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Old 10-21-2007, 07:17 AM  
rowan
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Originally Posted by beta-tester View Post
you don't have to worry about google's including your rss feeds. I asked Matt Cutts on his blog and he answered that there's no reason to block spiders from indexing your rss feeds. They'll simply distinguish between real page and the feed, and display original page in serps.
Hmmm... this is not a hypothetical concern, Google is actually linking to rss.php in some of its results. Other search queries link to / as expected.

144.139.37.*- - [21/Oct/2007:14:03:38 +1000] "GET /rss.php HTTP/1.1" 200 31210 http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=***&btnG=Search&meta=cr%3DcountryAU
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