How to set feed auto discovery

Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 02:02 PM by K. Latham
If you have an RSS or Atom feed for your site. Don't forget to make them available for feed auto discovery.

In your web page's header (the <HEAD> section) add this <LINK> tag:

For RSS feeds:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="your feed title here" href="http://www.company.com/feedurl.rss">

For ATOM feeds:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="your feed title here" href="http://www.company.com/feedurl.xml">

For an example this is what mine looks like:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Program Witch Pages" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ProgramWitchPages">

More information on this can be found here: Windows RSS Publisher's Guide

Example of feed auto discovery for Firefox:



Example of feed auto discovery for IE7: