This article guides you through posting a news item or other article to your Facebook Page, to drive more traffic to your website.

Are you posting regular updates to your Facebook Page but not your website?  Why not use your Facebook Page to drive traffic to your website by adding the update to your site, and then posting a link to it on Facebook? 

Why you should be posting links back to your site on your Facebook Page

• you get the benefit of fresh content on your site (Google really likes fresh content - it can help boost your search rankings)
• Google likes your site to have incoming links (links to your site from other places)
• you don't have to spend ages uploading pictures and posting images to Facebook, to then have to repeat the process adding it your website
• it's a great way to drive more people from your Facebook Page to your site

How to post a News Item to your Facebook Page

1. Sign in to your website and add your news item and image
2. Proofread your news item for spelling mistakes, typos and grammatical errors
3. Make sure you've included a 'Summary' of less than 160 characters
4. Once you're happy with your news item, sign out of your website, go to the news item and highlight the URL
5. Copy the URL
6. Scroll down to the empty 'Status' box (that should have the 'What have you been up to?' question in the text box)
7. Click in the box and paste the URL to your news item
8. Wait for a few seconds, and you should then see a title, blurb, and image from your news item appear in a box below the URL
9. Erase the URL, and replace it with a short message promoting the news item, that should encourage people to click on the box to be taken through to your website, where they can read the whole article.
10. Qucikly check the message you've just written for mistakes, and then choose 'Post'