Top 10 Free Online Content Distribution Services

A content distribution service will publish your content on many other sites at the same time, so that your content can reach as more readers as possible.

The following are 10 best free online content distribution services, with which you can share your posts on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and more:

1. Posterous

With Posterous, you can create your own sites, and sync their contents to about 30 social media services, such as Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, and so on.

You can post document, photos, videos and any other files to Posterous via web, email, mobile phones as well as Twitter client, bookmarklet and API.

2. Pixelpipe

Pixelpipe supports more than 50 network services (pipes), including Blogger, Dropbox, Flickr and so on.

You can upload files, update status or write blogs on the website or via email.

3. Postling

The starter plan of Postling is free, you can create a brand, add your Facebook, WordPress, YouTube and some other site accounts to it, then you can upload files, update status, write blogs and sync them to the services you added.

4. Hellotxt

Hellotxt supports YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and many other services.

You can post on the website, via email, with iPhone, iPad or Android as well as GTalk, Firefox, WordPress and some other ways.

5. Ping.fm

Ping.fm aims to let you post from anywhere to anywhere.

You can post from your mobile phone, email, GTalk and many other places, and then sync the contents to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and many other services.

6. Pip.io

Pip.io allows you to publish posts and distribute them to Buzz, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and FriendFeed, which you can also manage (such as reply, favorite, follow/unfollow, etc) on the site directly.

The above 6 online content distribution services are also publishing platforms themselves, which means that they will save and show all the content you publish on their sites, while the following 4 won’t.

7. HootSuite

HootSuite supports Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and some other social network services, which you can update and manage via the website, mobile phones or browser extensions.

Besides, it is also available for you to manage multiple Twitter accounts and schedule your tweets.

8. Sobees

Sobees is good for you to update your status on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, of which you can also view, reply and comment on the messages.

You need to install the Silverlight to use Sobees, or you can use it on your iPad, Android, or computer desktop.

For more information about Hootsuite and Sobees, you can check out this post.

9. Yoono

In 2009, the content distribution service Yoono is popular for the support of Twitter lists, and now it offers desktop client, iPhone app as well as Firefox and Chrome extensions.

You can update your posts to Buzz, Facebook, Twitter and some other social network services, of which you can also comment, reply, like or do some other updates.

10. Twitterfeed

Different from the above 9 websites, Twitterfeed is a free service for you to sync your RSS feeds to Twitter, Facebook, Hellotxt as well as Statusnet, which you need to customized.

Bonus

If you are using more than one of the above 10 free online content distribution services, make sure to avoid repeated contents appearing on the same service at the same time.