Find your RSS feed link
Sometimes, it’s just simple stuff that we want to know. For example, you could be new to the art of blogging (after all, we all have to start somewhere, don’t we?). And one thing that can seem mysterious to novice bloggers is all this stuff about something called ‘RSS’.
First things first. Go to your Dashboard and choose Manage»Files, then look in ‘index.html’. There are loads of things near the top of that file between the <head> and </head> tags. Look for something like this:
<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS" href="{bloginfo show='rss2_url'}" />
Important: Make sure that feed link is in your blog’s code. Otherwise, Google Reader or Bloglines (or whichever RSS reader you use) might not be able to use autodiscovery to find the feed at all. If that code is not in your ‘index.html’ file, put it in.
If you just need to give your RSS feed link to other people, it is exactly the same URL as your blog, but with the word ‘feed’ after it, like this:
http://YOUR_BLOG_NAME.blogsome.com/feed/
Your comments feed (yes, people do sometimes subscribe to a comments feed too) will look like this:
http://YOUR_BLOG_NAME.blogsome.com/comments/feed/




Yesterday, I decided to sign up for an account at Digg. When I filled in their sign-up form, I noticed that it said they would send me a ‘Welcome’ email after I finished registering, and I would have to click on a special link in that email in order to confirm that I really did want a Digg account. This often happens when you register to join a forum or online community, so I was not at all surprised by it. Their form also says that you have to click on the confirmation email link within 3 days, otherwise your request for an account will not be accepted.