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Publish the Same Blog Post to Multiple Blogging Sites at Once

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Problem: You got multiple blogs hosted on different blogging platforms and are looking for simple ways to cross-post or publish the same blog post on all these blogs at once.

Solution: There are several options / workarounds but my favorite is Blog It! – this blogging editor is available as a Facebook application and lets you send the same article to multiple blogs in one go.

You first associate all your different blog accounts with Blog It! and then check the ones where you want to publish that particle post. The blog editor supports only plain text but it can correctly parse all the included HTML tags.
And though Blog It! is a product of TypePad, it works will all popular blog platforms like Tumblr, Blogger, WordPress.com, self-hosted WordPress, Movable Type and LiveJournal.

The next good option is Ping.fm – It supports almost every blogging / micro-blogging platform and lets you publish blog posts from almost anywhere including instant messengers, mobile phone, FaceBook, email or the standard web based editor.
The Ping.fm service is more suitable for micro-blogs that publish short posts with a link or two as Ping.fm includes no formatting options and all links included in the post get auto-converted into tiny URLs. Ping.fm supports Flickr and MySpace.

Write To My Blog is a web based blog editor that lets you compose and simultaneously post the same blog entry on to three different blog services. It supports Blogger, WordPress and all other engines that implement the MetaWeblog API.
You may use the service without registration though in that case you’ll have to add the blog details each time you publish a new blog post.
My next recommendation is either Windows Live Writer or ScribeFire for Firefox. Now these are full-featured blog editors with image uploading capabilities and a WYSIWYG interface and support all blogging platforms but won’t let you publish the same article on multiple blogs at once.

The workaround in that case is that you compose a post, publish it on Blog A, change the current blog from A to B, republish the same post again and so on. This is slightly tedious but you get a more user-friendly blog editor and there’s support for more platforms including Drupal, Windows Live Spaces, Xanga, etc.
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Reader Comments

Hello Amit,
You have wrote a excellent guide for bloggers those who are not familiar with such items.As my opinion new bloggers can learn more & more from this post.
Thanks.

Written by Surendera on 10.14.08

i’ve been using posterous ( link ) for this purpose. It too works fine.
i’m just gonna play with the sites you mentioned, thanks for the info..

Written by நிமல் – NiMaL on 10.14.08

didn’t know about blog it..BTW for desktop clients, blogjet gives you the option of posting to multiple blogs at once.

Written by Shantanu Goel on 10.14.08

Aren’t you going to get penalized by google for duplicate content?

Written by VitaminCM on 10.14.08

hi amit,
i use blogdesk one clik & publich to all blogs in a minute :) any platform any number of blogs & best of all its free

Written by Heeren on 10.14.08

I was going to say Posterous too, which I prefer because it’s easy to cut and paste images into your posts without having an external server.

Written by mrshl on 10.14.08

I’m using windows live writer to post same posts on multiple blogs.It’s very well.But a small problem as you said.

Written by Rajesh on 10.14.08

I think its a bad SEO move to publish same content on multiple blogs

Written by Mohd Atif on 10.15.08

Why not simply use the email to post feature which most blogging platforms? Blogger.com and WordPress for example allow you to send an email to a particular email ID and they can post it automatically. So just compose a rich text mail in your online webmail / mail client, and send it to the pre-set address for both the blogging services. Simple.

Written by Ankur Banerjee on 10.15.08

And there’s also the (Firefox) Flock Browser – which helps you keep all this going in a sidebar – tracks all your blogs for you and allows you to post selectively to any or all of them.

Written by Robert Worstell on 10.15.08

I agree with Ankur, just use the email feature and create a few mailing lists. For example: “Tech Blogs”, “Sports Blogs”, and “All Blogs”. This way, you can post to multiple sites quickly and easily.

Written by VitaminCM on 10.15.08

“Written by Shantanu Goel on 10.14.08
Aren’t you going to get penalized by google for duplicate content?”
Can anyone point an answer at the question above?
Also do any of these allow you to create new pages across all your blogs and then post to all from the same tool?

Written by Gregory on 03.03.09

I recently attended a webmaster conference by Google and here’s what they said about duplicate content link :
“25. Google will not penalize your content if it is found to be a duplicate copy of another web page and that’s because even good websites syndicate content on the Internet. Make sure the copy links to your original article so that search engines can credit the right owner.”

Written by Amit on 03.03.09