Here are a couple more resources we could use with blogbomb.

Moreover has an xml search engine. The results are xml so we can put them in blogbomb for whatever topic we want. It even provides the code for us to include the search engine on our own hosts.

http://w.moreover.com/categories/xmlsearch.html

Here is an excellent resource which converts google(!) news feeds to rss. Just fill in the search with your keywords and put the resulting rss url in blogbomb. The code is public domain and provided on the site so we could use it on our own hosts as well.

http://www.voidstar.com/gnews2rss.php

Enjoy!!

Ron

Ron,

MoreOver is so-so. They only display the links, without any descriptions.

But the Gnews2RSS/VoidStar.com script is really cool!

The first version didn't work on my server, but I did get the cURL version (whatever curl is) to work.

I strongly suggest BlogBombers get this installed and working on one of their domains. I'd take the programmer at his word that he may not offer the service for long.

One word of caution: Anytime you querry Google, you could be at risk of having your IP address banned by them. I suggest that you change the cache in BlogBomb data/config.pl to only querry Google every 3-10 days or so. We're only looking for words, not up-to-the-minute news, as there's plenty of sites that do this better.

I wouldn't worry about it too much, but I wouldn't have 100's of feeds, all on the same IP, updating every day.

Remember, if you have 10 feeds, that's 150 "headlines", and if you use the "random" function of BlogBomb, you have a ton of unique combos. And 10 feeds updated every 10 days in only one per day, average. I doubt that will get you into any trouble with Google, but just be aware of the risk.

Also, the script has a parameter where you can set the number of search results. I suggest pumping this up as high as you can. If you need to querry Google, you may as well get as much content as you can with each querry. Although I have tested it a little to show 100 results, but the script seems to limit to 15...This could be on Google's end and not the script itself. And, I haven't tested it for very long.

All in all, this is a terrific addition from Ron, although it has probably put a "damper" on Jason D's Google News project.

Anybody try this Google news script/service?

Did you get the script to work on your own domain?

Actually, while I'm nearly ready with my part of the mission (simpsons and southpark), i've put up a test page combining Blogbomb and Gnews2rss.

Look at the column on the right...

http://www.rosasco.biz/thesimpsons/test.html

max

Kurt and everyone,

If anyone wants more relevant results from the gnews2rss program, they can go into the code and modify the url to sort the news headlines by relevance instead of by date (currently the default).

Note: Make a backup copy of the php file just in case something gets messed up

Look for the line in the php file that looks something like:

"$url = "http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&num=$num&scoring=d&q=";.urlencode($q);"

remove the portion that reads &scoring=d so that it looks like this:

"$url = "http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&num=$num&q=";.urlencode($q);"

This will sort the results by relevance, thus displaying more results that contain our keywords!!

Ron

Hi everyone here are a few more resources for rss feeds...

http://backend.userland.com/
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
http://www.infoworld.com/rss/rss_info.html
http://news.com.com/2009-1090-980549.html?tag=gg

http://www.newsisfree.com/user/premium/ 20 per year for rss feeds
http://services.devx.com/feeds.cfm
http://www.syndic8.com/
http://newsfeeds.manilasites.com/

http://XMLTree.com supposed to be a yahoo styled directory of rss feeds,site was down when i checked last.

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XMLtree.com still down

Another source : Top 100 Most-Subscribed-To RSS Feeds
http://subhonker6.userland.com/rcsPublic/rssHotlist

Tasari
Internet Marketing Warrior
http://www.bestsecrets.com

Hi Everyone,

I found eBay2RSS News Feed

Blogbomb RSS for you to generate eBay search results
using this eBay2RSS. The draw back is that they carry
the owner CJ affiliate id for ebay.

I think we can find a way to load our cj affiliate cookie first.
Any expert for CJ Affiliates can help us ? (Kurt, Tasari, Deb, Phil, Kirk or others ?).

http://www.ebaygeeks.com/DesktopDefault.aspx

Hi Kurt,

I noticed that blogbomb random feature would select randomly
from different channel. Is that a way to limit the random for
certain channel only.

If not possible, could we install another blogbomb with different
name so that we can segregate blogbomb only for news, only for tips,
only for product and others possibilities so that our random page content more structured.

Yulianto

HI. I think we can use multiple copies blogbombs. I tried it and seems to be working fine.

My question is, does blogbomb update the feed automatically, or do we have to do it manually? I set it up for random newsfeed from several sources, but it shows only old news. I thought it puts the data in cache for one day (default) then update it. If it doesn't do that automatically, can we use cronjob for that?

Thanks for your help.

Jae

Yulianto,

This is pretty over my head, but I think even if you did load your own cj affiliate link first into the page, the credit for sale may go to the link that is clicked on and that would be the guy's page. I'm not sure about this but often it's the LAST click that overrides the other affiliate's cookie- at least for some affiliate programs...

Deb

I have also made a copy of blogbomb to separate the random results. But I think if we could control the results with only one copy, it would save on server space.

Ron

LAST EDITED ON Sep-13-03 AT 03:56 AM (PST)
 
>My question is, does blogbomb update the feed automatically,
>or do we have to do it manually? I set it up for random
>newsfeed from several sources, but it shows only old news. I
>thought it puts the data in cache for one day (default) then
>update it. If it doesn't do that automatically, can we use
>cronjob for that?

Jae,

Remember, you are still at the mercy of the news source...Just because BlobBomb updates the cache doesn't necessarily mean that the news/blog has been updated.

BlogBomb will "update" itself automatically...

Yulianto...
>
>I found eBay2RSS News Feed
>
>http://www.ebaygeeks.com/DesktopDefault.aspx

Great find for even more content!!!

>I noticed that blogbomb random feature would select randomly
>from different channel. Is that a way to limit the random
>for
>certain channel only.
>
>If not possible, could we install another blogbomb with
>different
>name so that we can segregate blogbomb only for news, only
>for tips,
>only for product and others possibilities so that our random
>page content more structured.

I've been uploading multiple versions.

Here's another RSS search:

http://www.blogdigger.com

Plus these other two already posted:
http://www.feedster.com
http://www.daypop.com

I like using the search engines' results more than just using a single feed.

