Hello everyone; welcome to day one of the challenge.
Today we’re going to start things off really simply with finding your RSS feed and ensuring it’s valid. Now if for some reason your feed doesn’t validate, or you don’t have one yet, no problem! You can move on to the other steps during the rest of the week while working on your feed in the background.
RSS or Atom feeds allow users or technologies to access updates to website content via a standardized format. Regardless of the CMS you use to publish your website, for example WordPress, Drupal, or something custom like SiteCore, the feed will take all the relevant data from recent posts such as post title, image, description, author, and so on into the feed file so that it can be read by other systems, like Digesto for example.
If you don’t know what your feed URL is, here’s how to get it…
First of all, if you’re using WordPress on your site, you can simply add a slash and the word feed to the end of your domain and that’s it.
So our website, for example, is https://perkuto.com. I would type https://perkuto.com/feed, and there you go! Your feed will appear on the webpage.
Other common URL paths for feeds include:
/rss
/rss-feed
?format=xml
If you still can’t find it, you might find an RSS icon on your web page (i.e. 
) — click on that and it will take you to the RSS feed link.
Alternatively, you can view the source code for your blog and find it listed there. For example, on our blog page here, I would right-click, select go to view page source, and once there, do a search for “rss” or “feed,” and here you can see the link to it.
Once you’ve found your feed, the next step will be to ensure its syntax is considered “valid.” You can use a free third-party validation tool like W3C to check. Go to https://validator.w3.org/feed, and then all you need to do is take your feed URL and paste it into the address line on the page, like this. Hit “enter” or press the “check” link, and see the results.
In this case, ours is valid!
If, on the other hand, it didn’t validate, W3C will outline exactly why. If you click on the “help” link next to any line, it will explain what changes are required in order to validate.
That’s it for today. If you have any questions, feel free to reply to the email and one of the experts on our team will help you out.