Whenever you go to a weblogs, you must have recognized some orange glossy square buttons at any side of the page. All those tend to be RSS feeds buttons. Okay well, what is RSS feeds actually? – RSS is one of the web technologies that can be used by blog users/visitors to get updates of their favorite blogs, without visiting of a blog. RSS feeds are used to deliver updated articles of any blog automatically to particular blog RSS subscribed members.
How RSS feeds are used to both Blog owners and Blog readers/visitors
Blog readers get their desired blog updates via email or any online widgets without visiting a blog particularly and the blog owners get the traffic from feed subscribed members when the articles are newly posted. Full from of RSS is Really Simple Syndication.
Now, let’s see how to insert a RSS feed button in your blog.
Search for the RSS feed button in the internet and pick one free button and save it.
Select the Downloaded button and upload it into any of the image hosting sites like imageshack.us, Photobucket.com, flickr.com etc., or better to upload in the blog post image.
Now copy the image link -> <img src=”Replace this line with the copied image link”/>
Here is the example code for RSS Subscription button
<a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/wedyn" title="Subscribe this blog">
<img src=" http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6072/6141001581_9b9ea37feb.jpg" style="border:0"/>Subscribe to my blog</a>
Here is the example code for RSS Subscription button
<a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/wedyn" title="Subscribe this blog">
<img src=" http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6072/6141001581_9b9ea37feb.jpg" style="border:0"/>Subscribe to my blog</a>
- Well, next go to the Layout – > select “page element” where you want to add i.e., compatible with your blog template - > Add a gadget -> HTML/JavaScript -> Paste the code and save it.
- If you are not using any external service your blog RSS URL will be http://blogurl/posts/feeds/posts/default for posts and http://blogurl/posts/feeds/comments/ default just replace it with my blog url as shown in the above code.
- The first line of the above example code is specifies the rss feed link and the second lines of the example code specifies the image link.
- That’s it now you complete the process.
- Click save and view your blog with a RSS button.
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