Feedshot questions

I am not a big fan of auto submission of anything. Has anyone heard of this? If its good let me know. Also are there any companies that do RSS submission?

dougedoug,

Your question is a good one.

I wrote FeedShot simply because I was tired of submitting my blogs manually to blog search engines each time I created a new one. I've been tweaking it for 3-4 months now, keeping the most reliable services active, and dropping the ones that tend to fail more often than they succeed.

FeedShot is simple in terms of what it does - it screen scrapes the submission form and submits your information exactly as you entered it. You'll notice I stayed away from any blog search engine that is a specialty "news" engine, or requires detailed category information. Not only do I not want to spam these engines with unrelated material, but I don't want to mis-categorize your blog. For the more complex submission forms you'll have to complete them manually.

There are other products on the market (be they websites or desktop apps) that claim to submit to 70 blog search engines. In the research I've done, a good chunk of those are specialty sites, so submitting to them if you're not within their specific specialty is pointless. In addition, I ran across several duplicates in their lists, since a lot of engines have merged in the past 3-9 months. The sheer quantity of search engines you're submitted to has far less impact on your traffic than the quality of the engines and the accuracy of the information submitted. That's what I'm trying to do with FeedShot.

FeedShot is not a pinging service, rather it handles the manual submission process that some blog search engines and news services require before they will list your blog.

Let me know if you have any other questions,

Feature Creep