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Consumerism Commentary: HOWTO Let Google Blog Search Access Your Full RSS Feed

  • Flexo · 4 years ago
    Another tip: change "30" in the line <MTEntries lastn="30"> (in the private RSS template) to another number to give Google more entries. I don't know if there's a benefit, but it couldn't hurt.
  • Jonathan@MyMoneyBlog · 4 years ago
    Great idea, I'm assuming other people can't read your .htaccess files?
  • Flexo · 4 years ago
    That's correct, the .htaccess file cannot be viewed over the web.
  • fivecentnickel.com · 4 years ago
    Is there a good way of testing this out to make sure that it works once you set it up? For example, is there some way of spoofing the googlebot user agent to see if your conditional redirect works?
  • Flexo · 4 years ago
    There is an extension for Mozilla and Firefox that allows you to spoof any browser software. Just tested it out here... it works! :>
  • fivecentnickel.com · 4 years ago
    I couldn't get it to work. How did you configure the extension? I just put Googlebot and for the description and user agent and left the other fields blank.
  • Flexo · 4 years ago
    I answered this by email. If you have User Agent Switcher and you want to spoof Googlebot, use these settings:

    Description: Googlebot
    User Agent: Googlebot/2.1
    App name: Googlebot
    Version: 2.1

    Everything else can be left blank.
  • fivecentnickel.com · 4 years ago
    Okay, it works. Just be sure to put the conditional redirect ahead of any other redirects of feed requests (such as redirecting to FeedBurner). Otherwise the request will get shunted off to FeedBurner before the Googlebot redirect gets evaluated. Thanks!