Things you should setup on Posterous

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Most users of Posterous will have already optimised the tools and settings provided and performed all of the usual tasks when setting up a new Posterous ...

If you haven't then here is my list of things that I need to remember when setting up a new Posterous ...

  • Decide if you would like http://yourname.posterous.com or a custom domain name http://yourname.com and set-up the A record.
  • Add your selected domain name into Google webmaster tools.
  • Grab the webmaster tools verification meta data and add it to the head of your Posterous theme.
    eg <meta name="google-site-verification" content="***********************" />
  • Grab your Posterous rss feed url and submit it as a site map in webmaster tools
    eg http://richard.mackney.com/rss.xml
  • Burn your feed with Google Feedburner and enter the new url into Posterous settings.
    eg http://feeds.feedburner.com/mackney
  • Create the code for a headline animator in Feedburner (just for fun ;)
  • Setup Google Analytics and enter the ID into the Posterous settings.
richard.mackney.com

And here are a few operational things for using Posterous ...

  • Use the email address: posterous@posterous.com and this will not autopost to any of your other sites.
  • Use the email address: private@posterous.com to create hidden posts to review later.
  • Check out all the email configurations and save them as contacts.
    eg twitter+posterous@posterous.com
  • Use #end to finish an email post and avoid posting any signature. 
  • Add tags to the subject of the email.
    eg
    ((tag: iPhone, Photo)) 
  • Consider using Gmail to write posts and attach files ... utilise the autosave function. 
  • Subscribe to your own Posterous to get a daily digest of your own posts for archiving locally. 
  • Setup your autopost functions to act as a site backup.
    eg
    http://richardmackney.blogspot.com is a locked archive of all my posts. 
  • Think about using a site scraping/downloading utility such as http://www.httrack.com as a static backup.
If you found any of this useful, let me know :)
 

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