RSS Troubleshooting

When an RSS feed stops updating on a social account, the actual cause is almost always sitting in an HTTP response header that ...

Open any podcast's RSS feed and you'll find a tag that does more work than almost anything else in the document: <enclosure&...

You fix a typo, update a broken link, or add a clarifying paragraph to a post you published three weeks ago. Ten minutes later,...

If your auto-posting tool has ever gone quiet for a day or two and then caught up with a burst of posts, the usual suspect peop...

"The quick brown fox jumps over [...]" is not a caption anyone meant to publish. Neither is a post that stops mid-sentence, or ...

Moving and self-storage companies operate in a category where trust matters more than almost anything else — customers are hand...

Chiropractic and physical therapy practices sit in an unusual spot for marketing: the work is deeply personal and regulated, wh...

Farmers markets and small food producers run on timing more than almost any other local business: this week's harvest, this Sat...

An automated posting setup that ran flawlessly for months can suddenly go silent for reasons that have nothing to do with the R...

Nothing erodes trust in an automated social media setup faster than the same article showing up on a Facebook page three times ...

Most guides to RSS auto-posting assume a public feed anyone (and any tool) can fetch freely. But a real subset of feeds aren't ...

An auto-posting setup that used to work fine and suddenly stops picking up new content has a short list of usual suspects: an e...