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The other day we asked Should Google Display RSS Feeds in Web Search Results?
Saturday, GoogleGuy, replied to the WebmasterWorld thread saying:
I think that we've been getting better recently about not showing RSS/Atom feeds in the search results.
So it appears that Google feels, in many cases, RSS/Atom feeds should not be shown in the search results.
I see that Search Engine Land's feed URL has dropped in the rankings for a search on search engine land but the feed can still be found on the first page.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
Comments:
Michael Martinez
09/17/2007 05:23 pm
Except for the fact that spammers scrape them, I would prefer that Google create a filetype query operator so that we could search for RSS feeds. But that's just me.
Michael Martinez
09/17/2007 05:25 pm
Doh! ...never mind... Not feeling too healthy today.
Adam Snider
09/18/2007 06:40 pm
I'll be happy when I no longer click on a link in the SERPs and get taken to the "add to Google Hompage or Google Reader" page. I hate having RSS/Atom feeds show up in the SERPs. Having said that, I like Michael's idea about being able to specifically search for RSS feeds only.
Matthew
02/22/2009 02:38 am
I just created a rss feed www.rose-learning.com/rss.xml and I cannot seem to remove the old pages like www.rose-learning.com/contact.html that no longer exist even though I have taken them out of the xml file google still uses them. Any advice? Please e-mail me