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RSS/Feeds

How can I encourage more people to subscribe to my blog?

July 10, 2008

Today’s post is brought to you by the ever-popular and knowledgeable Jordan from Momma Blogga. She has graciously agreed to guest post for me all week while I bask in the glory that is a family reunion. Welcome Jordan (as you always do) and leave her many comments so she’s come back! Blog subscribers are [...]

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I see lots of blogs that show the number of subscribers they have. How can I do this?

July 9, 2008

Today’s post is brought to you by the ever-popular and knowledgeable Jordan from Momma Blogga. She has graciously agreed to guest post for me all week while I bask in the glory that is a family reunion. Welcome Jordan (as you always do) and leave her many comments so she’s come back! The easiest way [...]

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How can my readers get e-mail updates from my blog?

July 8, 2008

Today’s post is brought to you by the ever-popular and knowledgeable Jordan from Momma Blogga. She has graciously agreed to guest post for me all week while I bask in the glory that is a family reunion. Welcome Jordan (as you always do) and leave her many comments so she’s come back! E-mail subscriptions are [...]

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How can I find out how many RSS and e-mail subscribers I have?

July 7, 2008

Today’s post is brought to you by the ever-popular and knowledgeable Jordan from Momma Blogga. She has graciously agreed to guest post for me all week while I bask in the glory that is a family reunion. Welcome Jordan (as you always do) and leave her many comments so she’s come back! The easiest way [...]

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When I click on an RSS feed button I’m sent to a page with a bunch of code on it. What’s going on?

April 22, 2008

These days when you click on a feed button, you are usually linked to a page that asks which feedreader you use and adding that feed is a relatively easy process. Sometimes, though, when you click on a feed button you do get sent to a page with a bunch of code on it. This [...]

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May 1st is RSS Awareness Day

April 13, 2008

No matter who you are, if you blog and you want to be read consistently, you need to provide an RSS feed for your readers to subscribe to. Blogging Basics 101 has several articles that explain RSS and aggregators (or feed readers). This site even have an article explaining exactly how to add the orange [...]

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My real name is showing up on Bloglines from my TypePad account. Any idea where I change that?

February 26, 2008

Many bloggers like to maintain their anonymity. Part of this is not inadvertently telling people your real name because you didn’t know what options you have in your Author Profile. TypePad Go to Control Panel > Profile > Author Profile. Type in the appropriate name in the Nickname field. If you leave the Nickname field [...]

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You have links to kirtsy, Digg, Del.icio.us, etc. at the bottom of every post. How can I get that on my blog? *UPDATED*

February 14, 2008

The footer I have at the bottom of the posts here at Blogging Basics 101 is from Feedburner.com. Feedburner is the service I use to distribute my RSS Feeds. It has an option called FeedFlare that allows a blog owner to easily provide links to popular social media outlets (e.g., kirtsy, Digg, del.icio.us, Technorati, etc.) [...]

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How important is it for my blog name and its URL to match?

December 5, 2007

If you can swing it, it’s really best if your blog URL and your blog title match. It will be much easier for your readers to find you. It’s quite possible, though, with the boom of new blogs out there, that the blog URL you want is taken. If that’s the case, choose a blog [...]

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I love to read the full post on my Google reader and want to understand why some blogs only publish a “teaser”? Why is this necessary?

August 23, 2007

No matter which feed reader you use (Google, Bloglines, etc.), you will notice that some blogs have the entire post in the reader, some have a "teaser", and some list only the title. You have control over how your blog is displayed in a feed reader, but not how other blogs are displayed. The blog [...]

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