I developed an RSS feed following a tutorial and I think the .xml file itself is in order. However, I have two problems:
I was hoping that there might be some tips on how to easily realize this.
Try to remove the <![CDATA[
and ]]>
in the description
tag.
I downloaded your xml, changed those lines, tested it on my server, and it worked in google's rss reader.
There also seems to something wrong with your .htaccess
file, because it links all links without the leading www.
back to your front page. For example http://www.startupeuvents.com/city_special/paris-the-city-of-light-and-a-hotspot-for-startups
works fine, but http://startupeuvents.com/city_special/paris-the-city-of-light-and-a-hotspot-for-startups
redirects back to http://www.startupeuvents.com/
.
You could check your feed with Feedvalidator or use FeedBurner for your rss-feed - Tad 2012-04-08 13:04
This is a browser and user profile dependent issue in how the RSS link is going to react when clicked on.
If the user has the action set up to automatically load it into their feed reader of choice, it will do that.
If they don't, then it won't.
For those that just see a raw dump, it could be that they're using a browser that does not support RSS feeds and will dump out the XML as raw text. Google Chrome (at least still in version 18) without the use of extensions or add-ons will usually be the dump truck culprit here.
Additionally, for those that don't have a reader, the browser just shows the code. It would be nice if I could find a solution to make that look better as well. Btw - I did remove the CDATA tags, just to make sure. But it doesn't change the problem I described - Vincent 2012-04-04 09:34