Have you ever considered subscribing to a blog? Well, a RSS or “Really Simple Syndication” subscription is just what you need to begin. An RSS feed is comparable to that friend who will contact you every time he has something new to share. That is how blogs work. Once you’ve subscribed to a blog, and there is something new “Posted”, you will be notified every time there is a new post.

Whatever your interests are - cars, technology, sales, arts & entertainment, politics, science, sports, cats, etc. - you’ll find a blog to match. I personally subscribe to over 20 blogs and also have my own personal blog. I’ve really benefited from every blog I subscribe to, so I thought I would post some easy-to-follow instructions on how to subscribe to a blog.

Whether you want to subscribe to 1 or 100 blogs, the steps are the same. There are hundreds of different options, but I am only going to show you 4 of them. We’ll start in this post with Yahoo.

Yahoo’s RSS reader is integrated into My Yahoo. It is very easy to use, and almost every blog has an easy-to-use link to add their blog to your reader.

Step 1: You’ll need an account with my.yahoo.com. If you already have an email address with Yahoo, you will use that same account information. If you don’t have an account, go to:

https://login.yahoo.com/

When you reach the “Sign Up” under login screen, click. “Don’t have a Yahoo! ID?”

Step 2: Once you’ve setup your account, you can start adding pages two different ways. Your first option is to do a search in your preferred search engine for a topic you’re interested in. For example, you can go to Google and search for “sales blog”. Then you can scroll down and click on “Sales Blog: Sales Evolution” - then click on the button to add to your “My Yahoo” reader.

Step 2 - Part Two:
The second way to add a feed is to add a page to your My Yahoo page. You can do this by clicking on the “Add Page” link:

Then Click “Add RSS Feed…”


Then search for a topic you’re interested in:

Find the blog you want, and then click the “Add” button:

Congratulations on your first blog subscription! Now you’re well on your way to navigating the blogosphere.

Be sure to catch the next post for subscribing to a blog using Google’s Reader

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