You may be wondering how to make sure your autolist posts bound destined for Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn can display in those social networks with the blogs' hero image in those social networks, front and centre of the post, like Instagram, rather than having a snippet of the blog post, which looks more like the post is a retweet or a share. So make your post photo first, using Social Media Manager’s Autolist feature.
Here’s how to do that…
You need to make sure you have Instagram connected and selected (in Autolist) as a social network to publish to, in the photo first style post format. This then pulls in the blogs' hero image from the RSS Feed into the Autolist blog item.
If you don’t want to automatically publish your autolist posts that are ON to Instagram, that’s actually ok, as you can then choose to effectively manually publish to Instagram, by turning off Instagram Auto publish ? even with Instagram selected in the AutoList channels on the top right.
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6. Now you will see all the blog posts imported with their pictures as icons in the bottom left of each post!
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Warning Once your new posts are imported with the hero images, other older posts you have previously imported in the autolist will not be deleted. The warning is - if any of the old posts have image errors, e.g. missing images for Instagram, they will still be auto published on Twitter or Facebook in the old re-tweet style (posts with a link) instead of posts with photo. |