Aggregator - A Website that gathers feeds from RSS
syndication. It may display them to subscribers in a Desktop popup device or popularize them in other ways.
Generally, the RSS feed source such a blog or online journal has to notify the aggregator of a new
item by pinging it. Then the aggregator reads the item.
Examples of aggregators include Technorati.com, Weblogs.com, RSS Userland... Some aggregators get their listings from
other Web logs rather than by direct pinging. Weblogs.com and Technorati apparently feed other aggregators.
While generally speaking it pays to list RSS feeds with aggregators and ping them, be aware that
some aggregators will display your entire article rather than a summary, and that may push your listing down in the
search engine results, below their listing.
Blog aggregators like Technorati and The Truth Laid Bear provide listings of Web logs by authority and according to Tags
that sort them into categories. These can be useful in driving traffic to your Web log. However, these sites seem to be
inoperative of late.
Ami Isseroff
October 1, 2008
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