Feedburner doesn’t work anymore

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Well, Feedburner and AdSense don’t work well together any more. Google is progressively shutting that down. You can read about it in their official “Spring Cleaning” announcement.

But also, you likely have a major issue with your site in general. This is what I see when I try to visit your blog page:

Error Page

Now that your site is working, I was able to load your raw feed to see what’s going on with it. The crux of the issue is that your feed – the XML being served from your site, not Feedburner – is broken. Feedburner then tries to parse this broken data and churns out junk itself. Garbage in, garbage out.

I’ve copied the raw XML your site is presenting in response to requests to http://zoomingjapan.com/blog/feed/ to a Gist: https://gist.github.com/3880465

The issue is, it’s not valid XML … the document starts out OK:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<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>Zooming Japan &#187; Blog</title> 
        <atom:link href="http://zoomingjapan.com/blog/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
        <link>http://zoomingjapan.com</link>
        <description></description> 
        <lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:03:55 +0000</lastBuildDate> 
        <language>en-US</language> 
...

But every XML validator I run your feed through complains about the <script> tags littered through your content. In reality, you shouldn’t have <script> tags in content to begin with – they belong in the <head> element of your page.

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