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.
We value and thank all the sites that have joined TopOfBlogs during these early days of the service.
I would like to say a special thank you in particular to the top sites (the ones that generate above 10,000 pageviews per day):
We really appreciate that you accepted our invitation to join TopOfBlog. Your early membership has been very valuable for our optimization team allowing them to see tha impact of real traffic coming immediately into the system. This was different compared to in-house benchmarks and helped us make adjustments early into the system.
Thanks again! Keep up the good work and the traffic growing 
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We have just improved the existing site check to verify upon submission if the blog already exists in our system. This was previously done at the end of the submission, but now it is the first step. This will save you from adding information and then getting an error that the site has already been registered.
If you have already a site registered at TopOfBlogs and you want to make changes, don’t try to add it again as this will fail as explained above. Instead use your account and make any changes you need from there (you will have received your username and password on the greeting email). If someone else has added your own site please contact us and we will try to help you resolve the issue.
Welcome to the first post on our new TopOfBlogs Official Blog! This blog will be the place were we’ll announce news about our revolutionary top of blogs system. We would also love to hear from the bloggers that will use our system, anything you would like to share with us, from feedbacks to suggestions. TopOfBlogs has been born from the need to have a modern and well recognized blogging ranking method. At this time there is no such thing… we have pagerank, technorati, rss readers, and many topsites, but no unique system that is innovative enough to add any of the existing recognized rankings methods to create a single topsite. TopOfBlogs will bring together all the parts of the puzzle and will try to always present the best blogs in the world ranked by various innovative methods.
At this time we are running a closed beta test, and if all goes well we will launch live during the first days of October. You will always find on this blog the latest and greatest news about our service. Thanks for stopping by!
