{"id":64,"date":"2007-04-16T17:00:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T21:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.AchieveMax.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/16\/google-rss\/"},"modified":"2012-11-07T14:55:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T19:55:25","slug":"google-rss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/achievemax.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/16\/google-rss\/","title":{"rendered":"A Time Management Saver: Viewing RSS Feeds in a Google Personalized Home Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 270px;\" title=\"web marketing and communications consultant Melanie L. Drake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.achievemax.com\/speakers\/team\/mld.jpg\" alt=\"web marketing and communications consultant Melanie L. Drake\" width=\"200\" height=\"270\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" \/>After\u00a0setting up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.achievemax.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/26\/rss-yahoo\/\" target=\"_blank\">feeds via the My Yahoo! page<\/a> to save time in monitoring specific news and blog sources,\u00a0I also\u00a0tested RSS feeds\u00a0in a personalized Google home page, which\u00a0is the equivalent of\u00a0My Yahoo!<\/p>\n<p>Although I primarily use\u00a0My Yahoo!\u00a0as a time management tool,\u00a0I found that\u00a0the Google personalized home page\u00a0includes many additional\u00a0time-saving\u00a0&#8220;gadgets,&#8221; which are small applications such as the weather, translators, and tips of the day that can easily be added to your page.\u00a0If you monitor any news sources or blogs on a regular basis, adding RSS feeds and these gadgets\u00a0via Google may save you time.<\/p>\n<p>RSS stands for &#8220;Really Simple Syndication.&#8221;\u00a0It&#8217;s a format for distributing and gathering content from sources across the Web, including newspapers, magazines, and blogs.<\/p>\n<p>Setting up feeds in a personalized Google page is simple:<\/p>\n<p><strong>First,<\/strong> go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/ig?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Personalize Home Page on Google<\/a>\u00a0(also known as iGoogle). It&#8217;s located in the upper right-hand corner of the main Google page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second,<\/strong> sign in to your account. If you don&#8217;t have a Google account, you can sign up for one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third,<\/strong> click on &#8220;Add stuff,&#8221; which is on the right side, next to &#8220;Select Theme.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fourth,<\/strong> click on &#8220;Add by URL,&#8221; which is next to the search box at the top of the page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fifth,<\/strong>\u00a0type\u00a0in\u00a0the RSS feed address of the site you&#8217;d like to add. For example, to add the feed from the AchieveMax<small><sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/small> blog, you would type in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.achievemax.com\/blog\/feed\/\">http:\/\/www.AchieveMax.com\/blog\/feed\/<\/a> and then click on &#8220;Add.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Google also has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">feed reader<\/a>\u00a0if you want to track many different feeds and don&#8217;t want a personalized page with convenient gadgets, such as the weather, local gas prices, maps, and traffic alerts, among many other gadgets.<\/p>\n<p>If you already have a personalized Google home page and would like to add the AchieveMax<small><sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/small> blog feed to your page, simply click on the button below:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.google.com\/add?feedurl=http%A\/\/www.achievemax.com\/blog\/feed\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/buttons.googlesyndication.com\/fusion\/add.gif\" alt=\"Add to Google\" width=\"104\" height=\"17\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After\u00a0setting up feeds via the My Yahoo! page to save time in monitoring specific news and blog sources,\u00a0I also\u00a0tested RSS feeds\u00a0in a personalized Google home page, which\u00a0is the equivalent of\u00a0My Yahoo! 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