Without much research, you can take a feed URL such as:

http://www.blogdigger.com/rss.jsp?queryString=PIES&sortby=rel&days=30

And easily just change the keyword to:
http://www.blogdigger.com/rss.jsp?queryString=CAKES&sortby=rel&days=30

-OR-
http://www.blogdigger.com/rss.jsp?queryString=ICE+CREAM&sortby=rel&days=30

Here's the base URL's for these three RSS feed engines:

http://www.blogdigger.com/rss.jsp?queryString=keywords&sortby=rel&days=30

http://www.feedster.com/rss.php?q=keywords&sort=&ie=UTF-8&limit=15

http://www.daypop.com/search?q=keywords&s=1&c=15&ext=true&t=a&o=rss

Note: Just change "keywords" to your words. There are other variables you can mess with, but this will cover the basics.

If you add three or four feeds from each of the above (for different, relative keywords), plus throw in a few Google News feeds, and maybe a little Ebay, you'll have a lot of content to mix and match.

Let's say you come up with 20 feeds, 4 each from Ebay, Google, Daypop, Feedster and BlogDigger...

That's 80 feeds total, each displaying up to 15 feeds each.

80
x 15
-----
1200 total headlines that will mix and match.

Think about a deck of cards that has 52 cards and how many different hands there are.

You can have many different "pairs of aces":

Acehearts/Acediamomds
Acehearts/AceClubs
Acehearts/AceSpades

Acediamomds/AceClubs
Acediamomds/AceSpades

AceClubs/AceSpades

That doesn't even count that each of the four aces has 48 other cards to be "paired" with.

And that's only the two card combos....

Now think about how many unique "hands" our deck of 1200 cards has?

With 1200 unique headlines, you could easily have enough "unique" content for 100 pages, at 12 headlines per page, while never repeating a single headline.

But since we are randomizing the results, in theory we could go much, much higher than 100 pages, and each page uses the EXACT SAME Bomb SSI tags, yet will appear unique.

But we can also randomize the number of feeds on each page. Some pages have 5 feeds, others have 25 feeds and most in the middle.

Then factor in that these feeds are "fluid" and are ever-updating. If you had a couple of hundred pages, by the time the last pages were indexed, a great deal of the content of each headline will have changed (replaced is more accurate), as compared to the feeds on the first pages indexed.

>
>Look at the column on the right...
>
>http://www.rosasco.biz/thesimpsons/test.html
>
>OOPS! the link seems to be broken.

Gil

How do we get the blogbomb results to show just one or two or three
results and not the entire page of results? Often there is only one or two relevant items on an xml or rss feed.

Thanks,

Gil

LAST EDITED ON Oct-06-03 AT 06:03 AM (PST)
 
>How do we get the blogbomb results to show just one or two
>or three
>results and not the entire page of results? Often there is
>only one or two relevant items on an xml or rss feed.
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Gil

Gil

Is this an example of what you are looking for?

I use something like this for a random call..haven't tried changing
random=1 so I don't know what that does

<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/blogbomb/feedsearch_ssi.cgi?random=1&results=4" -->

I use something like this to call a specific feed

<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/blogbomb/feedsearch_ssi.cgi?channel=user-7.xml&results=5" -->

Don't know if that is what you are wanting, but that is how I do it.

BTW...The program Kurt recommended early on...winm8.com ...is
almost a necessity for collecting all of the tags and such as
that... if you haven't tried it take it for a spin.

Rick

Gil, Rick and all...

>I use something like this for a random call..haven't tried
>changing
>random=1 so I don't know what that does

This bit of code is "left over", just ignore it, other than including it...

>BTW...The program Kurt recommended early on...winm8.com
>...is
>almost a necessity for collecting all of the tags and such
>as
>that... if you haven't tried it take it for a spin.

Rick, I was saying to myself "never heard of that program", but it's the old "Classic Clipboard" renamed.

I can't live without it, I have all my ssi tags, DomBom "form letters" and even a few html templates stored in the thing.

It is kind of "clunky" at first, but if you spend 20 minutes just messing with it, you'll understand it completly.

You can copy up to 9 things into your "clip board" at once, and it has a good "filing" system for stuff you want easy access to.

Also, if you learn how to resize it, it becomes very versitle.

It has a 60 day free trial, but I think it is a tool any serious web person needs.

Kurt

I agree 110%

>>I can't live without it, I have all my ssi tags, DomBom "form letters" and even a few html templates stored in the thing.

I have all my SSI tags , all readme's for the different bombs,
web templates, and keyword lists', and any other text I need handy now or I may want to refer to in the future.

>>It is kind of "clunky" at first, but if you spend 20 minutes just messing with it, you'll understand it completly.

I downloaded it as soon as I read your post way back when....tried it out...didn't understand it...deleted it.

Down the road I ended up with about 20 txt files on my desktop for easy access
to the Bomber SSI tags and such then said, "wait a minute, there has to be an easier way!"
Downloaded it again and "Took the Tutorial" step by step.
You know, when all else fails...read the instructions.

>>You can copy up to 9 things into your "clip board" at once, and it has a good "filing" system for stuff you want easy access to.

The 9 clipboards are a great feature, but for me the filing system and the insertion of text from winm8 to where you need it in what you are working on at the time is what really makes the program indispensable.

When I received Gil's excellent ImageBomb the first thing I did is put his read me in winm8, then the basic calls. Now as I collect SSI tags for posters I will use again, boom, in they go...name them to something I recognize...and they are handy for my next use.

I even collect posts from the forum that I know I will need to refer to later.

Thanks to turning me on to it!
Rick

Thanks Rick that was exactly what I was looking for. DUH!

Regarding winn8 I downloaded when Kurt first mentioned last year I think. I couldnt get it- it was to complicated for me- so deleted it. I like real simple stuff.

I was sent a link to another multi-clipboard program a few months back. So I downloaded and installed. Then I got viruses up the wa-zoo. My system crashed, I lost almost all data. I almost had a breakdown, man am I a PC junky!!! Anyway, I stilll have the problem of creating a million files on my desktop as short cuts but then I forget what they are for and wind up recreating the file anyway.

I downloaded winn8 again, and again I delted it. BUT IT NEED IT FUNCTIONS. I think this time I will download it and force myself to learn it. I mean its costing me time and money not having it.

DUH!

I know, it hurts being dumb. Could be why I'm always in pain.

Gil

Gil,

Winm8 has a step-by-step tutorial that will guide you through everything you need to know, and it is really easy to learn. It only took about 30 minutes to learn the functions I needed.

Thanks, now if I could only find the download link again

BTW, can you check this page for me, http://christmas.the-money-saver.com/christmas/christmas1.html especially the links on the right bottom of page. How can I fix this so that it fits in a table and not streach accross the page?

Gil

Never mind, I had winn8 still on my drive. I'm going to devote some time learning to use this app.

Thanks, Nick.

