I had a thought while checking some indexed pages for a site... the rss feed appears in Google's index.
While it changes frequently, it does seem that the engines are crawling the RSS feeds and indexing them. They are like a perfect little site map to your new content- a link, a title, a description, and typically a snippet.
I'm thinking of expanding my feeds to contain more entries- sure, they scroll away in a day or two, but I do think it might help the engines find the new articles.
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Do Engines Count Rss Feeds?
Started by
Scottie
, Apr 20 2005 10:59 AM
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Posted 20 April 2005 - 11:21 AM
Interesting. Google's indexed my feed, but under the listing (which is just the URL) it says
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File Format: Unrecognized - View as HTML
...and the "View as HTML" link brings up a blank page.
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Posted 20 April 2005 - 12:38 PM
Some of the smaller engines have been rendering the RSS feeds into HTML. I've been getting referrals from them. I think they are, actually, GoogleAd spammers just using RSS feeds to build dynamic content.
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Posted 20 April 2005 - 01:55 PM
It doesn't seem to be recognizing the XML formatting, but it is indexed...
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