Now that you’ve figured out what rss means (from watching video #9), you can move onto a slightly more challenging tutorial. Inside the last video in this series, you’ll learn about “feedburner”, and how you can use it to help you boost your rss capabilities. If this is all gobbledegook for you, make sure you watch video #9 first.
Talk soon!
Gideon Shalwick
PS: Oh, and we’re very likely to make some more videos just like the ones you seen here. If there are any topics that you’d like us to cover, please post your comments on this blog.
These videos are great and an absolute must for those beginning a blog. I look forward to more advanced instruction.
Thank you!
Mark
Great tutorials! I watched videos #1, 7, 8, and 9. You really made things easy to understand. I do have a question though if you have a minute. I noticed when you were adding the text widgets for RSS that you had a sidebar 2 and I have been trying to figure out how to get that sidebar 2 to show up for me. I only see the sidebar 1 in my widget section. I had a theme created for me and as you will see my blog is totally new and empty. I would like to be able to add the RSS/Feedburner code but don’t have the sidebar 2 option to put the text widget in. Make sense? Thanks for any help you can provide.
Thanks again for these great videos. I will recommend them to others for sure.
Hello Gideon
Thank you for your great tutorial videos! I am now at last in the loop of all this techie detail. While I have two great techie guys who do this all for me, I find I am a little lost when they come to explain things - it’s almost like a different language sometimes! Ok, so now I check out your videos and am better able to fine tune my drilling down which promotes better understanding all round.
Thank you and keep up the good work.
PS Love the accent!
Liz
Great video. Very clear and easy to understand. I’ve been using FeedBurner for some time and although as you say it’s intuitive I find it is always helpful to have someone show you around. Great series.
Gideon,
Thank you so much for this great series of videos on blogging. They’re highly instructive and easy to follow - great for a novice like me.
Thank you! Patti
Angie
Some WordPress themes only have one sidebar - looking at yours that is the case.
You can use the code in any sidebar - so just add the text widget to the sidebar you have - paste the code & your done.
If your theme isn’t set up for widgets you may need to paste the code DIRECTLY into the sidebar via the Presentation menu. It’s not that difficult. Just find the piece of code that refers to Topics and paste the Feedburner code after that - it’ll then appear just above ARCHIVES.
Copy and paste ALL of the sidebar code into a text or notepad document first so you can just repaste it if anything goes wrong.
Good luck
hi gideon. just watched all 10 of your videos and must say you did a great job. they were both easy to follow and clearly explained. i’ve never seen anyone go to this extent to show viewers a subject or describe a theme so patiently. you are to be praised for your efforts. thank you jerome whittier
p.s. keep up the good work.
Hi Mark
Glad you like the videos. Once you’ve watched them, please don’t hesitate to provide us with some more feedback
Talk soon!
Gideon Shalwick
Hi Angie
Thanks for your comments and being willing to promote these videos to your friends.
In answer to your question about the extra sidebar that I had…
I only had to because of the particular theme that I used. If you follow the same steps, but just do it for the one sidebar that you have, it should still do the trick.
Try that and see how you go. If you’re still stuck. Just let me know via this blog.
Talk soon!
Gideon Shalwick
Hi Liz
Thanks for your kind comments about the videos, and my accent
I grew up in South Africa and have been living in New Zealand and Australia for the last 14 years now. But my accent still remains
Glad the videos can help you get into the technical lingo a bit. You’re right, sometimes it seems like Greek!
Talk soon!
Gideon Shalwick
Hi The Anti Hype
Thanks for your welcome comment. Glad to hear you’re finding the videos helpful.
If all goes well, we may produce some more videos in the future. Will let you know…
Gideon Shalwick
Hi Patti
Thank you so much! I’m really glad that the videos are helping you. That was our purpose in putting them together.
I reckon you should call yourself an “expert blogger in training” - it’s always good for the old psychology
Gideon Shalwick
The Anti Hype
Hey, great response - sorry, just read it now…
I could not have explained it any better!
Gideon Shalwick
Hi Jerome
You’ve just made my day!
Thank you sooooo much for your very kind comments. It was certainly a great effort to put it all together, and with Yaro’s instruction and guidance, it’s turned out to be a pretty cool resource.
Very glad you like it!
Gideon Shalwick
PS: Of course I’m sure you’ll tell all your friends about it now right?
Hi Gideon
I kinda thought you were from that area, thanks for letting me know.
I was mega lucky enough to interview Yaro for our blog www/fesstivalpreviews.com/blog and have mentioned Become a Blogger in the intro. Not sure if Yaro has mentioned this but he gives the thumbs up to your http://www.internetmarketingnews.tv website. Really different and very funny.
Liz
Hi Liz
Thanks for letting me know, and good on ya for securing the interview with Yaro. He’s a good man and he sure does have a wealth of knowledge and wisdom that he freely shares.
Thanks for your kind comments about http://www.internetmarketingnews.tv - we have a lot of fun putting together and the response has been very good so far.
Talk soon!
Gideon
In regards to Video 10. Some wordpress themes already have an RSS button installed. If one were to follow your excellent video and install the rss button from feedburner. Then you would have two rss buttons. That would look a little tacky don’t you think?
I do know a little about css. About enough to be really dangerous. Should I take off the rss that was already installed and do what the video says. Or should I try and incorporate the feedburner code into the rss page in theme editor?
Might be a little advanced for beginning blogging but had to ask. Thank you for these great videos. A beginner should have no problem getting started with these videos to follow.
Hi Gideon.
Nothing could have explained to me better than these videos!
I should have found this earlier than anything else, then I could have avoided setting up my current blog with Blogger, and instead I did that with WordPress with hosted + my domain name. I registered at several services with current URL, so it’s not easy to change everything once I get started, so I keep it in mind every word you say in these videos for my next blog.
These videos are very easy to be understood by a beginner like me, and I appreciate Gideon’s step-by-step guidance. Thank you so much, you did a great job!
Hi Kirin
Thank you so much for your very kind comments. I am so glad that you have found the videos helpful. That’s exactly why we created them, because we want lovely people like you to use them and create their own amazing blogs.
All the best for your future blogging efforts!
Gideon Shalwick
http://www.GetYourVideoOnline.com
Hi Steven
I think a possible way out is to find where your theme stores the rss address for the other rss buttons, and then to replace that address with the new rss address you got from Feedburner.
It’s a bit tricky to respond to this one, as it depends heavily on the theme that you are using for your blog. There is quite a bit of variation here as to how different themes deal with rss links.
But try this first to see if it solves your problem…
Gideon Shalwick
http://www.GetYourVideoOnline.com
Hi Gideon and Yaro!
That was fun! I went through the videos step by step from brainstorming for a domain name, to registering it at Namecheap and through the web hosting process at Host Gator. Now, I have my own blog at http://www.myvirtualwebsite.com and I’m really excited to start filling it up with content. I have chosen Talian 10 as my theme and I already have the RSS button nicely tucked in and the Feedburner is up and running.
Thank you so much, you guys, and more power!
Gene
Hi Gene
That’s awesome news! I checked out your new blog and it looks GREAT!
CONGRATULATIONS AND WELL DONE!
Keep up the good work!
Gideon Shalwick
http://www.GetYourVideoOnline.com