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/
Hey Chris,
Thank you for letting me know about AutoDiscovery, and comment feeds on Blogsome. I didn’t know that Blogsome supported comment feeds. In fact, I’m pretty sure that Blogger doesn’t. I’ve been using Co.mments.com for my comment feeds.
Thank you again
Stephen
May 11, 2008
You’re welcome, Stephen. By the way, it is possible to subscribe to a comments feed if someone is hosted on Blogger (Blogspot). It depends if the blogger has their feed enabled or not.
I personally subscribe to several comments feeds via the Bloglines RSS reader, and some of those feeds are Blogspot blogs.
May 12, 2008
very nice blog.. can we exchange links??? pls reply to my blog
May 15, 2008
@Did You Know - I don’t usually exchange links. And I certainly don’t swap links with anyone who thinks ‘please’ is spelt ‘p-l-s’. (That’s why I removed your blog URL, lol)
May 16, 2008