Add Blog’s RSS, Atom Feed to Google’s Feed Indexing Feature
Yesterday, I read in google webmaster’s blog that very soon they are going to Index your site or blog’s rss,atom feeds. This is good news as RSS feed are updated frequently as you post or add content to your site and it should improve your visibility a little bit more in Google’s search index.
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Google uses numerous sources to find new webpages, from links we find on the web to submitted URLs. They aim to discover new pages quickly so that users can find new content in Google search results soon after they go live. Google Webmasters recently launched a feature that uses RSS and Atom feeds for the discovery of new webpages.
How to Improve Indexing Of your Blog Posts via Feeds
For Wordpress : Simply Add feed/rss to your Sitemap’s list in your Google Webmasters account.
As you see my rss feed has a syndication of 10 Posts. Hence 11 URLs have been submitted ….
You can Increase the no. of posts that is syndicated in your rss feed to any number by going to your WP Dashboard > Settings > Reading.
Note : Feedburner has a memory limit to the no. of posts added syndication. Its better to keep it at 10 if have 1-2 Posts daily and 20 if you have more than 5 posts daily.
For Blogger : This is again a boon for blogger. Since blogger doesn’t have any proper sitemap you can now use the feeds as a powerful sitemap thus getting your posts indexed faster.
I recommend you read the excellent post on How to Submit a Complete Sitemap of your Blogger Blog by Amit Agarwal to understand the whole procedure.
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Let me know if I have missed anything ….Also add your comments to let us know if this worked for your site or not.
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Hi Debajyoti this is really helpful for new blogger who want to add their RSS feed to google webmaster tool account.
trying it out. having trouble with google indexing my site
What Problems are you facing exactly….??