Why Wont the Title Change???

Hi everyone,

I made the feed and then tested in my Yahoo and Google readers.

I decided to change the name of the feed, did so in the title of my xml file, but it wont change in the readers, EVEN if I unsubscribe and resubscribe to it.

If I do change the xml file name and subscribe it will take the new name.

Is it possible or is it permanently cached once you make the first subscription.

tia.

 

Could you maybe post the xml code here, so people could see what you have done? It may be easier to help you...

 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.91//EN" "http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd">
<rss version="0.91">

   <channel>
 
<title>This is the new test</title>
    <link>http://www.xxx.com/xxx.htm</link>
     <description>blog test</description>
    <language>en-us</language>
 
<item>
    <title>question</title>
   <link>http://www.xxx.com/xxx.htm#111208</link>
    <description>this is just a test</description>
</item>
 
  <item>
    <title>1</title>
   <link>http://www.xxx.com/xxx.htm</link>
    <description>1111111</description>
</item>


  <item>
    <title>2</title>
   <link>http://www.xxx.com/xxxx.htm</link>
    <description>22222222</description>
</item>


  <item>
    <title>3</title>
   <link>http://www.xxx.com/xxx.htm</link>
    <description>333333333</description>
</item>
 
   </channel>
</rss>

Code (markup):

the file used to have the title of "Test", I loaded the url into my google and yahoo reader, worked fine...Now I changed it to "This is the new test" and it does not change in the readers.

 

Did you try to load in directly in your browser window? I don't use either google nor Yahoo readers, so I don't know how often they update - but I would bet almost anything on that they do cache your feed.
Anyway, if your feed loads with the new title in your browser, then you know the problem is with google and yahoo.
I don't see anything wrong with your xml, so I think its with the readers...

 

The title does change when I load directly into the browser, and it's been 2 days for yahoo and google reader, I have pinged and uploaded new items which did refresh, but not the title.

I have a feeling that once you select your title, Google and Yahoo keep it locked in and would need to be manually changed.


Thanks for your help!