Indexing Podcast w/ x theme for Google Home and Google Search

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#1

Hi,

I’d like to make sure that google can index my podcast page http://littlesprigs.com when displaying search result on both web interface as well as through Google Home.

Is there a way to set up my x theme site to insure this?

Here’s a link to Google Developer Doc. for reference.

(https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/podcast?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=podnews.net:2018-01-24)

#2

Hello @ssbukowski,

Thanks for asking. :slight_smile:

Generally speaking Google indexes all the content that’s present on a crawlable page. However, if you want to add the code that’s given in the Google developer page, please add following code in child theme function.php file:

add_action( 'wp_head', 'add_head_script', 999 );

function add_head_script(){
?>
    <rss version="2.0" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">
<?php
}

You can download and setup child theme using following resources:

https://theme.co/apex/child-themes

I also noticed that for podcasting you are using smartpodcastplayer plugin. In that regards I request you to please get in touch with plugin developer for further SEO related questions pertaining to podcast as it will fall outside the scope of support we can offer.

Thanks for understanding.

#3

Hi , @Prasant,

Many thanks for your reply.

My issue is actually related to the main homepage.
The code of my main homepage contains 3 elements like this:
link rel=“alternate” type=“application/rss+xml” …

I need to be able to remove 2 of these 3 elements on the main homepage.

Is there any way I can remove/or comment out the link rel=“alternate” type=“application/rss+xml” elements?

Thanks in advance!

#4

Hey @ssbukowski,

Those are not part of X but WordPress itself. Try disabling the RSS. Here’s a guide.

Thanks.

#5

Thank you, @christian_y

I will try to do it