Perhaps one of the most dreaded questions a blogger will ever face is a request for his or her RSS feed URL. While many bloggers can whip off their blog's address with pride, trying to actually nail down their blog's feed URL is a different matter entirely.

Now, we all know by now that RSS stands for really simple syndication but the "really simple" part somehow escapes us when we are petitioned to enter our blog's RSS feed URL into forms when trying to add our blog to a blogging directory. The awful part of all this is that if we don't play ball, our blog doesn't get listed in these directories. For anyone who is trying to bump up blog readership, this is a necessary, all-be-it painful step (and you thought going to the dentist was bad!).

For the sake of this tutorial, we will use Blogger--a popular, free blogging platform.

Finding a RSS Feed URL

• You are at a blog directory. You've clicked on "Add a Blog."

• Under the request for the name of your blog, you see: Blog URL. You add that, then . . .
  

• Okay, let's assume that you are sitting staring dumbly at that damnably annoying request for the elusive RSS feed URL. You are wishing you could make the bad form go away but . . . this doesn't happen. Pressing "submit" repeatedly doesn't do the trick either. Those little RSS feed URL gremlins know all about this crafty and useless maneuver. What to do?

Shrink down the page and--sighing--navigate over to your Blogger blog. Now comes the painless part.

Feeds

• Find the two Subscribe buttons that should be living over on your sidebar: one is entitled Posts, the other is Comments.

• Now, click on Posts. You'll see a drop-down menu

• At the very bottom, you'll notice Atom

• Right-click on that and go to Properties

• Click on Properties

• You'll see Link Properties and underneath that Address. Ah hah! There's your RSS feed URL!

• Simply run your mouse over it to highlight it, right-click, then press Copy--then Paste the little beggar into forms, as necessary.

You've now joined the ranks of accomplished geeks and techies who know a thing or two--and you didn't sprout another grey hair in the process

Now, that you've mastered the art of grabbing an RSS feed URL, you are on your way to increased blog readership.

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