Feed discovery with rel="alternate"
type: TechArticle
description: If your site publishes a feed — RSS, Atom, or JSON Feed — announce it in with . Feed readers, agents, and browsers discover it without guessing the URL.
language: en
is part of: Web Specification Studio
author: Web Specification Studio
publisher: Web Specification Studio
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date modified: 2026-06-18T00:00:00.000Z
citation: HTML Living Standard — Link types: alternate
  type: CreativeWork
  publisher: WHATWG
citation: MDN — rel=alternate
  type: CreativeWork
  publisher: MDN
citation: RSS 2.0 Specification
  type: CreativeWork
  publisher: RSS Advisory Board
citation: RFC 4287 — The Atom Syndication Format
  type: CreativeWork
  publisher: IETF
citation: JSON Feed 1.1
  type: CreativeWork
  publisher: JSON Feed

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