ShareThis tutorial will walk you through adding your WordPress feed to your FeedBurner account. First though, what is FeedBurner? FeedBurner is a feed analysis tool, which was acquired back in 2007 by Google. The way it works is by redirecting your existing /feed/ to their URL, which can analyze who is consuming your feed. Let’s …
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ShareThere’s often a case where you want to exclude a specific category or multiple categories from your RSS feed. This way you can publish posts and if you don’t want them to go to your RSS subscribers, they won’t. First, here’s how you exclude a category from your RSS feed. [sourcecode]add_action(‘pre_get_posts’,’wpv_remove_cat’); function wpv_remove_cat() { if …
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ShareThe latest blog innovation is how RSS interacts with subscribers. This round of innovation is push instead of pull. The way RSS has worked is that the RSS client will pull the website each time, asking if there were any updates. PubSubHubbub changes that. Instead of asking, it’s now told. This video explains it really …
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ShareAdding your feed to Google Webmaster Tools is a fairly recent addition. SEO-wise, how does this help by having your feed submitted? It let’s Google know you’re staying fresh. Like using the WordPress XML sitemaps plugin for normal sitemaps, it’s also good to submit your feed. This will let Google know immediately when you have …
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