Rss Feed

[chroniker]

Ok, I admit that I'm not the brightest lightbulb in the box but what I'm trying to do can't be all that difficult.

 

I want to "Roll-Your-Own RSS News Feed" on my yahoo and to do this the folks at yahoo say to

 

.......Just type in your search terms, click the "Add-to My Yahoo!" button on the search results page and follow the simple instructions. My Yahoo! will pull the latest headlines from any site that mentions your topic and deliver them right to your page.

 

When I do this I don't get the "Add-to My Yahoo!" button for my site. I tried it with a couple of other sites and got the "Add-to My Yahoo!" button. However Firefox finds the feeds for my site so I know that they are active.

 

I'm running MoveableType 3.x and the RSS and Atom templets are there and are rebuilt each time I rebuild my site. What am I missing?

[TweezerMan]

I'm not entirely clear on what you're trying to do or what pages you're looking at, but this is what I've been able to figure out from poking around on the My Yahoo! site:

 

Here's the full description and instructions for "Roll-Your-Own RSS News Feed":

Now here's a very cool feature indeed: Create a custom feed to track anything that interests you via Yahoo! News Search. Pick a person (eg, "John Kerry"), a company ("Yahoo!"), or a specific topic ("Windsurfing"). Just type in your search terms, click the "Add-to My Yahoo!" button on the search results page and follow the simple instructions. My Yahoo! will pull the latest headlines from any site that mentions your topic and deliver them right to your page.

The way I read it, the "Roll-Your-Own RSS News Feed" feature does not provide a way for you to add your site's RSS feed to your My Yahoo! page, nor does it search your web site's RSS feeds, as this is not what it was intended to do.

 

The "Roll-Your-Own RSS News Feed" is a personalized RSS feed that is basically a stored Yahoo! News search, allowing you to monitor topics that appear on *news* web sites, such as CNN, New York Times, etc. For example, you could do a Yahoo! News search for "Supreme Court". The "Add to My Yahoo!" button will add an RSS feed to your My Yahoo! page that will display articles from *news* web sites containing the phrase "Supreme Court" in them, allowing you to keep up with news articles about the Supreme Court.

 

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here, but it appears to me that you're expecting the "Roll-Your-Own RSS News Feed" feature to be something that it's not.

[chroniker]

We are looking at the samething.

 

I got the idea from Darren Rowse at probloger

 

I have looked up several other blogs this way and am able to add their RSS to my yahoo. However, I found out lastnight that my site is not W3C compliant and will probably have to fix that before any tricks / tweeks will work.

[chroniker]

I just noticed that the board says that I made this post at 3:53 AM, when I actualy made it at 05:55 Central and this one at 05:58.

[TweezerMan]

I wish I could look at the page you linked to, but it keeps timing out on me.

 

To fix the time display here on the forum, click on the "My Controls" link at the top of the forum page, then in the left column under "Options", click on the "Board Settings" link. Adjust the "base time zone" and "daylight saving time" options to display the correct time for your location.

 

You may need to select a time zone other than Central Time - I'm on the west coast (Pacific Time), but I had to select "Mountain Time" (one time zone off) plus check "daylight saving time" in order for the board to display the proper local time for me.

[TCH-Bruce]

I was able to add my WP blog to MyYahoo. It requires that you link to the RSS feed and not the Atom feed I believe.

 

You need to add the XML link to the list for it to work.

[chroniker]

Problem solved. I had to add my site to the yahoo database.