Questions tagged [feeds]
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Should Feed/RSS Be Blocked from Robots.txt?
Should Feed/RSS be blocked via robots.txt?
Disallow: /*feed*
Disallow: /*rss*
If yes, is this the correct way to apply?
If you are sending Feed/RSS somewhere or if you have a subscription system, of ...
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Prevent content scraping that automatically post from one website to another
Basically, my website is running on WordPress platform and we publish posts on regular basis. As soon as we publish a post, in a few minutes time it gets posted on their website as well
The worst part ...
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Do article pages need to have an RSS Feed page?
I am working on a blog software. This blog has a home page, category pages and articles.
I will add an RSS feed to this blog. I added the RSS feed to the home page by adding /feed to the end of the ...
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Google Merchant Center Ignoring Price values in product feed
Running Google Shopping advertising for a client who sells nutritional supplements. They have two different pricing options, one-off purchases or ongoing subscriptions. The subscription price is ...
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How to Substitute HTML Entities in RSS?
It happened several times that an automatically generated RSS feed broke due to the presence of HTML entities. This makes sense since RSS is not HTML but the issue is that it is generated from ...
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Facebook Instant Articles gives "Unclaimed URL" error
I don't know which URL paste in the RSS feed. When I try, I get the following error:
Production RSS Feed
Connect your RSS feed for Insntant Articles here. Learn more about automated publishing ...
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Can you nest "<![CDATA[ ... ]]>" blocks when generating RSS feeds?
When generating RSS feeds, the RSS standard says that these translations have to be made for content to not be interpreted as XML, but rather as plaintext:
'&' => '&'
'<' => '&...
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Does Google News submission require that a website only submits news articles or can they be "how to" or "top 10 series" articles?
Do you require to create a separate news category URL to submit website under Google news. Does it have to only contain news articles? Can it also have "how to" or "top 10 series" articles?
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How can I fix Authentication Failed error in Google Merchants while fetching the feed?
When I fetching the feed in my Google merchants Center, it shows below error:
Global feed issues
1 ERROR: Authentication failed..
Download failed due to authentication error. Please check username ...
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Is it 'ok' to have IFrame tags in RSS feeds?
I ran my RSS feed through http://www.feedvalidator.org/ but it says:
This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following ...
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Can you display a feed from an Instagram location?
I have found that a number of Instagram users have been posting images to a location rather than a business' Instagram handle, and would like to display a feed on a website (so external to Instagram) ...
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How can search engines find my RSS feed?
I have a small blog. Now, I have created an rss.xml. I put that in the root of the site, on the server. Should I do anything to make search engines like Google, Technorati, Yahoo! be able to find it?
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Do search engines consider GUID in indexing?
I've been reading the WordPress's codex recently, and noticed that WordPress is using a term called GUID. According to codex:
The term "GUID" stands for "Globally Unique Identifier". It is a field
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Can a website have multiple RSS feeds? How would the <link> and <channel> elements look?
If I wanted to, for example, create three RSS feeds on my site to better allow users to subscribe specifically to the section in which they were interested, could I have three separate XML files at ...
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Duplicating a RSS feed to show the whole post in addition to the feed showing snippets
Just looking for some quick feedback on the following.
I have an RSS feed currently that works as it should. However, our client has asked for us to botch it to work in a way that isn't normal ...
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Is it legal to cache RSS images on my server?
I have some RSS feeds showing on my website, for speed up loading time I like to cache images directly on my server.
Is it legal to credits the source inside the post and store images from those ...
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How does Google verify product feeds?
When I submit a product feed to Google and a SKU is marked in stock, how does Google verify that? Is it a human looking over a given PDP and checks if that SKU is in fact in stock or is it an ...
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Migrate Blogger Atom feed to self hosted blog
I have a blog running on blogger using my own domain (lets say www.example.com).
The standard blogger Atom feed is available at www.example.com/feeds/posts/default
Now I want to migrate my blog to a ...
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Duplicating blog feed without upsetting SEO
My client owns two websites and on one of them he wishes to copy the blog feed from the other site and insert it. The problem with this is that Google is generally unhappy with duplicated content - ...
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Feedly is unable to read the feeds produced by our phpBB site
On our site, the CEN64 forums, feeds were recently requested to be enabled. However, the feeds, while working for some feed readers, are showing up as empty in Feedly. While I personally think it's a ...
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Is there a single standard tool for creating a reverse feed for blog posts? [closed]
I'd like to create a custom "reverse" RSS feed that periodically releases old blog posts in reverse order. Alternatively, I'd like to create a feed that allows someone to read through the archives of ...
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What does Google use 173.194.90.xxx IP's for? Why is it not a googlebot.com pointer?
I've been noticing this new Google range hitting our feeds over the last couple weeks. It's bordering on abusing our resources with multiple hits in short timeframe. The 173.194.90.xxx IP's fall under ...
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How to check if your website is trending?
I am building a admin stats dashboard for my website. I would like to show on it an indication when an article from my site is trending (gone viral) on Facebook or Twitter.
My understanding is that ...
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301 redirecting a blog's RSS feed URL?
I moved my personal blog from Wordpress to Ghost this weekend, which changes the RSS feed URL from /feed/ to /rss/.
By default Ghost returns a 301 redirect for /feed/, which I've verified by checking ...
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What should a shop's products news feed contain?
I'm thinking about integrating some sort of (Atom) news feed into a shopping system, but I'm not sure how to go about it, except that I want the URIs to be the same for each representation (HTML, Atom)...
