How to embed Google Plus posts to your blog

If you have a blog or a website and have too many photos in a post then you might consider posting and importing photos in a different way. Uploading too many photos in a webpage might take more time to load that page. Best practice is to have one photo per post instead of having multiple photos. Or you can combine multiple photos and make it a single large photo. There is another option to embed Google Plus posts or photos to your blog post.

Also check: How to embed Facebook photo to your blog

We had this feature in Facebook for some time now and Google Plus is not too far behind. If you look carefully, Facebook has limited option while embedding posts where as in Google plus you have this option to embed almost all posts. In Facebook options to embed a post/photo is available only in Facebook page as of this writing.

Follow the following steps to embed Google Plus posts to your blog or website.

• In your/others Google plus post there is an arrow (dropdown) as shown in the image below. Click on it.


• Now, click on 'Embed post'.


• A pop-up appears with the code.


• Copy this code and paste it in your blog or website post.

Advantages of using embedded posts in Blogger is when you upload a photo in blogger or in google plus, both will be saved in your Google picasa account. So, there will be duplicate copies of the same photo. Instead upload the photo in Google plus and then embed that photo from your Google plus album to your website or blog post. By doing so you can save space not just for Google but also in your own account. And all users in your website can see the comments and +1's that are made on that post. If you were to have the photos in 2 different location within picasa (duplicate entries from Google Plus and Blogger) then these comments, +1's and shares would have been distributed between two of these photos instead of one.

Second advantage is if you have too many photos per post then it's better to combine it into one or embed multiple Google posts in your blog post. This would save your storage space as well as page load time. You can upload high quality photos to Google plus and these photos will consume lot of space. So, you don't have to spend money on hosting these in another server or buy extra space.

I like this option on Google Plus to embed Google Plus posts and photos for multiple reasons like image quality (when compared to Facebook), no more duplicate photos in your picasa account and more options to embed.

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