Subscribe to Putting Blogs First: Why Should You?

Yo there! If you are new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed, or through email, for more tips on better and effective blogging!

By subscribing to Putting Blogs First, you will be able to receive new posts whenever they are published. This can be very time-effective since you don’t even have to check back on this blog for new posts! New content from this blog will be delivered to you instead of you having to get it yourself. It can’t get easier than that!

There are two ways you can subscribe to the Putting Blogs First RSS feed:

  1. Using a web based or off line RSS reader
  2. Through email.

1.Using a web based or off line RSS reader

You can subscribe to the Putting Blogs First feed through a web based (online) or off line RSS reader. If you don’t know, RSS stands for Really Stupid Simple Syndication (also sometimes known as simply ‘feeds‘) , and it allows you to receive updates from RSS enabled sites, like this one. If you have the Firefox web browser, you can know whether a site supports RSS by looking into the address bar of your browser for an icon like this: rss_illus.jpg. If you find it, that means that site does support RSS. You can click on the button for more options on subscribing.

Watch this awesome video to learn more about RSS:

For the lazy men/women, here’s a simple how-to for subscribing to this blog’s feed:

  1. Sign up with a free service such as Bloglines or Google Reader, or download a free offline reader such as GreatNews.
  2. Come back to this blog and click on any link you see which says ‘Subscribe to this blog’ or where ever you see the rss_illus.jpg button . Or simply click this link. Doing so will take you to the subscription page.
  3. Done! That’s it! And oh, don’t forget to check your feed reader daily to be the first one to know about new posts!

2. Subscribe via Email

Alternatively, you can also opt to receive updates about new posts via email straight to your inbox. For that, just click on this link and you’ll be taken to a page which looks like this:

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Fill out your details, and please, use a valid email address (otherwise you won’t be able to receive updates!):

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After carefully filling in your email address and the captcha, press the ‘Complete Subscription Request’ button! :

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And you’re done! Now, just wait for an email asking you to confirm (by pressing a confirmation link) that it was actually you who had signed up to receive email updates. Once you click the confirmation link, you’re finished. Now, enjoy daily updates!

Note:  You get updates only once every day, no matter how many posts there have been made on this blog. If I make 10 posts in a day, you get only one email, telling you about these 10 new posts. If I make only 1 post a day, you’ll still only get one email. If I make no posts in a day, you get one email (telling you that there have been no new posts in the day).

NOTE: We will NEVER EVER spam you!

Oh, here’s the email subscription link again, in case you forgot it to click it before.

Enjoy the updates!

I almost forgot! If you experience any problem in subscribing to this blog’s RSS feed or have any questions, please feel free to email me at siyab(at)puttingblogsfirst[.]com. Sorry, but I have to write my email like that because of nasty email spammers!