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1. jlaperch
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Newbie here...trying to figure out how to get a feed of my blog out there.

   When i add the feed to my reader...get a
   "not a well formed feed" error

   how do i fix?

   thanks in advance

   john

2. stonegatherer
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I have a similar question. I see WP blogs with "Add to: MyYahoo, MyMSN, Google, etc" Buttons. The buttons all link to a folder on one site, on other sites they link to site.com/rss.xml (I don't know if this is correct because I tried it in Google and Google couldn't find anything).

   What do I need to do to feed my blog to the world?
   Or what am I doing wrong.

   All searches I have done result in information that a subscriber would want, not somebody that wants to give people something to subscribe to.

3. jaredquinn
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Pass the URL to your feed to an RSS validator to make sure (try http://feedvalidator.org/).

   You can find the RSS feed for your blog simply at yoururl/feed

   You are better off linking to this, or to

   yoururl/feed/rss
   yoururl/feed/rss2
   yoururl/feed/atom

   I personally think it's impolite to have an "Add to My...." type link for your feed, as you're leaving it up to the user to decide how they do it. A link for a feed should be to the feed (in my opinion).

   I do however think it's a good idea to have a "What's a Feed?" type link pointing to a page that explains feed readers and the new breed of online readers/aggregators.

4. stonegatherer
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   See this is where I am getting confused,

   I don't have a folder called myurl.com/feed/
   so I get a 404 when I try to view it.

   When I try to get to myurl/feed/rss I get
   a "Page could not be displayed" error.

5. stonegatherer
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   OKay so I used RSSAuthenicator and it told me my feed was located at:

   http://www.MYDOMAIN.net/?feed%3Drss2

   So then I tried to add it to MyYahoo and it showed that there have been no new items in the past 5 days, which is wrong.

6. jaredquinn
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Try yoururl.com/wp-feed.php

7. stonegatherer
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thanks Jared.

   Just out of curiousity, do you know what Yahoo
   is looking for? It duplicated all my blog entries .....

8. jaredquinn
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Can't help you there sorry... Perhaps you got submitted twice or something? May have to take that one up with Yahoo.

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