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Note: If you don’t know what <\/i>RSS<\/i><\/a> is, it’s short for “Really Simple Syndication”.  It’s a mechanism for having one’s blog posts delivered to your inbox, <\/i>Google Reader<\/i><\/a> or other web syndication tool.  This keeps you from having to visit a webpage every few days.  My new posts can be handed to you on a silver platter!  I RSS-subscribe to about 20 blogs this way and it’s great!<\/i><\/p>\n

I want to apologize to my RSS subscribers in case you had every one of my 500+ blog posts pushed to you over the past 2 weeks as I’d been updating the “labels” on each post.  On 99% of the posts, there were no changes to the post itself, I just added a label or two, that’s all.  On those that might have had edits, they were probably to clean out some dead links or freshen up some pictures.<\/p>\n

Perhaps you’re wondering “What is a ‘label’?”  Well, at the bottom of this blog post (right under the time stamp) you’ll see one: “blogging”.  If you click on that link for “blogging”, you’ll find all the blog posts that I’ve labeled as such.<\/p>\n

I didn’t do this before and recently I’ve started to regret it.  I have so many smart-ass and punny blog titles that don’t help sum up the topic of what I’m writing about.  I was looking for a blog post about Howie’s recent injury and the title is “Oops He Did It Again”<\/a>.  (Not to be confused with “Oops I Did It Again”<\/a> which was about Jim Cantore and The Weather Channel).  That title didn’t help me find the post very well, but now that it’s labeled “Howie”<\/a>, it’ll come up when I do a search.<\/p>\n

This will also help me when I’m searching for birds I’ve blogged about<\/a>, or flowers<\/a>, or our travels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’ll help you too if you have a reason to refer to my blog.  If you only want to subscribe to my blog for certain labels (if you’re only interested in my cooking<\/a> or my moving antics<\/a>), you can follow these directions.<\/a><\/p>\n

With the labeling I’m able to bring a couple new features.<\/p>\n

I installed a new widget called LinkWithin<\/a>, which brings you relevant blog posts at the end of each of post.  The labels help the web crawler tool find the relevant posts more easily.<\/p>\n

Another feature on the right hand side is the “Label Cloud”<\/a>.  You might have to scroll down a little to see it.  The most relevant labels are sized by how many of each post there is.  I like how it gives an idea of what topics I cover the most.  Click any one of those links and you’ll be presented all blog posts with that particular label.<\/p>\n

Finally, if you don’t do so already, there’s a means for you to subscribe to my blogposts via e-mail.  The subscription box is in the upper right.  If you choose to subscribe via this tool, it’s anonymous…I only know how many subscribers I have, not who they are.<\/p>\n

I need to thank Brandie at The Country Cook<\/a> for some of the ideas I stole.  I had a pretty innovative blog back in the day when I first started things, but I guess I fell behind with the times.  I finally took the time to play a little catch up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note: If you don’t know what RSS is, it’s short for “Really Simple Syndication”.  It’s a mechanism for having one’s blog posts delivered to your inbox, Google Reader or other web syndication tool.  This keeps you from having to visit a webpage every few days.  My new posts can be handed to you on a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-blogging"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t