Repetitive RSS Items Are Pissing Me Off

February 12, 2007 12:23 am / 4 Comments /

Like many bloggers, I use Technorati and Feedster to track when other blogs link to my blog. I do this by subscribing to the RSS feed of a search for this blog URL on both services. Here is an example of my Technorati search and the results.

Doing this is rather handy as it takes a lot of the work out of discovering blogs linking to mine, however the RSS feeds for them are driving me nuts. Every time I check my RSS reader I get the same results I just got last time all marked as new again. It gets really old having to mark the same RSS items as read every time I check my reader. Is it impossible for Technorati to just show the result once? I have the same problem with Feedster, but it’s not as bad as Technorati.

I’m guessing there may be a different blog search engine or service that may do what I’m asking as accurately and in a less annoying way. Google Blog Search? IceRocket? Any suggestions?

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  • Wendi

    I don’t seem to have that problem with Google Reader. The only quirk I notice with Google Reader is that the comments feed into my RSS feeds so every comment comes in as well. But that isn’t for every RSS feed I have.

  • http://andybeard.eu/ Andy Beard

    Most people ping you if they are referring to you

    You can also use Google alerts on blog search

    If someone edits a post and isn’t running a plugin to prevent a ping on update, you will get things being refreshed all the time.

    Maybe just subscribe to the RSS feed from Technorati by email for a permanent record

  • http://www.text-link-ads.com Patrick Gavin

    Pat, I prefer a subscription like this:

    http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?hl=en&scoring=d&q=%22conversionrater%22&ie=utf-8&num=10&output=rss

    don’t worry I don’t subscribe to that ;) That way you get not only links but also mentions. Then you can also subscribe to something like this:

    http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?hl=en&scoring=d&q=%22conversion+rater%22&ie=utf-8&num=10&output=rss

    to pick up more mentions, not always links but mentions which is important as not everyone talking about you links back!

  • http://www.conversionrater.com/ Pat McCarthy

    Thanks for the good tips guys.

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