For several days I’ve had a problem with CommentLuv not working for me when commenting on blogs. It was working fine for everyone else it seemed, even on my own blogs. Whenever I would comment I would get an error. Since it wasn’t effecting commenters on my site I didn’t consider it an urgent matter. Today I decided to find the problem and get it corrected. CommentLuv, of course, already know what the issue was. Here’s what I found: http://www.commentluv.com/error-check/
A feed could not be found at http://domain.com
This means your site might not have an auto-discoverable feed.
See this article on ProBlogger about feed autodiscovery
Autodiscovery? I had no idea what autodiscovery was but it sounded pretty important. Thanks to the post on ProBlogger, Can I (auto)discover you?, within minutes I had CommentLuv working perfectly. I simply added this little snippet of HTML code in my header:
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”Hot Blog Tips” href=”http://feeds2.feedburner.com/HotBlogTips” >
Even more importantly my blog is now setup so subscribers can read my RSS feeds on their aggregators and browsers including Internet Explorer 7. When autodiscovery for your rss feed is enabled, browsers and aggregators will automatically detect the RSS feed making it easier for others to subscribe to it.
I found this free online tool that will create the code for your blog in seconds: Create Auto Discovery Code
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As a side note, many bloggers use WordPress plugins such as the FeedBurner FeedSmith Plugin to re-direct their feeds to Feedburner. I used the actual Feedburner RSS feed URL in my snippet of HTML. I still have my FeedBurner FeedSmith Plugin activated and everything seems to be working fine.