When I’ve been chatting to people about Posterous, most comment that the two main reasons for using the service is the ease of use and the auto post functions. Most bloggers are auto posting to twitter and facebook to ensure the message is getting pushed out into peoples streams, but qute a few are missing a trick …
In the pic above you can see where I autopost each Posterous post to. It has the usual twitter and facebook cross-posting but also utilises other sevices for very different reasons. I’ll show you what I mean:
richardmackney’s Twitter
This is the obvious choice to get your post link out to the tweeple that follow you. You should also re-tweet this at different times of the day to catch different time zones – it makes a massive difference to the hit rate.
Richard’s Facebook
Again, pretty standard – get the message into either your facebook status stream or as a posted link (Photos and videos can also be automatically exported in facebook albums)Richard Mackney’s Picasa Albums
Autoposting to Picasa is very important for me as I want to ensure I will never loose my posted photos if the unmentionable should happen and your Posterous account get hacked and posts deleted, or Posterous gets bought-out by a competitor and closed down
richardmackney’s YouTube Channel
Autoposting to YouTube ensures your videos turn up in Google searches and also saves your videos in a different place (at high res if using PixelPipe or PicPosterous). Obviously all your YouTube subscribers (if you have any) will also get notification of your new video content.
richardmackney’s Delicious
This is often missed, but Delicious is actually very important. The cross post adds the URL, tags and a summary. This is pretty powerful for people searching by subject and the Delicious RSS feedor Javascript badges can also be used to promote your content.- richard.mackney.com (Blogger)
What would you do if Posterous got hacked, or suffered a prolonged DDoS attack? … well If you utilise a custom domain then all it takes is a DNS change on your domain record to start your blog pointing to your backup service (what do you mean you have no backup service!) in this case, mine is a locked Blogger account that contains every single word written on Posterous. Once the DNS has updated, your full blog is up and running again – the individual post URL’s won’t match Google or other links, but at least it’s live and secure. It’s currently locked as I don’t want Google to index duplicate content.
It’s worth mentioning that you could also autopost to flickr to store your images, but for me, my flickr account is reserved for the more interesting or ‘better’ photography that can be used for further interaction with fellow flickrites – I don’t autopost to flickr. Posterous autoposts to many places, so make sure you use the ones that suit you.
I hope this was worth the read, let me know If I should keep spouting this crap?
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