Guide To Blogging

Blogging these days without an RSS Feed is like blogging before TiVo. The only way people will know whether you have new posts would be to for them to go directly to your site and patiently wait for it everyday. Most readers these days don’t have such time and luxury. Thus, the creation of the Really Simple Syndication (RSS).

In a nutshell, RSS is the perfect application for those who wish to be updated on the latest news, events on their favorite blog, without logging into the site. It’s also a great way for bloggers to send out their information to a wide audience. This has changed the way people read the news in the internet these days, as it saves more time for them to scan over a lot of sites in one look.

In order for you to enjoy RSS you must have an RSS reader as well. There are a lot of readers in the internet, and all you need to do is google them. Have a grand time RSS’ing!

If you’re using the Blogger platform, then you’re sure to have other blogger blogs out there that you want to reign in and organize. If that’s the case, then you’re in for a treat :

The import/export feature opens up a whole new range of portability for your blogs, as well as allows for a few new options in the blog creation process. To get you started, we’ve rounded up a handful of ideas that can be done with importing and exporting:

* Merge two or more blogs into one. Have a few scattered blogs and want to get a fresh start? Now you can combine comments and posts from multiple blogs into a brand new blog.
* Move individual posts from blog to blog. Cross-publish your posts on multiple blogs, or transfer large batches of posts from one blog to another with a single click.
* Back up your blog to your own storage. It’s never a bad idea to create backup copies of your own content, and now you can easily export an archival copy of your blog to your hard drive with a simple tool.
* Move your blog somewhere else. Our standard Atom XML export format will open up new blogging channels between providers, and let you take your content with you should you decide to move somewhere else. And of course, if you decide to come back to Blogger, importing your export file will get you back up and running in seconds.

As of the moment, it’s only available for Blogger blogs.

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