Context, relevance, and multimedia, three important aspects of keeping your blog readers loyal and engaged. All three  are easy to achieve with Apture, an easy way to add multimedia to your blog.  Apture can be installed on just about any site, its free, and packed with features to make it easy for you to pull the world of the web onto your blog including video, images, audio, references, social media profiles, and much  more.

Apture Features

Apture is awesome for integrating multimedia content into your blog, with simple search and click. You can include images, video, audio, reference, webpage, social media profiles, and much more — all without sending your readers off-site.  With over 50 sources of content to search, this service is truly awesome.

  • Embed all content with simply clicks, no more coding to do,
  • Most content includes preview and live embed, so you no longer need to send users off site,
  • Use their multimedia hub to find exactly what you need from all sources at one time,
  • Upload and link to your own content, with the same nifty embed features,
  • Link several different types of media together for truly multimedia content,

Apture for Wordpress

Apture has an awesomely easy plugin to integrate its features into your posts and pages with a 1-2-3 setup process. Once you activate the plugin, you simply go through 3 steps and you’re done.  This plugin is definitely worth looking at.  If you’re running another platform, like Blogger, Typepad or others no problem — they have a solution for those too.

DIY Marketing Mastery Apture Video

We took a quick walk-through of Apture, from set-up to use.

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About the Author...

Maria Reyes-McDavis is a colossal geek brainiac, certified genius IQ with university degrees in Finance, Economics, Business Management and an MBA. Maria has served over 300 pro-level, digital marketing clients as founder of online marketing firm Digital Peas & Carrots. Maria is Founder and Editor of Hyphenated Americans, a conservative politics blog and Proverbs 31 Project an online women's ministry. Most importantly, Maria is a wife to her king, mother of 3, lover of basketball (Go Lakers & Clippers!), classic cars and is currently training for professional women's roller derby!

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