Spruce up your MySpace page with an RSS Feed to your blog

If you are one of those business owners with a MySpace page and a separate blog (like on WordPress), I thought I would share this cool widget with you for adding an RSS feed to your MySpace profile page.

There are a variety of RSS feed widgets on the internet if you search around, but I found this one fairly easy to use.  It was called Push and I found it on the SpringWidgets website:  http://www.springwidgets.com/widgets/view/33225/false/true?rl=widgetize/33225

It was super simple to do, so I know you can do this yourself too.  Here is what you need to know:

1)  Delete PUSH’s own blog feed here

PUSH MySpace Blog RSS Feed - Delete PUSH feed

PUSH MySpace Blog RSS Feed - Delete PUSH feed

2)  Then enter your own blog feed in the field Feed URLs and click the “+” sign.  (Do this for each blog you want to include in your feed)
You can now see a preview of the RSS feed widget:
 
Preview of PUSH MySpace Blog RSS Feed Widget  
 
3)  Customize your RSS feed widget!  Add your own logo or image, customize the size or even change the color of the bars at the bottom and top of the widget box.  If you see the next image, you can see all the customization options.  

Customizing the PUSH MySpace Blog RSS Feed Widget

To replace the PUSH logo with our own WOMbeat! logo, I used the “Link to Image” feature and pasted the URL for our logo from our Flickr account.  (If you are unfamiliar with Flickr, you can find the URL for your uploaded images by clicking on the “All Sizes” option for any image.) 

4)  Preview the widget with your logo (see image below):

PUSH MySpace Blog RSS Feed Widget - Customized Logo

PUSH MySpace Blog RSS Feed Widget - Customized Logo

5)  Add widget to your MySpace page!  Once you complete all the customizations to this widget, you are ready to add it to your MySpace page.  Simply click on the button called “Options” below the preview of the widget box.  This will display the Share this Widget box (displayed below).

Share this Widget

Click on the MySpace icon:   This will display the HTML code needed for your MySpace page.

HTML for SpringWidget PUSH Blog RSS Feed Widget (MySpace)

HTML for SpringWidget PUSH Blog RSS Feed Widget (MySpace)

All you need to do now is click the word “Copy”.  Then immediately go to your MySpace profile, be sure you are in the “Edit Profile” mode, and paste this HMTL code anywhere on your page that you want.  If you want to see an example, feel free to visit our MySpace page.

TIP:  Copy this HTML and save it somewhere such as in an MS Word file, Outlook, etc.  This way, you can always save it and retrieve it later if needed.

This was free and easy to do.  As always, I am open to other tips & tricks or comments by readers. 

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