Blogs Wanted
 

I mentioned this a while back when I launched it, thought that I might mention it again for those that have launched new blogs since.

My site www.pudcat.com is a blog aggregator which checks your blog every hour and adds new posts to the site, so for each post you make on your site you will get at least one hardlink.

I've also improved it slightly by ordering the blogs (in each category) by when they were last updated so those of you that look after your blogs will have your blogs the highest up the list.

Let me know if you have any questions or comments or think I should add any new categories etc.

I've got some listed there..:)

I have one comment, and not directed at your site in particular. I wish sometimes aggregators could limit posts from sites. Some "bloggers" have automated blogs or post FHG's just to make posts. Harder for people that actually try to write good posts, or try to provide quality. Seems so often you dont get much if any traffic unless you make many posts.

ronnie

That bothers me too... especially considering the runoff from those kinds of traffic sources doesn't seem to be of good quality either. Turns me sour when I'm expected to link to site that lists stuff like that. |sad|

Well, it's not the system, it's the people exploting the system. Most all the aggregators, there are a few that take most of the top ranks. Hell, I could make fhg posts all day long.

ronnie

I'll drop a blog in an aggregator once in awhile, just to see if anythings changed (and it never has) but I'll agree that they tend to be of minimal use if you post quality over quantity.

And it's sad really, it's a great idea for blogs. Although they may not be traffic worthy any more, there might still be some SEO benifits, not really sure.

Some one needs to start a quality aggregator, listing only quality blogs with good text. It would take a little monitoring, but sure would be nice. If I had a script I'd do it.Think most people starting aggregators do so for the automation, and I dont blame them.

ronnie

thanks for the responses guys |thumb

I agree the quantity vs quality is a problem. I have some plans for helping that situation a bit, though I just need to workout the best way to prevent it being exploited.

In the adult world it seems most people are using blogs as a search friendly tgp.

Like I said, I dont blame the aggregators themselves, it's the people that take advantage. Just kinda stinks they suck up the traffic with crap posts.

ronnie

Argh you cost me a sleepless night Mr.Walrus :D
I truly want to build my aggregator into something of value to Bloggers and Surfers.
Last night I had over 30,000 feed links from just over 1000 blogs, I deleted the blog that I think was the worse offender of pumping out massive quantities of crap and dropped down to 27000 feed links.

I found the blog on Technorati a couple weeks ago (they love it), a blog spitting out over 200 posts a day just doesn't seem right, hope I’m not shooting myself in the foot|banghead|

Maybe the easiest solution is to list only the most recent 1-somenumber posts per blog/domain per day in your aggregate? This might create motivation for quality posts, without evicting a site that might otherwise be increadably productive. |huh

I'm the one that brought up the subject, sure did'nt mean to cause any one any problems..:(

I wonder if Technorati loves it enough to send traffic? It looks like the mainstream aggregators have no quality criteria either, or no way of sifting quality over crap. I guess in a perfect world a aggregator would have some kind of search engine type algo.

ronnie

great idea |goodidea

I was thinking of a totally different method (which is easier to exploit/harder to avoid exploiting), though I quite like the simplicity of your idea.

I'll work on some improvements.

Sorry about that but it was all ronnie's fault:D

I think it's a tough issue for both aggregator owners and directory owners. You want to build something of quality for the surfers but at the same time you need to build something of value for the blog owners and, especially in the early days, those two things are very difficult to balance.