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TopOfBlogs.com users embrace Official Feedback Forum with New Ideas for Enhancing Site.

October 23, 2008 — TopOfBlogs.com recently marked its one-year anniversary and newly launched their Official Feedback Forum. The User Voice Forum enables users to submit ideas and vote on ideas submitted by other users. With more than 8,000 registered blogs, TopOfBlogs.com is one of the fastest growing toplist directories.

“TopOfBlogs.com has had an active user community from the inception. Many of the new features are a direct result of early user feedback. The Official Feedback Forum was a natural extension of our relationship with our users,” said Founder and CEO, Marius Ducea. “The Feedback Forum not only allows us to capture the ideas of our community but truly allows everyone to take part in shaping the site’s growth and prioritizing the most important features.”
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To celebrate our anniversary we have just launched our Official Feedback Forum. We are so thankful to our members for helping us grow and improve during our first year. We have received and implemented many of your suggestions, so this forum is an extension of our commitment to listen to our members. The feedback forum is located at http://feedback.topofblogs.com/

Send us your suggestions and your blog could be featured on the homepage for a whole month! During the next 3 months, until the end of the year, we will monthly award the user that had the best suggestion – ranked by the number of votes – and feature their blog on our homepage for one month.

Thank you for being a part of our community and we are looking forward to your suggestions,
- TopOfBlogs Team
Vote for new features at http://feedback.topofblogs.com/

TopOfBlogs.com celebrates milestone with continued growth and newly launched features

October 14, 2008 — TopOfBlogs marks its one-year anniversary and validates that now more than ever people are turning to online sites for business, information and entertainment. TopOfBlogs.com is one of the fastest growing toplist directories with more than 8,000 registered blogs, representing 130 countries and more than 40 languages. The site tracks on average 2 million page views per day and sent out over 280,000 clicks to member blogs. The site continues to add features, including the newly launched Official Feedback Forum.

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TopOfBlogs is becoming one of the fastest growing toplist directories on the web by offering valuable services to blog readers and high quality traffic to blog owners.

June 4, 2008 — With more than 100 million blogs on the internet, fast growing blog directory TopOfBlogs.com offers blog owners an easy way to gain visibility and traffic.

TopOfBlogs.com, already features more than 4,000 blogs and is tracking more than 1 million blog page views every day. The site, designed to be search engine friendly enabling easy discovery of blogs has already sent out 140,000 clicks to member blogs.

Registration is free. Registered blogs are ranked on various criteria allowing visitors to search the best blogs by category, tag, country, or language. TopOfBlogs also tracks external metrics such as Google PageRank, number of feed readers, Alexa and Technorati rankings. The wide range of options enables blog owners to compare their rankings against others in the same niche, and blog readers a wide range of search options.

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The most common problem people have submitting their blog to our system is not having a proper RSS feed.. The TopOfBlogs crawler will verify several things in order to ensure that you are submitting a blog and not a regular site and having a proper rss feed is just a basic thing for any type of blogging platform. Still, even if your blog has a feed and it is included somewhere on the front page, it might be very hard for our crawler to find it.

In order for our system, or any aggregator (also applies to your visitors clickig on the RSS icon in their browser’s URL field)  to crawl your site you should ensure that you are advertising your feed. For this you just need to have in your head section of your HTML page (blog template) a line like:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="/feed/" />
(where obviously you will have your own feed url), or depending on your feed type, for atom:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="/feed/atom/" />

If you have multiple feeds you can just specify multiple lines.

These links will enable RSS autodiscovery and it will allow browsers and aggregators to automatically detect your rss feed, and make it easier to subscribe in general.

Conclusion: if your submission to TopOfBlogs is failing be sure to check that you make your blog feed discoverable to our robot and other systems to help you get a better exposure for your blog.