Yahoo’s Guide For RSS Publishers
Yahoo has put together a handy guide for RSS publishers, dealing mostly with how to produce a feed that will work well with Yahoo’s services. Their “Publisher’s Guide To RSS” is a must for anyone who publishes through RSS, considering the considerable clout of the Yahoo network. It includes:
- An explanation of what RSS is for those who are new to the concept (Yahoo advises RSS 2.0, although it supports all versions and Atom)
- Links to tutorials on creating feeds and using them
- Typical link structure for hosted blogs, such as Blogger, LiveJournal and TypePad
- How to validate your feed
- A box to submit your feed to Yahoo, so those searching for content in MyYahoo (and a possible future feed search engine) will be able to find them (Yahoo requests you only submit one version, preferably RSS 2.0, to avoid duplicates).
- How to ping Yahoo when your content is updated
- How to add metadata to your feed so it ranks well in their feed search and displays descriptions in feed readers
- How to request your feed for inclusion in the Yahoo RSS directory
- Simple code for an “Add to My Yahoo!” button
- How to enable RSS autodiscovery for compatible browsers and toolbars
- How Yahoo leaves subscriber data in your site logs
There plenty of stuff in there, and its all short and consise. Take the 15 minutes to go through it; its worth it.
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Problem with RSS Feed in WordPress.
I have a subdomain that I installed wordpress for another blog site, but the subdomain site's rss feed points to my parent site.
Can anyone come up with any suggestions?
Comment by Felix | November 29, 2006