Thursday, March 3, 2011

Add an RSS Feed on Blogger

RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it



 Log into your Blogger.com account. This will take you to your Blogger Dashboard, which is a list of all of your blogs on the site along with controls for customizing them  

Select "Layout" for your desired blog. The "Layout" tab will be displayed, providing a graphical representation of your blog, including the area where blog posts appear and areas where you can add customized elements.

Click on "Add a Page Element." Another window will open with a list of elements that you can add to your blog. Select "Add to Blog" underneath the "Feed" element, which opens a "Configure Feed" dialog box.

Copy the RSS link URL from the external blog. Most blogs place their RSS link as either text or an RSS icon somewhere on their blog. Clicking on this link will open a Web browser page with the feed URL, often a Feedburner.com address. Select this link and copy it to the clipboard.

Paste the RSS link URL into the "Feed URL" box of the Blogger "Configure Feed" dialog. Select "Continue." If you make a mistake, click "Cancel" and start again. 

Save your changes. After clicking on "Continue," a dialog box will open showing the title of the blog feed you are publishing, an option to select how many items you wish to display, and check boxes to show "Item dates" and "Item sources/authors." Make your selections, review how the feed will look on your blog, and select "Save Changes" when satisfied.

Place your new feed. The feed you just added will show up as the top item in your list of side page elements. Left-click, hold, and drag the feed element to move it to a different slot on the side, or to the top or bottom section of your blog. When satisfied, click on "Save." Then click "Preview" to see how your new feed appears. Use "Clear Edits" to undo the changes and start over.


Wednesday, March 17, 2010

How do I create a Blogger Feed? Print

Feedburner.com gives you option to customize the feed for your blog, and you can give visitors to subscribe via email and also track visitors and how many people had subscribed to your feed. It also give lot of customization options. Here I will explain how you can use feed burner for providing email subscription option to your blog.

...Start...
Click here to go to Feedburner. There on the Feed-burner homepage, Enter your full blog address such as http://bloggerhelped.blogspot.com/ in the “Ready to Burn?” form. Click Next

Identify Feed Source

If your Blog provides both RSS 2.0 and Atom 0.3 feeds, then you can select one of the options here. You might see choices such as

http://bloggerhelped.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

My suggestion, choose the RSS 2.0 feed which could be yoursite.com/feed

Give your feed its title and feedburner.com address

On “Welcome”, make sure the title and FeedBurner address (URI) of your new feed are values you prefer.

create a FeedBurner account by picking a username and password and supplying your email address.
click Activate Feed ». A "Congrats" page should appear.
then click Next » to continue with the setup process.