Web Marketing All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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iGoogle is a useful tool to web marketers. One helpful tool is the RSS feed reader. If iGoogle isn’t the default RSS feed reader for your browser, you’ll need to add the feed to iGoogle by hand. Only a few steps are added, though, so don’t worry:

  1. Click the RSS link on the website you want to follow.

  2. Copy the feed URL in the address bar.

  3. Go to your iGoogle homepage and click the Add Gadgets link.

  4. In the lower-left corner of the Add Gadgets page, click Add Feed or Gadget.

  5. In the box that appears right below the Add Feed or Gadget link, paste the feed URL.

  6. Click Add.

    You’re done — you added a feed by hand.

You can try using a shortcut for adding feeds to iGoogle: Type the web address of the site to which you want to subscribe. If it has a correctly configured feed, Google detects and adds it.

To see more or fewer results in a specific content box on the iGoogle homepage, click the gear menu for that content box, click the Edit Settings, and select the number of items you want to see.

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About the book authors:

John Arnold is the author of E-Mail Marketing For Dummies and coauthor of Mobile Marketing For Dummies.

Ian Lurie is President of Portent, Inc.

Marty Dickinson is President of HereNextYear.

Elizabeth Marsten is Director of Search Marketing at Portent, Inc.

Michael Becker is the Managing Director of North America at the Mobile Marketing Association.

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