Comments on: Hey RSS Feed Readers, Read Entries You Missed http://www.spideysenses.com/2007/09/18/hey-rss-feed-readers-read-entries-you-missed/ Ted Rheingold's web journal Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:03:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: BayTaper http://www.spideysenses.com/2007/09/18/hey-rss-feed-readers-read-entries-you-missed/#comment-129320 BayTaper Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:20:36 +0000 http://www.spideysenses.com/2007/09/18/hey-rss-feed-readers-read-entries-you-missed/#comment-129320 You know I was having a really hard time getting indexed by Google and other sites, and I was having trouble with sites like Technorati picking up my pings and feed for nearly a year before I solved the problem. Not sure if this was 100% responsible, but neither my feed nor my site was validating properly (for a whole bunch of archane reasons. After slogging through testing with a feed validator and fixing dumb-ass plugins and other problems I had with my feed/wordpress, and then doing the same for the webpages on my site (XHTML validation), within a week Technorati was indexing my feed and picking up my pings, and google started indexing my site and returning pages when searched. Anyway, moral of the story: make sure your shit validates! BTW, neither your feed nor your web pages validate as of right now. Hours of joy and debugging now await you -- enjoy! You know I was having a really hard time getting indexed by Google and other sites, and I was having trouble with sites like Technorati picking up my pings and feed for nearly a year before I solved the problem. Not sure if this was 100% responsible, but neither my feed nor my site was validating properly (for a whole bunch of archane reasons. After slogging through testing with a feed validator and fixing dumb-ass plugins and other problems I had with my feed/wordpress, and then doing the same for the webpages on my site (XHTML validation), within a week Technorati was indexing my feed and picking up my pings, and google started indexing my site and returning pages when searched.

Anyway, moral of the story: make sure your shit validates!

BTW, neither your feed nor your web pages validate as of right now. Hours of joy and debugging now await you — enjoy!

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