Michael Gray

FeedProxy.Google.com What The Heck is That

Posted on September 23rd, 2008
by Michael Gray in Google



So What the heck is feedproxy.google.com why is it out there, what’s it being used for, why is google letting it be indexed, why are 164,000 pages in the index [site:feedproxy.google.com] and why is it ranking?

feedproxy.google.com

it’s not like google places to much value on domain authority or anything …

Popularity: 18% [?]

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12 Responses to “FeedProxy.Google.com What The Heck is That”

  1. User GravatarBrad Says:

    Hey,

    Saw this on your twitter account. Pretty scary stuff when google starts stealing our content just to send us right back to view it on their site. Already, they only throw us the bone of sending their traffic to our sites for a few seconds. When are they going to cut content producer’s (own sites) out of the loop entirely?

    -Brad

  2. User GravatarBarry Schwartz Says:

    Why? Cause http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/018270.html

  3. User GravatarMichael Gray Says:

    @Barry Schwartz: but I still dont get what it does for anybody, why google is indexing it, and why it ranks when the content really isnt there … unless of course its working like a 302 hijack …

  4. User GravatarStepan Says:

    Feedburner is in transition to the google servers and they use ‘feedproxy’ as the new location for the feeds. They have started moving their higher accounts sometime ago.

  5. User GravatarAnt Onaf Says:

    I was thinking the same thing…302 hijack, but why would Google steal your juice when they own it anyway?

  6. User GravatarWill Says:

    I look forward to the future Google SERPs. The first 4 results will be wikipedia, youtube, knol, and feedproxy…

  7. User GravatarDuncan Says:

    It’s the new Feedburner feeds, isn’t it?

  8. User GravatarSebastien Says:

    how many French guys does it take to teach their job to online marketers? Only one. Me!
    Feedproxy is the new monetization of feedburner. You do know that Google bought Feedburner a couple years ago, right? Now google is offering a better way (apparently) to monetize your feeds with ads. If you had your feeds burned on feedburner, you can migrate them to Google. The migration is a pain in the ass so far but they are probably gonna make it east in the close future. So feedproxy.google.com is tv new feeds.feedburner.com.
    Why did google buy feedburner if it was to migrate the feeds to google? Good question.

  9. User GravatarSEOMike Says:

    This is Feedburner (a Google company) and Adsense working to put advertising inside site feeds. If your Adsense is setup to show ads in feeds an account is setup for you with Feedburner that redirects URLs through feedproxy.google.com from atom / rss feeds on your site.

  10. User GravatarSebastien Says:

    It’s Adsense for Feeds. That’s how Google calls it.

  11. User GravatarDarren Rowse Says:

    Yes - have been noticing my own feedproxygoogle links out ranking my own posts a bit lately :-(

  12. User GravatarGab Goldenberg Says:

    What’s interesting is just how many webmasters are leaking juice through their Feedburner badges. Search for site: feedburner.com and look at all the lovely indexed stuff there. FB is the biggest scraper around lmao.

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