RSS Feed Title and Link Off

Looking through the previous version with yoast-test-helper I see that the link tag vanished in version 19.3

This appears to be a smoking gun from the yoast 19.3 update:

“Makes sure the link tag in the RSS feeds’ channel section links to the most specific URL possible (for instance the category or tag the RSS feed is for) instead of the homepage.”

This explains why the base rss feed is working. Being too specific might be messing up the link tag.

Hi @kainesh

Based on the 19.3 changelog, these were the enhancements to the RSS feed:

Adds canonical HTTP headers from RSS feeds to their parent URLs (for instance your homepage, or specific categories or tags), so the feeds themselves don’t show up in search results.
Makes sure the link tag in the RSS feeds’ channel section links to the most specific URL possible (for instance the category or tag the RSS feed is for) instead of the homepage.
Makes sure the title separator chosen in Yoast SEO is used for RSS feed titles too.

With Yoast SEO 19.6.1, are you still experiencing this issue where the <link> is missing and could you provide us with an example URL?

Hi Michael,

I checked our dev site on 19.6.1 and the <link> is showing up correctly. I then set it to 19.3 so that I could show you.

I’ll do some more testing on 19.6.1 later, but hopefully it did the trick.

Thanks,

Lee

Hey Lee,

OK – thanks for the update. Do let us know how it goes on the production site.

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This issue seems to have arisen again in v19.11 – missing <link> data. I have reverted to v19.10 and it works correctly.

I also ran into this issue, but it was using Yoast 19.10. Mailchimp said the RSS feed was not valid, and running it through a validator showed me the title tag had a separator character that broke it. After changing the separator, the validator then told me the <link> tags were empty, therefore invalid. Upon disabling Yoast, I was able to get the RSS feed to validate both through the W3C validator and to go through on Mailchimp. I have changed nothing else, and tried updating to Yoast 19.11 to see if it fixed it (which it did not). This seems like a big issue, if it’s breaking people’s RSS feeds.