IFTTT Recipes

Below are suggested IFTTT recipes for your various Ring of Fire  accounts. In most cases you probably only want to use one recipes per site/account. However, there may be some cases where you want to use more than one recipe.

Many of the recipes have a variety of "ingredients" you can modify and customize. For example, when using an IFTTT recipe to automatically post a Youtube video a Wordpress blog, you can choose to include (or not) any of the following: The video title, description, Youtube URL, etc. Each of these is an ingredient.

The specific ingredients for Youtube recipes will vary. For example, you can embed Youtube videos directly in some sites, but not others. For these sites you will want to just use a link back to the video on Youtube.

Another example is a site like Twitter which limits the amount of text it will accept. So, for Twitter you probably don't want to use the full Youtube video description as it could be over the Twitter limit for text.

Most of the recipes included here will have good ingredients for each resource, but you want to adjust the ingredients from time to time.

Be sure to sign into your IFTTT account first.


Very Important: Be sure to turn off the IFTTT link shortener before creating any recipes.
  1. Click the "Down Arrow" next to your user name.
  2. Select "Preferences" from the drop down
  3. Click the "Settings" tab
  4. Scroll down to the URL shortening section
  5. Make sure "Auto shorten URLs" is UNCHECKED.


Tip: Use the Snap Links Firefox plugin discussed on the Preparation page to open multiple recipe pages at the same time. Check to see which recipe (and ingredients) are best for your situation and preferences.

Quick Start for Recommended Recipes (see more below). After signing in to IFTTT and creating the accounts, use Snap Links to open the recipes in multiple tabs at the same time.


youtube-video-upload-to-google-drive-spreadsheet
YT to GDrive 
Kurt's Recipe for YT to Blogger
Kurt's Recipe for YT to Tumblr
youtube-to-twitter
Kurt's Recipe for YT to Wordpress.com Blog
Kurt's YT to Weebly Recipe
yt-to-delicious
Kurt's YT to Diggo Recipe
youtube-to-pinterest - No YT description
Kurt's YT to Bitly Recipe
youtube-to-evernote
✓  yt-to-pocket


Note: When there is more than one recipe in a group, just use one recipe from each group. I put my recommended recipe first and added a  .

Google Owned Accounts

youtube-video-upload-to-google-drive-spreadsheet
add-a-row-to-google-sheets-for-each-youtube-video-uploaded
youtube-video-upload-to-google-drive-spreadsheet
youtube-to-google-spreadsheet
youtube-uploads-to-google-doc


YT to GDrive 
youtube-to-google-drive
youtube-to-drive


Kurt's Recipe for YT to Blogger
youtube-to-blogger
yt-to-blogger
new-video-uploaded-to-youtube-creates-a-new-post-on-your-blogger-blog
youtube-to-blogger


Tumblr
Kurt's Recipe for YT to Tumblr
NOTE: Find this text string in the Caption field:
http://youtube.com/CHANNEL-URL
and change it to your YT channel URL.
This recipe will give a link to both your video and your channel page.

wissi-youtube-to-tumblr
youtube-to-tumblr-text-post
youtube-to-tumblr-text
youtube-to-tumblr
youtube-to-tumblr
yt-to-tumblr-text-post
yt-to-tumblr-video-post
new-videos-you-upload-to-youtube-are-added-to-your-tumblr-blog
when-i-upload-a-video-to-youtube-post-it-in-tumblr

Twitter

youtube-to-twitter
update-twitter-bio-and-send-a-tweet-when-new-youtube-video-is-published - This Twitter recipe is interesting, as it updates your PROFILE and tweets your new videos. I'm not sure how Twitter handles the embed code, maybe change EMBED to URL?

Wordpress Blog
Kurt's Recipe for YT to Wordpress.com Blog
youtube-new-video-to-wordpress

youtube-new-video-to-wordpress
youtube-to-wordpress
youtube-to-wordpress
yt-to-wordpress
post-your-uploaded-youtube-videos-to-your-wordpress-blog
publish-a-post-on-your-weebly-blog-if-you-upload-a-video-to-youtube


Weebly
Kurt's YT to Weebly Recipe
youtube-new-upload-to-weebly-embed
youtube-to-weebly
yt-to-weebly
yt-upload-to-weebly


Delicious
yt-to-delicious


Diigo
Kurt's YT to Diggo Recipe
youtube-to-diigo
youtube-upload-to-diigo
youtube-to-diigo


Pinterest
youtube-to-pinterest - No YT description
yt-to-pinterest - Adds YT description


Google Plus via Buffer - IFTTT doesn't post directly to Google Plus. But you can set up IFTTT to post to Buffer.com, then have buffer post to Google Plus. I can't recommend a recipe for this because I use MassPlanner to post to Google Plus using the YT channel RSS feed.

youtube-upload-to-buffer
yt-to-buffer-url-only
yt-to-bufferapp-url
yt-to-g-via-buffer


Bitly
Kurt's YT to Bitly Recipe
youtube-to-bitly
youtube-to-bitly


Evernote:
youtube-to-evernote
youtube-to-evernote
yt-to-evernote
yt-to-evernote


Pocket (GetPocket)
✓  yt-to-pocket
youtube-to-pocket
youtube-to-pocket


For Facebook and LinkedIn you need to be careful about what you post and where.

