Custom Domain Publishing Does Non Purpose Post Feed Redirect

One of the benefits of custom domain publishing, for a properly setup domain, is that the BlogSpot URL is automatically redirected to the domain.

Not all weblog owners realise that the BlogSpot to domain URL redirect includes the weblog feed - 1 time the Transition period ends, in addition to the weblog is republished to the domain.

Some weblog owners intend that the Post Feed Redirect setting needs to live on used when re publishing their weblog to a custom domain. This is non true, however. Use of the custom domain redirect, addition the post feed redirect, tin solely number inwards 1 of 2 problems.

• A feed redirect loop.
• A feed URL that points to invalid content.

In neither illustration volition whatever newsfeed client, such every bit a Dynamic Template, Google Reader, Reading List, or whatever 3rd political party feed service, honor a feed that tin live on used.

The Post Feed Redirect setting is used to redirect feed references, to a separately existing feed file.

The Post Feed Redirect is non used where it is non needed - in addition to amongst a weblog published to a properly setup custom domain, it's non needed.

Let's await at an HTTP trace, showing the weblog feed for a custom domain published blog, that uses a post feed redirect - inwards this case, nosotros stimulate got the feed for "mybloggerblog.blogspot.com" redirected to "mybloggerblog.com".

Start amongst the BlogSpot based feed URL, for "mybloggerblog.blogspot.com".

Sending request:

GET /feeds/posts/default HTTP/1.1

Host: mybloggerblog.blogspot.com

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Referer: http://www.rexswain.com/httpview.html
Connection: close

• Finding host IP address...
• Host IP address = 74.125.224.106
• Finding TCP protocol...
• Binding to local socket...
• Connecting to host...
• Sending request...
• Waiting for response...

Receiving Header:

HTTP/1.1·301·Moved·Permanently(CR)(LF)

Content-Type:·text/html;·charset=UTF-8(CR)(LF)

Location:·http://www.mybloggerblog.com/feeds/posts/default(CR)(LF)

With a properly setup custom domain, in addition to no PFR setting used, the adjacent display would live on the XML file, for the feed. Here, the PFR was develop to "http://mybloggerblog.com/".

Sending request:

GET /feeds/posts/default HTTP/1.1

Host: www.mybloggerblog.com

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Referer: http://www.rexswain.com/httpview.html
Connection: close

• Finding host IP address...
• Host IP address = 74.125.127.121
• Finding TCP protocol...
• Binding to local socket...
• Connecting to host...
• Sending request...
• Waiting for response...

Receiving Header:

HTTP/1.1·302·Moved·Temporarily(CR)(LF)

Location:·http://mybloggerblog.com/(CR)(LF)

Now, nosotros are looking at a typical custom domain rootage to "www" alias redirect.

Sending request:

GET / HTTP/1.1

Host: mybloggerblog.com

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Referer: http://www.rexswain.com/httpview.html
Connection: close

• Finding host IP address...
• Host IP address = 216.239.32.21
• Finding TCP protocol...
• Binding to local socket...
• Connecting to host...
• Sending request...
• Waiting for response...

Receiving Header:

HTTP/1.1·301·Moved·Permanently(CR)(LF)

Location:·http://www.mybloggerblog.com/(CR)(LF)

And now, nosotros are looking at the formatted weblog contents - non the newsfeed.

Sending request:

GET / HTTP/1.1

Host: www.mybloggerblog.com

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Referer: http://www.rexswain.com/httpview.html
Connection: close

• Finding host IP address...
• Host IP address = 74.125.127.121
• Finding TCP protocol...
• Binding to local socket...
• Connecting to host...
• Sending request...
• Waiting for response...

Receiving Header:

HTTP/1.1·200·OK(CR)(LF)

Unfortunately, the weblog itself is non a proper XML file (required for a feed), it's HTML / XML.

<!DOCTYPE·html·PUBLIC·"-//W3C//DTD·XHTML·1.0·Strict//EN"·"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">(LF)

<html·dir='ltr'·xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'·xmlns:b='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/b'·xmlns:data='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/data'·xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'>(LF)

<head>(LF)

...