Gil

http://www.rootblog.com/

Here's another:

http://www.prweb.com/rss.php

This one organizes press releases in a directory format, if you want to browse by topic, instead of searching by keyword.

Pretty good resource.

Actually I tried to get into the official "BlogBomb Installation" thread but something is not working with that link. So I hope this is in the right thread.

I am just starting to work with BlogBomb and seem to have it installed properly, but still having some problems understanding the basics.

First of all in BlogBomb there appear to be three required fields. Title, Link and Url. Yet in the RSS feeds there only appear to be Title and Link. So my question is, what is the url supposed to be?

Thanks
Phil G

D'oh

Okay, I found the right thread. Sorry for all the questions. Now I get it.

Works like a dream

Check it out at www.HarleyXchange.com

Thanks Kurt and everyone else for all the great information. I am going to play around with this a bit more and then order the upgrade.

Phil G

Phil,

If you're reading this, can you post the URL of "right" thread? I'm looking for the same thing...

Thanks,

I had to go back in the pages of this forum, but I found it in the post listed as "BlogBomb: Daypop.com". It was one of Kurt's first posts on the BlogBomb idea. It gave more details on using the XML resources.

Here is the url...

http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=210&forum=DCForumID9&viewmode=all

I hope this helps
Phil G

Hi Kurt;

I just put it up and it works like a charm!!! I used the "curl" version as you mentioned.

Anyone know of a YahooNews version? I believe Yahoo may be further ahead than Google on RSS feeds as I thought I read somewhere that they encouraged webmasters to use their feeds. This would eliminate the possibility of having a site banned. Along those lines, would you suggest putting this script on a separate server from all of our other sites?

This whole RSS idea really is incredible as Kurt has explained. The possibilities of using it in email etc are endless.

One thing that I was interested in was your post on the warrior forum of the Blogless Blog. I would love to see a more detailed explanation of that in this forum.

Thanks again to Kurt and everyone for all their help.
Phil G

LAST EDITED ON Oct-22-03 AT 05:38 PM (PST)
 
Here is a link to Yahoo news RSS feeds:

http://news.yahoo.com/rss/

I haven't seen any form of search
capability there though.

You wouldn't use a gnews equivalent
with these Yahoo feeds. Gnews
"scrapes" after a news keyword search.

But if you're happy with the more
generic content the Yahoo feeds
offer, you can use them with Blogbomb.

Jeff

After a little digging, I found that Yahoo
not only offers the news category feeds I
noted above, but also has a news search feed
in beta.

Check it out:

http://search.news.yahoo.com/usns/ynsearch/categories/47/index.html?p=your-keyword-here

Just substitute your keyword(s) where it says your-keyword-here above. For a phrase, be sure to use the + sign. Examples:

one word p=dog
two words p=dog+food
exact phrase p="dog%20food" (%20 is a space, quotes required)

This is the equivalent of the gnews script
for Yahoo, except Yahoo is providing it
directly. Hope they keep it!

Best,
Jeff

Thanks a bunch, Jeff. It works great. There does seem to be some irregularities, such as the <b> tags not working. Not sure why that should be the case, but a very good feed when you can't find too many blogs on your subject.

Phil G

Thanks much for the link Phil,

That's nice site you have, I like motorcycles, I don't know why you want to sell it..

With regards to this Yahoo news feed, I note that the HTML in the feed seems to not be working quite right. If you go to www.HarleyXchange.com/index1.html you will see the Yahoo feed on my site. Note that the HTML tags show up. <b> for example and &, etc.

I am wondering is I have done something wrong or if this is a problem with the feed? I have noted this on one of Kurt's sites as well, but I can't remember which one. Do you think that this would affect the SE crawlers? What I mean is, will they still see the keyword that is between the tags or will it index the keyword as <b>investing</b> which would do me little good?

Thanks for all your help.
Phil G

Do you guys using yahoo's rss for commercial purpose? I just noticed this on the yahoo's RSS page:

Quote

---

What are the terms of use?
The feeds are provided free of charge for use by individuals and non-profit organizations for personal, non-commercial uses.

---

Does any one have the download
link for winn8?

Would appreciate it.

Tom Eleam

It's at:

http://winm8.com/winm8/winm8.htm

Best,
Jeff

Thanks Jeff!

Tom Eleam

Here are some feeds from Rolling Stone magazine, including an artist search link:

XML Artist search

http://www.rollingstone.com/rssxml/search.asp?st=music&sf=<;<key+words>>

XML Feeds:
http://www.rollingstone.com/rssxml/music_news.xml
http://www.rollingstone.com/rssxml/album_reviews.xml
http://www.rollingstone.com/rssxml/movie_reviews.xml
http://www.rollingstone.com/rssxml/dvd_reviews.xml
http://www.rollingstone.com/rssxml/videos.xml
http://www.rollingstone.com/rssxml/photos.xml
http://www.rollingstone.com/rssxml/movie_reviews.xml

Bo

Ron, Moreover is a "paid" news feed and it states so in their "terms and conditions". Is it possible that we would be held accountable by including their content in our BlogBomb?

Mike

>Here are a couple more resources we could use with blogbomb.
>
>Moreover has an xml search engine. The results are xml so
>we can put them in blogbomb for whatever topic we want. It
>even provides the code for us to include the search engine
>on our own hosts.
>
>http://w.moreover.com/categories/xmlsearch.html
>
>Here is an excellent resource which converts google(!) news
>feeds to rss. Just fill in the search with your keywords and
>put the resulting rss url in blogbomb. The code is public
>domain and provided on the site so we could use it on our
>own hosts as well.
>
>http://www.voidstar.com/gnews2rss.php
>
>Enjoy!!
>
>Ron

All,

I have converted the PRWeb search engine into a newzbomb. You can add these to your newzbomb directory by downloading the zip file and copying in the 2 php scripts.

http://bonose.com/newzbomb/prwebnews2rss.zip

PRWeb also offers specific feeds which are listed in this thread.

Bo

Is moreover a paid news feed ???
I was/am using them already a couple of years for free.. they gave me the very first script

Tasari
Internet Marketing Warrior
http://airline-tickets.bestsecrets.com/airline-tickets.html

Wired.com has added a search for pheeds:

http://search.wired.com/wnews/default.asp?format=rss&query=internet+marketing

This is another great resource for more pheeds!

What's cool, is I found this by checking out the "Pheeds about Pheeds" on pheeds.com.

Pheeds are phat!

Here's a simple online RSS generator.

