Put an RSS Feed on Your Website

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Yesterday a member asked on CHAT how to put an RSS feed on her site. Members gave her a number of ways to do it. This is how I do it:

1. Go to Feedburner.com

2 Enter your URL.

3. Make a blank post and insert an image for RSS Feed.

4. Link the image to your feedburner.com Feed URL. For one of my sites it is:

<a title="Grab on to Our RSS Feed" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/" width="215" height="52" /></a>

5. Copy the html from your blank blog and put it into a widget:

Appearance >> Widget

6. Place the widget where you want it to appear on your page.

That's it!

You can use my image or grab one at feedburner.com or a hundred other places on the Internet. I forget who showed us this widget trick. Thanks to whomsoever.

There is a plugin for widgets as one of the members pointed out. I have not tried such a plugin.

John

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Hi John, about rss feed.
I got a comment on my site and the visitor asked if I provide rss feed. The icon is already on the top right in my header section and when I click on it It shows my posts and there also is a "subscribe" option.

1) Question: Is that it?
1) Problem: In my footer section there is a paragraph about joining the rss feed. When I click on that it links to the siterubix URL I used to start building the site and, naturally (or maybe not) it goes to a "site not found" message.

What to do?
Thanks in advance for your help
John

Thank you John...I was trying to figure out how to do this!

Thank you for sharing. ^_~

I will try your advice. :)

LOL

If you're using WordPress you already have RSS feed at:
www.YOURSITE.com/feed/ - For blogs posts
www.YOURSITE.com/comments/feed/ - For comments made on site

If you replace "YOURSITE" with your URL and go to that you'll get a page full of code that says "The XML file does not appear...." That means you've got the right link.

True but some individual might want to receive updates on your site. Thanks! John

This didn't work for me. It opened up "Apple News".

Thanks for this useful post!
I also just thought that it might be worth mentioning the topic of duplicate content. When I had an RSS feed on my website, Google declined my AdSense account due to copyrighted material. Additionally, when I checked for duplicate content, I found many other sites on the list. This is something that I could only attribute to the RSS feed.

When I applied for AdSense again, the 'copyrighted material' issue disappeared and so did many of the duplicate webpages. This might however be due to the RSS feed content so it's not to say that you will have the same experience. I just thought I would share this experience with people who are looking into adding an RSS feed on their website - it might just be worth double-checking the above before going ahead.

An interesting point. Thank you! J

Thank you I will do it.... ; O)

Then folks can follow you. Hope they don't step in anything. John

Thank you!

You are welcome, Lee. How's it going? J

Quite well, thanks! And for you?

I'm doing ok for an old man. J

Tks John.

You are welcome. J

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