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Auto Discovery RSS meta tag

Posted on June 15th, 2006 by Kevin Gibbons

The latest web browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer 7, Safari) now automatically display an RSS subscribe button for website’s with RSS feeds. In order to get this button to appear you need to add an auto discovery RSS meta tag to your HTML, as below.

<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”SEO Blog (RSS 2.0)” href=”http://www.kevingibbons.co.uk/blog/rss.xml” />

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5 Responses to “Auto Discovery RSS meta tag”

  1. RSS-Kur gegen statischen Content » SEO.de says:

    [...] etc. auch im RSS-Format. Platzieren Sie das RSS-Icon in ihrem Haupttemplate, binden das RSS Meta-Tag ein und schon haben Sie einen zusätzlichen Online-Marketing Kanal mit CRM-Nutzen. Tragen Sie den [...]

  2. Dejan says:

    Just what i was looking for :) thanks man

  3. jocuri barbie says:

    nice man,thank you!

  4. Jhourlad Estrella says:

    Great! So IE is supports the RSS AutoDiscovery feature now. Ain’t this a copyrighted feature of Firefox? Well, it’s a good thing anyway…

  5. Bernd Webster says:

    Great… just what I was looking for.

    Many thanks :-).

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