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Rule site.feed.missing

Expose an RSS/Atom feed for your content

site.feed.missing is a check in Crawlmind's site audit that grades low-impact issues of this kind. This page explains why the rule matters and the exact fix.

Impact: lowEffort: medium

Why it matters

This site publishes article-style content but no crawled page links to a feed. RSS/Atom is how readers, newsreaders, aggregators, and a growing number of AI systems subscribe to and monitor new posts — without one, they have to re-scrape and diff your pages to notice you've published, which most simply don't do. A feed is a cheap, durable distribution channel.

The fix

Generate a feed and advertise it in every page `<head>`:

```html
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Blog" href="https://example.com/feed.xml" />
```

Most CMSes and static-site generators emit a feed automatically (WordPress at `/feed`, Ghost at `/rss`, Hugo/Astro/Next via a plugin). Include the full post content or a substantial summary, an absolute `<link>` per item, and a real `<pubDate>`.

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