Ever have a blogspot or blogger blog you want to subscribe to via your favorite feed reader, but the blog owner hasn’t made the feed available via a link? Often blogspot/blogger users will set their blog to allow for RSS, but will forget that they have to create a link on their homepage.
Since blogspot/blogger is standardized, you can just add a bit of code to the URL to see their feed even if there is no link to it from their homepage:
http://SOMEINTERESTINGBLOG.blogspot.com/
http://SOMEINTERESTINGBLOG.blogger.com/
Add “feeds/posts/default” to get the atom 1.0 feed
http://SOMEINTERESTINGBLOG.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
And add ?alt=rss to the end of that to get the RSS 2.0 file
http://SOMEINTERESTINGBLOG.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Also, your browser window will often indicate whether a feed is present in the top, next to the URL. You can set this in your browser preferences to open this link to your feed reader of preference.
Also, for those of you with a blog, make sure you have links for your feeds!
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