The Google Webmaster Central Blog has just posted a short note to announce that Google is now using RSS/Atom feeds to discover new webpages. In other words Google is now indexing and crawling not only contents found on websites and blogs but contents that are syndicated from them through RSS/Atom feeds.Whereas before, Google relies mainly on the links provided on website and blog contents, now your site can be found by Google through RSS/Atom feeds that are published on online RSS Feed reader, such as Google Reader.

What does this mean? Well, although you can already submit your sites/blogs through mapsite system, this feature will make your site/blogs discoverable even if you don’t submit a website sitemap to Google.

If you want your RSS /Atom feeds to discovered by Google make sure you allow crawling of robots.txt.

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Google Now Uses RSS/Atom Feeds to Discover New Websites

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