How do I add my feed to the search results for Googles personalized homepage or Google Reader?
Feedfetcher request are all user-initiated, so it does not index feeds to add them to search results for Google services. The feeds that appear in search results are those crawled by Googlebot. Googlebot uses feed autodiscovery to find public feeds. Learn how to add these tags to your site. How do I request that Google not retrieve some or all of my site’s feeds? When users add your feed to their iGoogle pages or to Google Reader, Google’s Feedfetcher attempts to obtain the content of the feed in order to display it. Since Feedfetcher requests come from explicit action by human users, and not from automated crawlers, Feedfetcher does not follow robots.txt guidelines. If your feed is publicly available, Google can’t restrict users from accessing it. One solution is to configure your site to serve a 404, 410, or other error status message to user-agent Feedfetcher-Google. If your feed is provided by a blog or site hosting service, please work directly with that service to restrict access
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