FeedAgg Blog

I’ve been working on some internal plumbing stuff on the site and wanted to highlight a few common mistakes I’m seeing when people submit and promote their feeds.

Broken Referral Links

I’ve been looking through our 404 logs and have noticed many people are linking to their feeds with incorrect addresses.  Some people have 100′s of broken links to their feeds! That’s a lot of wasted link juice. As the system works, you need to use the exact url that is shown when you visit your feed or what the system returns when you submit your feed. If you are going to take the time to submit your feed and promote it, why wouldn’t you verify the addresses you are promoting?

No Tags

There are still some people that are adding feeds without tags. While this doesn’t affect us(and is a positive for server resources), it surely affects those of you that are adding your feed for exposure. Tags are used for a few purposes:

1. Each tag gets you exposure on that tag page and forms the basis of our site’s categories.
2. Tags are a part of the equation that is used to form the related feeds links on our pages.
3. Tags are going to be used extensively for a more advanced related feeds function that is currently being bucket tested on parts of the site.

I hope these tips helped. If you have any questions just let us know!

Feeds can now only have a max of 26 50 tags.  While we don’t encourage you to use unrelated feeds, the more related tags you use the more categories your feed will appear in and the more exposure your feeds will get to our visitors.

When adding Tags to new feeds you now have the option to separate Tags with either spaces or commas.  Tags added from the feed page or feed admin pages must be separated by commas.  This is a widely requested feature and we’re happy to finally add it.