If you want to make your feed available to Google, on Official Google Webmaster Central Blog, you can follow their Tips on using feeds. Also, I've just notice two different entries for Feedfetcher-Google (Google RSS crawler) on my log: - Feedfetcher-Google; (+http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html; 4 subscribers; feed-id=13434490729032751459) - Feedfetcher-Google; (+http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html; 28 subscribers; feed-id=16502686608447415085) I was wondering what that feed-id mean, and I've found this on Google FAQ: "...You might see multiple requests for the same feed with distinct "feed-id" values. This happens if the same feed is referenced through multiple URLs (for example, because of redirects). In that case, you will need to sum up the subscribers to a feed that have distinct "feed-id" values to determine the total number of Google subscribers to the feed."
thats interesting - so for like our article directory - we have over 200 feeds - should i submit each one of them to google in the add link in the webmaster tools thing?
That way you can speed up the process, but there's no need to do it (BTW I have not submitted any feed). Although at least you should add a <link> tag with the feed URL to the <head> section of your pages .
I had made feed of Articles and submit it at different sites and found that google start caching to my site at fast rate.