Blogging and Really Simple Syndication Blog Tips

How to make an RSS for your Facebook account/page?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 24 May 2014 05:59:00 +0000

You can make an RSS feed for your Facebook page and also you can add this news feed to your RSS aggregators/News readers.

RSS on Facebook has two types: For your timeline and for your notifications.

Here’s how: 1^st for your Facebook account/page notifications;

Just log in to your FB account and if you want to get your Facebook page’s RSS notification go to your page and go also to https://www.facebook.com/notifications and then find the “RSS”. Right click and choose copy link location for Firefox or copy link address for Chrome.

Note: If you want your own notification, make sure that it is your main account and go to https://www.facebook.com/notifications

Note: And if you want is your FB page notification, click your page (for example: Animix Blog Craze) and type the URL: https://www.facebook.com/notifications.

For the next type: Timeline RSS

Copy this and change the color orange numbers with you facebook Id:

https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=605201699542822&format=RSS20

Got a problem finding your'e Facebook ID? Go here to find your Facebook ID: Either personal account or Facebook Page.

FindmyfacebookId.com

After doing that you can now add it to your Reader and check it for notifications.

Benefits and Reasons for using RSS

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 23 May 2014 03:03:00 +0000

According to whatisrss.com "RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in. You save time by not needing to visit each site individually. You ensure your privacy, by not needing to join each site's email newsletter."

What to do to read an RSS feed?

To read an RSS feed, you need to go to sites that offers RSS reader/aggregators. Subscribe to your favorite site, or click the orange icon (RSS icon) and copy the URL, and add it to your RSS reader. If you want to see a sample, try visiting my anime blog and try to subscribe and add it to your reader. ^_^ Here are some list of readers that you can use and hope it helps:

Feedreader.com

Digg.com

theoldreader.com

feedly.com

How to make your own RSS using Feedburner?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 22 May 2014 08:32:00 +0000

What is Feedburner - you can go to this site and make your own RSS feed. According to Wikipedia.org, feedburner is a web feed management provider launched in 2004. It includes trtaffic analysis and an optional advertising system.

Steps: (You can either make this with your own blog or with other sites like news and sites that always updates their contents.)

Go to your blog and then copy your homepage URL

After copying the URL, go to feedburner.com.

Then paste the URL Note: But before pasting the URL, you need to be logged on your google account, because feedburner is powered by google.

After pasting the URL, click next. Don't click the "I am a podcaster", just leave it.

Then click next.

Then after clicking next, you can choose from the 2 to three options but it's best if you just click next.

Then click next

click Next

After clicking NEXT three times, tick Clickthroughs and I want more and click next again

Now click PUBLICIZE - friendly graphic

Then copy this part, from http:// until the last character but not the ".

Finish. You have your RSS feed now. You can now go to your RSS aggregator or RSS readers. Here's a sample site: http://feedreader.com

6 things you need to consider when starting your own blog

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 22 May 2014 05:56:00 +0000

What is the objective of your blog?

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You need to know why you are making a blog. For example, Animix Blog Craze which is also one of my blog, an anime blog in which its purpose is to post images of any anime’s wherein just only to entertain others. Well that blog is only for entertainment. Also I added anime playlist there, to let the viewer’s listen to random anime songs while browsing pics.

Who are your target viewers?

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Now think about your content, who should view this posts? For a blogger, you should REALLY consider these things. As of the example blog above, my target there is, obviously, anime fan’s otakus, and every person who is enjoying anime images and songs. So after coming up with your objective, think of viewers who you will think that will browse your contents.

What you should post or talk about with your blog?

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It’s really simple, example is if your blog’s objective is about cooking Filipino food and your target are those Filipino’s who don’t know how to cook the kind of food that you’ve post or even foreigners who want to know how to cook those kind of meal, you should post something that is about cooking Filipino food and don’t forget that this content that you will post is informative as much as possible. Oh! Let me rephrase that, content should be “Simple but informative”. J

What days you should post?

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For me this is the most important factor because yeah blogging is enjoying, but other people are not consistent in posting content in their blog. So a good advice, try to set your days when you will post. Maybe 3 times or 4 times a week, or you can also try every 2 days or three days. It will base on your availability time to post, if you work for 8 hours in office, Monday-Friday, you can try to post in weekends.

Do you need to be a talented writer or blogger?

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No. You don’t need to be a talented writer or have an experience on writing articles to be a blogger. What matters is that you will give informative content that can entertain or help your viewers. Also, if your viewers like your content and ask some questions, don’t forget to reply them. We may not know what will happen, maybe this people who will ask you will build a circle of who will contribute to you and that is a good thing. J

Do you need to create your own article/content or get?

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As for me it’s better to create your own article for it is your own idea and of course the uniqueness is there. It’s also good to get an idea to others, but there’s something you should do when you are copying an article in the world wide web/internet. When you copy an article or even just a phrase, you should also get its source URL and paste it to your post; in this way you will not be accused to plagiarize any individual’s content. You can also italicize or quote the article or phrase that you copy

Here’s an example:

According to Ryan Pinkham “You can even look outside your organization to other businesses or people whose opinions you think would fit well on your blog. There are a lot of people who would be happy to contribute to your blog just for the opportunity of getting more exposure for their content. All you need to do is ask.”.

Source: http://blogs.constantcontact.com/fresh-insights/starting-blog/

After learning these things, you are almost ready to start blogging. You can try to make a blog with blogger.com or wordpress. Don’t hesitate or be discourage just only because you’ve only just started, motivate yourself and the most important here is you share your knowledge to others, share what you know and you are enjoying blogging.

Remember this:

“Blogger’s/Admin work is hard, you need to post one or two content in you blog and view how many visitors visits the site, but when you know that you’ve help and entertain your followers, it will make you happy, makes your day and helps you to be motivated to post another content.”

What does RSS means?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 20 May 2014 08:09:00 +0000

RSS means Really Simple Syndication. You can use RSS for blog entries, news headlines, audio and also videos. RSS is also called as feed or web feed which includes a full or summarized text, metadata, publishing date and the author’s name.

With the help of web feeds, it enables the publishers to syndicate the data automatically. RSS feeds also updates you without going into your favorite site again and again. Instead of going always to your favorite website to see new updates, RSS will send the updates to you with the use of RSS aggregators or which is also called as RSS reader.

Here are some sample of RSS aggregators:

Feedreader.com and digg.com

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RSS helps blog a lot, because almost blogs are updating their contents. RSS can also make traffic to your blog site just by only letting the visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed and add it to their aggreagators.

What does blogging means?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 20 May 2014 06:04:00 +0000

Blogging is the act of posting and updating content on your own blog with a specific niche or commenting on someone else’s blog.

You can start making blog with blogger or wordpress.com.

For beginners: Think of a topic of your interest (ex. Arts and entertainment, business, comedy and etc.) and then make some post that are related to you niche.

When your Blog's title for example is: Entertainment Blog you should post pictures about it and post something and say something that is related to it. You can post images, statements and even videos.

List of things to consider in your blog post:

- Make your post title a little catchy. Example: 5 ways to lose weight

- Add Image if possible, because image is more catchy than texts.

- Add some captions or information that can help or interest your target viewers.

Also don't forget to add some tags or labels and search descriptions, so that when a user searches your blog, it will be easy for them to find your blog/ blog posts.