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**leehughes** · 07-11-2009, 05:23 PM

Hi,

After looking through website to create my rss feed I have gone with the easy option and decided on google reader.

I came across this code

Code:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="whatever the title is" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/your url" />

Is says that "You may also add the following line of code to your HTML web pages (inside the <HEAD> tag) so that visitors may auto-discover your RSS feed"

What exactly does this mean ?

**racer x** · 07-11-2009, 10:45 PM

I think it means that the RSS icon will show up in the url area of the browser. not sure though.

**JeremyMiller** · 07-12-2009, 01:10 AM

It's a line of code that tells browser that there's a related summary file for your webpage for them to be able to find at a specific URL. If you're using a browser which detects RSS feeds automatically, then having this line of code usually triggers an orange icon to the right of the URL in the address bar which allows the user to view the RSS feed. This code also tells other visitors (like web crawlers) that a feed is present for better indexing of your site.