Resolving The Feed Too Large Error

Just now I reviewed my web crawl errors using Google Webmaster Tools and found two pages were having problems crawled. I took a look at the details and found the URLs were restricted by my robots.txt file. The URLs were “http://www.homebiz.bukiki.com/feed-error-trouble-problem-too-large/” and “http://www.homebiz.bukiki.com/pagerank-update-homebiz-resource-rakes-4-from-na/”.

I looked into my robots.txt file and I remembered preventing the indexing of everything started with “feed” and ”page”. The reason I did this was to not having duplicate results from my feed and my page archive.

The information about this blog got PR 4 from N/A doesn’t need to be republished with new URL, but I think I need to do the opposite with my feed related post. So, here it is and I hope it’s still useful.

 

Feed Error! Source Feed is Too Large…

…maximum size is 512K. This is the error I was getting when I noticed that my feed wasn’t updated with my latest post. At first, I thought that it was due to the blog security precautions I implemented earlier. But when I was done rolling back all the changes, the feed error still occured. Actually, the error itself was pretty self explanatory. But the first thing came up in my mind was the changes I committed the day before. Second was, I didn’t know what to do to troubleshoot the issue.

Now, after figuring out that undoing all the changes didn’t work, I started to look for help at the FeedBurner Help Group. I learned that there are two ways to reduce your feed’s size.

1. Through your feedburner account
2. From your dashboard options

Through your feedburner account

You can add a variable after your original feed address. Here’s from the group directly:

1. Sign in to your FeedBurner account.
2. Click the title of your FeedBurner feed on the My Feeds page.
3. On the feed management page that appears, click the Edit Feed Details… link just below your feed’s title.
4. In the Original Feed Address field, change the address listed there from an example like the following:

   Code:

   http://myblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml
   OR
   http://myblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

   to the following format:

   Code:

   http://myblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?max-results=3

   (Note that max-results sets the number of posts you want to have appear in your FeedBurner feed. Any integer value between 1 and 500 is permitted.)

5. Click Save Feed Details. Your changes are immediately applied and FeedBurner re-burns the newly shortened (or lengthened) feed.

Unfortunately, it didn’t work for me. But try it, maybe it works for you.

The other way to the feed troubleshooting is by reducing the number of items displayed under the “Publicize” tab, in the “BuzzBoost” section on the left. If it fails, change from displaying full feed to just summary feed.

From your dashboard options

If you prefer to stay with full feed to give the most to your readers (or if the above doesn’t work either), go to your WordPress dashboard, head to “Settings”/”Options” | Reading. Look for the setting labeled “Syndication feeds show the most recent” and reduce the number. Mine was 50 and currently I set it to 25…Thank God IT WORKS!

How feeds do you display? Have you got any feed problems? Hoh did you solve the problem?

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