Just fill in a few blanks and it will generate the code for you, then you just need to:

copy/paste into a text document
save as YourPheed.xml
upload to your site

http://www.webdevtips.com/webdevtips/codegen/rss.shtml

I used it to create my pheed for pheeds.com:
http://pheeds.com/pheeds.xml

I just found that Trove has direct xml search results now:

http://newstrove.com/cgi-bin/rss.xml?search=keywords

Now we don't have to use trovenews2rss.php in newzbomb anymore.

I can't figure out how to limit the results to a certain number. It seems to return everything it has, which can take some time.

Bo

Bo,

Thanks...That's really helpful.

Also, I wanted to thank you for the Moreover, but I've lost your post. LOL

>Here's a simple online RSS generator.
>
>Just fill in a few blanks and it will generate the code for
>you, then you just need to:
>
>copy/paste into a text document
>save as YourPheed.xml
>upload to your site
>
>http://www.webdevtips.com/webdevtips/codegen/rss.shtml

Excellent that is what we need
I will copy their source so I can put more than 10 feeds.. I need more

Tasari
Internet Marketing Warrior
http://airline-tickets.bestsecrets.com/airline-tickets.html

>RSS Weather
>Isobel

You gave me a very nice idea.. a RSS feed for weather
I already have a script for the weather of whole the world

Tasari
Internet Marketing Warrior
http://airline-tickets.bestsecrets.com/airline-tickets.html

Hi blogbombers,

I've found a 4th blogsearch engine that provides a feed for your keyword search

- you already know about
Blogdigger
Daypop
Feedster

- now you can add WAYPATH to the list
http://www.waypath.com

The good thing about Waypath is that your search feed can either be for the most relevant ('best') or most recent ('new) feeds.

The feed format is:
http://rss.waypath.com/query.xml?qs=blogkeyword+&mode=best
OR
http://rss.waypath.com/query.xml?qs=blogkeyword+&hours=24&mode=new

If your using pheedsearch.cgi, I suggest you add Waypath to it - the more choices we all have, the better

cheers,

Leigh (traffictart)
Perth, Western Australia

Thanks Isobel...

Leigh, I was checking out Waypath, and they have a pretty cool tool called the "Buzzmaker".

It lets you enter 5 keywords and it will create a graph of the popularity of each keyword/phrase.

While the "Buzz" isn't search engine content, but it does add some interesting content for your visitors and could "fill up space" when you need something, anything, when trying to make a page.

http://waypath.com/buzzmaker

Hey Kurt,

cool resource!

I'd totally missed that one - I'm sure I can think of a few ways to use it on my web pages

Plus I'm going to use it to research how different keywords are comparing in the blogs.

Leigh (traffictart)
Perth, Western Australia

Thanks for the heads up on the Buzzz.

How do we add it to the pheedssearch script?

Thanks,

Gil

LAST EDITED ON Nov-12-03 AT 08:58 PM (PST)
 
Ok, I figured it out, I added the links to pheedsearch like this:

http://rss.waypath.com/query.xml?qs=<<keywords>>+&mode=best

http://rss.waypath.com/query.xml?qs=<<keywords>>+&hours=24&mode=new

thanks very much

Gil or publisher

Greetings Bombers

Something just a little different

http://national.feedroom.com/rssmain.jsp

What this site provides you with is different rss pheeds that you
can pull to your site...OK...not so unusual...

The difference is the pheeds you display then lead to video pheeds
from tv stations around the country.

I quickly found the latest movie trailers there.

They pretty much cover all the important topics.
Might be worth a look.

Small sampling below from the entertainment section

fun and games (The AT&T Worldnet FeedRoom)
Movies (The Chicago Tribune FeedRoom)
Entertainment (The Chicago Tribune FeedRoom)
Entertainment (The Comcast Newsroom)
Entertainment (The Iwon FeedRoom)
Fun and Games (The Iwon FeedRoom)
MOVIES (The Iwon FeedRoom)
Movies (Q13 FeedRoom)
Movies (The WB33 FeedRoom)
Movies (The KHWB FeedRoom)
HOLLYWOOD NEWS (NBC4.TV FeedRoom)
POP CULTURE (KNTV FeedRoom)
Movies (KPLR FeedRoom)
Movies (The KSWB FeedRoom)
Movies (KTLA5 FeedRoom)
Entertainment (KTLA5 FeedRoom)
Movies (The WB22 FeedRoom)
Movies (The Fox 40 FeedRoom)
Movies (KWBP FeedRoom)
Movies (Denver FeedRoom)

Rick

Hi,

I'm a blobbomb extreme owner, sorry but where can I get a copy of pheedsearch.cgi?

thanx

William

Hi William,

Welcome aboard:)

You can get the wicked Pheedsearch here¬
http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=296&forum=DCForumID9

I used it extensively for my BlogBombing, it comes in really handy if you just want to spot check the results you would get.

All the best,

Andy

William

I am wondering if anyone else has noticed the odd problem with Yahoo's news feed. That is, it displays the html tag rather than the actual html output.

For example if you go to http://harleyxchange.com you will not that the keywords (which should be bold) have a /<b>/ in front and after.

Has anyone figured out a way to eliminate this problem? It is not a BlogBomb problem as other feeds do not do this, so it must be something special about the Yahoo feed.

Thanks
Phil G

>I am wondering if anyone else has noticed the odd problem
>with Yahoo's news feed. That is, it displays the html tag
>rather than the actual html output.
>
>For example if you go to http://harleyxchange.com you will
>not that the keywords (which should be bold) have a /<b>/ in
>front and after.
>
>Has anyone figured out a way to eliminate this problem? It
>is not a BlogBomb problem as other feeds do not do this, so
>it must be something special about the Yahoo feed.
>
>Thanks
>Phil G

Bump, anybody got any ideas???

Hi Phil,

I have just visited your page and yes I can see what you mean with the tags appearing within the feed on display. But I couldn't really tell you why this is, as I have just checked my front page and the yahoo news feeds are displaying correctly.

See¬
http://www.computerbe.com

Look at the news feeds at the bottom and just hover over a few until you see it is a Yahoo news feed. You will see they are displaying properly.

So I am puzzled why your isn't:(

Andy

Hmmmm, curiouser and curiouser...

I am using the original BlogBomb. Is that what you are using or have you moved up to the X version?

Perhaps I should install it on another server and see what happens.

Thanks for your response.

Phil G

Phil,

I am now using BlogBombX, so maybe like you say this could have something to do with it.

It is worth upgrading anyhow just for the NewzBomb scripts you get and the multiple XML feed input.

Let us know Phil how you get on:)

Andy

Thanks Andy.

Kurt, any thoughts on whether BB or BBX will make a difference?

