FeedProxy.Google.com What The Heck is That
Posted on September 23rd, 2008by 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?
it’s not like google places to much value on domain authority or anything …
Popularity: 18% [?]
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September 23rd, 2008 at 9:22 pm
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
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Why? Cause http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/018270.html
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:39 pm
@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 …
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:51 pm
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.
September 24th, 2008 at 1:04 am
I was thinking the same thing…302 hijack, but why would Google steal your juice when they own it anyway?
September 24th, 2008 at 1:09 am
I look forward to the future Google SERPs. The first 4 results will be wikipedia, youtube, knol, and feedproxy…
September 24th, 2008 at 1:32 am
It’s the new Feedburner feeds, isn’t it?
September 24th, 2008 at 1:35 am
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.
September 24th, 2008 at 11:28 am
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.
September 24th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
It’s Adsense for Feeds. That’s how Google calls it.
September 28th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Yes - have been noticing my own feedproxygoogle links out ranking my own posts a bit lately
October 6th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
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.