My first RSS feed - some readers don't see when it is updated

[cullenstev]

Hello folks,

I created my first RSS feed last week.
http://aebike.com/dir/319/files/dailydeal.xml
The linking page is http://www.aebike.com/get/deal/

Some readers are not detecting when it is updated, even though I am
correctly (i believe) updating the pubDate and lastBuildDate tags. I am
having trouble with WizzRSS on FireFox and IE6 on Windows XP (not
confirmed).
After I update my feed and check it with WizzRSS, it does not show that
it is new, or show the new content. If I restart firefox, it will. If I
don't restart firefox it will eventually figure out that it is new, but
not for hours or days later.
Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Andy Dingley]

Some readers are not detecting when it is updated, even though I am
correctly (i believe) updating the pubDate and lastBuildDate tags.

I'd try adding a pubDate for the channel as well as the item. Optional,
but there'll be something out there (maybe WizRSS) that doesn't use
lastBuildDate when it ought.

Otherwise use non-RSS 2.0 (like Atom or RSS 1.0) as these have metadata
that hints when it's worth checking the feed again in the future. RSS
2.0 (apart from clouds, which few can support) is able to say if
something is new when they've already read it, but has no way to
suggest when they ought to try checking for it again.