<link·href='http://www.mybloggerblog.com/'·rel='canonical'/>(LF)
<link·rel="alternate"·type="application/atom+xml"·title="Custom Domain Publishing Does Not Use Post Feed Redirect"·href="http://www.mybloggerblog.com/feeds/posts/default"·/>(LF)
<link·rel="alternate"·type="application/rss+xml"·title="Custom Domain Publishing Does Not Use Post Feed Redirect"·href="http://www.mybloggerblog.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss"·/>(LF)
<link·rel="service.post"·type="application/atom+xml"·title="Custom Domain Publishing Does Not Use Post Feed Redirect"·href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2302596229887627781/posts/default"·/>(LF)
<link·rel="EditURI"·type="application/rsd+xml"·title="Custom Domain Publishing Does Not Use Post Feed Redirect"·href="http://www.blogger.com/rsd.g?blogID=2302596229887627781"·/>(LF)
<link·rel="me"·href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/12619425977406185402"·/>(LF)
<link·rel="openid.server"·href="http://www.blogger.com/openid-server.g"·/>(LF)
<link·rel="openid.delegate"·href="http://www.mybloggerblog.com/"·/>(LF)

And if the feed customer is, for instance, a dynamic template, the would live on reader is looking at the former spinning gears. Until he gets bored, closes the browser, in addition to emails you

Your weblog is downwards - again.

If you lot stimulate got made this mistake, merely clear the Post Feed Redirect.

Blogger Magic - Activating The Spider Web Log Feed

One of the neatest - as well as easiest - techniques, to brand your weblog available to a larger audience, uses a replica of the weblog posts - the weblog newsfeed.

Most blogs, when new, convey the feed activated past times default. Oddly enough, roughly blogs - fifty-fifty published publicly - produce non seat out a newsfeed.

Some weblog owners, wondering why their blogs are non beingness indexed past times the search engines, are perplexed.

Why isn't my weblog publishing a feed?

If yous desire total visibility, activate the weblog newsfeeds.

You activate the diverse newsfeeds, for the blog, from the dashboard Settings - Other - Site Feed wizard.

Routinely, you'll convey 1 setting - "Allow Blog Feeds" - as well as this setting volition send upon all feed options equally. If yous guide "Custom", yous tin destination enable or disable whatever of the three feed options, separately.

• Blog Posts Feed
• Blog Comments Feed
• Per-Post Comment Feeds

Each setting volition convey three possible selections - Full, Until Jump Break, Short, None.

(Note): If yous enable a feed, it is available to anybody alongside a feed reader, either a feed reader that they personally use, or 1 built inward to a blog. There is no alternative to trammel feed access - feeds are available, equally, to all interested parties. This is why feeds are non published past times express access (private) blogs.

If yous fearfulness that unknown parties powerfulness pocket content from your blog past times using your feed, don't seat out a Full feed, seat out a Short feed. This volition involve anybody wishing to read a consummate post service to access your blog, rather than reading it inward their newsreader.

In close cases, though, a "Full" setting, for all feeds, is best.

The Novel Gui Does Non Back Upward Podcasting

As the New Blogger GUI (2011 Improvements) continues to hit support, at that spot are withal features missing, beingness identified occasionally.

One interesting grouping of weblog owners, who seem to experience overlooked, includes people who issue podcasts - as well as who exercise the Link champaign inwards their posts.

How practise I link my PodCasts, using the New GUI?

This setting is non apparent, inwards the New GUI menus as well as wizards.

It's possible that alternate solutions are available, for this audience.

FeedBurner includes a podcast option, SmartCast.

FeedBurner, inwards the Optimize - SmartCast section, includes a selection to "Create podcast enclosures from links".

Makes podcasting tardily inwards feeds that ordinarily cannot back upwards it. Link to MP3s, videos, images, as well as other digital media inwards your site content as well as SmartCast creates enclosures for them automatically. Optionally adds elements required for a richer, to a greater extent than detailed listing inwards iTunes Podcast Directory as well as sites using Yahoo Media RSS.

When SmartCast is examined, nosotros encounter a useful array of choices for links.

• any rich media file
• audio files only
• video files only
• images only
• do non practise enclosures

Maybe the links are non needed, inwards Blogger?

It's possible that the Links characteristic is non needed inwards Blogger, to back upwards PodCasting - because it is available, inwards a much richer functionality, inwards FeedBurner.

That said, nosotros instantly regime annotation a novel feature, "Enclosure Links", available inwards the "Post settings" bill of fare inwards post editor, subsequently beingness enabled using the "Enable Enclosure Links" alternative inwards Settings - Other - "Site feed".