 When I click on RSS I get typically "http://xxxxxx.com/m/event/browse/upcomingUpcoming Carpool RSSMon, 02 May 2011 02:56:44 +0400Mon, 02 May 2011 02:56:44 +0400Mon, 02 May 2011 00:07:40 +0400" How do I get this to appear in my Google homepage? Is there a way I can make the link more user friendly so it just appears in the users reader. The rss links on some sites give you an option to choose a reader and bingo! This long line of text just doesn't fill the bill. |
I've got an unconventional way to do this. Get a Google Reader account and then subscribe to the feed. Put it in a folder in Reader, and make that folder public. Click the view as pubic page and use the url of the page that comes up in your RSS block - or if that doesn't work, subscribe to that page (coming full circle) and use the url that is on the subscribe page. Believe it or not, this works. |
I tried something like that with my Google homepage. The link "http://xxxxxx.com/m/event/browse/upcomingUpcoming Carpool" didn't work. I tried removing Carpool, then Upcoming but none worked. I can go to http://xxxxxx.com/m/event/browse/upcoming but google says its not found as a rss link. |
Do you use Chrome? Get an rss subscribe link and use that and see what the link is. Also, read what I said - I did not say to save on your Google home page, I said to save go a Google Reader folder, which you then make public with its own feed. |
The problem is that some of the feeds I am getting are incorrect. The url doesn't work when you paste it into Google reader or the link from my google homepage that enables you to create a gadget or whatever. Also I just want, for users, is an RSS link to be able to set up a feed in one click. All the info that comes after the link will confuse most people and they would give up. |
I found the solution. I just pasted the URL of the page that came up when I clicked on the rss feed. Instead of http://xxxxxx.com/m/event/browse/upcomingUpcoming the URL link for that page was http://xxxxx.com/m/event/browse/upcoming?rss=1 which worked. How do I stop these errors and make it simpler for people?? |
