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As I mentioned in an earlier post Learning About & Problems With My RSS Feed, I was having problems setting up the RSS feed on this blog. I already had one at the bottom of the page, but I wanted to be able to use the universal RSS feed symbol.

Today as I was micromanaging my other blog, www.observationmountain.com, I realized it didn’t have a RSS feed (or not one I could find), so back to researching I went. I came upon this website: www.stepbystepblog.com, and found detailed information about Feedburner.

I followed the directions as outlined in the www.stepbystepblog.com website, and got Feedburner added as a plugin on both of my blogs. I then followed the instructions on the Feedburner website and got my RSS feeds working. At first, I got totally confused, but in the end, it’s all worked out.

I wanted to include the orange RSS feed button on my blogs, but on the Feedburner website, it didn’t list WordPress as an option (in the copy and paste code section). I ended up using the code for TypePad, and that worked fine

So…now I can quit stressing out about my RSS feeds, and go back to concentrating on posting.

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Stumble Upon is a new (to me) way to surf the internet. After you register, you check boxes for the types of sites you like to view. The categories are limitless.

After you add the Stumble Upon toolbar, you can click the “Stumble” button and see websites that fit your profile. You can rate the websites with a “thumbs up” or “thumbs down”, send the website to a friend, add a site to your Stumble Upon Favorites, etc… Now I’m seeing websites and blogs I’ve never seen before compared to when I was doing a normal Google search. I think it’ll be a great alternative to searching the web.

As time permits, I plan to surf on Stumble Upon and see if I can find other blogs that are helpful or similar to mine, rate them, and become a frequent visitor to theirs as well.

Hint: I believe in order to install Stumble Upon, you first need to install the Mozilla Firefox program and toolbar. Mozilla Firefox is pretty easy to navigate, plus I like the fact you can have multiple windows open at once. You can also customize the look of it.

As mentioned in my previous post, I installed Google Analytics. I now have two days of stats and am very impressed with the results.

Google Analytics gives me beautiful bar and line graphs, information on my visitors and pages views, a “geo map overlay”, and a ton of reports I can generate. I’m glad I added Google Analytics so early in the game.

Keep in mind, the stats start when you add Google Analytics. I don’t believe they can give you stats for dates prior to adding Google Analytics. That appears to be the case for any stats that you activate, as my Awstats and Webalizer stats only give me information from the date I activated them.

For a new blog, or website, my stats are pretty low, but I will definitely find it exciting to watch the numbers increase as time passes.

Hint: Remember to add stats to your blog as soon as you set everything up. They will give you comparative figures as your blog grows.

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