Does Googlebot read XML Data Islands? I'm looking at implementing these to a) provide fresh content to the homepage of relatively static sites b) provide spiderable links to content Will this work? If not, I'll use other techniques to get the content there. I have an example (work in progress) here: http://sarahk.pcpropertymanager.com/muck/rsstest.php Sarah
I don't know if Google will pick them up but I bet all of the Blog spiders will if it is a true XML feed that you are talking about. I am sure that the main engines will pick these sources up down the road, but I do not know if Google will or not. There is a way to automate these feeds so that the blog spiders will pick up the new content, right SK
to be honest, I've never heard of "data islands" before... it is just showing an empty table for me by the way (IE6 SP2), are you sure this is supposed to work? anyway you might just want to syndicate RSS like everyone else does. From my point of view there is no disadvantage.
Thanks Anthony you were much cuter when you were australian. Who is this new fella? The feed isn't a blog, but articles on a Nuke site and we've submitted to the major rss engines. What we're now trying to do is make associated but static sites appear to have fresh content while providing links into the main site. Sarah
It works from my localhost and from my desktop but not from my webhost. Wee technical issue to resolve.
Well if that is the case would you not be setting up a site just like an electronic magazine or newspaper that comes out with syndicated content everyday that is spidered by Google news and the Google search engine? It would be the same thing as an AP or Reuters headline section, correct? Those types of sites are spidered by Google, why would you think yours would not be? That photo is of a "Young Robert Plant", the lead singer of Led Zeppelin. Should I go back to being Elle MacPherson? I know the guys were wild over me then
I've never heard the term "data island" before either. Is it the section od clickable links below the Channel Title?
Here's some pages which talk about XML Data Islands IE XML Data Island Functionality in NS6+ Browsers W3Schools: XML in Data Islands Using XML Data Islands in Mozilla but I haven't seen any from and SEO perspective
XML Data Island is XML (Extensible Markup Language) embedded in an HTML document. Generally you won't even know that Data Island exists on a particular page unless you see the Page Source. Data Island can be bound to HTML objects (like the div, a, img etc.) easily.
i dunno about data island. but i am definitely waiting for what G thinks about my new little idea. Free News Archiver, there i use xml feeds to generate content. its just one day old and so cant tell any result yet.
I have a little experience with this idea and a friend of mine has some more: a couple of things. Magpie - which you seem to be using - is good but it does not, so far as I can see, create searchable archives. There is a way of doing this which you can PM me for. Google will look at the content if it is actually readable; but, for example, using an RSS to java application will make the content invisible. If you are using WordPress as your content management system I may be able to get you going with the full set of plugins and implementation or my more knowlegable friend could. My current implementation is http://lingerie.info-syn.com and it is often not safe for work.
I've seen several examples of straight xml files being indexed, although you should really include a stylesheet as part of the file if you are publishing it as regular xml - firefox will try to download the file if you don't, rather than just display the xml like IE does. If you are just talking about re-purposing feeds, then that isn't a problem whatsoever as far as indexing, although you are best off including data from multiple sources in order to make your page more unique and more useful than an rss or atom file that is already out there.