IFTT recipes

Imagine a world where Heath Robinson style contraptions genuinely exist and even the most complicated tasks can be achieved without you even having to get out of bed, or even be awake.

Blissful huh? Well we’re not far off that in digital terms, thanks to IFTTT, a tool that can help you automate thousands of time consuming tasks, by connecting all your online channels and triggering any ‘event’ you desire through a simple switching-on of a ‘recipe’.

Introduction to IFTTT

IFTTT stands for ‘if this then that’. If an event happens (this) in one channel, it will trigger an action (that) within another one.

So if you post an image on Twitter, you can automatically turn this into a blog post on your WordPress site. If you publish a status on Facebook, you can automatically turn it into a tweet. If you arrive in London, you can automatically email yourself a map of the Underground.

There are thousands of these recipes, which you can browse on the IFTTT website, or you can create your own using one of the 300 channels on offer. These also work great on iOS and Android phones.

The ones I’ve given as an example above are fairly straightforward, but there are many different and more complex recipes on offer that can help anyone in whatever industry they work in.

Here I’ve pulled together some of the more helpful recipes for those in search and content marketing…

Get a digest with every top SEO post on Reddit

Get a digest with every top SEO post on Reddit

Reject Spammy SEO Sales Emails

IFTTT 02

Tweet my WordPress blog posts

IFTTT 03

Post new Tumblr blog to Wordpress

IFTTT 04

When I Like someone’s image blog post on Tumblr, repost the image in a blog entry on my own Tumblr

IFTTT 05

Create Wordpress blog posts from an Evernote notebook

06 IFTTT

Every time I upload a (Read more...) video, create a post on my Wordpress blog

07 IFTTT

Save the Instagrams you like in a Dropbox folder

ifttt 08

Share your latest Wordpress post on LinkedIn

09 IFTTT

Whenever I write a new post on Blogger, share on LinkedIn

IFTTT 10

Save popular posts in r/TodayILearned

11 IFTTT

Save every tweet to Google Drive

12 IFTTT

Save new Twitter followers in a Google spreadsheet

IFTTT 12

Share your Instagram pics as native Twitter photos

IFTTT 13

Never miss breaking technology news from NYTimes

IFTTT 14

Schedule posts within Google Calendar

15 IFTTT

Search for ______ GIFs and view them as a daily digest

IFTTT 16

Create Twitter lists around a hashtag

IFTTT 17

Remind yourself to write on Medium every Saturday at 9am

ifttt 18

Remind my followers to check their analytics and if they are crap to contact me (I do SEO)

IFTTT 19

Save all of your liked videos in a spreadsheet

IFTTT 21

Set up a content marketing radar station

As Chris Lake detailed last November, you can set up a content marketing radar station using Slack, Twitter advanced search and IFTTT. Click on the above link to read the full details.

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This article was originally published on Search Engine Watch. 

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