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Remind HN: RSS alternate link on your blog

Posted by alecco on Thursday March 24, 2011 @11:56AM
from the self-post dept.
It's very easy. Just add to your blog template a link like:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="YourBlog - RSS" href="http://example.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss" />

This helps people subscribe to your feed and share that post.

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Re:Remind HN: RSS alternate link on your blog by solid on Thursday March 24, 2011 @12:13PM (#2364655)
I was clued into this when running a woorank report on my website, and it didn't recognize our blog (even though we had an RSS feed at /blog). Adding this bit gave us the "green light", and also showed an RSS icon in Firefox and Safari.

I think this might also allow someone to type in your base URL into Google Reader, and it will pick it up.

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