Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Adding a News Feed to your Blog

• go to http://news.google.com/
• Click on Edit this personalized page
• Click on Add a Custom Section
• Type in keywords related to the theme of your blog
• Specify number of stories
• Click on Add Section
• Back in Google News, click on section title (e.g., Uganda)
• Click on RSS in left frame
• A new page pops up. Click on Add to Google Reader
• In Blogger, go to Layout
• Click on Add a Page Element
• Now here's the tricky part. To add this feed to your blog, instead of going to Feed, go to Blog List and click on Add to Blog
• In the Configure window, delete the title unless you're going to have more than one news feed
• In the bottom window click on Add a Blog to your List
• Click on Import Subscriptions from Google Reader
• Find your feed and click in its box and then on Add.
• Click on Save
• Back in the Blogger layout page you can rearrange the order of the items in the right frame if you like
• Save your changes and view post

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