RSS feed
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Hi
Sorry for ignorant newbie question:
Just joined Bloglovin and trying to get my images to show up; it says“Bloglovin must have access to your blog’s RSS feed to be able to find your posts and display them. Since RSS is a very strict format, everything must be formatted correctly. If one bit is off, Bloglovin will not be able to find your latest posts.”
Ho do I find my blog’s RSS feed? I’m not very clear on how to use feeds
Thanks
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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This is the RSS Feed URL for your posts http://experimentalexpats.com/
Note that all media files are in it.
See also http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/bloglovin/ -
Hi
I’m sorry; I still don’t understand; The URL you give me looks exactly like the main URLHow to I give Bloglovin access to my RSS feeds so my images show up?
Didn’t really see that explained on the link
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Oops! I am sorry:(
I forgot this last bit http://experimentalexpats.com/feed/
P.S. We get reports from bloglovin about not being able to pull images from the feed. They are bunk. The media files are in the feed URL.
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Hmmm. still not getting it; There are tens of thousands of blogs that come up when I open up my feed and only my blog has no images ; Are they all non WP ?
And again, I’m unclear what Bloglovin wants me to do; they gave me a link a to a “feed validator”; When I enter the above link, I get this:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fexperimentalexpats.com%2Ffeed%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0So I’m still lost here ?
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The RSS feed is valid. I already checked that before I responded to you.
http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fexperimentalexpats.com%2Ffeed%2F -
So basically there’s nothing I can do ?
That really sucks since Bloglovin is one of the few social media services I’d use to help try and gain traffic; Blogs with no images are useless and unnoticed, no?
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The way one gains traffic to a blog is first by knowing who their target audience is. Then it’s commenting frequently and meaningfully on blogs with similar content that is THE biggest traffic driver to any blog.
As for the bloglovin issue I can’t help. Maybe Staff can, provided they know what bloglovin’s issue is. I tagged this thread for Staff assistance.
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Ok thank you
I’m aware of the power of good commenting and I try to do so already but it’s tough in the beginning; I’m trying to learn who my target audience is -
Hi Rodi,
There sadly isn’t a huge amount which we can do with Bloglovin’. We’re working with their developers to try and make the process for getting WordPress.com users’ blogs into Bloglovin’ easier, but it’s been slow going recently.
In any case, what I can tell you is that they like images to be pretty large and that’s usually why people have problems. To make sure your images are big enough in your RSS feed, you need to make sure they’re showing larger in the first place. If you log in to your blog’s Dashboard and then go to Settings >> Media and change the size for the thumbnail images to something a bit larger. I would recommend at least doubling the size (so 300 x 300 px or larger).
Many users have reported success just by changing those settings, hit save, waiting a few hours for the changes to catch up to Bloglovin’, and then checking the results.
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In any case, what I can tell you is that they like images to be pretty large and that’s usually why people have problems. To make sure your images are big enough in your RSS feed, you need to make sure they’re showing larger in the first place. If you log in to your blog’s Dashboard and then go to Settings >> Media and change the size for the thumbnail images to something a bit larger. I would recommend at least doubling the size (so 300 x 300 px or larger).
Many users have reported success just by changing those settings, hit save, waiting a few hours for the changes to catch up to Bloglovin’, and then checking the results.
Hi and thanks for the input
So I’m learning why so many old farts of my generation choose to read FB but not blogs, never mind trying to run one. I find irony in the issue because every single picture I’ve got on my blog had to be sized down so as not to waste my available space. So it turns out those clowns want the opposite. What a painOn that note, all my featured images are over 600px, so it doesn’t sound like that’s an issue. Since I’ve joined, not one image has shown up and i notice about 1 out of every 30 or blogs I come across also have no image
Would you suggest trying a resize just for a few and how big should they be?
The frustration is mounting for this newbie because I have enough trouble crafting a good post and would like to utilize all other services to help garner followers. But it seems Bloglovin is useless if I can’t get the images there; it is human nature to skip past non image posts if they all have images.
