Blogger introduced the Followers Gadget to introduce social networking. By adding the gadget to your blog you can build up a community round your blog.
It is also a means of adding subscribers to your blog feed. Those that follow your blog are automatically subscribed to blog updates through the feed. If you are already subscribed to the blog feed you do not automatically appear in the Followers gadget. Even after becoming a follower you can choose to remain anonymous.
What if the blog does not have a Followers gadget? How do you 'follow' it? If it has a Subscribe to my feed icon at the top of the sidebar you can add it to your Google Reader or any other feed reader and follow the updates. You can also subscribe to email notifications if the blog offers it. This does not add you as a follower on the Dashboard of that blog. You can also look for the 'Subscribe to Posts (Atom)' link which is at the bottom of the posts in a Blogger layout template. If neither of these are there try adding any of the following feed links to a feed reader :
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/rss.xml
Substitute actual blog name in place of yourblogname.
To add yourself as a follower on blogs not having the Followers Gadget or a subscribe icon you have to first find out the BlogID which is a big number found in the page source of the blog. Open the bog in a browser and then go to View----->Page Source in the browser menu. A text file will open. Search in it for 'BlogID' and copy down the number.
Paste the BlogID number in the URL below in place of 'NUMBER' :
http://www.blogger.com/follow-blog.g?blogID=NUMBER&blogTitle=WORD1+WORD2+WORD3+...
Then add each word of the same blog title instead of 'WORD1+WORD2+WORD3+...' . Copy the modified URL and paste it in address bar of a browser window and hit Enter key on keyboard.
In the next window you will be asked to choose whether to follow the blog publicly or anonymously. Choose one and click Follow. If you do not want to then click Cancel.
Enjoy!
9 comments:
Nice trick...
Thanks,..success!
what a nice info
maybe i'll try this
I wonder if it's possible to have the followers gadget, the gadget that show the followers' profile pictures, after revertted to Classic Template.
FionaChan,
Not at present! Sorry!
hi.
i need help. how can i post by label in reverse order.
in my menu i have just the label titles, when i link one of them i see all my post with that label, but i want to see the old one first. (post the old first and new last).
thanks. i need very much one answer
K.G.Pirel,
The post order can only be changed by changing the post date.
Interesting and great hack. I have bookmarked your blog as there are a lot of valuable info here, particularly because I use blogger in draft. Thanks for the info and keep up the good work.
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With BlogSend Address, notifications are sent out to all the e-mail addresses on the list whenever you post a new entry. Does anyone know if these notifications contain the entire entry, or just a link to your blog?
Leah,
They contain the entire entry.
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