How To Add Blog To Bloglovin

As we all know, Google Reader is disappearing on July 1st. I have written a list of alternatives for Google Reader.

In that mail I mentioned that one of my favourite ways to follow blogs is by using Bloglovin' then this post volition explain how it works, how to fix up an account, how to follow blogs and merits your own as well as how to export your subscriptions from Google Reader and import them into Bloglovin'.

Update – Why I'm now using Feedly to follow all non beauty + fashion blogs.

What is Bloglovin'

Bloglovin' is an easy fashion to follow blogs and get notified when they upload a new mail service. Bloglovin' is a reader which updates using RSS Feeds. This means that y'all tin can add and follow Whatsoever blog or website fifty-fifty if the possessor doesn't take an Bloglovin account, as long as the site has a valid RSS Feed.

Setting up an account on Bloglovin'

To set an business relationship on Bloglovin', all you have to do is enter a couple of details on the signup page or you tin can sign up past connecting to your Facebook profile.

Yous will demand to log into your email account and verify your email address. It will pb you onto a couple of introduction pages, which yous tin can skip. You will then arrive at your dashboard.

In the top navigation bar, yous will see a link to habitation/dashboard, likewise as links to the pop posts and blogs (hovering over these will driblet down categories).

You lot will also see you account image, with many options and settings. Abreast this is the search bar where you lot tin can search and follow blogs. To add a blog, you tin can search for a give-and-take, a user-name or using the URL.

When you follow a blog, yous can add together it to a category. This acts like a folder in your sidebar to allow you to categorise/organise the blogs y'all follow. Under the navigation bar, you will see the weblog feed.

This is where all new posts and updates announced. You lot tin can as well change the viewing settings. To the right of the blog feed, you will see your dissimilar categories.

How to claim a blog on Bloglovin'

Equally I mentioned higher up, any URL with a valid RSS Feed tin exist added to Bloglovin' as it is a reader, the blog owner doesn't need to have an account for their weblog to appear on the site. By claiming your web log, you are proving that the weblog is yours. This gives you access to change the information associated with your web log.

To claim your web log go to Business relationship > Claim Blog > and search for yours. Click on your weblog championship, copy the code and paste information technology into a new blog postal service on your web log. This is to prove that you have access to the blog account.

One time you publish it, go dorsum to Bloglovin' and click Claim Blog. Information technology will search for the lawmaking and verify that you own it before adding the web log to your account. Once you've claimed your weblog, you can go to Account > My Blog and edit your details, such as title, clarification and category.

How to claim you Contour Page

Set up up a profile page here to display some data about you lot and a listing of your blogs. Get to Settings > Profile Info and enter your unique username to exist used as your profile folio. Example http://www.bloglovin.com/misse

Bloglovin FAQ

How to follow blogs on Bloglovin'

You can search for Any blog or website (with a valid RSS Feed) and simply click "Follow". You can then add them to a binder that you have created. I've fix numerous folders every bit categories to organise the blogs I follow.

How to move/merge followers when changing blog url

Write a new post on your old blog stating that you accept moved to a new address. Include a link in the post to your new weblog. Then contact Bloglovin' via the support folio with the appropriate information and they will move the followers for you.

Does the blog possessor or Bloglovin' benefit from traffic

Bloglovin' sends the user to your blog accost, pregnant that you receive the traffic. There are some confusions about the use of the frame, which I briefly dicuss here.

How to turn off / remove frame on Bloglovin

To turn off the frame from appearing when y'all visit someones blog via Bloglovin, simply hover over your prototype in the top bar and click Settings. Scroll down to the Other heading and you lot'll run across the options for The Bloglovin' frame there.

How to fix : images / posts non actualization – How to cheque if RSS is valid

The images needs to be .jpeg and must not be too large, otherwise it will not load properly. You must have a valid RSS Feed for Bloglovin' to be able to gather your posts/images. You can check if your feed is valid here.

Your images need to be included in your RSS Feed to be able to testify in Bloglovin'. Bank check the pick for "Full Mail service" and not "Summary" in your feed settings, this will permit the images to be shown and content to exist accessed in order to properly update. On WordPress, this is in Settings > Reading.

On Blogger, go to Settings > Other > Site Feed > Permit Blog Feed > Custom and ready each feed to Full. I discuss this more than in the mail service on RSS feeds and missing posts & thumbnails in the Blogger Dashboard.

How to prepare : blog showing multiple times in search

If the web log is using more than than one feed, it may exist added multiple times to Bloglovin'. Simply contact Bloglovin' via the support page and let them know the issue. They will combine them for yous.

How to choose photo for thumbnail

Bloglovin always picks the get-go paradigm included in your RSS-feed, this might non ever exist the first prototype in your weblog post, it may be the start image you added to your blog post instead. The image needs to be .jpeg and should non too large or take long to load.

How to remove deleted posts or a deleted blog

Send Bloglovin an email via the support/help page and they'll remove the post for yous from your Bloglovin feed.

How to follow whatever weblog from your browser

As I mentioned earlier, you lot can add ANY blog or website to Bloglovin without the author needing to accept an account. As long as the site has a valid RSS Feed, which most do, you tin add together information technology!

The problem is not all websites/blogs take a link to bloglovin bachelor and then y'all accept to open up a new tab, sign into Bloglovin, search for the web log and so follow or add together it.

Non likewise bad if it's only a couple but if you're like me and use bloglovin to proceed up to date with a whole range of websites, blogs, forums, etc it can be a hassle.

I recently came across this bookmarklet that you drag into your bookmark bar, then when you are on a site y'all want to follow, click information technology and information technology will open bloglovin in a new tab. Pretty handy!

Still, I didn't like that information technology opened in a new tab. To open up information technology in the same tab here's what to do. Add together it to your browsers bookmark bar, right click on it, click Edit Address. Change _blank to _self.

Now bloglovin will open in the same tab with that website/blog, then yous just take to click follow.

How to consign certain subscriptions (blogs/groups) from Bloglovin?

Acquire how to export specific blogs and categorised groups from your Bloglovin feed equally fill-in or to import into a different business relationship or feed reader.

How to export subscription data from Google Reader

Click hither to download your reader data using Google Takeaway, you tin and so upload that file to an culling reader. More data about exporting on Googles support page

How to Import Alternative Reader Feeds (such as Google Reader) to Bloglovin'

Beginning open the import page > click Google Reader > Import from Google Reader > Allow Admission or to practise information technology manually, click OPML/XML and upload the exported Google Reader XML file.

To import from another reader, export the subscriptions as an OPML file and upload the file on the import page, choose the OPML/XML pick.