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Blog Posts Not Showing in Activity Feed

Posted by moneymaker1008 • 6/29/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blogcatalog help, my activity feed

My new blog posts are no longer showing up in My Activity Feed. They were updating fine up until a few days ago and I haven't done anything differently. I've noticed I'm having the same problem over at My Blog Log too, but none of my updates (including Twitter, adding friends, joining communities) are showing up there so I don't know if its the same problem. By the way, I use Blogger and I don't use FeedBurner or anything so that's not the problem.

Thanks in advance,
Danielle

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  1. dcarroll
    6/29/09
    dcarroll
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    1. timethief
      6/29/09
      timethief
      @dcarroll
      You were on the right track - thumbs up!
  2. timethief
    6/29/09
    timethief
    From www.blogcatalog.com/help/
      Why aren't my recent posting showing up on my blog listing?
      BlogCatalog uses Autodiscovery to determine your Blog's RSS Feed and crawl your site for recent posts. If your autodiscovery tags are not properly set up, or your feed is invalid, validator.w3.org/feed/ your most recent posts will not show up on your blog listing.

      Common Issues:
      Check your autodiscovery tags. www.petefreitag.com/item/384.cfm If your autodiscovery tags are missing, pointing to a dead URL, or redirecting improperly, BlogCatalog will not be able to index your feed.

      If using FeedBurner, make sure you have the 'Event Feed' setting disabled. We will only index feeds that are in reverse chronological order.

      If Blogger/BlogSpot, make sure your site feed redirection settings are set up properly. If you are not using a third-party service to process your feed make sure the 'Post Feed Redirect URL' field is left blank.

      For best results, make sure your feed is output in either RSS 2.0 or Atom 1.0 format.

      How do I get BlogCatalog to update my recent posts
      BlogCatalog will typically crawl an approved blog every 24 hours. If you would like to update your recent posts sooner you can use the Feed Management tool located in the Manage section. www.blogcatalog.com/account.php

      You can also use BlogCatalog's XML-RPC interface to automatically ping BlogCatalog from within your weblog software. Simply add rpc.blogcatalog.com/ into your weblog software's configuration for Pings and Notifications.

      Note: If your posts lack date/timestamps they will not be picked up.
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    1. moneymaker1008
      6/30/09
      moneymaker1008
      I don't really understand any of that lol. I checked and the feed is valid, although it did have a lot of recommendations and I don't know if those are important but I didn't understand them either. I read through the thing about Autodiscovery tags and I don't really understand how to check that. When I look at my blog's HTML coding, I can't really find anything in it, I don't really use the HTML so it's hard for me to understand or read through. Also, for the last suggestion, I don't know how to add that because I don't know where the software configuration is.

      Sorry, I know I'm kind of helpless! I'm just so confused.

      Thank you,
      Danielle
  3. moneymaker1008
    6/30/09
    moneymaker1008
    Nevermind! All of my posts just updated! I guess it was from doing it manually...

    Anyway, thanks so much!
    Danielle
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    1. timethief
      7/01/09
      timethief
      You're welcome and happy blogging.
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