once you enable the Boost Old Posts add-on, you’ll have to start adding the social network accounts you want to share your content with.

Remember, this feature works with Twitter and LinkedIn. Social Snap used to support Facebook until the API was updated.

Important: Facebook has made a change to their API so that third-party apps don’t have permission to automatically share posts to Facebook Pages and Profiles. This affects the Boost Old Posts addon. If you have any questions regarding the new API, please head to Facebook Help Community.

Step 3. Authenticate Accounts on Social Networks.

Depending on what Social Network you’ll be connecting you will need different keys to authenticate. You will see links within the admin to help you setup and install.

Additionally, here’s a link to our documentation how to setup and share old posts.

Step 4. Adjust Boost Old Blog Post Settings within Social Snap

These settings allow you to set general rules and default settings for all shareable content. Default settings can be overruled per entry, such as post content, hashtags, additional text before and after.

• How many posts to publish daily: Maximum number of posts to be publish during a 24 hour period. Posts will be published in even intervals depending on the number.
• Minimum post age (in days): Post must be older than 1 day.
• Maximum post age (in days): Insert 0 if you want unlimited age.
• Share a post more than once: Allow posts to be shared multiple times.
• Exclude categories: Don’t post an entry from these categories. Custom taxonomies are included.
• Share Post Types: Which post types you want to share.
• Post Content: Set default format of the content.
• Post Hashtags: Set default hashtags of the content.
• Additional text (before): Add text to the beginning of the generated post.
• Additional text (after): Add text to the end of the generated post.

Wrapping Up How to Share Old Blog Posts

This is the first iteration of this add-on and so far everyone seems to love it. It’s a much needed feature for those that are serious about getting the most out of their blog content.

Social sharing is such an effective way to gain more traffic from new visitors. Don’t risk letting your hard work on your content go stale.

If you have any feature requests with this add-on, we’d love to hear your thoughts.

Happy Sharing! ?