Here's how to add a photo to Blogger blog from another site

Recently I placed a post in my Attainment Rule blog (which is actually a website that first started as a blog: http://www.attainmentrules.com/) and because I placed a couple of images on the post that I got from the Internet, I thought perhaps that this would be something my MASTER BLOG CLASS readers would like assistance in doing so on their blogs. First go ahead and visit: www.attainmentrules.com and see the post about “Have You Given of Yourself Today?” post. You’ll see two pictures pertaining to the blog about “hugging”. You might even like the content and continue as a regular visitor and supporter of the blog. Basically it’s a blog where I encourage people to do more in their life; hey, maybe you’ll see something that will kick you into gear and get your own blog up and profiting!

Now that you’ve seen the two pictures(if you’ve gone to the attainment site), I will present a step by step how I added them from the Internet (not from those that I have on my computer).

If you are a reader who is “in this MASTER BLOG CLASS” having either been in a physical workshop or have registered online (click on the “fingers on keyboard” picture at the right for details), you may email me requesting a pictograph walk thru of this step by step method at no cost, using the email address you’ve been given.

Why would a blogger/site owner like you or me want to pull pictures from another site? It’s all about links. Just as we want people who have sites relevant to ours to link to us, they usually appreciate incoming links too. Do you have a website with a photo that you want your blog readers to visit? Using this method works to get your website picture on your blog that contains the link to your site.

Also, linking to another’s site is a form of the “giving away” principle I speak of at www.attainmentrules.com, because when someone sees this picture when visiting your blog or site, they might click on it and go to the original site and buy something from that site, or maybe both the site owner and visitor might be benefited in some other way. NOTE: Unless the picture has a copyright or phantom “watermark” on it, you are probably safe in using it on your site or blog as long as you “link” to the original site. Of course, its common courtesy to ask first, but I’ve never had a problem, and have actually received “thanks” for the added traffic to the original site I’ve linked the picture to. A CAVEAT: I’m not a lawyer, so these last sentences about using pictures from the Internet are not to be construed as “legal consul” and are to be used solely for “entertainment purposes”!

First, find the blog that you want to add a new post. I search my over 105 blogs and find that I haven’t placed a post in my “No Fees Marketing” blog where I actually give away my consulting services at no cost to non profit organizations. (You’ll see that that first entry for this blog was on my birthday; February 20th; a time when my thoughts were about “giving more” of myself).

Open your selected blog in the area for posting by clicking the NEW POST button. Because I don’t trust “building” my post within this area, I open a Word document, and create and edit my thougths there before copying and pasting in the post area.

I then complete my article post, copy and paste it from Word, into the posting area of Blogger. I usually come up with the title (which is typically also the “label”) after placing the content into the posting areas.

Now let’s find some pictures on the Net that will enhance our post’s message. I don’t want to find pictures of non profit’s (copy written) logos and I do want the pictures to be a bit general in nature. Every non profit wants money, so I open another web browsing page (don’t exit Blogger) and go to my trusted Google search bar and enter “paper money” because the word “money” may bring me too many results and “I haven’t got all day”. This brings up the suggested sites, but I want pictures so I now click on the “images” tab. These images show single bills; I want “stacks of money” so I place that key phrase in the search bar. Oh yeah, now we’re on to something. I like the first one and click on it to find the website.

When clicking, a page like this appears:

I click on “Website for this image” link. Well OK, this site is no longer up on the net, and the domain name is for sale. Hmmmm, opportunity anyone? I also like the stack of money shown (and the piggy banks look nice too, I may “edit” my content of my post just so I can include those little “cuties), I click on the image of the stack of money.

I click on the “Website for this image” link. This one works and it takes me to a site. I look at the site and find the picture of the stack of money.

I think I’ve seen this picture of money “a million” times on the Internet so I’m not too worried about anything, and like I’ve said prior, I will link it to the original site (actually the Blogger gadget system does the work).

Find the money; OK, find the image of the stack of money and right click it. This opens a message box. Click on “properties”. This opens a “properties” box that looks like this; it reveals the “code”.

Highlight the URL address, copy it. Now open your blog again and place the cursor within the blog post where you’d like to see this picture. Next you’ll need to click on the “picture link” at the top of your blog post box. This opens a “select a file” box. Click on “from a URL”.

