Any SEO Penalties from Removing RSS Feed?
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Hi,
I have a site that has a Feedburner feed that has been in place for 5+ years. I am considering getting rid of the feed or starting a new one to combat content scraping. Google continues to rank thieves' sites ahead of mine. Google and Bing have no issue and always get it right. I use Wordpress and have the plugin PubSubHubb, but that is no guarantee. Nonetheless, there is no monetary value of my subscribers whereas the content not being accredited to me takes money out of my pocket as my model is advertising.
Is there any SEO issue if I do any of the following:
- Delete the feed and not have one?
- Change the feed address and drop all subscribers?
Attachments: DMCA Dashboard; example of being outranked by scrapers.
My site: www.furniturefashion.com
Thanks for your time and hopefully I did not vent too much.
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Robert. Thanks for the response. I hate those sites as well and hate to see how they have exploited RSS. It's a shame Google can't figure out who they are and who the real content creators are. This should save me several hours a month by not having to file DMCA complaints.
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Anthony. Thanks for your response. I think I will remove the feed.
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Will2112
You have a good question and I agree with Anthony. You can kill the feed and be fine - if that is the only consideration. If the feed is bringing you something in return, say more people reading and interacting with your blog, that is another consideration.
With the image you have here, it appears almost all of the scrapers are the same person, group, company, etc. They appear to be out of Turkey and are taking part of your contact, then placing the Pinterest link hidden where there should be an image. What actually happens is the person clicks thinking they are going to see an image, and their item gets pinned. (Funny, but if the person does not have pinterest, it won't happen and, most are going to "Books Worth Reading.") Also, most of the images have your CDN url. No help for them.I hope that at least gives you some info to work with. Good luck. I hate that these types can get away with content theft, but I doubt their sites would actually outrank you for an actual keyword term search around the subject.
Best
Robert
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You will be just fine if you remove your feed.
With the death of Google Reader and the lack of Feedburner support, I wouldn't be surprised if Google got rid of Feedburner down the road.
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