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    Yahoo indexing RSS

    http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=del...265&fl=0&x=wrt

    See #5 result.

    Any idea how to get Yahoo to pickup your RSS feed like that?

    I'm thinking about adding RSS to my coupon site, but also this forum already has it and it isn't listed if you search for "Website publisher forum"
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    You need to make the RSS feed detectable (like blogs do, for example).

    Example, in your header have:

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    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="http://www.domain.com/index.xml" />
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    That is very cool..... have you tried the code you posted Mark? I may be trying it myself

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    It's what's on my blog - no idea if Yahoo indexes it though LOL But it's how spiders find it (or one way, anyway).
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    New question Can the spider not index it via looking at regular links... ie bottom of the text of this article I have an XML and a yahoo link. Is the xml link coo for the search spidering it?

    http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_4992.html

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    Your server is responding too slow for me
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    yeah sorry it actually just had a heart attack.. load issue. I restarted it just now

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    still slow for me...upgrade time?
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    Well I added that code to the forum here, so we'll see if it picks up the forum RSS with the next update.
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    odd that its slow... yeah it may very well be time for an upgrade.. my end it loads in less then a second. Box is not sitting in my room either :P Its in the US.

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    Chris, nice one. Firefox is showing the RSS icon for it now, too.
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    Mark I added your code to my news page.. i linked it to the RSS for my latest news http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_4995.html seems like it worked.

    I didnt design my site for firefox so I am progressively improving the site for firefox users... do alot of people know about the RSS feature?

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    a way to do it is to ping Yahoo via xml_rpc http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2 , this tells Yahoo that your site has been updated. You can also do this with MSN somehow.

    I set up a little test site doing that and it got indexed within 24 hours with no backlinks.
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    i would be interested in seeing the code you did that with if you dont mind....

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    I Just used a blogging platform, plog seems to be quite effective.

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