9. Creating a Blog Feed
Objective: To create a site feed for your blog.
As you learned in Chapter 2, “Visiting Blogger Blogs,” a site feed is an automatically updated stream of a blog’s contents. Users can subscribe to your site feed to be notified of new blog posts in their favorite feed reader application.
You probably want to activate feeds for your blog. This is called blog syndication; it not only is a service to your most loyal readers, but also helps your blog posts be picked up by Google Blog Search.
Activating an Atom Feed
Blogger uses the Atom format for its blog syndication. When you activate Atom syndication for your blog, Blogger automatically generates a machine-readable version of your blog that most feed readers and aggregators ...
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