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Web Marketing: How to Add Content to a Netvibes Homepage

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Netvibes can be helpful to web marketers for tracking social media websites. To add content to Netvibes manually, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the site, blog search, or other page to which you want to subscribe.

  2. Right-click the RSS or Subscribe to RSS link.

  3. From the shortcut menu that appears, choose the Copy Link Location command (or a similar one).

  4. Go to Netvibes and log in (if you aren’t already logged in).

  5. Click the Add Content button.

  6. In the page that opens, click the Add a Feed button.

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  7. Paste the feed URL and then click Add Feed.

    Netvibes presents options, if necessary. Options are determined by the specific widget. The kind of content you want or don’t want, whether to include photographs, or whether to play video automatically are possible options.

  8. Click the Add to my Page button.

    The feed is now on your Netvibes homepage.

Here are a couple of shortcuts for adding feeds to Netvibes:

  • Simply click Add Feed and then, in the field that appears, type the web address of a site. If the site has a feed, Netvibes finds and adds it automatically.

  • Use a Firefox plug-in or a Chrome extension (if you use Firefox or Chrome as your web browser). Be sure to read about those items when you start using Netvibes. Plug-ins are great and easy to install, but do a little research to find the ones that have been around for a while and are proven to work.

Netvibes offers a few additional options with which you can

  • Change the number of items shown in the feed box.

  • Color-code the content boxes.

    Color-coding might seem silly at first, but it can make your social media desktop much easier to review.

  • Show more information about each post.

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To access these options and others, click the Edit or the Options button at the top of each content box.

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John Arnold is a renowned marketing trainer and speaker as well as an entrepreneur and small business advisor. Arnold continues to train and advise small business owners as a Constant Contact regional development director.

Michael Becker is the managing director of North America at the Mobile Marketing Association. Becker has written more than 80 articles on mobile marketing and is an adjunct professor of mobile marketing at Golden Gate University.

Marty Dickinson is the president of HereNextYear.com, a company that combines writing, speaking, and internet strategy to help clients become recognized authorities in their fields. Dickinson also works as a business consultant to web designers and SEO specialists.

Ian Lurie has been a digital marketer for over 25 years. He created and sold the digital agency Portent, Inc. and provides consulting and training services.

Elizabeth Marsten is the senior director of strategic marketplace services for Tinuiti. Marsten has experience in Google AdWords, Microsoft Ads, Amazon Advertising, Facebook, and other platforms.