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May 08, 2005
Make Auto Discovery One More Subscription Option
Sometimes visitors to your blog or web site want to find your RSS link so they can subscribe but get tired of looking around for it. (That's really another story though isn't it)
With just a bit of HTML trickery you can allow aggregators like Bloglines, FeedDemon and NewsGator to automatically find your RSS feed. All the user needs to do now is enter your site's URL and the feed will be added. Firefox has an autodiscovery feature that shows a little button in the browser bar when it discovers a feed. Again, all the user does is right click the icon and they subscribe using whatever RSS reader they already have configured.
Create the following HTML code and replace the feed title and url with your own and then paste this code in the <head> tag of your page.
<link rel='alternate' type='application/rss+xml' title='Your Feed Title' href='Yourfeedurl'>
Many blog services such as Typepad already do this for you but this can be particularly useful if you want to promote your feed on other pages of your web site.
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Comments
Thank you for the suggestion. I've added the code to my own web site.
Posted by: Ted | May 8, 2005 1:57:42 PM
John, I have an idea for a website/blog. I have searched around and found nothing like it currently out there. It covers one of the hottest topics in the country, it's in the news practically every day and it effects every American. I believe it has potential to be a very popular site. I don't know whether it would be better to have a website or a blog or both. What are the advantages/disadvantages?
I assume the only way to make $$ at it is to sell advertising but I don't have a clue how you go about doing that or how advertising space is valued. Can you suggest resources for me or is this something you do?
Posted by: Granny | May 9, 2005 2:24:36 PM
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