 Do Engines Count Rss Feeds? |
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 Apr 20 2005, 10:59 AM
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 Psycho Mom  Group: Admin Posts: 6,124 Joined: 21-July 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 12:42 PM From: Columbia, SC Member No.: 3  |
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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Apr 20 2005, 11:21 AM
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 HR 10  Group: Moderator Posts: 7,489 Joined: 24-July 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 11:42 AM From: Somerville, MA Member No.: 22 |
Interesting. Google's indexed my feed, but under the listing (which is just the URL) it says
QUOTE File Format: Unrecognized - View as HTML ...and the "View as HTML" link brings up a blank page.
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Apr 20 2005, 12:38 PM
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HR 8  Group: Active Members Posts: 3,718 Joined: 5-April 05 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 08:42 AM From: Seattle, WA Member No.: 7,091 |
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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Apr 20 2005, 01:55 PM
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Psycho Mom Group: Admin Posts: 6,124 Joined: 21-July 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 12:42 PM From: Columbia, SC Member No.: 3 |
It doesn't seem to be recognizing the XML formatting, but it is indexed...
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