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Should an RSS feed be listed in a site's XML sitemap?
Google doesn't typically index RSS feeds or show them in search results. You don't need to tell Google about the RSS feed in your sitemap to get it indexed.
Your sitemap should contain all the URLs ...
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Can a website have multiple RSS feeds? How would the <link> and <channel> elements look?
It’s perfectly fine to offer multiple feeds. You could even offer multiple feeds for the same items, e.g., one for the full content and one for excerpts.
There is nothing that would have to be ...
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How to Substitute HTML Entities in RSS?
I think a solution suggested by Tomalak should work universally. Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3805050/xml-parser-error-entity-not-defined
His solution was to convert character entities to ...
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Is it 'ok' to have IFrame tags in RSS feeds?
Is it 'ok' to have IFrame tags in RSS feeds?
Well, as the error states, "interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved" ...if the iframe tag was removed.
This is ...
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Is RSS feed submission a search engine ranking factor now?
RSS feeds and even sitemaps don't contribute to ranking at all. They are used by search engines to identify links to crawl and it is the pages at those links once crawled combined with valuable back ...
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Do article pages need to have an RSS Feed page?
No, the way you have it set up is good. You want an RSS feed for all posts and then another for each category. The reason for this is that people subscribe to them - they'll either be interested in ...
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Bing Webmaster Tools finds my Wordpress RSS feed and uses it as a sitemap
As you've observed, Bing respects/crawls both RSS and xml sitemaps for indexing and doesn't really distinguish the two formats for priority.
You could add a priority ranking/value to the rss feed ...
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How to Substitute HTML Entities in RSS?
RSS (and Atom) are based on XML, so the issue you are having is that the & in the HTML entities isn't valid.
Typically you can solve this by double encoding the entities so that the & becomes &...
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How to control RSS feed access to my blog
Jekyll provide a basic RSS feed syntax which should assist. To use an RSS file in Jekyll, create a file called feed.xml in your root directory and add the following:
---
layout: null
---
<?xml ...
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Can you nest "<![CDATA[ ... ]]>" blocks when generating RSS feeds?
why would anyone ever want to use CDATA blocks [...] ?
That's a good question.
I think the key is here:
since we are outputting a RSS document with a bunch of random content,
it can obviously ...
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Using nginx, I need my "bad user agent" map not to block my rss xml file
server{
location ~ ^/feeds {
try_files $uri $uri.xml $uri/ ;
}
location / {
root /usr/share/nginx/html/mydomain/public_html;
if ($badagent) { return 403; }
...
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Content theft - Where can I go from here?
In addition to the great ideas already presented here, keep in mind that in the long run, Google knows where content is originally posted. So the offending site(s) will likely earn duplicate content ...
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How can search engines find my RSS feed?
You should include meta tags in the <head> section of your pages with feeds:
<link rel='alternate' type='application/rss+xml' title='RSS' href='http://example.com/rss.xml'>
<link rel='...
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How can search engines find my RSS feed?
There is no reason to assume that consumers would look at /rss.xml when they are looking for a feed. Feeds don’t have a reserved filename/location.
You would typically link your feeds from relevant ...
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How can search engines find my RSS feed?
Google recommends adding any rss feeds into webmaster for optimal crawling. An rss feed generally is a list of updates, and google can use this information to find new pages faster.
Here is a blog ...
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