Following a blog

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  jeanvandergrift · Member · Jan 29, 2016 at 8:22 pm

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  I have two people who want to follow my blog and receive notifications when I have posted a new post. How are they able to do so? What should I tell them to do?
  Others have seemed to know how because an email comes to me saying that they will now receive automatic notification of a new post.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  vijjiu · Member · Jan 30, 2016 at 12:37 am

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  Hi,

  Anyone browsing on your site will see a blue box which says “Follow” to the right hand corner.
  If they are logged into their own wordpress.com site then all they need to do is click on that “follow” button and they will see the blog updates on their site “Reader”.
  If they are not logged into their wordpress.com site or they do not have a wordpress.com site , then when they click on the “Follow” button , it will ask them to enter their “email id” and hit ” Sign up” .

  Hope this helps.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 30, 2016 at 6:40 pm

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  Here at wordpress.COM subscribers control their own subscriptions. They also control how frequently they receive posts from sites they subscribe to. We cannot subscribe for them.

  See here for installing the follow blog widget https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/

  You can also use the Blog Subscription Shortcode https://en.support.wordpress.com/blog-subscription-shortcode/