Facebook allows you to quickly and easily import an external blog from another website.

1. On the Notes page, click the Import a blog link on the right side of the page.
2. Enter the URL (web address) of your blog into the text box, and check the box underneath that states that you agree to our Terms of Use.
3. To complete the process, click on "Save Settings." Once you do this, your previous posts will appear as notes and any new posts you make will automatically display.

If you are importing a blog into Facebook, edits or additions to your external blog should update your Facebook notes within three hours. If you are having problems getting your notes to import or update, please tell us more here.

This is a web page that can be easily checked by software tools called news aggregators that can notify you when any new content is available from a particular source. For example, if you subscribe to the feed of your friends' Notes, you can easily find out when one of your friends writes a new note.

A news aggregator lets you keep track of all the feeds you care about. Our current favorite is Bloglines, a web-based application that requires no installation. If you follow the link to a feed in most web browsers, you'll find that you can easily subscribe to the feed. Whenever your friends' write new notes, Bloglines will let you know.

If you are unfamiliar with these programs, choose the Atom feed. It contains additional information, such as links to the public profiles of the authors of notes. Both Atom and RSS are XML formats for syndication, and the differences between them are insignificant. You can view more detailed information about these programs on their websites: Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0.

Please place your blog into this validator and resolve any existing issues with your blog provider.

If you are experiencing problems with formatting or images not transferring to your notes, please check the RSS feed you are importing to determine whether it is displaying your blog correctly. The Notes application will only import what is displayed on the RSS feed.

If you’re still experiencing problems, please submit a report to Facebook here.

Some RSS feeds only provide the most recent blog posts. If your feed is only giving recent info, Facebook will not be able to import the old posts. Facebook does not scrape text from external pages; it has to be fed in. As an alternative, you can copy and paste the text into a new note.

Facebook is probably not able to import your blog because of a privacy setting on your account. Blogs written from sources with restricted viewing will not export to Facebook. If you would like to import your blog, you will need to change this privacy setting to something less restrictive.

Each person that can see your notes on Facebook is given a different RSS or Atom feed web address (URL) that is unique for them. Only the notes that they are allowed to see will be syndicated via that URL. If you change your privacy settings or friend links, then all the feeds will be appropriately updated.

Atom and RSS feeds from Facebook include the Bloglines Feed Access Control extension , and we set the access parameter to "deny" for all of our feeds. We also indicate in our robots.txt that feeds should not be visited or indexed by bots. The major aggregators and search engines (Bloglines, Technorati, Google, Yahoo!) all appear to respect these directives. If you are very concerned about the possibility of someone seeing your Notes that you don't want him or her to see, we've added a privacy option that you can set on your Notes privacy page which will prevent any of your Notes from being syndicated in any RSS or Atom feed.

Yes. This is the only way that we can maintain your privacy settings on a per-viewer basis.

If you are seeing duplicates of your original blog posts in your Notes application, and you only imported the blog once, please submit a report to Facebook here.

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