Remind HN: RSS alternate link on your blog

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It's very easy. Just add to your blog template a link like:

This helps people subscribe to your feed and share that post.

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I was clued into this when running a woorank report on my website, and it didn't recognize our blog (even though we had an RSS feed at /blog). Adding this bit gave us the "green light", and also showed an RSS icon in Firefox and Safari.

I think this might also allow someone to type in your base URL into Google Reader, and it will pick it up.

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