Wix Blog: Using Facebook Instant Articles with Wix Blog
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Facebook Instant Articles are a great way to showcase your Wix Blog across Facebook and give your readers an improved, smoother experience when reading your blog posts. Some of the advantages of Instant Articles are:
- Load much faster than regular Facebook articles
- Are 3x more likely to be shared across Facebook
- Offer more analytics
Instant Articles are also a great way to start monetizing your posts by introducing advertising into your content.
Important:
- You need to have published at least 10 blog posts to use Instant Articles.
- You need to have a Facebook business page.
- It takes 3-5 days for your blog posts to be reviewed by Facebook.
Step 1 | Set up Facebook Instant Articles
First, you need to set up Facebook Instant Articles on your Facebook account.
To set up Facebook Instant Articles:
- Go to Facebook Instant Articles.
- Log in to your Facebook account.
- Click Start Earning.
- Using this guide from Facebook, follow the steps to complete the set up in Creator Studio.
- Copy the meta tag under Connect Your Site: Claim Your URL. (You'll need this for step 2).
Tip:
Leave the Facebook tab open on your browser. You'll need to go back later to paste in the RSS feed link from your Wix site.
Step 2 | Connect Instant Articles to your blog
Once you've signed up on Facebook, you need to connect Instant Articles to your Wix site. You can do this by adding a tag to your homepage.
Note:
If Facebook detects any errors in your blog posts, you can edit them from inside Facebook.
To connect Facebook Instant Articles to your blog:
Wix Editor
Studio Editor
- Click Pages and Menu
on the left side of the editor. - Click the More Actions icon
next to the relevant page. - Click SEO Basics.
- Click the Advanced SEO tab.
- Click Additional Tags.
- Click Add New Tag.
- Paste your Facebook meta tag under HTML Code.
- Click Apply.
- Publish your site
- Get your RSS feed link.
- Go back to your Facebook account.
- Enter the RSS feed link in Production RSS Feed: Choose Your Publishing Platform.
Want to learn more?
Check out our complete step-by-step guide to blogging or watch the video in Wix Learn on promoting your blog on social media.
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