My feed has not been picked up by some syndication readers for 2 weeks
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I’ve been trying to work through this problem on my own for two weeks, and I’m sending up the white flag. My blog gets a significant amount of traffic through blogrolls on other sites, and many of those blogrolls show my last post as being from June 1, 2014, even though I’ve posted on a more-than-daily basis since then. I’d had a similar problem before, but at that time I’d resolved it by removing excessive tags from posts and not pasting directly from Word.
I have a Yahoo page that reads the RSS feed with no issues. One of my readers tells me he follows through Feedly without a hitch.
This is an example of one of the blogrolls which has stopped recognizing my feed:
http://www.bdj610scblogroll.blogspot.com/The first thing I did was go to the feed validator at http://validator.w3.org/feed/. I checked both the RSS feed:
http://shlabotnikreport.wordpress.com/feed/…and the Atom feed:
http://shlabotnikreport.wordpress.com/feed/atom…and both come up as valid.
I’ve done a number of things in an attempt to “un-clog” my feed, and nothing has helped. Among the things I’ve tried are…
Deleting tags: Since I’ve had troubles with too many tags in the past, I went back and deleted all of the tags from every post going back several weeks before my problem.
Changing the theme: I changed my theme from Coraline to TwentyEleven.
Change the feed settings: This morning I modified the “Enhanced Feeds” settings and removed categories and tags from the feed (since I’m no longer using them anyway).
Attempted to flush out the problem: In the 16 days since this issue came up, I’ve posted 23 times in an attempt to clear any problematic posts out of the feed.
Modified and saved every post for several days before and after the issue: This was just a shot in the dark.
I’m pretty sure I’ve tried other things that I’m not thinking of right now.
One thing I have noticed is that I changed my “tagline” for the heck of it, and even that has not changed on those blogrolls, which makes me think that it doesn’t “like” my feed anymore and is hanging on to some cached version of my feed from two weeks ago.
Oh, and for what it’s worth, I changed my favicon.ico, and the blogrolls HAVE picked that up.
If anyone can offer any suggestions, I would be extremely grateful.
Thanks!
Joe Shlabotnik
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As far as I can see your feed is valid. What other blog rolls have issues picking up your blog? perhaps you can share some links.
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I went back and checked, and all of the other blogrolls are on Blogger using their equivalent of a widget. Here’s one example: http://canthavetoomanycards.blogspot.com/
Over the weekend I tried reducing my feed to 2 posts at a time, and then I posted twice using no images, formatting or anything that might complicate a feed. Blogger finally recognized an update on Sunday, 6/22, but then went back to ignoring me, possibly because I dared to include images in my subsequent posts. One interesting thing is that even with the one new post showing up, the blogrolls are showing an old version of my tagline (I changed it several weeks ago, and again the other day).
Still no problems with Feedly or Yahoo. I’m thinking that there’s just something going on that Blogger doesn’t “like”… they’re just reinforcing the idea that I chose well when I went with WordPress instead of them. ;-)
Thanks for the help with this!
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Ah, I think I see a problem. Un-sticky that post and see if it makes a difference. Several years ago there was a bug where a sticky post basically prevented the RSS feed from going out. Maybe Blogspot is just not sophisticated enough to allow for sticky posts. Maybe put the info in a text widget or something.
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The problem initially came up before I created the sticky post, but I will give it a try and see what happens. I know sometimes it’s not one thing, but an accumulation of little things.
Thanks for your feedback!
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…So I un-stickied my sticky post, waited about 10 minutes, published a new post, waited another 10 minutes and then checked the blogrolls… and while today’s post didn’t show up, yesterday’s did… so I’ll take that as progress.
Thanks again!
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One last desperate request for suggestions regarding the feed on the following blog:
http://shlabotnikreport.wordpress.comBlogrolls on Blogger websites stopped recognizing my feed for three weeks, recognized a post, ignored a post, recognized a post, and has gone back to not recognizing for nearly 2 weeks.
In addition to the changes made in the above posts, I’ve done some minor tweaks involving the categories of recent posts, I’ve changed the theme and then changed it back again, rewrote the tagline to remove an ampersand (even though HTML didn’t seem to have a problem with it). I’ve gone tag-free for weeks, have nothing but jpegs embedded in the posts.
All throughout this, feed validators only come up with one problem, “Unregistered Link Relationship” on the following line:
<link rel=”search” type=”application/opensearchdescription+xml” href=”http://shlabotnikreport.wordpress.com/osd.xml” title=”The Shlabotnik Report” />
This was the case when the feed was being recognized on a regular basis, so I’m thinking it’s not the problem.Does anybody have any suggestions? Even a shot in the dark would be welcome at this point.
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I really wish there was something we could do to help on this. But all we can do is to provide a valid feed. And as the validators are agreeing that we are, the issue would seem to be on the Blogger end of things. You might contact their support team and see if they have any advice.
One thing you could try is to log into your WordPress.com site’s dashboard and go to Settings–> Reading and change “Syndication feeds show the most recent” to something more than 1. Say, 5 or 10. I could see that as confusing Blogger if it was only set to 1. But that is also just a guess. It is hard to troubleshoot another company’s systems.
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Thanks for the advice… I actually just set the feeds to show just the most recent 1 in hopes that it might make a difference… I’m obviously grasping at straws here.
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Hello : Blogger Blogrolls stopped picking up my feed on June 22nd. Yesterday I did a post, deactivated my cache plugin, pinged Feedburner, and my latest post showed up on the rolls. Meanwhile, a reader of mine let me know that yesterday her RSS reader / feed showed that post as well. Another reader told me that Netvibes had been stuck at June 30 for the entire month and finally showed all of my updated posts.
So, assumed it was the cache plugin and all should be well now . Bear in mind that my email subscribers ( Feedburner ) have no problems and Blog lovin’ picks up the feed immediately, and Feedly does not seem to have a problem
Blogger says you are WP / go there. I tell Blogger it has to be on their end / they say go to Feedburner. It’s a nightmare. :) The BLOGGER support team has some guy named DARK UFO who sent me on my way. :)
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Debra, I feel your pain. I was holding off on going to Blogger because I don’t have a Google user ID, and I wasn’t sure they were going to help me anyway (and now I can see that they wouldn’t).
I decided to try some experimentation because I wondered if my images could somehow be contributing to the problem. On July 16th my blog’s feed was set to use five posts, and at that point blogrolls hadn’t recognized my feed since the 12th (although at one point I’d gone three weeks without showing up).
I published 5 text-only posts, scheduled several hours apart. That didn’t change the blogrolls. I waited a day, nothing changed. On the 19th I did another text-only post, and after it published my last post from the 16th showed up. On the 21st I did a “regular” post, and blogrolls still showed the post from the 16th. I posted again on the 22nd and for no apparent reason the blogrolls recognized my latest post, and continue to work properly to date.
Whether what I did had any bearing on what happened, or if it just coincided with something that changed on their end, I have no idea. I figured I’d put it out here on the off-chance that someone could find it useful.
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