Phil G

It is a little upgrade with news feeds from major search engines I hope I am not mixing all these bombs..

Tasari
Internet Marketing Warrior
http://airline-tickets.bestsecrets.com/airline-tickets.html

>Thanks Andy.
>
>Kurt, any thoughts on whether BB or BBX will make a
>difference?

Phil,

It doesn't make any difference. This is why the Newsbomb scraper scripts are "experimental".

I do know that Godfatherbomb strips all bogus characters.

Ok, I'll admit it,

You guys are far, far ahead of me with this RSS thing. I have BBX and GFB installed, have an idea of how I might utilize both, yet, have run into an interesting problem from the stand point of an 'RSS beginner.'

In the simplest of terms you can bring yourself to write, HOW and WHERE do you get your feed info?

I've gone to several of the sites listed here in this thread and put in my search topics and got nothing back but pure, unrelated junk!

When (and IF) I find something I want to 'include,' what part of which do I 'copy' to put into BBX? I don't understand the XML page when it pops up. It's total jibberish to me.

Yes, I'm a bit of a 'dufus' when it comes to this stuff. I'm learning as fast as I can. I just need someone to point me in the right direction using simple English.

I'm confoozed! LOL Thanks,

John

I'm just getting started with BlogBOMB and was experimenting with the Google News Feed. Does anyone know how to strip out the reference to the script that seems to be showing up at the top of my results for all queries?

CherryBOMB Search Engine XML List

>I'm confoozed! LOL Thanks,
>

John,

Phirst things phirst. It should be spelled:
conphoozed

There will be a spelling quiz next Monday.

And, to answer your question:

You're looking for XML/RSS pages.

Newstrove is my new favorite...

1. Go to www.Newstrove.com

2. Search for: parrots
This is the direct link:
http://newstrove.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?search=parrots

3. Look for the little orange button that says XML and next to it is:
RSS News Feed

4. Clicking that link brings up the RSS pheed for your results.
Here's the URL for the PHEED:
http://newstrove.com/cgi-bin/rss.xml?search=parrots

This last URL is what you want to enter into BBX.

But, if you want to be quicker, you can take that "base" XML URL and just change parrots to lions

Basically, for NewsTrove, you can take a bunch of links like this, and just change "parrots" into other keywords:

http://newstrove.com/cgi-bin/rss.xml?search=parrots
http://newstrove.com/cgi-bin/rss.xml?search=parrots
http://newstrove.com/cgi-bin/rss.xml?search=parrots
http://newstrove.com/cgi-bin/rss.xml?search=parrots
http://newstrove.com/cgi-bin/rss.xml?search=parrots
http://newstrove.com/cgi-bin/rss.xml?search=parrots
http://newstrove.com/cgi-bin/rss.xml?search=parrots

For NewsTrove and most others, remember to use a + instead of blank spaces:
http://newstrove.com/cgi-bin/rss.xml?search=amazon+parrots

Note: News sources don't have the "depth" of standard searches. I don't think "amazon parrots" will update everyday, or even every week.

Also, everyone should do a little research first...

Kurt,

You're getting me in the habit of saying THANKS waaay too much. LOL

Now I understand how to find and use that one important item that's been eluding me. Maybe working with me, and others, you or someone could come up with a "Primer" for we beginners that are
CONPHOOZED!

Now, I can get to work on making a BBX/GFB 'work of art' on Mexico...manana. LOL

Thanks again,

John

Andy,

For the "uninitiated," what does "Uninitialized" mean in your script?

John

Hi John,

You had better ask Bo about that, its his script not mine:)

Have a great New Year,

Andy

>For the "uninitiated," what does "Uninitialized" mean in
>your script?

John,

It just means that you haven't requested or received any information from that resource.

Bo

Another blog directory that looks like it could be useful:

http://www.2rss.com

--
Edward

>Another blog directory that looks like it could be useful:
>
>http://www.2rss.com
>
>--
>Edward

Edward

Thanks...The site is nicely organized
and has lots of good Pheeds on plenty of topics.
definately worth checking out

Rick

Hi, I was interested in the Amazon RSS pheed links you gave but I was not sure where to put my amazon affiliate id to benefit from sales when using the Amazon RSS pheed links. Any idea how to include your affiliate link in the pheed link?. Would like to test it out.
thanks

Eleesha

Hi Eleesha,

You need to edit the script - I assume you're talking about buyitbomb_zon.cgi .

Near the top is a line that lists affiliate id. You just need to change it to your own.

Be sure to reupload it to your server in ASCII format, & CHMOD to 755.

Best,
Jeff

"BLOGBOMB HELP - rss url is too long"

I keep running into this error message in BBX2 admin when trying to add a new feed.
rss url is too long

Has happened quite a few times. I usually just toss the feed I was trying to add but thought I'd ask for help here in the forum.

Is there any reason the length of the URL should be restricted or is this another problem???

It just happened again as I was trying to test out an itunes feed

feds available at:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/MRSS/rssGenerator

Also while I am here - does anyone have an easy solution so I can publish my own RSS feeds and trade with other BLOGBOMBERS etc. ???

Thanks in advance

Mick

____

Can someone please help me? I do not know where to find this info?

Mick,
Kurt answered your questions on the other thread you posted to
when he said...

Mick,
This post is better on the Official Thread for BlogBomb.

Your first question is answered on the BB Official "tech" thread, and your second question is answered on the "Where to find pheeds" Official Thread.

James C

Yes they are

Tasari
Internet Marketing Warrior
http://www.bestsecrets.com

I have the same problems with Mick, and tried to search the whole forum, can't find the answer.

Anyone know how to solve this "rss url is too long" error?

Thanks

Rob

LAST EDITED ON Mar-10-04 AT 03:46 PM (PST)
 
Rob & Mick,

I just posted this on the Blogbomb Readme thread:

The fix is here:

http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=395&forum=DCForumID9

See post 11 on that thread from Bo. This came up with Bo's BuyItbomb Amazon release, and it was dicussed on that thread.

Jeff

>Rob & Mick,
>
>I just posted this on the Blogbomb Readme thread:
>
>
>
>The fix is here:
>
>http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=395&forum=DCForumID9
>
>See post 11 on that thread from Bo. This came up with Bo's
>BuyItbomb Amazon release, and it was dicussed on that
>thread.
>
>
>
>
>Jeff

Thanks Jeff! I had already given up on finding the answer (looked everywhere) and as you just noted it is not even in the threads I was sent to (in the aMazon thread???). You're a good man Jeff! Thank you! I'll try the fix and see if that helps. Good karma will be coming your way :'>

Mick

Sure, glad to help - it was on that thread because it came up in a discussion of Buyitbomb_zon, and it was relevant to blogbomb because you would load buyitbomb_zon output into blogbomb.

