How I Love to Follow A Blog, Let Me Count the Ways! Part 1
February 11th, 2010Now that you are reading our blog, or any other blog for that matter, you are going to want to know when there is a new post to read on that blog. So how do you know when there is a new post on your favorite blog? In our previous post, 4 Fabulous Ways to Follow Our 2¢, we identified 4 different ways to follow our blog. In this post we are going to explain how to set an internet browser bookmark and how to subscribe to and RSS feed.
1) Internet Browser Bookmarks:
Simply bookmark your favorite blog or blogs in your browser (Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer etc) by using the Bookmark Tab in the menu bar. This will add the blog address in your bookmarks panel and make it easy for you to get back to that blog. You can pick one day a week to check out each blog to see what’s new and what’s been posted. This is an easy, low tech way to mark the blogs you like, however, it is somewhat cumbersome and it puts the burden on you to remember to go back and check those sites regularly for any new posts.
2) Subscribe to an RSS feed:
Before we tell you how to subscribe to an RSS feed, let’s make sure we define what an RSS feed is. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. But what does that mean? I spent some time poking around the Web for the most complete, yet simple, description of RSS to share with you. Seth Godin describes RSS as this: “ RSS is just a little peep, a signal, a ping that comes from a favorite blogger site, telling your computer that it has been updated.”
Most blogs have a little orange button that say RSS and look like this:
Subscribing to an RSS feed is simple and easy, you just click on the orange RSS icon on the blog you are interested in and add that RSS feed to your internet toolbar. This will put a notification in your browser tool bar that this blog has a new posting, and a link to read the post.
Next week read about how to configure your email application to accept RSS feeds in Part 2 of How I Love to Follow a Blog, Let Me Count the Ways!
Tags: following a blog, new jersey blog, new jersey interactive media, nj web design, sem, seo
Great work! keep the posts coming… i’ll keep reading them. Thanks
Great site! San Diego Artificial Turf… keep up the good work.
Keep it coming.. i am such a blog nut and i loved reading your work, so keep it up.
i actually adore your own writing kind, very useful,
don’t quit and also keep penning since it simply just well worth to look through it.
impatient to look over additional of your current content articles, have a good one
Thankz for the post!
Not bad article, but I really miss that you didn’t express your opinion, but ok you just have different approach
One of my friends already told me about this place and I do not regret that I found this article.