Lets Talk Aggregator

[T Pat]

First of all http://www.rssxxxfeed.com is about four months old now and for those that are curious about how it’s doing without reciprocal links here ya go:
Aug Unique visitors 54 Number of visits 105 SE Hits 36
Sep Unique visitors 1136 Number of visits 2639 SE Hits 394
Oct Unique visitors 2829 Number of visits 5527 SE Hits 1876
Nov Unique visitors 3350 Number of visits 6441 SE Hits 2139
Dec Unique visitors 4274 Number of visits 6763 SE Hits 3500

I’m aggregating 1013 blog feeds, have 53800 individual posts listed and it’s growing by 400+ posts a day.

The two main reasons I decided on not requiring a link back are:
1, I have no track record, if I were Tommy, Linkster, Greenie or Walrus I would have.
2, I don’t want the Search Engines mistaking me for a link farm.

The good thing about doing it this way is I don’t have to worry about pissing someone off because I deleted their blog (I’ve had to delete over 400 already mostly Thumbloger’s). The bad thing is finding the blogs and listing them is a lot of boring work.

I have Links Organizer installed and will be trading links but I’m going to be real selective.

Here’s the shits of the whole thing, the aggregator script I’m using is Newstopica and it’s slowed down to a fucking crawl. I’ve had Sparky and Kaktus take a look and they both have said the coding leaves a lot to be desired. Support for Newtopica is a friggin joke.

I’m to pig headed to just shit can the whole thing, so I got in line to have Kaktus code a custom aggregator for me.

Here’s where I need your help, if you were to have an aggregator written what features would you want?