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One nice feature for any blog or site (especially news sites) is to have a little list of forthcoming events that would interest your readers. One way of collating this information is to scour the web and update the list manually. However, this is time consuming and tedious, especially as there is an easier way to do it.

Have a look at the Yahoo site called Upcoming. On this site you can search for events on lots of different subjects in lots of different locations all over the world. Also, if you have an event you can put it up on the site.

Adding a hyper link for an RSS or Atom feed on your web page works, but that's not all you can do. By adding a link to the head section of the page you can allow your users an alternative method of picking up your feed.

To add an RSS feed use this.

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://www.example.com/rssfeed.xml" />

To add an Atom feed use this.

<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.example.com/blog/wp-atom.php" />

These are both XHTML examples. To do this in HTML just remove the slash on the right hand side like this.