The previous pages discussed various ways to create subscribed links. This page tells you how you can publish your subscribed link and make it available to your subscribers.
If you have used the wizard to create a basic subscribed link, your queries and custom results are automatically submitted to Google. You can start testing your subscribed link from the Google search page.
If you have created a dynamic subscribed link, you can submit your TSV, web feed, or XML file to Google by one of the following ways:
Uploading the file to http://www.google.com/coop/manage/subscribedlinks/upload
If you have a small amount of Subscribed Links data that you don't plan to update frequently, you can consider uploading your subscribed link. You can upload up to 100 files, each of which can be no larger than 32 kilobytes. It might take about 10 seconds before the custom results start showing in the Google search result page. Google will validate and store your uploaded files and you can re-upload them if changes occur.
Submitting the URL of the file to http://www.google.com/coop/manage/subscribedlinks/submit
If you have large amounts of data or data that changes frequently, you should host the files on a website and have Google crawl them. You can specify the URL of up to 100 feeds or files, and their collective file size may not exceed 10 megabytes. Your custom results will automatically reflect the changes in your files when Google recrawl the files. The frequency of the crawl depends on the frequency of the changes in your files. The crawl could happen as often as every few minutes or every few hours. You can see when your feed was last crawled by checking the Developer Console. Alternatively, you can request Google to recrawl your feed instantly by going to the Developer Console and clicking the "Refresh all feeds" link under the Subscribed Links Feeds section. You will find the "Refresh all feeds" link quite handy when you are testing debugging your subscribed link.
Google keeps the locations of your Subscribed Links files private; however, URLs are public by their very nature. So if you're concerned about keeping your file private, create a URL that is hard to guess.
You can choose to upload some files and submit the URL for other files, but the combined size of both types of files may not exceed 10 megabytes.
After your subscribed link has been uploaded or recrawled, you can start testing them. For more information about testing your subscribed link see the Testing and Troubleshooting page.
Telling Other People About Your Subscribed Links
After you submit your subscribed link to Google, you can start telling people about them so that they can subscribe to your information and services. Create your profile on http://www.google.com/coop/manage/subscribedlinks/profile. Once people subscribe to your subscribed link through your profile page, they will be able to see your custom results. By the way, you are automatically subscribed to your own Subscribed Links, so you don't need to take any special subscription actions in order to test your results.
You can advertise your subscribed link on your website by adding a subscription button on your website. It's fairly easy to do. Just copy the HTML code from the Get the code tab of the Developer Console page; then paste it on your website. If you want to post a text link instead of a button, click the public profile link under the See the public view link of the Manage Description page. The link directs you to your public description page; just copy the URL on the address bar of your browser. When your users click the button or the URL link, they will be taken to your description page, where they click another button to actually subscribe to your Subscribed Links.
Eventually, if you are successful enough at getting others to subscribe to you, your description might appear in the Directory. The Directory is a high-profile site that is visited by Subscribed Links users. Google adds your subscribed link to the Directory if you have done the following :
Attracted a significant number of subscribers on your own
