Blogging Made Easy with Posterous and Google Reader

One of the big issues of running a blog is keeping the blog up to date with new content! It takes time.

So blogging shortcuts are always very useful.

Our strategy is to use Posterous and Google Reader (in conjunction with Google News and Google Alerts).

We use their RSS feeds in Google Reader after setting up searches for the appropriate news/ content in Google News and Google Alerts. So every day we have plenty of content to parse for ideas. Google Reader also allows you post content directly to Posterous – see  the Send To link at the bottom of the Reader content.

We setup a number of accounts with Posterous for various topical blogs, and then use original content in the Posterous sites to link back to our main sites and external reference sites.  Google appreciates this:  A good mix of content and useful hyperlinks. The best feature of Posterous is the ease with which we can email a post to our Posterous site. Tip – we use Gmail and have installed an add-on to allow adding images into the post (use Flickr for images:  http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/ – and choose search within Creative Commons-licensed content).

We can create posts with minutes using this strategy. Good content and interesting posts with photos.

Here are some of our sample sites:

http://socialising.posterous.com/
http://1stforfrenchproperty.posterous.com/