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Posted By: Sebastian 255 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Google SEO
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Pretty sure Matt said a few months ago that this was already happening -- I think the German side is playing catchup.
Gbot does follow links within the XML feeds though, as far as I know, as does Yahoo, so I'm not sure what the impact of nofollowing the links to the feed would have.
Thanks Danny. I didn't find that quote, also I could swear that not long ago I've seen feeds on Web SERPs. Of course looking for XML feeds today I wasn't able to catch one of those. However, I think Google should extract the URL of the HTML page and display this one when a feed lands in a raw result set.
Michael, if the blog is well structured, the answer is "None".
Well, I have a site that has a news feed on it. It has quite a few subscribers from what I can tell. Google and Yahoo both hit that feed every couple of hours... whereas they will hit the main page of the news section (the only other place linking to the internal stories) every few days. They both follow all of the links inside the feed (it is rss, btw). I'm just not sure I would really want to alter that behavior.
The feed doesn't ping anyone, although of course it might be getting pinged by some other service. I just always assumed it was due to all the subscribers that it got as much attention as it does.
Feedfetcher and similar Yahoo bots grab your feeds not caring about any blocks coz they act on behalf of humans, and the contents they fetch don't land in Web search indexing queues (but of ocurse in other places, for example GoogleReader's searchable index). Googlebot, Slurp, msnbot and even ask accept RSS feeds as sitemaps, you can submit those for crawling purposes. Blog SE crawlers extract the feed URLs from the HEAD section, and get them from ping services on updates. Anyway, neither the PageRank of XML feeds nor the value of REL attributes in links pointing to them should play a role for indexing.
Well, true... but should is a funny word when applied to Google, you know that. :D
As for Google that's "doesn't". As for (all) other Web services "shouldn't" suffices. ;)
They should still fetch the feeds and follow the links within them.
The feed URLs should not show up in the SERPs for website results.
I wouldn't object if there was a separate set of SERPs that listed only feeds.
Roughly 24 hours later Google posted the announcement on the US Webmaster blog:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/12/taking-feeds-out-of-our-web-search.html