Friday, December 30, 2011

Following blogs, the easy way!


Have you ever wondered how you could find an easy way to follow the blogs that you have subscribed to? I have unashamedly copied this from http://readytogofulltimerving.com/ Thanks to Janice and Dave. This has made my life a whole lot easier!
I used to use GOOGLE Reader. . .but here’s the trick to making it even simpler than that. . .
GOOGLE Chrome. . .and the Google Chrome Bookmarks Bar. . . 
Open your Google Reader. . .it’s listed on your GMail Tab on Google Chrome. . .
Click on the Tools Icon (on the far right side by your name) looks like a little cog. . .
Open READER SETTINGS
Open GOODIES
Scroll down til you see the NEXT icon. . .drag it to your Google Chrome bookmarks bar. . .
Scroll down til you see the SUBSCRIBE icon. . .drag it to your Google Chrome bookmarks bar. . .
That’s it. . .
Open one of the favorite blogs you love to read. . .hit the subscribe button. . .follow the instructions. . .done! 
Once you have subscribed to all your favorite blogs, and have them listed in your Google Reader, all you need to do is click on the NEXT icon in your bookmarks bar. . .and read away. . .so much easier than looking them all up. 
Hope some of this makes sense, and is helpful to someone. . . 
I have subscribed to a whole lot of blogs, including those not written on blogger, e.g. Wordpress, because I love to read other people's stories. I used to bookmark them all, but as they don't all update their blogs every day, it can be time consuming going through my bookmark list. Using the above process, I only have to open those blogs that have been updated recently.

As mentioned in the comments, you can also follow blogs in your dashboard, presuming you have a blogger account, or in Google reader, presuming you have a google account. 



3 comments:

  1. Another easy way to follow the blogs is go to your own dashboard and to your reading list. Once you "follow" a blog, it updates automatically. If the blog doesn't list followers, you still add it to the list. It also allows you to manage each and every blog you want to follow. Easy .. easy.

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  2. You can also go on your Blogger dashboard and click on reading list, it tells you how long ago updated and keeps them in that order as well,

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  3. Oh, I agree. I used to read blogs this way as well, but I found that I only saw blogger.com blogs. I also follow blogs built on other formats, eg Wordpress. By clicking the "Next" button, I see the whole blog, videos, pictures, comments as well as the full post no matter the format as it takes me straight to the full blog site. I use the dashboard way if I am using my iPad as I have not figured out how to do the above on Safari.

    Thanks for the input guys.

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