Is RSS feed good for SEO?

hello,

title says it all

In general, no. it's duplicate content.

then why does vbseo uses it ?

We use it to inform our customers about general vBulletin news as some of us do not like to visit vbcom at all.

Exactly. There is a time and place for everything. Ultimately, if it's something your forum members require, it is worth the possible penalty for publishing duplicate content.

Alternatively, If you RSS an entire forum, it may be a good idea to exclude that forum via robots.txt and not include it in the sitemap.

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

Exactly. There is a time and place for everything. Ultimately, if it's something your forum members require, it is worth the possible penalty for publishing duplicate content.

Alternatively, If you RSS an entire forum, it may be a good idea to exclude that forum via robots.txt and not include it in the sitemap.

Sorry for asking a noobish question, but how can I block of a single forum via robots.txt?

I've got an RSS feed for a forum, and do not want it to be crawled.

What is your URL rewrite structure?

I have it setup as [forum_id]-[forum_title] I believe.

The URL for the forum I want to block is

www.domainname.com/f23-senschirp-official-forum/

User-agent: *
Disallow: /f23-senschirp-official-forum/


will do the trick

Thank you very much

what about disallowing the RSS?

Originally Posted by uaecasher

what about disallowing the RSS?

I just makes some ideas to check if Google index or view the RSS pages and I found Google didn't archive it

external.php?type=RSS2

However Google index the content in the RSS "threads"

How you can check this by yourself ?
You can search in this method

Code:

inurl:vbseo.com external.php

And vbseo.com enabled RSS and you didn't see the RSS link in the results
Also you can prove this by this search

Code:

inurl:vbseo.com forumleaders

You will found forumleaders link indexed in Google

So I didn't think that's a good idea to disallow the RSS link