Posterous… blogging from your email!
I’ve been desperately wanting to use email (OS X Mail particularly) to create blog posts. Well, Posterous has come to the rescue! This is seriously amazing. All you need to do is send an email with images or music or any number of other things like links to a youtube video and Posterous automatically turns it into a killer, perfectly formatted blog post.
Now the real kicker, at least for me, is that I can email Posterous and have it create a blog post on my WordPress blog (which is probably where you’re reading this right now). And YES, this post was created via an email to Posterous.
So, how can you get this working for you? I’m glad you asked. Here is how I did it.
Create a new blog by clicking on the “Get your own” link in the upper right of the official Posterous blog.
Make up a site name, yada yada…
At this point you can simply send an email to post@sitename.posterous.com and you will create a blog post. Which in and of itself is awesome. Try it out. Send multiple pictures or a link to a youtube video. You can even make the text different colors and it will process it all and format it very nicely.
Now, to take it a step further and make it go to your site and post to your personal WordPress blog…
- From the manage page choose [Autopost to Everywhere] on the right.
- Click on the [Add Service] button.
- Fill in the information about your blog.
Now all you need to do is send an email to blog@sitename.posterous.com and it will post and publish the blog posting on both Posterous and your blog.
Find out more about Posterous here.
john 10:49 am on June 29, 2009 Permalink |
I’ve done as you suggested and made the Posterous site private for now until I understand how this process will affect the SEO (search engine optimization) for this site.
Thanks for the heads up!
Jordan 9:44 am on June 29, 2009 Permalink |
Awesome resource, John! I’ll have to come see it in action. You may want to make the Posterous site private so your content is not duplicated. This could hurt your SEO. You can read more about it here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/demystifying-duplicate-content-penalty.html
johncolumbo 2:38 am on July 3, 2009 Permalink |
Hey Jordan,
I just found that if the Posterous site is set to private than the feature that posts the blog entry to my blog does NOT work. So, I've had to set it back to public so I can use this feature.
I suppose I'll need to do some more investigation on this SEO thing from Google. If this does actually hurt SEO than why would a service like Posterous make this feature available? I would imagine that they would certainly understand the Google SEO rules, wouldn't you think? Actually, the whole concept would hurt their SEO as well wouldn't it?