Blog tips and tricks

Have you ever looked at someone's blog and asked "how do you do that?"

For me - today's task was adding the subscribe buttons to the site, you know the "add to google" button and the "add to my Yahoo" button that you see on the left.

So this is my quick quide on how I did this. Hope you find it helpful.

First - set up an account on Feedburner. Go to www.feedburner.com and set up a new account or login.

Once you have that set up. You need to add your feed by adding your URL. If you are unsure how to do this - just look at their help, it is fairly straight forward.

Once your feed is added, find the following page by clicking the publicise link:

Then click the chicklet chooser link on the left.

On the right - highlight the button choose the button that you want, and at the bottom will be some HTML code for you to copy.

You just then need to paste this where you want the button to appear on your site. To do this will depends on who does your blog for you. Just look in the help menu if you are not sure how to do this.

It doesn't take long to do and for me it was quite painless. Hope you find it the same!

Comments

[Joshua Waller]

Thanks for the tutorial, I had these buttons setup on http://www.DigiCamReview.com but I'd done them the hard way (manually editing), and I didn't know feedburner would generate them all for you automatically! Feedburner is a good way of doing it as well, because everybody who subscribes through feedburner gets "counted" on feedburners stats that you can look at later to see how popular your feed(s) are and what people have been most interested in. I've used this tutorial to setup the RSS feed button's on a new (experimental) blog I've setup here, called Ricoh Caplio R5 Blog, the url is http://ricohcaplior5.blogspot.com/

Can you publish a quick tutorial on "social bookmarking" sites like digg, delicious, reddit, google bookmarks next so that we can add the links to the bottom of blog posts really easily? I've already setup +digg links (the hard way) on one of my sites, and wonder whether adding the others is worth it?