Tagging your feed is one of the most important things when submitting a feed. Because tags make up our navigation, tagging your feed correctly is vital to enable our visitors to find your feed. The best performing feeds on FeedAgg are feeds that tag their feeds with detailed tags related to their feeds but also tags that cover the base or root topic of their feed.
For example, take a feed related to high performance sport cars like the Audi R8. Not only would you want to include tags related to the car like “audi r8″ and “audi sports car”, but also tags like auto and car. These more generic tags help in better categorizing your feed so it can find the best fit and widest audience.
Many people wonder what the best visited feeds have in common and it comes down to this: great content and plenty of it.
In general our best feeds have content that consists of multiple items(posts) in the feed. This content is well written and is unique to that feed and it is all on topic to the tags and content.
What these feeds don’t have is:
- Repeating feed items at the end linking to the same sites that you linked to in 50 other feed submissions.
- A feed full of broken html and javascript
- 1 50 word feed post in the entire feed.
- Poor grammar.
In fact these problem feeds are turning into such large problems we are in the process of working to ban them all together.
We have added a new feature to FeedAgg that will boost your AggScore. Simply add an AggScore badge to your site or blog and your AggScore will be boosted by 5 points. You can get the badge code by going to your feeds page in your account or after you submit a new feed the badge code will show on the confirmation page.
We’ve made some changes recently to feed submission rules and I wanted to brief everyone on them.
1. Feeds can have a maximum of 26 50 tags.
2. A max of 50 feeds without an account.
3. A minimum of 50 words in a feed.
4. 100 Max feed submissions in a minute.
We feel these policies will help improve the quality and performance of the feeds we receive.
Due to the level of poor feeds we have been receiving and the inability for us to contact those posters we have now required anyone posting feeds to have verified accounts. When you sign up you will now receive an email that contains an activation link to activate your account.
With this change we have also begun suspending accounts and blocking posts from people who don’t follow our feed guidelines. Please make sure your feeds follow these guidelines, especially the parts about posting feeds with html and other code and feeds that contain the same links and items as your other submitted feeds.
Update 6/22/10: If you are posting over 50 feeds you are required to have an account.
By popular request, I’ve added a new bulk feed addition form here: http://www.feedagg.com/add_feed_bulk.php
Feeds can be separated by either spaces or commas, just like tags. These seem like the most common but if you use a different type of separator let me know.
Note: The tags you add will be applied to all the feeds you add through the bulk uploader.