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Re: HOWTO Let Google Blog Search Access Your Full RSS Feed

fivecentnickel.com — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:52:56 -0000

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!

Re: HOWTO Let Google Blog Search Access Your Full RSS Feed

Flexo — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:16:16 -0000

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.

Re: HOWTO Let Google Blog Search Access Your Full RSS Feed

fivecentnickel.com — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:33:31 -0000

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.

Re: HOWTO Let Google Blog Search Access Your Full RSS Feed

Flexo — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 04:05:18 -0000

There is an extension for Mozilla and Firefox that allows you to spoof any browser software. Just tested it out here... it works! :>

Re: HOWTO Let Google Blog Search Access Your Full RSS Feed

fivecentnickel.com — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 03:47:31 -0000

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?

Re: HOWTO Let Google Blog Search Access Your Full RSS Feed

Flexo — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 01:30:07 -0000

That's correct, the .htaccess file cannot be viewed over the web.

Re: HOWTO Let Google Blog Search Access Your Full RSS Feed

Jonathan@MyMoneyBlog — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 01:27:28 -0000

Great idea, I'm assuming other people can't read your .htaccess files?

Re: HOWTO Let Google Blog Search Access Your Full RSS Feed

Flexo — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:08:42 -0000

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.