Google now indexes pages via RSS/Atom feeds on your site
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Hah ! Just what we needed. In its endless efforts to make the life easier for webmasters, Google has now understood that indexing RSS feeds and Atoms could be yet another value addition to their arsenal of indexing tools.
Google generally would use incoming links, sitemaps, etc to index new files and websites, and with this new addition newer websites won’t find it hard to get indexed on Google. All you need to do is set up your RSS/Atom feed and as an added measure make sure your Robots.txt file doesn’t block it.
In my opinion this feature had been in practice for quite some time, but its only now that Google announced it officially.
Anyways, all good for webmasters.
Via – Google
No change for my blog as it is just set up for nearly a week. Is your PR changed?
this is great news!!!
Feedburner.com has so many feeds, and its part of Google, so they probably already know about most feeds that go through there.
It makes great sense for Google to use a resource such as feedburner as part of its indexing toolkit. Alerts designed to inform human visitors of new content are now used to alert the googlebots of new content to crawl. SImple and elegant, I love it!
Another good news from Google. Also another thing to note is that RSS feeds helps spread your content quickly to multiple portals.
great! but will it not result in duplication of content?