GoKawiilGuide outlines technical best practices for RSS/Atom feed publishing
A 2022 guide (updated March 2024) lays out technical recommendations for blog feeds, advising publishers to use RSS 2 or Atom rather than older RSS versions, JSON Feed, or Microformats h-feed. It argues Atom is preferable for new feeds due to its clearer, less ambiguous specification, while existing RSS 2 feeds need not be upgraded. The post includes a minimal Atom XML template covering required elements like title, id, links, updated timestamp, author, and entries.
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Standardized, well-supported feed formats reduce compatibility problems across the wide range of feed readers and search engine crawlers that consume blog content. The guidance suggests that choosing a widely supported format like Atom or RSS 2, rather than niche alternatives, helps ensure content reaches readers reliably without requiring publishers to overhaul existing working feeds.
- RSS 2 and Atom are recommended as the most widely supported feed formats
- Atom is suggested for new feeds due to a clearer, less ambiguous specification
- Existing RSS 2 feeds don't need to be upgraded to Atom
Source: kevincox.ca, 2026-10-03
Published there as: “RSS Feed Best Practices (2022)”
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