Is it necessary to store RSS feed on server?

Hi

I have written a php page mydomain.com/rss.php when this page is called it reads the database for certain data and create a RSS feed in real time and display in browser...

Is it necessary to store RSS feed physically on my server for search engines or this link would work? because currently i am not storing the RSS on my server, i have a RSS icon on site and when visitor click it the rss.php page generates rss feed in real time from database.

thanks

I assume that you want your RSS link to be indexed, am I right?

Well, search engines view your site as what normal users do. Hence, it does not matter how your rss.php is processed and displayed to your users. As long as the content you want to display is shown when we key in www.yourdomain.com/rss.php.

So now comes your next question, to increase the indexbility of this file, try to submit it along with Google Sitemap. In addition, you may also want to include this link into your normal sitemap (as text link) so that the other search engines an crawl it as well.

Hope it helps

I use that exact method to generate .xml sitemaps for Google and text for Yahoo and others. Being dynamic, every time the database is updated so will the sitemap. Great for blogs, forums etc.