RSS Feed in Yahoo SERPs?

Hi guys,

I am interested to know how it's possible to have your RSS feed displayed under your URL in their SERPs... you know, the RSS: View as XML - Add to My Yahoo! link. I have added my own feed to My Yahoo and created the button so people can add the feed to My Yahoo from my site. Is it now just a matter of waitng for Yahoo to next update, or have I missed a vital step?

cheers

 

Hi,

(I think!) you add an alternate content link to your page like this:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://www.yourfeed.url" />

This also lets FireFox and Mozilla users to subscribe to your feed using the live bookmark functionality so it's worth doing...

That said, I have a site with lots of RSS feeds - none linked the home page. Yahoo seems to have chosen a random feed from an internal pages for the View as RSS link in the SERPs...

 

Thanks very much for that.

Can anyone else confirm this is all that is required?

 

Anyone else clued up on this?

PS. Very cool site by the way DangerMouse.

 

I was reading up about this and apparently the actual RSS feed has to be .rss or .rsd does anyone know the truth in this?

 

Not true. I have a top 10 result with a feed ending in .xml

 

Sorry I should have been more specific. The feed I am currently using is .php

 

Just checked a different site and yes, a .php extension is also listed as "RSS: View as XML"

Smooth sailing.

 

May I ask how you went about getting the feeds listed?

 

Sure. I did just what you mentioned in first post. I set up the "Add to MyYahoo" button on my page. Clicked to add my site to MyYahoo, an the rest is history.

Assuming you have a MyYahoo account and you can see your feeds being agrogated, I think that means that your XML feed is in Yahoo. I am not an expert in this by any means, but that is all I did and Yahoo picked it up natuarally.

How long since you added it to MyYahoo? I don't know how long it took my site to get in there since I didn't keep close tabs on it, but I do not think it takes very long.

You may want to check MyYahoo to see if it is picking up your new postings.

Sounds like Yahoo is making some changes to their system, maybe it will take longer to get in? No idea ;-)

Good luck.

 

Thanks for confirming that, now its just a waiting game. It hasnt been all that long... 1-2 weeks. The feed is updating on My Yahoo so I guess thats a good thing.