Stephan Miller

Posts Tagged ‘feed directories’

The Power of Feeds

I can’t say that I am an expert on getting subscribers. I only have about 160. But I will cross that bridge when I come to it. But I do know a little about feeds. I know that feeds can be useful to a site if you don’t get one subscriber.

Just looking at this chart on Wired will give you an idea of how far a feed can travel. The more distance you get out of your feeds, the bigger the payoff in traffic and backlinks. A link to your site is one thing. A feed provides a new distinct link to your site each time you post. Multiply this by the amount of sites republishing your feed.  Read more... (1541 words, 3 images, estimated 6:10 mins reading time)

I finally got the software finished that cleans my sites’ lists. The first list I tackled was the list of blog and feed directories. And I have to admit that it has been a while since I have gone through any of these lists. But I think now I have to have the most exhaustive list of blog and feed directories around. Once the Filemaker script was done I set it loose and about an hour later, I had a list of sites with title, description, Google Pagerank, and Alexa data. Of course, the script wasn’t that perfect and I still had to go through a few sites manually and there are still a few sites that slipped in. But there are now 335 sites on the list.  Read more... (436 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)