As a quick follow up to my blog from a couple of days ago, I was hoping there would be a better way to point RSS Graffiti towards a specific image file.  As you may notice from my signature below, my blogs contain many image files.  To me, it just makes good sense to select an image that goes along with the blog – right? Duh!  And the image that showed up with the Wall posting on the left, is not what I would have selected.

But, RSS Graffiti does not allow you the same flexibility that posting a Link to your Facebook wall does. In fact, if I post a link to a page on my website, I have to scroll through 17 or 18 different images to find the right one.  And this defeats the whole “Automation” aspect that I was looking for in the first place.

So, I thought about it: If I were a computer, how would I select an image?  (I had read on RSS Graffiti’s support site that they use an algorithm to exclude small pics and banner ads) Well – I would probably just grab the first one and use it.  But how do I make sure the one I want is first?

Well – I had a guess.  And I think it worked! it didn’t work!

All I did was, save the jpg file of the book cover as 01-How-to-clean-and-care-for-practically-anything and the picture to the left was what appeared on my Wall.

As a secondary test, I renamed the RSS Graffiti’s logo to begin with 01- and I am hoping that it will thus be along side the RSS feed posting as the selected image!

If so, if you have a logo you want assoicated with all of your blogs, all you have to do is rename the logo used on your blog page!  That would be too easy, right?  Well – let me know if you try it so we can find out if it works regularly, or is just a coincidence!

UPDATE: Here’s what showed up after this post:  It picked the ‘First try’ picture above, with my FB signature on it. Not at all what I had hoped – second try was a fluke, I guess.

I opened a support ticket with this question, and if the developer gets back to me, I’ll post what I learn.