And BTW, I’ve written multiple posts to their support and not one git answered.
Thanks
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The issue is actually not in how big of an image you upload (though if you upload too small of an image that could cause problems, but yours seem fine, don’t worry there!), it’s how big the image which is displayed in the RSS feed is.
The control which I directed you to in Settings >> Media, for thumbnails, that controls several different things throughout your site but the one which we’re of course concerned about in this case is your RSS feed. We want to make sure that the images which are linked to in there are big enough for Bloglovin’s standards.
So I would recommend going and changing that setting from 150 x 150 to 300 x 300. If you’d like I can make the change for you even!
Also, let me know if this didn’t make sense. it can be a bit confusing, I know!
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So I would recommend going and changing that setting from 150 x 150 to 300 x 300. If you’d like I can make the change for you even!
Also, let me know if this didn’t make sense. it can be a bit confusing, I know!
Hi
I can change that; I didn’t really understand what the setting was when I started since you can control the size of every image you upload or edit it before you use it.But if that controls the RSS feed that makes sense and I would’ve never known so I will try and let you know
Thanks a million !!!
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No problem at all, and sorry for not being as clear as I should have been before! Let me know if you have any other questions.
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So I would recommend going and changing that setting from 150 x 150 to 300 x 300. If you’d like I can make the change for you even!
Also, let me know if this didn’t make sense. it can be a bit confusing, I know!
Hi:
I changed my settings and that did nothing to fix the problem
Ironically, the geniuses wrote me back after six days and this is what they had to say:
“Thank you for letting us know. We seem to be having some technical issues but we are working on sorting this out as soon as possible.
Sorry for any inconvenience caused. “I replied that the response is useless, ineffective and does absolutely nothing to help me. I think the next start blogging about it since many companies only understand negative publicity.
I’m open for any other suggestions?
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Hi there,
That’s a shame. It sounds like their own systems may be at fault for what is going awry here. Once they have resolved whatever problem they are having, hopefully everything will begin working just fine. Unfortunately with their part of the equation not functioning, I don’t have any additional suggestions. We can’t make it work for them I’m afraid!
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Yes I figured that
Thanks for all your support; Too bad my blog is affected and thousands of others are not
This reminds me of a post I saw when asking about why the featured image comes out different when using the publicize feature on FB; it was basically a pising match between WP and FB
Can’t all the engineers just get along?
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@rodiy2k
Please allow me to just say a few words about successful blogging and the reliance on autoposting via social networking sites and feeders. I have two successful blogs and neither one is one Facebook or bloglovin. In fact I’m currently blogging without obligation in both and the traffic stats are doing great without me publishing new posts.I’ll choose not to emphasize that fact that sites that insist on having only full posts and full size images in the RSS feeds are not us any favors. Our content is the product those sites make advertising revenue from. I get spam from bloglovin suggesting I register and choose to ignore it.
If you are into auto-posting and feel upset about bloglovin read this please http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2014/09/10/social-networking-blunders/
“When full copies of your content appear anywhere other than on the site it was originally published on … ” read the rest here http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2014/03/27/scraping-off-the-blog-scrapers/
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@timethief
Points well taken; I never autopost to Facebook; I have a page and I manually enter via shortcode.My anger lies at Bloglovin’s inability to show my images and not have an answer; I will probably delete the account as it serves no purpose for me that I can see.
I take pride in my content and crafting a post takes me several hours yet I’ve not garnered hundreds of likes or followers but that doesn’t really concern me. I can’t spend 12 hours a day on my device or PC; that was the idea behind retiring early, the point of my blog
I’ve gotten very positive comments from those that follow or like and I don’t consider 32 followers in 22 days too shabby for an old person who’s never blogged and knows little about today’s social media trends.
I’d rather have 100 followers that actually enjoy my content than 5,000 “pro bloggers” who spend every second of their life on a device
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My anger lies at Bloglovin’s inability to show my images and not have an answer;
Understood.
I’d rather have 100 followers that actually enjoy my content than 5,000 “pro bloggers” who spend every second of their life on a device
Me too.
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