For a while now I wanted to have some Feedage.com tee-shirts to help spread the Feedage.com word. Today I have enabled the Feedage.com Store.
The Feedage Store will sell tee-shirts and hats (soon) to allow people to show their support. I am sure we will add other goodies over time.
Our first offering is a 50/50 ash colored tee-shirt with our logo across the chest. We have set the price very reasonable ($7.99), because we are not trying to make money from the items. Instead, we are trying to promote Feedage.com.
So checkout the Feedage Store and show your support.
December 21st, 2008 in
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I have read a couple of different articles about how fast Feedage.com pages get indexed by Google. I thought it would be interesting to analyze some data.
To know when Google has Indexed a page, I use Google Alerts. I find this very handy for getting notified when Google adds Feedage.com related pages to it’s index. I receive a Google alerts e-mail every day. I used the time-stamp from the e-mail as the time when Google indexed the page.
When pages are added to Feedage.com they are marked with a time-stamp (Date Added). This will be used for the time-stamp for when the feed was added to Feedage.com.
I chose the following 5 Examples. You will note that 4 of these the time from when the RSS Feed was submitted to Feedage.com till when Google indexed the page was less 12 hours. The fifth example took around 9 months. I can’t say that I understand why this last example took so long. Looking quickly through my past Google Alerts, I did not see any other example that took more then a couple of days.
Example 1:
Feedage.com URL: http://www.feedage.com/feeds.php?feed=2451002
Feedage Date Added: 2008-11-09 05:30:50
Google Alert time: 2008-11-09 10:30
Time from being submitted into Feedage.com until it was indexed by Google: ~5 hrs
Example 2:
Feedage.com URL: http://www.feedage.com/feeds.php?feed=2446720
Feedage Date Added: 2008-11-07 04:03:03
Google Alert time: 2008-11-07 07:39
Time from being submitted into Feedage.com until it was indexed by Google: ~3.5 hrs
Example 3:
Feedage.com URL: http://www.feedage.com/feeds.php?feed=2444288
Feedage Date Added: 2008-11-06 02:34:51
Google Alert time: 2008-11-07 06:50
Time from being submitted into Feedage.com until it was indexed by Google: ~4.5 hrs
Example 4:
Feedage.com URL: http://www.feedage.com/feeds.php?feed=2440816
Feedage Date Added: 2008-11-04 22:33:28
Google Alert time: 2008-11-05 06:52
Time from being submitted into Feedage.com until it was indexed by Google: ~7.5 hrs
Example 5:
Feedage.com URL: http://www.feedage.com/feeds.php?feed=256501
Feedage Date Added: 2007-02-28 08:10:31
Google Alert time: 2008-11-08 14:35
Time from being submitted into Feedage.com until it was indexed by Google: ~9 months.
November 9th, 2008 in
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Increased Traffic
Whether you are trying to promote your Blog, sell a product or build branding; we are all trying to increase the traffic to our websites. Feedage.com helps you accomplish this in several ways.
Users of Feedage.com can search the Feedage directory and preview your RSS Feed. If you provide a high quality RSS Feed with good content our users are likely to subscribe to your Feed. Our users have subscribed to over 900,000 feeds, approximately 30,000 a month from Feedage.com.
SEO Back-links
Feedage.com gives our users a preview of your current RSS Feed. This allows the users to better judge if your RSS feed contains information they are looking for. This preview also gives you links back to your website. These back-links can be very valuable.
Related articles:
I put together the following list of articles that talk about the benefit of submitting RSS Feeds to RSS aggregators.
November 2nd, 2008 in
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Feedage-tracker
To better help users add subscription buttons to their Wordpress blog and to automatically submit your Wordpress RSS Feed to Feedage.com we have created the feedage-tracker plugin for Wordpress.
Using the feedage-tracker plugin is very straight-forward.
1. Upload `feedage-tracker.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Configure the plugin by visiting the Feedage Tracker submenu under plugins.
If you plan to use Feedage.com to track your RSS Feed usage, you will want to create a free account with Feedage.com. You can then enter your Feedage.com username into the plugin.
The subscription buttons can be located in the sidebar or the footer of your blog. This blog you will see the subscription buttons in the sidebar.
Welcome to Feedage.com. I hope to use this blog to better communicate with the users of Feedage.com. I welcome all feedback.
A brief history of Feedage.com
Feedage got started in the summer of 2006 after I started learning about RSS feeds. While trying to find good RSS feeds I came across syndic8.com. From this I started to create Feedage.com. In the beginning Feedage was hosted on a cheap godadday shared server. As traffic increased I moved to a virtual private server (WebIntellects.com), then to a dedicated server (Serverbeach.com). The feature set has continually increased to better meet the needs of our users. This past fall Feedage was redesigned to have a much improved look.
The Future of Feedage.com
There are several areas that I would like to make improvements. The primary area is to make it easier for users to add there RSS feeds. This includes bulk submit tools and an API to allow feeds to be submitted. I have also just released a Wordpress plugin that will allow you to automatically submit and add subscription buttons to your Wordpress blog. These subscription buttons allow you to use the Feedage tracker to monitor how often people subscribe to your RSS Feeds.
Your Feedback
As I started, I want input from the users of Feedage.com. I want to make sure Feedage.com continues to meet your needs.
October 22nd, 2008 in
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