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How To Add Beautiful Subscribe Section to Blogger

2010-02-06T01:56:00.000-08:00

Do you like to add a good looking Subscribe section to your blog?Then simply follow the steps below.

1.Login to your blogger dashboard--> layout- -> Edit HTML

2.Scroll down to where you see </head> tag .

3.Copy below code and paste it just before the </head> tag .

<style type='text/css'>

#hsection{border:4px solid #D3D3D3;background-color:#e9e9e9;}
#hsection:hover{border:4px solid #BABABA;background-color:#e9e9e9;}

#sectionmy .sectionmy2 h2.subscription { border:0; margin:0; padding:6px 0 0 55px; height:42px; font-size:16px;font-family:&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Calibri,&quot;Myriad Pro&quot;,Myriad,&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
font-weight:bold; }

#sectionmy .sectionmy2 h2.rss { background:url(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4HKUHirY_2U/S209wcnxO5I/AAAAAAAAAw4/I7aEXRVYR8s/RSS.png) no-repeat top left; }

#sectionmy .sectionmy2 h2.email { background:url(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4HKUHirY_2U/S209s4_wFoI/AAAAAAAAAww/8VovLp1Yxlg/EmailRSS.png) no-repeat top left; }

#sectionmy .sectionmy2 h2.twitter { background:url(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4HKUHirY_2U/S209oJTU3UI/AAAAAAAAAwo/28dTiLvxvDQ/twitter.png) no-repeat top left; }

#sectionmy .sectionmy2 .subscription a { color:#252e28; text-decoration:none; }

</style>

NOTE : Host RSS.png , EmailRSS.png , twitter.png yourself.

4.Now go to Layout-->Page Element and click on "Add a gadget".

5.Select "html/java script" and add the code given below and click save.

<div id="hsection">
<div id="sectionmy">
<div class="sectionmy2">

<h2 class="subscription rss"><a href="YOUR-RSS-FEED-URL">SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS</a></h2>

<h2 class="subscription email"><a href="YOUR-FEEDBURNER-EMAIL-SUBSCRIPTION-URL">SUBSCRIBE VIA EMAIL</a></h2>

<h2 class="subscription twitter"><a href="YOUR-TWITTER-URL">FOLLOW ON TWITTER</a></h2>

</div></div>
</div>

NOTE : Replace YOUR-RSS-FEED-URL , YOUR-FEEDBURNER-EMAIL-SUBSCRIPTION-URL , YOUR-TWITTER-URL with your urls.

Look at the example below:

<div id="hsection">
<div id="sectionmy">
<div class="sectionmy2">

<h2 class="subscription rss"><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/blogspot/WyNa">SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS</a></h2>

<h2 class="subscription email"><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=blogspot/WyNa&loc=en_US">SUBSCRIBE VIA EMAIL</a></h2>

<h2 class="subscription twitter"><a href="http://www.twitter.com/btipandtrick">FOLLOW ON TWITTER</a></h2>

</div></div>
</div>

You are done.

How To Add Feed Burner Email Subscriptions to Blogger

2009-05-12T16:02:00.000-07:00

Using Feedburner, you are able to instantly have an email subscription service for your blog. Every day that you post something new in the blog, an email is sent out to the people who have subscribed to your blog. You don't have to do anything. People join the list and leave the list of their own free will; again, You don't have to do anything. You can make some choice about the way the email is configured, but Feedburner does all the work of actually maintaining the list and sending out the email.

1. Login to your Feedburner account.

2. Click on the Feed Title.

3. Click on Publicize Tab.

4.Now Click on Email Subscriptions.

5.Now Click on "Activate" Button.

6.Now Choose the Blogging Platform as "Blogger"

7.Then you will get code . Copy and paste the code in your blog where ever you like to add Feed Burner Email Subscriptions Form.

