Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'rss'

How Do You Delete or Remove Your Content from RSS Results Like Google Reader?

Whenever a post is removed from a blog, my first instinct is to go to an RSS reader like Google Reader or Bloglines and find the same post there, to see if it is still available. A big mistake most...

Google Finally Drops RSS Feeds From Google Search Results

We asked the question a while back, Should Google Display RSS Feeds in Web Search Results and we determined, no. Then GoogleGuy confirmed Google does not want to display most RSS feeds in the Google index. The Google Webmaster Central...

Security Flaw in Google Reader Added Subscribers Without Intent

A DigitalPoint Forums member points to a vulnerability within Google Reader that enables blog owners to add code to their blog that will allow any visitor to automatically subscribe to the RSS feed. Patrick Altoft wrote about this discovery and...

Are XML Sitemaps Useful for Search Engine Optimization?

In a Search Engine Watch Forums thread, a member asks whether it is beneficial to utilize an XML sitemap for your SEO efforts. The answer, according to other forum members, is yes: Google sitemaps is the system that tells G...


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