Can search engines detect RSS feeds

[rockcoastmedia]

I was reading an article today where it suggested that if you add the following code to your head, search engines will automaticly pick up your RSS feed.

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS"
href="ENTER-RSS-URL">

Is this true? If so, I will start to add my blog feed to every page that spiders come to on my site.

[bsaric]

From where you did read this article?

[rockcoastmedia]

It came in an email news letter this morning from Site Pro News. (http://www.sitepronews.com/)

Quality Content + RSS Syndication Equals Increased Exposure
By Kim Roach (c) 2006

[bhartzer]

The spiders will pretty much pick up and try to crawl just about any URL they find nowadays.

Yes, they will definitely pick up an RSS feed URL.

[gdtechindia]

yes, it can be crawled
the links are shown if you are integrating the xml feed in correct way, if you are using javascript, it wont help