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WordPress.com sends your published blog posts to several places to automatically promote them for you. For example, your posts end up in WordPress.com’s global tag pages, are sent out to many search engines via Ping-o-Matic!, and are indexed in sitemaps.

Third Party Services

You can also choose to send your posts to any of several third party services. Currently, WordPress.com Publicize supports the following.

• Yahoo! Profiles via Yahoo! Updates [get an account]
• Twitter [get an account]

To send your posts to any of these services, you must first have an account with that service, and you must connect your WordPress.com blog to that account.

To connect your blog to your account, go to your Dashboard and then My Blogs.

In the “Publicize” column, you’ll find checkboxes for the services we support. Click on the checkboxes for the services you want to connect, and you’ll be shown a message telling you to authorize the connection.

When you click the authorize link, you’ll be taken to the third party service, where you’ll need to sign in and approve the connection between your WordPress.com blog and your account.

Once you’ve approved the connection, each time you write a new post, you’ll see a “Publicize” section in the Publish box on your post writing screen.

Just publish the post as usual, and you’ll see it show up in the Publicize services you enabled.

If you want to opt out any of the Publicize services for a specific post, just click the Publicize Edit link. You can then uncheck whichever services you want.

You can also customize the message sent by typing it in the Custom Message box after you click that Publicize Edit link.

Note: For maximum flexibility, these connections between WordPress.com and our Publicize services are per blog and per user. If you have several blogs you want to connect, you’ll need to connect each one separately. For multi-author blogs, each user that wants to connect to a Publicize service will need to do so separately as well.

Last modified: December 30, 2009