RSS Feed Autodiscovery

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 [...]

FeedCount

As many of you have noticed already we have rolled out a cool new feature: feedcount. Since many people are reading blogs using a rss reader, comparing blogs only on pageviews is not at all accurate. So we added to our system another metric starting today, and this is the feedcount. It works for any [...]

TopOfBlogs tags

We just realized that having a top generated for a tag that has only one occurrence (only one blog registered with that tag) is not useful at all. This is a waste of resources (generating a worthless page, making the tag cloud harder to read, etc.) so we decided that we will create the top [...]

TopOfBlogs live!

After a very positive result from our beta tests we will be launching the service today to the public. We will still consider ourselves in beta, as bugs can appear at this stage also, when more people will start using the service. However, performance and functionality of the system should be very reliable. Please let [...]