Create a Feed Aggregator Strategy

Today’s web gives you the power to create a detailed array of relivant links to your website thru the use of Blogging sites, Social Bookmarking sites, Social Networking sites, Photo Sharing sites, File Sharing Sites, Video Sharing Sites… and the list goes on.

In fact, the list is so huge, a host of new services have evolved to help coordinate and centralize the information flow from all of your various profiles.

These new Web 2.0 Sites are called Feed Aggregators.
They aggregate your RSS Feeds into one stream of updates.

Since I’m always seeking to better use the web for marketing, I set up a few Aggregators for a number of my feeds.  After a short time, I noticed that I was getting indexed in Google within minutes of when I posted to my blog, and, to my surprise, the aggregator websites were also ranking within the top 20 search results! And so, following the principal “If it works, do more of it”…

Today I am reviewing a List of RSS Feed Aggregator services
as I go through the process of registering for all of them. 

Because I market to a number of different niches, I figure it would be best for me to create an individual account at each Aggregator for each of the unique niche’s I focus on.  Tedious?  Rather!  But I only have to do it once, and the Aggregator does its Search Engine magic for a long, long time without further maintenance.

GETTING PREPARED
Start by visiting all your blogs and profiles and collect up the URL’s for all your RSS Feeds.  Save them all in a unique file that is easy to find and update when you add your business information to a new service.

• www.Filtrbox.com - looks like a powerful service.  It has two different paid levels - so I’m figuring it must have some great PageRank juice because of high trust in Google… but it’s not intuitive to set up, has how-to videos - and I’m on dail up at the lake right now.  So I’ve added this one to my list so you can review it, but I’ll set it up further when I’m on highspeed.
• www.Feedkiller.com - no registration required.  Name your stream, add your RSS Feeds and click Build It.  You are given an URL where your feeds are collected into one centralized RSS Feed stream… So I Stubbled the new feed page, and added the RSS Feed to my list that I’ll add to the next aggregators on my list! (note: this new aggregate feed didn’t work in Whereisme.com)
• www.Feedtweeter.com - Feedtweeter says it’s ’A little service that allows you to link Twitter and Plurk to your other activities.’  Feedtweeter can now monitor your Identi.ca posts too: Post something in Identi.ca, and it will appear in Plurk and/or Twitter too. (with a few minutes delay).  This is a cool service, but I’m already set up on www.ping.fm - a more comprehensive version of the same service… 
• www.lifestream.fm looks great.  I’ve applied for an invitation code and Tweeted to my twitter followers to see if anyone has an invitation code they could send me. 
• www.whereisme.com  - a web identity aggregator. It takes all the places you do things on the web and centralizes them for you to show off. This is a *great* place to collect the RSS Feeds from all of your blogs and a wide selection of the biggest Social Media sites, like Blogger, del.icio.us, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm and several other top names.  Get a cup of coffee - this one’s worth your time.
• www.daylife.com - a new way to explore the world, they say - which is pretty vague to me… it’s a collection on online news sources where you can “star” things of interest.  I looked for a way to add my feeds, there was a link at the bottome right of the footer in the page where I suggested my feeds… If you are looking for an aggregator for your own feeds, skip this site.
• http://linkbun.ch/ - lets you put multiple links into one small link which you can share over IM, Twitter, email or even a mobile phone SMS. So, I put all my fishing blogs into a bunch, and this service created an individual page, listing my bunch of links!  Another easy way to create one-way links to your website. 

Ok - I’ve gone over-time in writing this post.  Here are a few more RSS Feed Aggregator Services that I’ll be registering with - I haven’t tried them yet, let me know which are best!

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  • www.dailyme.com
  • www.streamy.com
  • www.turtilla.com
  • www.Afrigator.com
  • www.blastfeed.com
  • www.feedfeeds.com
  • www.feeds2.com