Comments on: Google Indexes Wordpress Feeds http://www.manuelviloria.com/archives/google-indexes-wordpress-feeds/ Tips on Adsense|Internet Marketing|SEO|Blogging|Getting More Visitors To Your Site today. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:28:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Boni http://www.manuelviloria.com/archives/google-indexes-wordpress-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-2625 Boni Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:38:45 +0000 http://www.manuelviloria.com/archives/google-indexes-wordpress-feeds/#comment-2625 You'll find a longer robots.txt entry at http://www.seoresearcher.com/how-to-make-your-wordpress-blog-duplicate-content-safe.htm It looks like the one in YellowHouseHosting assumed your blog is in a folder, rather than in the root of your site. That's why SEOResearcher.com includes the /feed in the robots.txt file. You'll find a longer robots.txt entry at
http://www.seoresearcher.com/how-to-make-your-wordpress-blog-duplicate-content-safe.htm

It looks like the one in YellowHouseHosting assumed your blog is in a folder, rather than in the root of your site. That's why SEOResearcher.com includes the /feed in the robots.txt file.

]]> By: Steven Bradley http://www.manuelviloria.com/archives/google-indexes-wordpress-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-927 Steven Bradley Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:49:16 +0000 http://www.manuelviloria.com/archives/google-indexes-wordpress-feeds/#comment-927 Just to give you a follow up, ever since I made the changes I described in the article my traffic has improved daily. It's gone up about 400% since. I do want to make clear that doing this won't automatically improve your search traffic. In my case the pages had previously been drawing traffic from Google and then stopped due to the feeds getting indexed. Denying the feeds from being indexed in my robots.txt file has had the effect of opening the floodgates more than anything. This isn't about new traffic, but rather reclaiming lost traffic. Just to give you a follow up, ever since I made the changes I described in the article my traffic has improved daily. It's gone up about 400% since.

I do want to make clear that doing this won't automatically improve your search traffic. In my case the pages had previously been drawing traffic from Google and then stopped due to the feeds getting indexed.

Denying the feeds from being indexed in my robots.txt file has had the effect of opening the floodgates more than anything. This isn't about new traffic, but rather reclaiming lost traffic.

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