Thank you very much, Jeff!

By the way, I have a problem with BuyItBomb Zon. No matter which option I select - rss.basic.template, rss.custom.template, rss_detailed.template, When I select format - rss, I only got rss.basic.template result! I use the template Bo provided.

Any idesa?

Rao

Hi Rob,

I think I know what it is, but...

What Kurt and Taz were saying above is to post support questions on existing readme/tech threads for each bomb. If they get posted all over the place, future users will never be able to find what they need. In fact, that's what happened with the answer to Mick's original question about the url length - it was posted to the buyitbomb-zon thread, and really it was a Blogbomb question. Kurt and Taz both thought the original answer was on the readme for blogbomb where it should be, but somehow that one slipped by unnoticed or they would have moved it.

Since this thread is on RSS resources, your question should be posted on the buyitbomb-zon thread at:

http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=456&forum=DCForumID9

Thanks,
Jeff

Thanks, Jeff,

I post my question there.

>http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=456&forum=DCForumID9

Rob

IS moreove a fee-based service, or is it entirely free?

The reason I ask, as it seems there is conflicting info on their site. On one hand, there's an XML feed easily accessable, on the other, their terms say "The Service is a fee based service and is only available to organizations that have entered into a license agreement with Moreover".

the reason I ask, is that I''ve been busy setting up a couple of good info sites in a particular niche, and would hate for my server to get dinged due by moreove (EV1 is sensitive abiut that stuff )

Erik

Erik,

I've avoided Moreover for a couple of reasons...One, like you pointed out Moreover isn't clear about what can be used and also, that Moreover seems to only use titles/links and not include any descriptions. Maybe this has changed recently...but I've just looked elsewhere...

I have had this problem happen a few times on different sites and subjects.
I set up BB with a Yahoo news feed and everything works well for a few days then it starts returning 'no results' so I add a slightly different yahoo news feed and same thing happens. Good news for a few days then 'no results'

Does Yahoo have a limit on how many times you can show their feeds or am I doing something wrong.

Hey Guys,

Do you know that FeedSter.com does not provide "rss" feed link any more? I can click on the other 3 links: MyFeedster, OPML and ATOM, but RSS...

And also I noticed that the results from FeedSter display whole contents instead of just first few line of an article.

Hi,

Rocket News stopped working.

Looks like the updated their site so the regular expressions are out of sync and the query url has changed.

I've updated them and it seems to be working OK.

To update:

The forum doesn't like the square brackets in the regular expression so I've added a text attachment explaining what needs to be done.

Simply follow the directions

Everything should now be OK

--
Edward

LAST EDITED ON Mar-24-04 AT 03:44 AM (PST)
 
Hi again

Just fixed the Yahoo NewsBomb Script as well.

Open yahoo2rss.php and Find:

As above - the forum alters the code so open the attached text file.

That should do it

UPDATE:

Download the file rather than simply opening it - some tags in the file make the page look odd when viewing through a browser.

--
Edward

Hi Tsuyoshi

>Do you know that FeedSter.com does not provide "rss" feed
>link any more? I can click on the other 3 links: MyFeedster,
>OPML and ATOM, but RSS...

If you 'hover' over the rss link you get a drop down menu - ignore this.
Simply click the '2.0 rss' and it's converted to rss (at least it is for me).

>And also I noticed that the results from FeedSter display
>whole contents instead of just first few line of an article.

This is purely down to how the original poster chose to syndicate the article.

Besides - more words = more traffic

--
Edward

Edward...Thanks for the fixes...

Edward

I assume yahoo2rss.php is the same as yahoonews2rss.php
If so - I have changed the 2 lines you mentioned and my news still won't work.

Anything else I need to know?

>Edward...Thanks for the fixes...

No worries - happy to help.

I've just noticed that the script in it's current form also returns the sponsored results that are shown at the bottom of the page results and the audio / video section on the right.

The fix for this is as follows:

Find:

$match_count = ($match_count > 25) ? 25 : $match_count;

and change 25 to 20

That way only the first 20 results are kept - i.e. the first 20 results are the actual news stories.

--
Edward

Hi Graeme

>I assume yahoo2rss.php is the same as yahoonews2rss.php

Yep - I just mistyped.

>If so - I have changed the 2 lines you mentioned and my news
>still won't work.

What sort of results do you get?
Just the xml header with no results? Or timing out? Or something else?

Was the php version working before or did you use the curl version?

I've double checked the script and it's still working for me.
Any additional information you can provide will help me track things down a bit further.

--
Edward

Hi. Does anybody syndicate your own sites from another site of your own? What's the best way of doing that? Do I use blogless blog, or is there a way of doing that with blogbomb or godfather bomb?

Thanks for your help.

Jae

TazBomb ? Read about it !

http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=499&forum=DCForumID9

Tasari
Internet Marketing Warrior
http://www.bestsecrets.com

article:

Moreover, a news feed aggregator, has moved their service to FeedDirect.com. This move was made so Moreover can more easily manage the websites who contain the company’s news feeds.

As reported by NetImperative.com, “Moreover specializes in gathering online news from across the Internet, categorizing, editing and filtering it and delivering it to users.”

Current websites that use Moreover newsfeeds must register with FeedDirect in order to receive a news feed code replacement or have their accounts terminated with no further notice. FeedDirect’s free service will feature contextual ads within the news feeds.
Moreover has partnerships with MSN, Yahoo, and Google. MSN just finalized a deal with Moreover to develop MSN’s Newsbot, which is “a localized automated news service that gathers feeds from more than 4,000 online sources.”

/Cotton
pianoman
"What Do Jimi Hendrix, Clapton,
Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, Cher,
Hank Williams Jr, B.B. King,
Bonnie Raitt, Mick Jagger, Elvis,
Chuck Berry, Boz Scaggs and
scores of other music legends
have in common?" Discover now:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/
claycotton

I have 19 sites with XML feeds that you are free to use..

just click on the XML link at the top of each site..

education-guide.com
self-improvement-daily.com
winter-sports-news.com
etravel-guide.com
esoundings.com
women-daily.com
legal-daily.com
food-daily.com
fashion-daily.com
health-daily.com
politics-daily.com
software-daily.com
advertising-daily.com
realty-daily.com
home-improvement-daily.com
family-daily.com
movies-usa.net
investors-daily.net
auto-daily.com

Dave Kelly

Dave -

thanks for the xml sources, dave

kudos for your fine sites - it looks like you've been busy using tools in effective ways.

do these articles originate on other domains, or are they in your db only?