How To Redirect your Blogger feed to FeedBurner feed

2009-05-12T15:25:00.000-07:00

If you have a blog and start to use FeedBurner to manage your feed, you have to change the auto discovery link in your template and redirect the old feed to FeedBurner, so you don't have to tell your readers to subscribe to the new feed.To Redirect your Blogger feed to FeedBurner feed follow the steps below.

1.Login to your blogger dashboard.

2.Go to settings-->Site Feed.

3.Now type your Feedburner Feed URL into the Post Feed Redirect URL text field. Remember to include http://

For example My Feedburner Feed URL is http://feeds2.feedburner.com/blogspot/WyNa

I must enter it like below.

4.After you enter your Feedburner Feed URL click on "Save Settings" and your done.Now Blogger will redirect feed traffic of your blog to your Feedburner feed.

How To Add Feedburner FeedFlare below your Blog Post

2009-05-12T03:22:00.000-07:00

If you want to add the FeedFlare to your blog follow the instruction below.

1. Login to your Feedburner account.

2. Click on the Feed Title.

3. Click on Optimize Tab.

4. Click on FeedFlare.

5. Check on the services you want to display in your Feed or on your Site.

6.There is a FeedFlare Preview/Ordering below the list of services. This lets you see how FeedFlare will appear in your feed and/or on your site. Just Click and Drag the links on the location that you want.

7.Click on "Activate".Now You will get this message.

8.Now in this window Before the Save button, there is a "Get the HTML code to put FeedFlare on your site". Choose the Blogging Platform as "Blogger"

9. A pop-up window will appear and it contains the instructions on how you embed the Feed burner FeedFlare on your blog.Just follow the instructions.Now wait about 20 minutes and refresh your site.Look at the example below.

How To SET NUMBER OF POSTS IN FEED with Feedburner

2009-04-05T19:23:00.000-07:00

Blogger sends latest 25 posts in your blog feed. So your Feedburner feed also contains the latest 25 blog posts. If you wish to include more or less posts in it :

1. Login to Feedburner account.

2. Click on Feed Title.

3. Click on 'Edit Feeds Details' link just below title of your feed.

4. In the Original Feed Address field, You can see your feed address.

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

Change this address to:

http://MYBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?max-results=50

Instead of 'MYBLOGNAME' enter actual name of your blog.

Instead of the number '50' specify the number of posts ( 1 to 500 )you want to appear in your feed.

5. Click Save Feed Details.

How To Add Feed Burner Headline Animator to your Blogger blog

2009-04-03T22:15:00.001-07:00

1.Sign in to the feedburner with your gmail accont.

2.Burn a feed for site address that you want to show the headline animator.For this you must spent few minutes.

3.After burn the feed, click on your site name in the "My Feeds" section.

4.Now click on the "Publicize" Tab

5.Clicik Headline Animator on the left side bar. Choose the type of display you want on the dropdown menu and click "Activate"

6.Choose a blog service as "Blogger blog" on the drop down menu and click Next and then Click "Add To Bloger".

How to add "Email Subscription Form" to your blog(blogger,blogspot)

2009-03-29T02:37:00.000-07:00

If are a new blogger,you may have seen an email subscrtiption form like the below one in other blogs while browsing.

It is delevered by FeedBurner.When people subscribe,they will recieve a email with your blog posts whenever your blog is updated.It is a very easy thing and make your visitors come back again and again to your blog.

So,Let's see how to add a "Email Subscription form" like that in your blog:

1.First,Sign in to your FeedBurner account.If you don't have a FeedBurner account yet,you can register it here

2.Click on the "My Feeds" link at the top of the page and next ,click on your blog name

3.Next,Click on the 'Publicize' tab as shown below.

4.Select the "Email Subscriptions" option

5.Next,Click on 'Activate'

6.There are a few more options under the Email Subscriptions column namely Subscription Management,Communication Preferences,Email Branding and Delivery options.Edit them according to your needs.

Now,Click on the Subscription Managemant option and copy the code they provide

7.Sign in to your blogger dashboard>layout>add a page element>html/javascript and paste the code and SAVE THE CHANGES.That's it!