How to Follow a Blog

How to Follow a Blog, let me count the ways.....

Mary Beth RetroMonkeys

Every blog has a way to follow it. Some easier than others. 

                                                                                                                                      

Wordpress - If you have a Wordpress account, you simply click the follow button on the top of the page. The new posts will be sent to your "reader". If you do not have a wordpress account, there will be a Follow button in the bottom right corner. A box will pop up asking for an email address that you want the posts to be sent to. Done!                                                                                                                                                 

Next is Blogger by Google. Blogger is what we use for this blog as well as for patternpatter.blogspot.com  Blogger is easy to follow whether you have a Google account or not.  

Each blog has a Members section usually to the right side of the page. 

As you can see in the image, If you have a Google account you simply click on Join this Site. You can choose to follow publicly or privately if you wish to be anonymous. If you are following privately your Google Account profile picture will not be displayed. To learn more about Public vs Private, CLICK HERE.

To follow the blog without a google account, Click on the Join this Site button. A larger box will open and display the choices of how to follow. The boxes (marked with an arrow) will expand the followers box. After you complete your sign up, you can open this to make sure that your profile is there.

Now for my personal favorite. Bloglovin! Bloglovin is a great way to consolidate all of the blogs you follow into one email! You can add any blog at all to your feed. Simply sign up at Bloglovin.com  You can sign up using your Facebook account or with an email address. Make sure to adjust the settings once you have registered! 

Many blogs have a button for bloglovin. If it does, simply click the button to add it to your feed. If there is no button on the blog you wish to follow, you can add it to bloglovin. First enter the blog you are looking for. I searched by copying the url. The one I was looking for showed up so I simply would click +Follow.  If it doesn't show up, the box on the right has Add the blog to Bloglovin.  Click that link

enter the url of the blog and click Add Blog

Bloglovin is my favorite! It gives you everything you want to see in an easy format. If you have a blog it also gives you stats for that too. 

Questions? Just ask in the comment section and I'll do my best to answer. Or - go to the help section of the site.