/Cotton
pianoman
"What Do Jimi Hendrix, Clapton,
Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, Cher,
Hank Williams Jr, B.B. King,
Bonnie Raitt, Mick Jagger, Elvis,
Chuck Berry, Boz Scaggs, Zappa
and scores of other music legends
have in common?" Discover now:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/claycotton

Thanks for posting those feeds Dave!

Jeff

Clay

the content is a combination of press releases sent to me, articles sent to me, articles that have been placed in the public domain or where the author has given permission for the articles to be used..

Some of the content is unique, some appears on other sites..
but all of it is OK to use.

Dave

Thanks for those Dave...

And Jason, I'm really sorry about that. I'm washing my fingers out with soap.

Hello all,

I'm never sure if I'm posting in the right
thread... whoever is in charge please move
my post if needed Hopefully this link
hasn't been posted on the forum yet....
I apologise if instead it has been posted
and I didn't see it

Here's a cool site I just found:
http://www.mouken.com/rss/carp/
Which is about CaRP, a Caching RSS Parser
(I wrote it but I'm not sure what that
means... LOL!)

There's so much stuff on that page that
somewhere there must be something useful
for bombers... one link for example goes
to: http://chordata.geckotribe.com/
"Your directory of quality RSS, Atom and
Info Bite feeds"... THIS I know can be
of some use to blogbomb users

There's also some info on how to automatically
generate customized Amazon.com Associates links
http://www.mouken.com/rss/carp/manual/example_amazon.php
I know there's a bomb for Amazon which
probably works better with other bombs,
but I still think this page can be useful
to someone

Then there's also something to Convert Web
Pages & News Searches to RSS: a tool called
Grouper: http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/grouper/

These are just a couple of sections I found
in less than 5 minutes browsing... if you find
anything else useful enough to be noted please
post it here (or in a more relevant thread

Hope this helps,
cheers,
Saul

Does anyone remember how to find rss pheeds via google? Kurt posted it here some time ago cant seem to find it.

Gil

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Gil

This is what I do

xml feed keyword

replace keyword with your keyword.

Tom

>Gil
>
>This is what I do
>
>xml feed keyword
>
>replace keyword with your keyword.
>
>Tom

Thanks Tom I'll try that but Kurt posted a specfic way to find RSS pheeds on google.

Gil

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I personally prefer Yahoo to Google for finding feeds as they allow you to search just for RSS feeds in their advanced search
--

Jason D

LAST EDITED ON Jun-24-04 AT 03:01 PM (PST)
 
Self-deleted post

Misread last post on page 1 and answered. My mistake.

John

>I personally prefer Yahoo to Google for finding feeds as
>they allow you to search just for RSS feeds in their
>advanced search
>--
>
>Jason D

Thanks Jason,

Great Tip! It sure DOES make a difference when searching for RSS feeds.

Rick Wilson aka CorpRebel

Whilst using filetype:rss in Google will almost definately return valid RSS files it may not.

The reason for this is that Google's filetype search modifier (for non supported files, such as PDF Word Docs, Excel spreadsheets etc.) works on the file extension. Although it is unlikely that anyone would use the rss extension for anything other than an RSS file it is possible.

More importantly though is that most RSS feeds are auto generated by server side code and don't use an RSS extension.

.php .cgi .asp .pl etc are all more likely so that's why I prefer Yahoo's search over Google's for finding feeds as their advanced search works on the file content rather than file extension

Jason D

The Washington Post has a few good pheeds:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-adv/rss/

The newzbomb version I have doesn't work anymore.. no results ;-(

Who has the latest complete version that works ?

Tasari
Internet Marketing Warrior
http://www.bestsecrets.com

Tasari, Chris -

I'm not sure which Newzbomb you're having trouble with. I saw a reference to Yahoo News on the other thread.

Check posts 96 & 97 on page 1 of this thread. Yahoo changed their format, which required some changes to the program. Edward was kind enough to post the fixes both as downloadable files and as instructions of what to change. One is for Rocket News and the other for Yahoo. Both of the files Edward posted are working for me. The Google one doesn't seem to be working right now, so they may have changed their format by now.

Jeff

>Hi again
>
>Just fixed the Yahoo NewsBomb Script as well.
>
>Open yahoo2rss.php and Find:
>
>As above - the forum alters the code so open the attached
>text file.
>
>That should do it
>
>UPDATE:
>
>Download the file rather than simply opening it - some tags
>in the file make the page look odd when viewing through a
>browser.
>
>--
>Edward

Hello,

The txt file attachment says, find
"{(.+?).+?\s+(.+?)(.+?).+?(.+?)}is"; but it does not say what to replace it with.

The second part was easy. Anyone know what has to be changed?

Gil

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Here's what Edward's instructions said (may have been in the forum and not in the attachment).

The instructions below worked fine for me.

Jeff

**************************************************************
Just fixed the Yahoo NewsBomb Script as well.

Open yahoonews2rss.php and Find:

$itemregexp = "{<li><a href=\"(<^\">+)\"><big>(.+?)</big></a>.+?</div>\s+(.+?)<br><img}is";

and Replace with:

$itemregexp = "{<li><a.+?href=\"(<^\">+)\">(.+?)</a>.+?</div>(.+?)</li>}is";

also Find:

$data = strstr($data,"YAHOO! NEWS STORY MATCHES");

and Replace with:

$data = strstr($data,"<h2>NEWS SEARCH RESULTS");

That should do it

I just got a new dedicated server running Fedora with Plesk and moved a site that has blogbomb all over it.

I can get Blogbomb to work with NEW feeds from daypop etc. but all my old feeds were from Newzbomb (yahoo and Allthe News etc.) and for some reason Newzbomb does not work.

I installed on a fresh new domain and same thing Newzbomb does not work.

Enter in a query and it just spins but never leaves the page??? Very odd.

I do not look forward to having to switch my yahoo news etc. to something else.

My provider says server has standard php and it is the script that is problem. I tried both versions - with curl and without.

Can someone help me???

http://www.vjvideo.com/newzbomb/yahoonews2rss.php

Also I tried replacing my category and cache files but get errors - I think because newzbomb iz not working. Very frustrating.

Best regards,

Mick

Mick,

Did you check the "fix" in the post right above yours?

John

EZ

I have a version that works on my other server. It does not work on my new server. I searched for the code in my file you referred to and it is not in my page... besides it is not just yahoo but all the php pages that do not work.

