Title: Googlebot and RSS
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Googlebot and RSS

 *  [gaszer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gaszer/)
 * (@gaszer)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-and-rss/)
 * I’ll just throw this out there… In looking through the server logs, I notice 
   that the googlebot is constantly looking for index.rdf, rss.xml and atom.xml,
   so it appears Google is trying to index feeds.
    I know the WP feed is accessed
   from wp-rss.php, etc. I also notice that Yahoo Feed Seeker chews up the php files
   no problem. Is there a way to feed googlebot the files it’s looking for? Or should
   I even be concerned? This is the first week of my first install of WP, and I 
   must say I’m impressed. As far as the spiders go, I had just installed WP and
   within a half an hour, the place was crawling with them. Geez, I didn’t even 
   have any content on there yet…

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-and-rss/#post-68872)
 * Google is trying to grab everything, even if it’s not there. I wouldn’t worry
   🙂
 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-and-rss/#post-68873)
 * I think it will still look for those files, no matter what you do, and besides,
   like podz said, it grabs wp-rss2.php and the others anyway if they are linked-
   to from your index page.
    You could set up rewrite rules to redirect requests
   to the right files, and if you use the 301 redirect, google should update the
   files it looks for since 301 is a “permanently moved” response.
 *  [joshuaclinard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshuaclinard/)
 * (@joshuaclinard)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-and-rss/#post-68874)
 * I had the same thing in my logs a few weeks ago. What I did was redirect all 
   the files that google was looking for to wp-rss2.php
 *  Thread Starter [gaszer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gaszer/)
 * (@gaszer)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-and-rss/#post-68875)
 * Thanks for the quick responses. Pardon my ignorance, but how would I go about
   setting up the redirect requests?
 *  [joshuaclinard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshuaclinard/)
 * (@joshuaclinard)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-and-rss/#post-68880)
 * Put this in your .htaccess file.
    Redirect permanent /blog/index.rdf [http://www.yourdomain.com/blog/wp-rss2.php](http://www.yourdomain.com/blog/wp-rss2.php)
   One entry like that for each of the files you want to redirect.
 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-and-rss/#post-68883)
 * gaszer, wp-rss2.php is the rss2 file generated by wordpress. for atom, there 
   is wp-atom.php and wp-rss.php is the RSS 1.0 file. wp-rdf.php is the rdf file.
   
   So you will have to do a bunch of redirect rules, each of which resembles the
   one described by Joshua, one for each file that google is looking for.
 *  Thread Starter [gaszer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gaszer/)
 * (@gaszer)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-and-rss/#post-68885)
 * Gracias!

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-and-rss/#post-68885)
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