FaceBook - Use Caution!

I suggest that you only post to FB fan pages you create or FB groups you create. Make sure to make the groups public so they can be indexed by the search engines.

Also note, I use MassPlanner to post to fan pages and groups, and only those I create myself. The reason is, IFTTT doesn't post to groups. Also, if you create multiple IFTTT accounts you may not be able to log into the same FB account to post on various fan pages.

None of the recipes below are recommendations, since I don't use IFTTT for FB. I included them for your convenience.

post-your-youtube-uploads-to-facebook-page
upload-all-your-playlist-youtube-videos-to-your-facebook-page
youtube-to-facebook-page
youtube-to-facebookprofile
if-i-upload-a-youtube-video-post-about-it-to-facebook
if-i-upload-a-video-on-youtube-it-uploads-to-facebook
post-your-youtube-uploads-to-a-facebook-page
post-youtube-upload-to-facebook-page
youtube-to-fbpage
yt-to-fb-page


LinkedIn - Use Caution!

LinkedIn is a network of professional business people doing business. It's almost alwaysy best to use groups or a company page for your videos unless your videos are business related.

Also, I use Massplanner to post to LinkedIn, so I haven't used either of these recipes:
upload-a-youtube-video-then-post-to-linkedin
youtube-to-linkedin


Secondary/Optional

You don't need to use all of the resources below. Instead, just use a couple of different ones as you build more and more ROF networks so that all of your networks aren't identical.


500px
youtube-to-500px
youtube-to-500px

Box
youtube-to-box

GitHub
youtube-to-github

DropBox
youtube-to-dropbox
yt-upload-to-dropbox

Flickr
youtube-to-filckr
youtube-to-flickr
upload-youtube-video-link-to-flickr

NewsBlur
youtube-to-newsblur

Nimbus
youtube-to-nimbus

Readability
youtube-to-readability
youtube-to-readability

SoundCloud
yt-to-soundcloud

Toodledo
youtube-to-toodledo


Linking Strategies for Recipes

Sometimes IFTTT doesn't offer access to a certain asset you may want to use. Posting to Google Plus is one example. However, there are often work-arounds. For example, if you have a Buffer account you can use Buffer to post from your Wordpress blog to Google Plus.

Basically, when you upload a video to Youtube, you can have a recipe to have your Youtube video posted on your Wordpress blog. Then you set up a second recipe to post your new WP blog posts to Buffer, then have Buffer post it to Google Plus.

Here's a recipe:
https://ifttt.com/recipes/130409-wordpress-to-google-plus-page-via-buffer

Note: For posting to Google Plus, I prefer MassPlanner. It can read your Youtube channel's RSS feed and use that to post directly to Google Plus. Or, you can use your WP blog's RSS feed and have MassPlanner use it.

Another possibility is to post to your Wordpress blog and use WP plugins to post to other sites.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-networks-auto-poster-facebook-twitter-g/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/plurk

Here's another example: LiveJournal is a powerful Web 2.0 site. However, IFTTT doesn't have a recipe to post
https://ifttt.com/recipes/search?q=livejournal


However, by being creative you can really expand the possibilities using IFTTT along with other resources.


Inter-Linking Strategies Using IFTTT

Some resources that are compatible with IFTTT allow you to add basic HTML. This makes it possible to add links to other resources. You can also create some basic link wheels using IFTTT. For example, instead of using Youtube as the trigger for all of your IFTTT recipes, you can do something like this:

YouTube => Blogger

Then Blogger => Wordpress

For more info, check out my friend Tony Hayes' video about using IFTTT to create link wheels:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D95Z4TnNl7g

Of the 3 strategies outlined below, I generally recommend using the No Wheel Strategy almost all of the time. As you build a few ROF networks mix in the Broken Hub once in a while.

The Full Link Wheel probably passes the most link juice and authority. However, it's also has the most risk and is most likely to get devalued by Google.


No Wheel Strategy

Tier 2 sites are your social and Web 2.0 accounts. Note that the Tier 2s (other ROF accounts) don't link to each other.

No Wheel Strategy




Broken Spoke Link Wheel Strategy

Note the purple arrows. Using this strategy only about half of the Tier 2s link to another Tier 2, which also means only about half of the Tier 2s get links directly from another Tier 2.

Also note that my use of the word "half" isn't an exact figure. You can use 75% or 20% or any other number, it's up to you. It's the strategy, not the precise number that is the point here.

Broken Spoke Link Wheel Strategy


Which one should you use? When in doubt, use them all. Start with the No Wheel for your first Ring Of Fire for a given Youtube channel.

If you don't have success, then create another IFTTT Ring Of Fire, using all new accounts and the Broken Spoke strategy. Then add a Full Link Wheel using another completely new Ring Of Fire.



Full Link Wheel Strategy

Notice the green arrows and how each Tier 2 links to another Tier 2 and is also linked to by another Tier 2. This is probably the most effective linking strategy from an SEO perspective, and it's also the riskiest.


Full Link Wheel Strategy



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