Domino Unplugged
PlanetLotus highlights broken RSS feed
First off, hats off in general to PlanetLotus.org. I assume you've been there and seen the 'blog aggregator' site. If not, please go check it out. I'll wait.
Okay, you're back?? We'll continue ...
I know that Ed Brill had a post recently talking about how much traffic PlanetLotus is driving to his site. If I understood correctly, Ed said that 12% of his traffic comes from PlanetLotus.
Well, 12% ain't nothing!
A recent snapshot of "Traffic Sources" for DominoUnplugged shows that PlanetLotus is the #1 referring site, and it is responsible for 44.75% of the traffic that isn't 'direct' (people coming directly to the site via bookmarks or typing in the address). (Just for the record, PlanetLotus is the #1 referrer, lotus.com is #2, and Ed Brill is #3, with ibm.com and google rounding out the top five ... )
That is, needless to say, a substantial portion of the traffic generated around here. So, thanks PlanetLotus and, specially, thanks to Yancy Lent, the mastermind behind PlanetLotus.
Which brings me to the point - I noticed that user visits here had dropped, and in particular PlanetLotus referrals had dropped significantly. Was curious why. So, I checked with PlanetLotus, and they reported that I hadn't updated the site since March 19th. Obviously, I had, so something was amiss ...
Turns out that there was an "illegal character" in my RSS feed for one entry (the one about the Peeps), so Yancy's site was unable to parse the RSS feed which is what feeds PlanetLotus.
Not entirely clear what was wrong, but I went back to that entry, did some reformatting and some other diddling around, and - poof - suddenly an additional two weeks worth of entries have shown up over at PL.
So, thanks, Yancy, double now.
And, if anyone else was having RSS feed issues ... sorry 'bout that!
- Rob
Posted by Rob Wunderlich on April 4 2008 from Home Office - Detroit, filed under Miscellanea This Site
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