So very recently, I redesigned my site, which I now like, but will probably change again in two months (it's my site thank you very much). When I redesigned my site, I left off the syndication button, which was the primary way to subscribe to my blog. This caused someone to reach out to me because they could not subscribe. Crap!
My site is powered by DotNetNuke, and I love this application/platform. It's flexible, (depending on what's installed) it's light, and it's easy to use (once you get used to a few things). One of the very few things that has irked me about DotNetNuke though, is if you syndicate a module (like a blog) the browser doesn't pick up on it. The majority of all the browsers now support Live Bookmarks, and the little RSS icon is one of the first things I look for when I come across a new feed.
Having never really been irked enough to find a solution, I just let it be. But when a potential subscriber tells me it's a problem, I need to take action. After about 2 minutes of searching, I came up with a really simple solution. When you create a new Tab (or edit an existing one), check the Advanced Settings for a field called "Page Header Tags."
In the field, add the following line of html:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="[insert the title to your blog here]" href="[the full url to your rss resource]" />
When you refresh your browser, it should display the rss notification icon, and you should be able to access the RSS feed. One thing to note about this approach, if your URL for your blog changes, you'll have to manually make this change. Other than that, this is a pretty simple way to make a browser recognize your RSS feed.