How to Submit RSS Feed to Google Webmasters Tools
10 January 2010 – 10:23 pmI have been asked how one submits the RSS feed to Google Webmasters Tools, so here you go:
Go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
If you are already logged into your Google account, Adsense account or Gmail account, it will take you directly to your Webmaster Tools page without the need to log-in.
You will see a button with a “+” plus sign that says “Add a site…”
Click that and it will ask you for a URL.
To the best of my memory it next asks you to add a meta tag to your home page. After you have uploaded the change to your webpage, your website will be “verified” in a moment or minute or two. (I think there is an alternative method to get your site verified, but this is the one I always choose.)
Now when you go back to your home page within Google Webmaster Tools you will see your site listed. Click on it.
After a few days you will see some interesting stats collected here. When the site is newly added, there won’t be much to see.
Near the bottom right side of the page you will see “Add a sitemap.” Click that and give them the URL of your sitemap, or in other words, your XML RSS feed. I think it can take them several minutes to hours to get around to crawling your sitemap.
After your sitemap has been crawled and you go back to the Webmaster Tools page for your site, you will see a green check mark under your sitemap status. Sometimes after getting the green checkmark, you will occasionally see a red “X.” This is not something to panic about. I read in the Webmaster Tools forum that this is just one of those little glitches that happen and there is nothing to do about it. For no reason, your green check mark will come back again.
