My Blog wont add to Google Reader

  • Hello,
    People who visit my blog are not able to add it to their Google reader. Is there something I need to activate or some plugin I need to install to let people add me to their readers?

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  • Hi Amritorupa,

    By default WordPress already have an RSS feed which is typically accessed via the following URL:

    https://example.com/?feed=rss

    Are you using such URL? Also, are the Google reader users getting any particular error when trying to add your blog? We need more info to solve this ??

    Thread Starter Amritorupa

    (@amritorupa)

    Hi.

    I tried feeding the https://example.com/?feed=rss (with my own blog’s name) to Google reader but got this error:
    Your search did not match any feeds.

    Suggestions

    Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
    Try different keywords.
    Try more general keywords

    I have just installed the FD Feedburner plugin. My Feedburner url is https://feeds.feedburner.com/ RiversIHaveKnown-BooksReviewsAndMore

    also , My blog’s URL is https://riversihaveknown.com/. I started it just 3 days ago.

    please help me solve this problem. do you need any more information?

    HI Amritorupa,

    I managed to subscribe to your blog using Google reader. The URL is:

    https://feeds.feedburner.com/RiversIHaveKnown-BooksReviewsAndMore

    Check it out now.

    Thread Starter Amritorupa

    (@amritorupa)

    Oh, brilliant, John, thank you so much! it must be because of the feedburner plugin I installed yesterday.
    But I have a question. when a casual visitor wants to add my blog to their reader, how will they do that? i mean, how will they know what feed URL to use? do I need to mention the feedburner URL on my site? or install a button?
    I’m really sorry for being such a total noob ?? thanks again!

    Hi,

    Yes you need to advertise the RSS URL on your website. There are some simple things you can do, the most basic is by adding a sidebar widget. To do so:

    1. Login to your WordPress admin portal.
    2. Navigate to Appearance > Widgets.
    3. Add a Text Widget and add the below code.

    <form style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:3px;text-align:center;">
  <p>
    <a href="https://feeds.feedburner.com/RiversIHaveKnown-BooksReviewsAndMore" target="blank">Follow me on RSS</a>
  </p>
</form>

    This will display a linked text “Follow me on RSS” in the sidebar. Alternatively you can find a RSS logo and instead of having text you can add the logo. So instead of ‘Follow me on RSS’ you can simply add something like:

    <img src="link_to_image" alt="Twitter Logo" width="44" heigth="44"/></a>

    That should be it. Hope it helps.

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