Please Link to your RSS Feed
Wednesday, October 01, 2025
I’ll keep this one short. When you:
- Have a blog.
- Offer an RSS/Atom feed.
Then please,
- Put a link to the feed on the front page!
(And if you don’t have a feed, please
reconsider!)
Just somewhere in the footer, or some corner. It doesn’t have to be
large, it doesn’t have to be an icon, just a plain
<a href="feed.xml">Atom feed</a> suffices for
all I care. I think it’s pretty safe to say that it’s not so difficult
to do this, and it makes the barrier that much lower for readers to copy
and paste your feed link into their feed reader of choice.
Oh no, I ran into another one of those blogs that are worth
following yet don’t advertise their feed link anywhere!
No worries, I got you covered. Here’s what you can do to hunt down
that sweet sweet feed.xml.
- If you use Firefox, have a look at the Livemarks
extension. It puts a feed icon in the address bar when it detects a
feed. Clicking the icon gives more info about the feed.
- If you don’t mind doing some manual copy-pasting, try Edo’s
workaround. By pasting a magic javascript expression into your
developer console, the feed link, if present, is copied to your
clipboard. Just perfect!
- In a pinch, you can also use an external service to sleuth around
for the feed link for you. When this is necessary, I usually turn to https://rsslookup.com.
- If all else fails, you can also just try some random URLs. This
works more often than you think. You can use Jim’s list of
semi-standard feed URLs for inspiration.
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