According to my custom SERP findings, for certain targeted keywords, several visitors might be end up at feed URL page. Considering they found the page from Google/Yahoo Search and most of them don’t know about feed reader, I probably losing several potential visitors.
According to FeedBurner, one can prevent Yahoo! and Google from indexing a feed by adding a noindex meta tag to a feed like this:
<xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”
name=”robots” content=”noindex” />
For WordPress users, the is a specific plugin (NoIndex Feed) adding the code above.
Next method you may want to try is blocking the feeds from being indexed using robots.txt file.
Another ways to quickly tell Google to remove the feeds is trough URL Removals Request trough Google Webmaster Tools. You need to your site verify ownership to do this.
0 Responses to “Avoiding feed to be indexed”