Since ProBlogger’s great post about How To Use Apture we have been receiving a wealth of emails and questions about Apture’s feature set.  Well today I wanted to talk a little bit about what is Apture Auto Enhance.

What is Auto Enhance?

Auto Enhance is the quickest way to use Apture on your site.  You simply check one box when either registering or if you already have Apture simply Login.

Once enabled outbound links to popular sites are automatically enhanced with Apture so your readers can view the contents of the outbound link without leaving your site.  You have to do zero additional effort while writing your posts for this feature to work and you get all of the SEO benefit of outbound links.

What Can Auto Enhance Do For You?

Instead of your users leaving your site when you link to an article about Seal, they can simply view it right on your site.

Maybe you wanted to link your user to the Twitter Stream of Chris Johnson, the best running back in the National Football League.

Or better yet you saw a great commercial the other night for Avatar and wanted your reader’s to see it without having to embed the video on your blog.

What Content can Apture Auto Enhance?

Wikipedia, Twitter, Flickr, LinkedIn, Hulu, Scribd and many others.

Find out how to Enable Auto Enhance here or if you do not have Apture installed on your blog we can solve that.

By default Apture includes Videos from YouTube, Reuters, Truveo, Dailymotion, Comedy Central, ESPN, Metavid, Hulu and imeem in the search results.

But you can add in additional content from your own YouTube Channel, Glam videos and even MTV.

Video of how to add and remove additional Video Providers within Apture

We’ve written previously about how you can store your YouTube Channel inside Apture for quick linking to previous videos you have made. Well now you can embed ANY YouTube channel on your blog that dynamically updates as you add movies!

This feature is designed to not only let your users quickly browse through your entire movie collection, but to do it in a way that keep them on your site rather than going to YouTube.

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How To Build Your YouTube Channel Widget

1. Simply open Apture on your blog or visit www.apture.com/builder and paste in the url to your YouTube Channel.

2.  For this example we will use the Apture YouTube channel located www.youtube.com/aptureinc

3.  After clicking the Go button Apture will automatically detect your feed and built your widget.  Click Create Embed and you are finished.

4.  Embed on Your Blog if you built it with www.apture.com/create

But What If I Want the Widget to be bigger?

1.  After you have have pasted in your channel ID and hit Go you will notice a small pull down menu called Show Preview & Options.  Select Content Size from this list.

2.  Pick the Height and Width you would like for your Apture Channel Widget and hit the Create Embed button.