Customer log inNews feed auto-discovery
The Web Feed Generator creates auto-discovery links to copy-and-paste into your Web page to help people and search engines find your news feeds. This page is a collection of articles that explain how to create auto-discovery links, how they work and external links about their use.
Web Feed Reference
The Web Feed Reference section explains all aspects of publishing news feeds with the Web Feed Generator, including these introductory items on auto-discovery:
Our main screen shots page explains how auto-discovery links help get your news feed noticed by visitors to your Web site, and specialist search engines called news feed aggregators.
These screen shots show how two popular Web browsers display news feed auto-discovery links:
- News feed auto-discovery in the Opera Web browser
- News feed auto-discovery in the Mozilla Firefox Web browser
- News feed auto-discovery in the Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser
External links
These links point to some key reference articles about the form and use of auto-discovery links. Some items use technical jargon that may be unfamiliar; see our Web Feed Reference glossary for plain English explanations.
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- Mark Pilgrim's blog item Important change to the LINK tag is widely recognised as the post that established the standard form of auto-discovery link.
- Internet Explorer 7 will support auto-discovery and the Microsoft Team RSS Blog has a re-cap of how it works in its Windows RSS Publisher's Guide. They also have a wiki page to report beta problems with Internet Explorer Feed Discovery.
- Sam Ruby's blog entry on the State of Autodiscovery gathers some finger-in-the-wind statistics on the uptake of auto-discovery links amongst the Feedster top 500 weblogs.
- The Yahoo! Publisher's Guide to RSS includes helpful tips about customising auto-discovery links.
- Leigh Dodd's Autodiscovery Bookmarklet Generator not only generates an auto-discovery link, but creates a one-click "bookmarklet" to find any auto-discovery link in a Web page.
- Jeremy Zawodny's blog discusses a proposal for simplifying news feed subscription with what he calls RSS Auto-Discovery 2.0.
Web Feed Generator
The Web Feed Generator makes it easy to add an RSS news feed to your Web site; our service profile is a check list of the main features.
- System requirements are absolutely minimal.
- The big picture service overview shows the low maintenance advantage of our approach.
- Our flat-rate, no-strings payment options make the Web Feed Generator an easy choice.
- Plan your Web Feed now: contact us with your requirements