how can someone follow my blog

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  paulroemer · Member · Jul 3, 2009 at 4:52 pm

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  What do i need to do to allow readers to follow my blog? Is there a widget I should add? Thanks

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

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 3, 2009 at 4:59 pm

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  We need a link to the blog please. Always provide a link when asking questions in the forums since we typically have to take a look at the blog in order to help, and also to make sure that people are in the correct forum.

  Visitors can follow your blog via RSS or you can set up an email update in the sidebar using Feedburner.

  http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/put-your-feed-in-your-sidebar/

  How can I offer email updates?

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  paulroemer · Member · Jul 3, 2009 at 5:28 pm

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  Thank you for the kind advice. The blog is https://ehrstrategy.wordpress.com.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 3, 2009 at 5:29 pm

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  You’re welcome. Blogger has a couple nice features such as the follow my blog gadget. I’m hoping wordpress will get around to adding something like that in the near future.

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  paulroemer · Member · Jul 3, 2009 at 5:39 pm

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  forgive me for being thick, I got as far as adding <img src=””image-location”” /> to the text. I knew the last half of the paste wouldn’t work, but I don’t know what I need to replace it with to allow someone to follow me.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 3, 2009 at 5:44 pm

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  Are you talking about adding the RSS feed thing to your sidebar?

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  paulroemer · Member · Jul 3, 2009 at 5:50 pm

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  Yes, I think so. Presently I added the title to the left sidebar indicating someone can link. This is what I first tried

  <img src=”image-location” />

  then I tried replacing the part <img src=”image-location” /> with

  <img src=”http://faq.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/b28.png” />

  both tries gave me a 404 error

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 3, 2009 at 5:56 pm

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  The following works. I have created a link to your post feeds and also to your comments feed.

  <p><a href="http://ehrstrategy.wordpress.com/feed/"><img src="http://faq.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/h28.png" alt="" /></a> Subscribe to my feed</p>
  <p><a href="http://ehrstrategy.wordpress.com/comments/feed/"><img src="http://faq.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/h28.png" alt="" /></a> Subscribe to comments</p>

  You can change the image if you wish and edit the text I included also.

  Also, to post code here in the forums and have it show up instead of being interpreted, place the code between backticks ( ` ) which is the key to the left of the #1 with the ~ on it.

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  paulroemer · Member · Jul 3, 2009 at 6:02 pm

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  Thank you for giving of your time to help me, it is most appreciated.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 3, 2009 at 6:11 pm

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  You’re welcome.

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  t3ck · Member · Jul 3, 2009 at 9:20 pm

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  There’s a nice little workaround that wordpress.com members have been using recently to have followers for their blogs but requires a Facebook account and this application. –> http://www.facebook.com/tos.php?api_key=f7f71c355e1dcca1ba0d472eef124184&next=newuser1.php%3F&v=1.0&canvas

  Please also check out this thread for ideas on how other wordpress.com members are using this applicaction to promote and gain followers for their blogs. –> Facebook App for your WordPress blog