New Feature: Feed Tester
Posted by Ninua, Inc. | Filed under features
One of the most common questions we get on a regular basis is: why doesn't NetworkedBlogs pull my posts successfully? And after investigating, we find that most of the errors tend to be simple things like using the wrong feed URL, misconfiguring FeedBurner, missing to enable "full feeds" so that images are included, and so forth. These settings are usually easy to fix if you know where to look. So today we're announcing the new Feed Tester tool that should help with that.
On your blog profile page, you will now see a new menu item, Feed Tester. It runs a lot of tests against your feed and gives you a brief report of the results. Here are some of the errors that Feed Tester can uncover:
- Missing, invalid, or wrong feed URL.
- Blog taking too long to respond (more than 10 seconds).
- Feed with missing posts.
- Feeds that are formatted incorrectly.
- Feeds that don't contain the latest articles.
- Feeds that don't have the post images.
These cases represent almost 90% of all the feed related questions we get on our support site. So we hope this tool will help a lot in finding and solving problems faster for everyone. Give it a try and let us know how you like it.
News Page Available Inside Facebook
Another update we'd like to mention, which we pushed earlier today, is that the News page is now available inside Facebook again. If you usually go to our Website directly, then you will not see anything different. However, if you visit NetworkedBlogs using the bookmark on the left side menu in Facebook, then you'll notice that you can view the News page now without leaving Facebook. We hope this makes it easier to get in, check the latest, and get out easily.
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