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google and atom.xml

Paul Westbrook | 21 July, 2004 21:38

I have been noticing that Google has been trying to crawl a file named atom.xml, even though I don't have any links to this url.

64.68.84.9 - - [21/Jul/2004:23:01:17 -0700] "GET /atom.xml HTTP/1.0" 404 1085 "-" "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)"

I believe that atom is Google's replacement for rss.

Since plog has the atom feed at /rss.php?blogId=2&profile=atom, I wrote a rewrite rule so my atom feed will be crawled by Google.


RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/atom.xml$ /rss.php?blogId=2&profile=atom [L,R]



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New domain

Paul Westbrook | 21 July, 2004 19:24

I just registered a domain for this blog. I registered paulstimesink.com from Aplus.net, for only $5.95. The main reason that I wanted to do this is to add search to the blog. plog, doesn't have a search functionality (which I think is pretty bad), so I am going to add a google search, since it can be set up to limit results to a certain domain.

I also have created a mod_rewrite rule to automatically forward traffic from www.westbrooks.org/blog to the new domain.

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