In the last few weeks, adding feeds to My Yahoo has been next to
impossible. Here's a solution that worked for me with a
feedburner feed.
Why Won't It Add My Feed
If you have a blog, adding it to My Yahoo via a feed is a fairly
standard option. To do this, you simply accessed your My Yahoo
page, clicked "add content," click "add RSS by url" and then
entered your feed. At least it used to be that way.
For the last few weeks, the add content provision for My Yahoo
has developed a glitch. Following the above steps simply no
longer works. Instead, My Yahoo will show you a preview of your
feed, but refuses to actually add it to the My Yahoo page. Why
is it My Yahoo will show you a preview, but not add the feed?
This realization is followed by a combination of the following:
banging head on the desk...rebooting computer...throwing
computer...
Feedburner Solution for My Yahoo
Last night, I was able to add
http://feeds.feedburner.com/BtrTaxRelief to My Yahoo through
feedburner.com. Here's how I did it.
First, log into and pull up a My Yahoo page. Next, pull up
feedburner.com in a second window. Log in to your account. In
the resulting page, you should see a clickable title for your
feed. To the immediate left of the title is an "xml" link in
light grey. Click it to open a new window.
In the resulting window, you will see a light blue box followed
by your feed. In the blue box near the bottom, you should see a
"My Yahoo" button. Click it.
At this point, your My Yahoo add content page should appear with
a preview of how the page will look in My Yahoo. This will be
the same preview you were shown when trying to add the feed the
traditional way. Go ahead and click the "add content" button on
the top right of the page. You should see a page showing the
preview and a message that it has been added.
Once you've done this, it takes up to 10 minutes for the feeds
to appear on My Yahoo. I can't promise this will work for
everyone, but I was able to add three feeds last night.
Good Luck!
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