Written on July 27th, 2005 at 05:07 pm by Darren Rowse
Google introduces RSS to Personalized Pages – An Opportunity for Bloggers?
Many bloggers have been commenting on Google’s addition of RSS feeds to their personalized home page (see Steve Rubel and John Battelle for starters) but I’m yet to see anyone suggest that adding your own RSS feeds to your personalized Google page could be good for SEO (search engine optimization) purposes.
Longer term readers will remember the tip I posted a few months ago regarding how adding your RSS feeds to a MyYahoo! account seemed to get you indexed quicker and better in Yahoo!
As soon as I heard about Google’s move to add RSS to it’s personalized home pages my mind went back to this post and wondered if the same thing might be true for improving one’s rankings in Google. Needless to say that yesterday I added every RSS feed I have to my own Google page and am waiting and watching to see if it has any impact on my ranking in Google. Nothing to report yet (and I’m not sure how I’ll know if it does have an impact – unless it’s dramatic) – however it can’t hurt can it?
10 Responses to “Google introduces RSS to Personalized Pages – An Opportunity for Bloggers?” - Add Yours
Kidino
July 27th, 2005 5:12 pm
This may be a good thing to try out … but I am still waiting for Google Alerts to be delivered via RSS
John (SYNTAGMA)
July 27th, 2005 5:40 pm
I think that may be right. I added my feed to My Yahoo page and Yahoo has consistently rated my blog better than the others, though MSN has now caught up. There’s also the Creative Commons aspect, in that Yahoo gives special prominence to sites with this licence displayed, I believe.
Connected
July 27th, 2005 6:33 pm
Hmm I’ve done the same although I doubt it will work. I think MSN’s beta service http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/blog/_archives/2005/7/22/1065367.html has the most potential although I’m using Rojo http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/blog/_archives/2005/7/22/1063909.html as I like the way it aggregates my feeds and clearly shows new posts
Mark
July 27th, 2005 10:15 pm
Kidino – there’s no need to wait. My Google alerts all come to me via RSS. You’ll find it under Feed Settings in the left menu.
Blaine Moore
July 27th, 2005 11:20 pm
I didn’t even know about these services.
Ian McKenzie
July 28th, 2005 8:07 am
I had the same thought as you, based on your tip about My Yahoo. The first thing I did was add my own blog feeds.
Stephen Newton
August 3rd, 2005 10:04 pm
Maybe you’ve written about this elsewhere, but won’t Google site maps do what you’re aiming for?
Ma2T
November 15th, 2005 9:45 am
I run a website / news/blog about Alicia Keys, im happy becasue when someone searches for “Alicia Keys” im the very first result!, not even sure how google found it but thats amazing.
ANGKE
July 11th, 2006 5:03 pm
I still have got 2 learn a lot though i have a blog since i am just a newbie.Got to learn frm u!!
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October 18th, 2006 9:56 pm
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