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.
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Hi Gideon,
Even though I didn’t upgrade to the latest wordpress program, it looks very different than it used to look. I was following along using two computers so I could listen, pause, implement, then continue on. It all broke down though when in video #10, you said to click on “design”. I looked all over the wordpress.admin page and it didn’t see it. Is it there and I just missed it?
Sharon
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Gideon Shalwick Reply:
December 22nd, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Hi Sharon
I just noticed the web address you listed, and it looks like you’re still using the wordpress.com website for this?
All the videos on this site as well as the premium membership site is for wordpress.ORG (not wordpress.COM).
So just make sure you’re on the right “page” so to speak.
My apologies if you are indeed using a wordpress.org website… If so, just let me know and we can look at other options for you.
Also, if you’re still stuck with this, please send me an email at support[at]becomeablogger.com.
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Hi Gideon,
What awesome videos. All 10 of them are super, super great.
I am a beginner and these tutorials have really opened my eyes to a whole new internet world. I have decided to start a brand new blogsite with this new knowledge. I will spread the word too!!
Thank you so much. To your success in 2009!!
Connie
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Gideon Shalwick Reply:
January 17th, 2009 at 3:07 am
Hey Connie
Great! Thanks for your very nice comments. I appreciate it greatly!
Do you know that we have an affiliate program for our Premium course? You can sign up for free here if you are interested:
http://becomeablogger.com/affiliates/
All the best!
Gideon Shalwick
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Great videos, Gideon!
Thank you for this invaluable content!
It really helps to get deeper into the blogging.
Toly
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you guys are amazing. Thank you! Although, wordpress has had an upgrade since you did your video. I applied my rss feed but, now my left hand nav has disappeared. I will just change my theme.
Thankyou again!
Kim
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Hey Gideon i just want you to know that i’ve seen all your free videos and i passed through every single detail in Roadmap report and i would like to thank you for these great tutorials and education you provided to us.
I am finnaly making a blog and i have a feeling that it will be great some day cause i really understand all these things i didn’t understand before.
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Your videos have been an AMAZING help!! Thank you so much! Unfortunately I am extremely non-techy and I have blogger.com, not the one you are using in this video and I cannot figure out how to implement RSS and Feedburner. Can you please let me know where I could find info on how to do it on my blog page.
Thank you,
Melanie
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Gideon Shalwick Reply:
March 25th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Hi Melanie
That’s the problem with Blogger.com - your options are really limited. And I do not know how to actually add a Feedburner feed to blogger.com.
Have you done a Google search on it yet?
Also, have you considered just using a WordPress.org blog like we teach in this video series? It’s a bit more challenging to set up, but it will give you a lot more flexibility.
All the best!
Gideon Shalwick
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Wow! These are the most informative, easty to understand videos I have ever seen. I am a “newbie” & a non-techie as well. I wish all trainig videos were as well done as these. Do you have more?
Becky
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Gideon Shalwick Reply:
April 29th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Hey Becky
Thanks for your very kind words!
To answer your question, yes, there are more videos. But they are inside the Premium program which is currently closed to the general public. But we will open doors again to the program during the 2nd half of 2009.
In the mean time, make sure you are signed up to our free newsletter and that you’ve downloaded and read The Roadmap To Become A Blogger report here (it’s free):
http://becomeablogger.com/roadmap/
All the best!
Gideon Shalwick
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You have done an EXCELLLENT JOB structuring and presenting this series
on blogging..THANK YOU
regards,joe
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Gideon Shalwick Reply:
June 27th, 2009 at 2:05 am
Thanks Joe!
You’re very welcome indeed!
Gideon Shalwick
Become A Blogger
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I just wanted to thank you so much for these videos. They were very informative. While all of this blogging being very new to me this was a very exciting process. A few days ago I didn’t even understand how someone would run a website, but now I have a webpage going (still a work in progress) but none-the-less I am exciting.
Thank you to all that were involved in this video.
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Gideon Shalwick Reply:
June 27th, 2009 at 2:04 am
Hi Ziza
Awesome to hear you’ve already set up your own web page - congratulations!
Blogging can be very rewarding indeed. It takes a bit of effort, but the long term payouts are totally worth it!
All the best!
Gideon Shalwick
Become A Blogger
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Gideon,
Thank you so much for your videos. Some of the best videos I have seen for instruction on setting up blogs and sites.
Your presentation is absolutely superb and thorough and your voice is great (easy to listen to). Thank you.
One question.
Do you plan to make videos on the new WP2.8 ?
Regards
Pamela
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Gideon Shalwick Reply:
June 27th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Hey Pamela
Thank you so much for your nice comments!
Inside the Premium members area, towards the end of the course, I show people how to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress, which at the time of writing this is version 2.8.
To be honest though, I’m not too impressed with version 2.8 - it has a few nasty bugs. When I upgraded one of my other blogs to version 2.8, I lost my visual editor when creating posts and pages - not good.
So, version 2.6.3 is still a pretty good version… and pretty stable too.
All the best!
Gideon Shalwick
Become A Blogger
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Gideon
I went over to your GetYouVideoOnline.com and looked at your video series over there. Its amazing and just what I needed so once again thank you.
It is extremely generous of you to let us view those videos for free when you could just as easily sold them. They are superb. Your logical calm approach takes out the uncertainty of being a newbie to video production.
Look forward to anything you bring out in the future.
One more question (?) though. We don’t get an indication of how much Become a Blogger will be in the dollar vicinity.
Regards
Pamela
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Gideon Shalwick Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Hey Pamela
Thanks for your kind comments!
