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Accounts Now Required To Submit Feeds

In order to better serve our users, we’re now requiring users to have an account before they submit feeds. A majority of our support requests are from people who weren’t signed in when they submitted their feeds and now want to add them to their accounts.  By requiring accounts we will save users the hassle of having to contact support and from having to wait for us to link their accounts.

Minimum Length Feeds & Duplication Issues

We are rejecting feeds that are not a minimum of 50 words in content to increase the quality of our submissions.  We are planning to increase this over time.

We have also tightened the control over duplicate items that are submitted.  There are some people that submit the same footer items over and over again.  This does not provide a good user experience so we are preventing them from being added.

Feed Acceptance Changes

I’ve tightened the feed acceptance polices lately having to do with duplicate and broken html items in your feeds.  If you are getting feeds rejected it’s time to make changes.

Feed Tag Tips

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.

Feed Content Tips

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.

Duplicate Items

Just a quick note about feeds that include duplicate items. If you submit a feed with many duplicate items they will be flagged for verification and deleted. You should not being submitting the same footer items for every feed you submit. If you have a valid reason for this and believe your feeds shouldn’t be flagged please email us, support at feedagg dot com so we can take a look. We get far too many submissions like this and nearly all of them are spam.

API Update

We’ve added another item to the feed submission API. The data array will now return the FeedID for the submitted feed.

More here: FeedAgg API

Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays!

We’ve been aware of users having intermittent issues submitting feeds and I’m happy to say we’ve rolled out fixes to prevent that from happening in the future. Because of some of the changes required we had to wait for some low traffic days and Christmas seemed to work the best! If you’re still having issues please let us know!

We’re working on new features at the moment and hope to have them start rolling out over the next month.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

User Profile Pages – New Feature

I’ve added a new feature so that people can see the most recent feeds you have submitted. If you go to http://www.feedagg.com/user/ you should see your recent feeds.  I would like to add more information to these pages so if you have any suggestions let me know.

Twitter Posting Fix Needed

Twitter recently made changes to their third party authentication system that may require you to reauthorize FeedAgg to post to your twitter stream if you have enabled this feature.  If you haven’t seen any of your feed posts come through Twitter lately, you will want to delete your current Twitter posting link and re-enable it in your feeds account page.