Services Which Make Your Blog Easy to Follow

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Services Which Make Your Blog Easy to Follow

BlogTamingMonthCommuniCATE2 If you want to promote your site, you need as many options as possible: join by email, allow WordPress and Blogger Follow buttons, utilise your RSS feed… everything you can get your hands on. The more ways you have to connect, the more followers you will get.

Every blog needs a RSS feed. If you don’t know what your site feed is, try RSS include. ~ If you have a WordPress blog, your RSS is simply: or http://yoursitename.com/feed/

Blog Frog: http://theblogfrog.com/

Bloglovin

Feedly: http://feedly.com/index.html#welcome

Google Friend Connect, or if now retired by Google when you read this, Adding Followers Gadget in Blogger. Friend Connect was still working for me on other’s sites in January 2014.

Networked Blogs

This is very simple plugin which adds the WordPress.Com follow button which appears on every WordPress.Com blog, at the right bottom corner to WordPress.ORG Sites. The Plugin also has a built in subscription management system which makes it something more than just a plugin. http://wordpress.org/plugins/follow/

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You can follow by RSS using Addthis. http://www.addthis.com/social-plugins/follow-tools

Subscribe2 Email Following Plugin for WordPress blogs.

Don’t forget to ensure you regularly share your posts on Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, Pinterest, Instagram, She Writes, Linked In and other services you use, so that your followers are notified of new posts. Many of these tasks can be automated via plug ins and widgets.

If you know of other online services that allow you to follow blogs, please let me know so I can add them to this list.
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