The Become A Blogger Premium program is currently going for $47/month.
You can see more details here:
http://becomeablogger.com/signup
Talk soon!
Gideon Shalwick
Become A Blogger
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your 8th video - feedburner - is out of date and am having trouble figuring things out
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Gideon Shalwick Reply:
July 16th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Hey Kathy
You are probably referring to video #10 - I’m aware of this, but have just been holding off a bit to replace this video since Feedburner is going through some changes with the Google acquisition.
Once things have settled down a bit, I will create a new video for this.
In the mean time, just see if you can go through the steps provided by Feedburner - it should be quite self explanatory in any case.
Best regards
Gideon Shalwick
Become A Blogger
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Dear Gideon,
Thank you very much for these videos. They are well done. As I am in the same area of activity, I can tell how much work went into them.
I have two comments on this blog (becomeablogger.com):
a) it doesn’t seem to be frequented much, few comments, seemingly little activity?
b) you refer several times during the videos to the “Premium Area” where there would be more detailed videos. This is exactly what I am building up this year. However, I did not see yourPremium Area - have you given up on this?
Perhaps people are not interested in a video blog? …and prefer more traditional channels such as eBooks (PDF), and normal text exchange?
It makes me a little worried for my own blogs…
Kind regards from Geneva, Switzerland. Doris Edwards
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Gideon Shalwick Reply:
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Hey Doris
I’m not quite sure I understand your points. Have you not seen all the comments from each of the posts on the blog? Are you looking in the right place? The blog part of the website can be found at http://www.becomeablogger.com/blog. Maybe you were just looking in the wrong place?
The Premium area is currently closed to the general public, but we will open doors again some time in the future.
All the best!
Gideon Shalwick
Become A Blogger
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Thank you for this video! The instructions were super simple and perfectly timed. I really liked that I could complete each step just by listening to the video (which I minimized). I didn’t have to toggle back and forth between screens too much. This was very helpful! Many thanks!
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WELL WELL WELL!!!! I say Newbie, as I am sooooo confused with info I am dreaming about IM!!! BUT : After all I have learned, read and saw, this was THE BEST DAMM TURAL I HAVE HAD since deciding to try out Internet Marketing (and Gidion, I can listen to THAT voice! FOR SURE! Comparing to all the others I have heard (no comparison)! Thank you guys for ALL these vidio’s (please never take them off as I have placed it on a special place on my computer to always go back if need be. You really have done an outstanding job. Thank you again, I am going to do MY FIRST BLOG RIGHT NOW!
Staying tuned to Becomming a blogger from now on
Jolly
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Gideon Shalwick Reply:
August 18th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Hey Jolly
Thank you so much for your very kind words! I appreciate it greatly!
I’m so glad that you’ve finally found something that is helpful and meaningful to you on the net. I really hope this helps you get some great success on the internet.
All the best!
Gideon Shalwick
Become A Blogger
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Gideon” I am very impressed with the information that you shared on those videos; you explaining how wordpress is to be used, and going through each step setting up the program made it all come clear, of course it’s necessary that I veiw the videos again from time to time because it’s so much to remember.
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Gideon Shalwick Reply:
September 20th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Hey James
Thank you for your very kind words!
All the best for your blogging efforts
Gideon Shalwick
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Gideon Shalwick , u know what this is the best iam very very very impressed
why iam impressed coz i could understand all the information u gave out and english is not even my first language…….
did i spell “language”right ? lol
soon i will start my own blog …….. wish me luck
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Gideon Shalwick Reply:
October 11th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Thanks!
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The video tutorial are very simple and easy to follow. I’m very appreciate you and its effort. However, is there any way to get domain name for free?
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Gideon Shalwick Reply:
October 11th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Thank you for your kind words!
I would not recommend you get a free domain name. It’s just not worth it in the long run.
Don’t forget that if you do not own the domain name, you don’t actually own your blog. And that’s not a good thing in case you want to sell it later on.
Regards
Gideon Shalwick
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Good Videos! But, why blog? Why set up an rss feed for someone or be notified by e-mail, for new content, when they can just come back to that blog, can’t they? Do you need a website to blog?
Thank you.
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Ah, one more step closer to getting clear about blog promotion. Have been blogging for about four months and am overwhelmed from the amount of information and decisions that need to be made.
For instance, have been confused about the relative benefits of RSS vs RSS/Email vs Email.
Am thinking, that RSS is for visitors that want this “reader” and know how to set it up, RSS/Email for those who want the RSS experience but don’t know how to set it up, and Email for those who will exchange a bit more (like first name) than an email address in return for some gift (e-book).
The common wisdom is to offer all three, yes? The first two to deliver blog updates (content) and the last to present specific info, or offerings that can convert to sales.
It seems that the only one of the three that enables you to actually collect and use email addresses other than blog updates is the third option.
So, am hoping I’ve got this right, and my thanks for this helpful video!
Joe
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Gideon Shalwick Reply:
December 11th, 2009 at 2:07 am
Hey Joe
You’re pretty much spot on.
But it also depends on your audience a bit. For example, people that are not very savvy at using the internet may not even know what RSS means. In that case it would make more sense to just focus on the email option.
But you really need to figure what people’s level of knowledge is in your particular niche before you can decide on a strategy.
Gideon
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Thanks so much for this video!!!! I couldn`t get my RSS to work until I saw this video and #9 now they are working like a pro!
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FYI you my want to update FeedBurner info. Google now has FeedBurner under them.
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Awesome explanation.
Thanks for sharing,
D,
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