Paste the URL code in the area that opens to you, and the image should automatically appear which indicates the image has been retrieved.

Click on the “add selected” button and the image is placed within your post. It’s easy to place in in a different location within your post if desired. Simply click on the image which creates the “handle bars” and move it where you would like.

I go back into my content and edit it to mention something about “saving money” so I can use those cute piggy banks. Ooops! When going to this site, I find that this photo is available for download at a price. Now I don’t mind paying, but I just wasn’t planning to spend or invest in photos this time. But, I’m now in the mood for “piggies”. I search and find some, follow the steps above to enter the picture in my post. I’m then satisfied with the looks of the post and the content so I click on “publish” and my post (with the pictures) is published. I click on view blog to see what it looks like. I then click on the pictures to see that the links to the sites is live (brings you to the sites you took the pictures).

If all is well, I close my blog knowing that I’ve now given my readers something to read and look at; plus the web robots have fresh content to “munch on”.

NOTE: Don’t use too many images within your blog post, make sure that the images enhance the message you are making, and try to get images that look similar in style and design. 

At the end of my content I state the following (you may choose to use something similar): Images in this post are from other Internet sites. Feel free to visit those sites (by clicking on the images) and purchase any products or services offered. I’m not necessarily “endorsing” any products or services offered but in this way, I’m offering my “thanks” for being allowed the use of the images.

That’s it for today; make it a great one!

Ter

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PS. If you can offer more insight on ways to do this or any other Blogger enhancement, please leave your comments; we learn from one another!

What, blogging is actually good for you?

Recently I ran across a great article about blogging in the Scientific American written by Jessica Wapner. She has some great things about how blogging can be therapeutic. Since I will soon be presenting a workshop about this I was fascinated with her comments. Here is just a few sentences from the article. Please continue to http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-healthy-type to read all of it:

Self-medication may be the reason the blogosphere has taken off. Scientists (and writers) have long known about the therapeutic benefits of writing about personal experiences, thoughts and feelings. But besides serving as a stress-coping mechanism, expressive writing produces many physiological benefits. Research shows that it improves memory and sleep, boosts immune cell activity and reduces viral load in AIDS patients, and even speeds healing after surgery. A study in the February issue of the Oncologist reports that cancer patients who engaged in expressive writing just before treatment felt markedly better, mentally and physically, as compared with patients who did not.

So, don’t just take my word on it, blogging IS GOOD!

Ter

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Here's How You Can ADD VIDEO to Your Blog

Today I'm showing my blog clients how to add a video right inside this box when they are adding posts to their blogs. You can request a step by step procedure for doing this at www.terscott.com/blogarticles. (If you don't see this page on my site just now, please give me a couple of days because I have to create it yet at the time of this post).

I've chosen to add a video here about my website: http://www.myimprintrep.com/. It's a site that shares ways to promote a business or organization using "Anything With An Imprint".

So now before I leave you with this post, let me list the steps to placing a video on your blogger page (as seen at: http://marketingmasterclass.blogspot.com/ or as shown here, within the content of your blogger post. Remember that if you are a member of the Master Blog Class, you can email me using the email revealed in class to ask me any questions or simply leave your questions or comments after this post.

STEPS (Without Pictures) to ADD VIDEO TO BLOGGER

Today we’ll go over how to add a video to your Blogger Blog. First log in to Blogger, and open the dashboard.

Next, scroll down if necessary and choose your blog. Today I’ll choose one of my marketing blogs since I have a few marketing videos out there on YouTube. I’ve chosen my Be A Marketing Master Blog.You can see it at: http://marketingmasterclass.blogspot.com/.

Click on the “Design” link and this will open what I call the “backroom” where you can change the “look” of your blog.

Because I like my videos and other “elements” usually on the side running along side the posts, I will choose (by clicking) the “add a gadget” from the side versus the top or bottom of my blog:

I’m not going to explain how to shoot and save your own video here. I am making the assumption that you have a video saved on your computer or have one out there on YouTube. I’m going to first show you how to transfer one to your blog, and later how to add videos to your actual post. For now, follow me as I go to YouTube:

You can see that I’m already signed in at the top right. I then do a search for my videos by placing my name in the search bar.

