Create interesting blogroll using Google Reader

Blogging is a profession which involves as much reading as writing is required. We do follow many blogs and see amazing posts everyday.

When we see one, we get an urge to share it with our friends and readers and we use social networking sites like facebook, twitter to share them.

Many bloggers have blogrolls, through which feeds are shared with readers.

Using Google Reader, you could create blogrolls without complicated scripts nor plugins.

There is indeed another great advantage in using Google Reader to create your blogrolls.

If you are using Google Reader, it is easy to follow what I am to say. If you are not, it is such a great tool to miss. Give it a try. It is easy and nice to follow your favourite blogs.

Fine. Now, whenever you open a post of your favourite blog in Google Reader, towards the bottom, you would see a share link. If you click this, the post gets automatically added to your public page.

There is a public page in Google Reader where your favourite feeds could be shared with everyone. This is publicly accessible once you share the link to people you know. This page could not be found via search.

The greatest advantage of sharing your blogrolls via Google Reader is that you could add notes/comments/views/opinions to these posts and interact with your readers unlike other blogrolls.

Just like the snapshot below, where you could find my notes at the top.




You could do so by just clicking notes link in your shared content or click the ‘share with notes’ before sharing a post.

When coming across some good content, if you have something to say about it, you could put your thoughts then and there and in this way you are reaching your readers.

Adding the blogroll to your blog is just a copy and paste job of the javascript from Google Reader's 'addclip' option found under 'your stuff' column.

By creating blogrolls using Google Reader, you are not just providing something more for your readers to look through but also you are communicating with them.

Here(look in the sidebar) is a blogroll which I created for another blog of mine. Clicking on ‘Read More’ takes to my public page.

Another good thing is - you share not just the feeds but the exact post of a feed which interested you and hence could make your blogroll a well noticed,followed portion of your blog as it would be entertaining to your readers with new contents from new blogs everyday. Better than conventional blogrolls.

Do you use Google Reader? Do you share your blogrolls using it? What are your views on these lines of sharing your blogrolls. Freely drop in your thoughts via comments section. Will readers like it?