Some of my friends are travelling around the world, and rather than mass-email everyone, they write blogs. A lot of the readers of those blogs don’t yet use Google Reader, and so the writers of the blog want a way to have their friends sign up for emails. Here’s how.
You should be able to set up the blog yourself. I suggest either Blogger or Wordpress, but for this tutorial I will use Blogger, since that is what most of my friends use.
After you create your blog, go to it. I just made an example blog at http://samstrasser.blogspot.com/ which I will use for this demo. At the bottom you will see a link that says “Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)”. Click that link. You will see a page for your RSS feed. Copy the page address, which for me would be http://samstrasser.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default.
Now insert that address in this HTML code:
When copying this code, make sure all the newlines (returns) are removed. It should all be one line. You can also just replace the URL of my blog in with yours in the code above. Now you have a badge to put on your site. So let’s put it on.
Go to your Dashboard at http://www.blogger.com/home. Click Layout, and then “Add a gadget”. We will be adding an HTML gadget, so scroll down to HTML/JavaScript and click the + icon:
Under content, insert our newly created HTML and click Save:
Now when you go to your blog, in the top right corner should be our new link. That’s it, you’re done.
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