Greate bloging secrets

While blogging via email isn’t new, Posterous took the idea and made it dead simple to blog. All you need to do is to attach anything – photos, video, MP3 or any form of content and send it via email to your account.
Yes, it’s just so dead simple.
Touted as a direct competitor to tumblr, it’s been one of my favorite blogging (bookmarking, link building) tools of late, not because of its simplicity and ease of use but simply because it does allow me to build link automatically.

Why I love Posterous

Posterous isn’t just a micro blogging tool. It’s nothing micro about it. In fact, it’s packed with awesome features.
One of them that should deserve enough attention is its ability to instantly auto post content to your network of blogs AND many of the social networking platforms you are a part of such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Identi.ca.

As you can see from the diagram above, whenever you post to posterous, your content will be instantly autoposted everywhere else across the networks you have pre-assigned, thus automating the task of link building which otherwise requires a fair amount of manual work.
Well, not all of these social networks are dofollow in nature. At the time of this writing, the following web properties do follow
1. Wordpress.com
2. Blogger.com
3. Identi.ca
4. Live Journal
5. Tumblr
6. Friendfeed
7. Typepad
8. Drupal

Here’s how you can build links automatically with Posterous!

1. Create an account if you’ve done so
2. Assign the dofollow social networks for selective auto posting
3. Install the posterous bookmarklet
4. Choose the site you want to build links to
5. For brevity’s sake, copy the first paragraph of your main article,
6. Click the bookmarklet
7. At the end of the excerpt, (yes, this is important!) change the anchor text of your inbound link.
8. Click post and voila, you’re done!

Just about the only thing to need to do next is to ping your social networks using this tool where you copy all the urls and ping them all at once.
Pretty neat, huh? Of course, you can selectively autopost to Facebook, Twitter for extra visibility if social traffic fits into your marketing campaign.
Sure, Posterous isn’t just a dead simple way to post everything online using email but beyond it’s simplicity, it’s a great SEO tool to automate the boring, manual work of link building and it’s free to use. Then again, a tool is just a tool unless you make good use of it.
On the other hand, don’t forget to build links manually as Google always loves quality link building.
So take advantage of it! And I’ll see you next time. Oh by the way, if you like it, please posterous it.
Greate bloging secrets