Follow Blogs, Without A Followers Gadget

Recently, Blogger cleaned up the Navbar somewhat - and removed the "Follow" link. This left some blog would be Followers inconvenienced.

How do I Follow blogs, that don't have a Followers gadget?

There has always been a third way to Follow a blog, provided by Blogger - though not everybody may be aware of it.

Blogger has earlier provided three ways for us to Follow any given blog.

1. The Followers / Google Friend Connect gadget, in the blog body.
2. The "Follow" link in the Navbar.
3. The "Manage" wizard, in the Reading List.

Not every option is available on every blog, or to every blog owner / viewer - but given access to a working Blogger account, you can at least give yourself a third option.

If you're looking at a blog that lacks a Followers gadget, and now with no "Follow" navbar link, just login to Blogger and go to your dashboard, and the Reading List display at the bottom of the Blog List.

• For The Classic GUI, the "Add" button beneath the Reading List.
• For The New GUI, the Gear icon gives use the Manage wizard, with a similar "Add" button.

Just click on "Add", and enter the URL of the blog.

When you Add a blog, you'll have two options to Follow - Publicly and Anonymously. In either case, this only works for Public blogs - Private blogs don't publish a feed, and can't be Followed.

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