Auto Discovery RSS meta tag


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” />

Kevin Gibbons is Founder/Director of Strategy at SEOptimise. Kevin is well known within the search industry as a blogger for sites such as Search Engine Land, Econsultancy and Search Engine Watch and has presented at a number of conferences including SMX London, a4uexpo London/Europe and SAScon Manchester.

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  1. Dejan says:

    Just what i was looking for :) thanks man

  2. nice man,thank you!

  3. 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…

  4. Great… just what I was looking for.

    Many thanks :-).

  5. Geo says:

    Isn’t there a standard file name for rss? Like index.rss or something so it would work without metatag?

  6. Njackson says:

    5 years on and this content is still relevant!

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