How to Show Your Blog Posts as Web clippings in Gmail Inbox

Written by Amit Banerjee on 9 Feb, 2010 Under Internet

Web clippings is a Gmail feature that shows news items just above your Gmail inbox. You can add any RSS feed and show articles from one or multiple blogs in Gmail Inbox.

Why Would you need the Web clippings anyway?

Adding web clippings is a nice way to keep an eye on what articles are getting published in your favorite blogs. The updates shuffle at regular intervals and you can completely customize the way web clippings work in Gmail.

Here is how to set up Web clippings in Gmail:

1. Go to Gmail settigs and find the tab “Web Clips”. Select the checkbox “Show my web clips above the Inbox”

enable gmail web clippings to show blog posts
2. Enter the RSS feed of the blog whose posts you want to see as web clipping.

3. To reduce clutter, you can remove all the other news and tech headlines from the News, Tech, Business, Lifestyle, Sports etc tabs.

Now Gmail web clippings will auto fetch the latest posts from the Rss feed you have added.

Blog updates in Gmail

You can then use the arrow icons to scroll through all the latest posts of the blog one by one. A good idea would be to merge multiple RSS feeds using Yahoo pipes and show the combined feed as web clipping.