RSS Auto-Discovery Howto

MON, 17 JUL 2006

rssRSS feed has been the blood vessel for bloggers. But sadly many blog sites that I bumped into still do not have the RSS feed auto-discovery feature.

This simple feature allows RSS feed reader to auto-discover your feed link by just entering your website url. Isn’t it very convenient? Instead of having to skim through your page layout for the tiny RSS button, the extra click to load your feed link and manual copy and paste the URL to the feed reader.

So how can you do that? Very easy. Edit your page layout, and insert the following tag under the <head> tag, as such:

<head>
    ...
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" 
title="[Your Feed Title]" href="[Your RSS Feed link]" />
</head>

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Sat, 30 Dec 06 08:41 am . Nancy V wrote:

Thanks for a great tip! I’m new to blogging and RSS feed readers, and this is a big help!

Sat, 30 Dec 06 10:43 am . Herryanto Siatono wrote:

No problem Nancy, great to be able to help as well.

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