: What is the proper way to indicate that my site doesn't have an RSS feed? I have a website that is showing that there are attempts to access /rss in my server logs, but we don't have an

@Ogunnowo487

You could create a RSS XML page with static content indicating there is no feed available.

Something like this:

<rss version="2.0"
xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/">
<channel>
<title>My Site</title>
<atom:link href="http://domain.com/rss/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/>
<link>http://domain.com</link>
<description>...</description>
<language>en-US</language>
<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1</generator>
<item>
<title> No Feed is Available for Domain.com</title>
<description> No Feed is Available for Domain.com </description>
<link>http://domain.com</link>
</item>
</channel>

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@Samaraweera270

It seems like you might have something like this on your site:

<link rel='alternate' type='application/rss+xml' title='RSS' href='http://example.com/rss'>


So search engines, RSS readers, etc... are attempting to access your /rss directory.

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