If nothing is there that produces this problem you can alwasy do a 301 redirect to the main page in your .htaccess file.

2. You need to change the rss feed line in the HTML code of your template to point to the new feed link. See http://www.petefreitag.com/item/384.cfm

3. I am not really sure, but could you check what happens when you turn off the display of the authors name in the advanced parameters on the article level?

I followed the steps in the chapter from your book and created the following feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/RenewingAmericanLeadership

If I put it an custom HTML module it works.

Got a couple of issues:

1. When I put it into iGoogle the feeds come up, but if you click on the title of the “module” it goes to the following url instead of the main one:

http://www.torenewamerica.com/component/content/frontpage

The problem is that we have the component turned off and are just publishing articles to the front page, so this doesn’t work for us. Is there a way to change it to go to the main url?

2. When I turn on show feed link in the Home Page menu, so that the feed icon will show in the browser window, if you click on that icon to subscribe it sends people to the original feed we put into feedburner, not the one it created. How do I change that?

3. In Google Reader, when you click on the articles it’s shows both the administrator’s email address as the author as well as the author’s alias that we assign to each article, because our authors don’t post articles themselves. Is there a way to change this?

Thanks as always for any help you can be. Don’t think I could have gotten this close without you…:-)

Best,

Harry

Is this right?…:-)

You can send met the rss link to check it for you (I wil put a contact form on the about page), but as I understand the old posts wil be with Google forever :-(

So when you say my google reader, you mean my personal reader.

If I make the joomla feed pulling articles from my home page live, and people click on it and add the feed to their reader or igoogle, they won’t see the articles? It’s just me because I already have it in my reader? In which case, I could just make it live now, yes?

Thanks for your patience…:-)

Hopefully the Google Feed reader team will come with a solution for the old cached post in a new release.

First one is to overwrite the articles by publishing new articles with the old ID, but then you need to know the old article id’s.

Second one is the send the feed through Googles FeedBurner that will only show the real articels that are in the feed right now.

How you can do that is explained in the free chapter5 of my Joomla 1.5 SEO Book. You can donwload that free chapter from here http://joomlablogging.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/joomla-seo-and-blogging/

You can then redirect all RSS Feed request to the FeedBurner Feed.

Do you have any idea why deleted articles that were once published to our front page would continue to appear in google reader?

I’ve emptied the article trash, the menu trash and purged the cache and expired cache, but test layout articles we created back in December that have been totally removed from our Joomla installation appear in google reader and are still available.

I’ve searched forum after forum with no luck and you seem to be the “RSS Guy” so I’m really hoping you can help.

Thanks,

Harry

There is a great RSS component for Joomla 1.5 at http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/bca_rss/