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October 30, 2009
Google Crawls RSS Feeds to Discover New Web Pages; AdSense for Feeds Now Available in Blogger
Google recently launched a new feature that uses RSS and Atom feeds to discover new web pages. This helps Google index new webpages faster than traditional methods.
As a result, you'll want to make sure that your robots.txt file allows Googlebot to crawl your feeds. To learn more about robots.txt from Google's standpoint, click here.
In other feed news related to Google, AdSense for Feeds is now available directly in Blogger. You can find the integration under the "Monetize" tab in the Blogger dashboard.
AdSense for Feeds allows bloggers to make money from advertisements that are included in RSS feeds. This is important because not all RSS readers click through to visit a site, where bloggers can make money off of display ads.
Blogger is a blogging platform that was acquired by Google in 2003.
Posted by Nathania Johnson on October 30, 2009 2:13 AM
Comments
Hasn't this feature been available for a while now? I know I have submitted RSS and Atom feeds through Webmaster tools for quite some time now...
Brian Hancock October 30, 2009 11:35 AM
Yes Brian for some time now we have servered up sitemap xml and rss feeds and linked to them from robots.txt and or a head tag
Has something changed recently I read googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com and see nothing new unless they are promoting pubsubhubbub?
Ben Walsh October 30, 2009 7:05 PM
Thanks for this help.Its been very useful.I’ll looking forward to trying this out.
Rick November 3, 2009 7:04 AM
