Putting Flickr photos in your blog’s feed

June 28, 2008

I took a lot of photos of eBay Live (and even more of Chicago), and now of course I have the perennial problem of just what to do with those holiday pics. Sticking them in Flickr and forgetting about them is one option; publishing great long blog post galleries so that everyone has to suffer looking through them seems to be the alternative. ;-)

Feedburner has come to my rescue. They have a new trick called Photo Splicer, which allows me to pull in Flickr photographs as entries in my main blog RSS feed. It’s a neat way to bring together a personal blog with your photographs, or of course to show more product photos to subscribers to your business blog. You’ll find Photo Splicer under the Optimise tag.

There’s also Link Splicer which allows you to pull in bookmarks from del.icio.us, Furl, Bloglines, Digg and ma.gnolia (sadly the two I actually use, StumbleUpon and Google Reader’s shared items, are not available at the moment). Links can be spliced either individually as you bookmark them, or as a once-a-day summary.

For those wondering exactly what Feedburner is, it’s a way to distribute the RSS feed from your blog which provides all sorts of information for stats-obsessives (like me) about how your feed is being read, and all sorts of useful tricks for your subscribers, like being able to subscribe via email. If you have a blog, give it a go.

Written by Sue Bailey · Filed Under Blogging | 5 Comments