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Will switching from home grown news page to a Facebook feed hurt SEO?
We are thinking of dumping our home curated news page and going to an embedded Facebook feed instead.
One of the purposes of the news page is to boost SEO. The intention is that keywords will occur ...
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What are the SEO Benefits of adding a Tumblr feed to a website?
A client of ours has a CMS driven Blog in his hotel site - he would like to use the blog to add depth top his site and add SEO benefits relating to the blogs content.
The current blog is a basic ...
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Problem with not found page for feed in Google Webmaster Tools
I have a Wordpress blog. In Google Webmaster Tools, I found mutiple "not found pages" like this from feed: kart-postal/k-imam-zaman/feed/.
How can I add noindex to feed and why I get not found page?
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Adding an RSS feed to a Facebook page
I want to add a client's blog feed to a Facebook page. Is there a way to do that without using a third party app?
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Should I be concerned about hAtom tags on my blog?
I am using a theme that automatically adds hatom-entry, hatom-feed classes on my WordPress blog.
I read that such tags/classes should be used for syndicated content.
Anyway, then I ran a Rich ...
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How can you tell how much BANDWIDTH RSS Feeds are taking up, overall?
I am considering pulling out RSS FEEDS from the default Outlook Mailbox configuration pushed to our users by Exchange. My two biggest reasons for doing this is that (1) I firmly believe that the ...
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Should I send my content to other websites by RSS Feed? [duplicate]
This is a real estate website with thousants of items published with information and pictures.
There are a lot of other websites where I can send a XML Feed so they will republish the content and ...
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Why did my Feedburner feedcount reset to zero and how can I restore it?
I am using Google Feedburner for feed management of my Wordpress site.
I have around 6000 subscribers and have used its widget to display the count. Couple of days back suddenly, the feed count ...
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Feeds not working on Technorati
I submitted my site to Technorati but they prompt me that can not read from my feed url. I see it to be fine and it worked fine on other sites. Any ideas if there is a special requirement for ...
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Error while showing feeds in blogger
I am trying to show my feeds on a blogger blog. The feed url is this but blogger says invalid feed url. The url opens fine on my browser.Please help me out. Thanks.
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Can I force Google Feedfetcher to delete my feed and start over? [closed]
I royally screwed up my Atom feed yesterday by messing around with the id tags and now Google Reader is showing many duplicates of the posts. Is there any way I can tell it to start from scratch, now ...
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RSS Filter and Compile
Does anyone know of a good way to compile say 20 RSS feeds and generate top news stories out of it? The idea is that we want to have a section on our wordpress site that pulls in feeds from many ...
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updated posts in my RSS feed
Should I put in my RSS feed posts that I've updated or I'll just update it but don't put it my RSS feed? (considering RSS feed contains latest 10 posts).
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Publish feed entries on Facebook [closed]
Is there any good, simple way to auto publish feed entries from my website to my Facebook profile? (I just need post title and link to the post).
This would be the best option, but looks like it does ...
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Google analytics reporting link as campaign instead of referral
There are several websites which link to my blog posts but are using links from feedburner (similar too http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AboutMyCode/~3/something ) so when someone visits these links it ...
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How to get an RSS feed (or equivalent) of photos from defined Facebook Page and User Profiles?
I'm looking for code or advice on how to get an RSS feed (or equivalent stream of data) of photos from one or more Facebook Pages and User Profile pages.
Background:
This is for a friend who wants ...
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Filter post and route them on a tab in a facebook page [closed]
I use dlvr.it to route feeds from many sites on my facebook page. The problem is that they all appear in my main page, hiding the post I create.
So i was wondering, is there a way to redirect all ...
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Show wordpress posts on linkedin company page
I have a customer with a wordpress blog that wants to add their posts to their LinkedIn company page.
Is it possible to add a wordpress feed like you can in user profiles?
I saw that there was a ...
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Moving Feedburner to a new domain
I have a Wordpress blog (running Feedsmith plugin) that uses Feedburner for email and RSS subscribers.
Currently this blog is located at http://www.myblog.com.
I will be moving this Wordpress blog ...
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Free customizable rss feed newsletter service [closed]
I'm desperately searching for a newsletter system for my association. We have a site from which to fetch the news and I want them to be sent regularly to the people who subscribe.
I would like to get ...
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How do I view ALL blog posts in an RSS feed?
I have a blog and its posts date back all the way to March of 2009. However, when I visit my feed url (it's feedburner), the oldest post that shows up on that page is one written in February of 2011. ...
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Why is the title of a RSS Feed coming as "unknown title" in RSS feeds reader?
The title of a feed is "unknown title" in Google reader. What could be the reason? Am I correct if I'm assuming that it should be appearing similar for all the subscribers of that feed and other feed-...
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Do all web hosts allow rss feeds?
Simple question: Do all website hosts allow RSS feeds to be coded, such that if I have an application for my phone, and the application pulls information from my website, I could use any web host to ...
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Is using feedburner still a must for blog feeds?
I'm setting up a blog for my OSS/startup and I'm wondering whether using Feedburner for blog feeds is still the recommended way to go? Is there enough value in using Feedburner over just using the ...
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What's a good wizard for creating HTML RSS feed widgets?
I'm looking to take a RSS feed XML link, and incorporate its contents into my site using a free online wizard to handle the scripting. To be more specific, I'd like to know if there's a tool that ...
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