I see two of them and I will choose the one where I teach my Master Marketing Series.

Below the video there is a “share” button. Placing my mouse over this button it states:”Share or embed” this video. I click there. Now you’ll see some html code that is highlighted. Right click and copy this code. Let’s now return to blogger.

Click on “add a gadget” and open the HTML gadget.

  

Paste the code into the content area of the gadget. Note that I usually don’t fill in titles for a better “visual” on the blog, but knowing that the search engines “look” for this when visiting, and since I want the viewers to “check this out” I will add a title this time; it’s always optional. I then click on “save” and we return to the backroom.

You’ll see at the top that it states:”Page element added. View Blog” but because I’m cautious and have lost things in the past and had to redo things, I again click on the orange “SAVE” button (doesn’t hurt to do this), I then click to see my blog:

And there is the video! Wow, very cool. However, depending on the layout of your blog, you’ll see that part of the video is cut off. I’m not overly concerned with this particular video because most everything is “seen” as it plays. However, when I’m creating the video to be played in my blogger blog, I will be sure to have all of my wording “flush left”, that is to have it all on the left side of the screen. If you choose to have your video in the top or bottom positions, you’ll have the full video and this won’t be a concern.

Now, let’s add a video right inside your post. Depending on whether you want visitors to always see your post as I have chosen with placing it on the side of the blog, or only for the duration of your post as we’ll discuss now, will be your choice. Placing a video within the content of your post is as simple as adding a picture within the content area. Here’s how.

Again, first find the blog you want to add this video and find your video either on your computer or on YouTube. I will use the same video from YouTube but I’ll choose a different blog. I will place this video on my Master Blog Class Blog at: http://masterblogclass.blogspot.com/.

Open the backroom or use whatever option you want to place a “new post” on your blog. Add content to the post area. Here’s a tip, when posting I usually create all my content in a word document for several reasons. One, this shows areas that need to be edited and two, I can save it and later perhaps use it for an eBook, or other written product. Here I’m just going to show on the blog how to add a video so I’ll take my chances and trust my grammar and spelling and type directly into the content box.

On the task bar you see the word: “Link”. To the right of that is the picture icon and next to that is the video icon; click on it.

Here you’ll either browse from your computer, or with my case here, I will click on “my YouTube videos” to find my video.

Well, this is odd. I don’t see my YouTube video for my Master Marketing Series so instead of taking your time to find it and “fix” this, I’m choosing my Imprinted Promotional Products video which I use to promote my website: www.myimprintrep.com. I need to go back into Blogger and modify my content in my post and I’ll be right back. OK, I’m back.

Get back to this spot, and click on your video to select it, click on “select” and there you are.

Make it a great day! Ter

How can you create content for your blog or multiple blogs on a regular, continual basis?

Here’s how I do it.

This morning for instance I was writing comments to my online oral communications class about something I read in a book that I was reading. Those are two clues; one, teach a class and two, always be reading. Yes, you can teach something because everyone certainly knows something. But if you are not in a “teaching” position, you can find and create similar content by using what you do when you are writing anything from a grocery list to an email to a friend; simply refine it and voila, you have something for your blog. Anyway, I will go on; back to how I added content to three blogs this morning.

Since my online class has to do with “public speaking” and I have several blogs with this theme, I was able to use the same content with slight editing modifications as posts. You can see exactly what I mean by visiting them:

http://asiwasreading.blogspot.com/

http://instantpublicspeaker.blogspot.com/

http://publicspeakingqanda.blogspot.com/

So, that’s how you can first, create content by being aware that much of what you write everyday is worthy of posting, and that with a bit of editing you can place interesting posts in several blogs, thereby offering something to slightly different audiences.

Be sure to leave comments and questions here on this blog and I’ll do my best to answer them. Also if you’ve not taken the Master Blog Class in a classroom situation from me and have “stumbled” upon this blog you may take the “virtual” class by going to www.terscott.com/blogclass. Enter the code: CONTENT3112 to get the course at only $19 instead of the usual $29, good until the end of this month.

Want to know what Ter Scott is reading? Go to: www.terscott.com/library