Google Announces Using of ATOM/RSS Feeds to Discover New URLs
“We recently launched a feature that uses RSS and Atom feeds for the discovery of new webpages.”
…says the Google
This exactly means that Google search engine will be using rss and atoms to discover new webpages even if they are not listed or submitted to search engines.
“In order for us to use your RSS/Atom feeds for discovery, it’s important that crawling these files is not disallowed by your robots.txt”
…added by Google which means you need to allow robot.txt to crawl these files.
This is indeed a good news especially for bloggers.
