So…if you have not heard…Google Reader is going away. As of July 1st, 2013 it will no longer be an option to follow blogs. Earlier this week we had Part 1 of our Blogging 101…How To Follow A Blog. Hop on over and get the background information for Part 2…
Alternatives to Google Reader
We are bummed..we love our Google Reader…so today we are going to share with you a few other options on…
Blog Reader Options
So now that Google Reader is going away…how will you follow your blogs? Or maybe you want to start following blogs? Here are a few options we have and are looking into for ourselves…
Feedly
- Feedly seems to be a great alternative to Google Reader.
- Right now it only takes about a minute to sync to your Google Reader and transfer all of your blogs and sites over.
- Feedly appears to be very user friendly.
- You are able to customize both how you view your blogs, as well as how you organize them.
- The have a Chrome and Firefox extension that makes it super quick to get to.
- Trish and I both have synced our Google Readers to Feedly and are really enjoying it so far.
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Bloglovin’
- Bloglovin’ is another online option to organize all of your blog and website subscriptions or feeds.
- You can also import all of your Google Reader items now as well, and it is simple and fast.
- Bloggers can place a button { the have lots of choices} on the sidebar to make it easy for their readers to follow them on Bloglovin’.
- Bloglovin’ is pretty easy to navigate and add new blogs to.
- You can also search for blogs on Bloglovin’ and add them to your feed from your Bloglovin’ dashboard.
- Want to follow Uncommon Designs on Bloglovin’? Click this little button below…
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The Old Reader
- The Old Reader is the final option we have been looking into, that mimics Google Reader the most in looks.
- You will have to download your subscriptions from Google Reader, it is a little confusing to do that for the non-techies {like me! } but I finally extracted the correct file to upload so that my lovely blogs would once again be available.
- I “rediscovered” blogs that somehow lost the feed to Google Reader and magically reappeared in my Old Reader feed…sahweet!
- The Old Reader also separates feeds that are no longer active so that you can delete those and clean up your lists.
- It is very basic but also very funtional and easy to navigate.
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Over the next few weeks, Trish and I are going to be using these and getting a good feel for them. So far, I think we will be able to find another reader that we will love as much as Google Reader.
Make sure to check out Part 1 of our Blogging 101…
So what other options are you looking into? Have you tried any of these?
Bonnie
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Thanks for the info – I was going with bloglovin’ but I will check out feedly as well – thanks again, Carrie
I’m using Bloglovin’ and like it BETTER than the Google Reader! 🙂
why, oh why can’t they just leave ‘well enough’ alone? i wish they would just keep GFC. thank you for this post! 🙂
I love Feedly. I am using it to read my favorite post and get updated in a very organize way. In fact, I have a review about it. Bloglovin is nice too but I am incline to using feedly more.