Use MyYahoo Tip with Google and MSN
by Paul Flyer
Do you know the tip about getting a website crawled by Yahoo? In brief, by adding a website’s RSS feed to MyYahoo, Yahoo will crawl the parent site. It is how this site got quickly crawled by Yahoo.
Now that Google and MSN have their own News/Feed Aggregators, maybe the same will hold true for them. It is easy enough to test out.
Google calls their aggregator Personalized Home. A Google account is required to access. Once signed up, click the “Add Content” link in the upper left corner. Click “Create a Section”. Add the URL to the feed in the text box. Click Go. The feed will now be added. Whether you continue to use Google as your News Aggregator is up to you.
MSN’s News Aggregator is called Start. No account is needed to sign up. Clicking the Start logo drops down a list of options. Click My Feeds. Click Add Feed. Enter the URL to the feed in the Add Feed By Url text box. Click Add.
Sidenote: Start is cookie based. Once a browser cache is cleared the “personalization” and all entered feeds are lost to the user. This calls into question whether it should be used for what it is intended.
I would be interested in hearing if new sites that are not currently crawled by Google or MSN get crawled more quickly once their feed is added.
via Robin Good
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