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” />






March 17th, 2008 at 7:40 am
[...] 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 [...]
May 28th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Just what i was looking for :) thanks man
June 8th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
nice man,thank you!
July 28th, 2008 at 7:29 am
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…
May 30th, 2010 at 8:11 am
Great… just what I was looking for.
Many thanks :-).