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By default, your blog has three different ways to tell readers when you publish a new blog post.
Only one of them is called "following."
These methods are not the same, though they accomplish similar things.
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The impending demise of Feedburner's subscribe-by-email service (July 2021) has many of us investigating alternative providers.
The service is a valuable way to connect with regular readers. Its loss will further erode what is left of Blogger's frayed social layer.
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The pixels were barely dry last spring on my seven-part tutorial about inserting images into blogs when Google flipped the board and scattered the pieces to the wind.
All that work, all those screenshots and animations, became obsolete.
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The move leaves users of Blogger with no clear choice for how to continue to offer a subscribe option to readers, though many third-party solutions exist.
The "subscribe by email" gadget will also stop working that time.
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At the moment, though I hope things will change, do not add images into your posts by dragging them from your device or from another web page.
This method kind of works and looks okay, but there are side effects that are not immediately obvious.
Insert images from the edit toolbar instead.
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Unless you disable the option, your readers can subscribe to your blog in a feed reader.
Feeds are the open-source alternative to subscribe-by-email and to following.
Here's how they work.
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"Following" is one of three ways that your readers can opt to be notified when
you publish a new post on your blog.
Followers are those who have added your blog to their reading list at www.blogger.com.