I think it has to do with PHP ???

Frustrating.

Mick

Another sometimes overlooked question:

You reuploaded to the new server. Permissions?

Also, I'd get the lastest Newsbomb, make the upgrade "fixes" and reinstall, if it were me.

John

Mick,

The fixes are definitely a necessity.

Something else to look at is a couple of PHP settings - safe_mode and register_globals. Those settings could be different between your old and new server.

My bet based on your description of the problem is that register_globals is OFF on your new server, and ON on your old one, and that would be the likely cause of this problem.

Let's check this:

On your site, create a file called phpinfo.php - in that file put the following:

<?
phpinfo();
?>

Save the file, then let me know where it is. It will let me check the settings on your server. You can PM me the location if you want. I'd delete that file after we're done with it.

If it's a dedicated server that you control, it's easy enough to fix.

Jeff

Gene,

That page that you see that starts with <xml is what you would add to Blogbomb. Just copy/paste the URL from your browser address bar into a Blogbomb channel.

I would advise against using that feed directly from voidstar.com . Bombers have similar scripts, I believe they are included with Blogbomb, and they're called newzbombs I think. I'd install them on your own domain.

In fact, if I were you, I'd get a cheap throw-away hosting account somewhere ($6/year at Dayanahost.com) and install them there if you're going to use them. Your feeds will then source from that account, and you can paste that URL into Blogbomb at your main domain(s).

Jeff

Hi all,

I've just started playing around with blogbomb
and have come across the follow feeds collections:

http://www.lights.com/weblogs/rssfeeds.html

http://channels.lockergnome.com/rss/

Various government feeds -
http://www.rssgov.com/

http://www.search4rss.com/

Enjoy,

Barbt

Good morning,

Some of the RSS feeds I've discovered display
10 results (no more, no less). I've tried
appending things like "results=50" to no
avail. Are there any commonly-used tags
to generate more than 10 results?

Thanks!

-- barbt

Barb,

The person/software generating the pheed control how many items per pheed, not the person on the receiving end.

If I only put two items in my pheed, there's no way you're going to get three or more, no matter what your setting is...

Hi Kurt,

>The person/software generating the pheed control how many
>items per pheed, not the person on the receiving end.
>
>If I only put two items in my pheed, there's no way you're
>going to get three or more, no matter what your setting
>is...

Wah, that's the wrong answer. Well, it's the
right answer but the one I was hoping not to see!!

How then do you get around the problem of
only 10 items per blog feed? Include 18 or 39
feeds? etc.etc.etc.

Thanks!

-- barbt

I've never considered it a problem, and as I said, you can't get around it.

You simply add enough pheeds to give you enough content for your project.

And/Or, you select resources that offer more than 10 items per pheed...Any of the RSS Bombs, or RSS.pheeds.com .

>With 1200 unique headlines, you could easily have enough
>"unique" content for 100 pages, at 12 headlines per page,
>while never repeating a single headline.
>
>But since we are randomizing the results, in theory we could
>go much, much higher than 100 pages, and each page uses the
>EXACT SAME Bomb SSI tags, yet will appear unique.
>
>But we can also randomize the number of feeds on each page.
>Some pages have 5 feeds, others have 25 feeds and most in
>the middle.

Hi,

What would be a good way to set up a sitemap for a site like this? Could you use AtlasBomb? Thanks.

Rich

Hi,

Here's a new pheed from Netflix:

http://www.netflix.com/RSSFeeds?lnkctr=sbRssF

They have thousands of DVDs, so there's a lot of data there.

Rich

I want "BlogBomb Feeds" to open up in a new window when clicked. Is there any way to do this with BlogBomb x2. I read this could be done in the older version. How can it be done in the new version of Blogbomb.

Thanks
Steve

Steve,

Where's the link to more RSS resources? This is the Official Thread for RSS resources.

LAST EDITED ON Nov-07-04 AT 00:27 AM (PST)
 
Never mind ... I just figured it out.
I noticed Cindy had this same question. SO, just incase someone else has that question here is the answer.
Simply go to the BlogBomb Xtreme Admin Area and put in the template field, the following:

<a TARGET="_blank" href="{url}">{title}</a><br>
{description}<br> </br>

Hope this helps.

Kurt, BlogBomb is great. As to your question....
Reason I posted this here was because of your statement in the official threads. "BlogBomb - Bomb Xtreme - NewzBomb: How to use it and where to find feeds." So figured this was a "how to use it" question

Anyway, here is a feed to wired games:
http://www.wired.com/news/feeds/rss2/0,2610,74,00.xml

another for about's Computer Action Games:
http://z.about.com/6/g/compactiongames/b/index.xml

Lunabean News:
http://www.lunabean.com/index.xml

I4U (games) Future Technology News:
http://www.i4u.com/i4u.xml

Thanks Rich, That was a nice feed at netflix.

Steve
"Still dombom'n away": http://gamespak.com

here's a feed from:
http://www.theinquirer.net
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer.rss
... techie site I use from time to time.

Steve

...another techie and support site set of feeds here on MS...
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/community/centers/iis/default.mspx

Steve

Feedster announced its ability to segment search results by source type. The first example of the resulting specialty search engines is found at blogs.Feedster.com. The Feedster service provides users the ability to search for RSS feeds.

"Feedster's harnessing of RSS is changing search and the expectations of Internet searchers," said Scott Rafer, CEO of Feedster. "We launched blogs.Feedster.com in response to user demand to offer blog search results separated from the news and e-commerce information in our system."

MORE:

http://blogs.feedster.com/
http://www.searchnewz.com/searchnewz-12-20041115FeedstersNewBlogSearchEnhancesRSSSearchService.html

/Cotton
skype: claycotton
http://www.claycotton.com

"Life's most persistent and urgent
question is, What are you doing
for others?" - Martin Luther King,
Jr.

I hope this hasnt been repeated. But here is a good resource.

http://www.sofotex.com/download/feeds.htm

software feed!

Sorry I can't give you the direct link, it automatically redirects

http://www.newsknowledge.com/ go to second link "Content Network" then scroll down to "Search sources"

If you use the newsknowledge service it's $40, but if you browse or search categories - they show all their sources which you can then add directly to blogbomb yourself.

Also I don't know whether this one has been mentioned.

http://www.waypath.com/directory/dmoz/dmoz.html

Brenda

LAST EDITED ON Jan-14-05 AT 11:43 PM (PST)
 
(Sorry Kurt it's 4am here and I am a bit brain dead...)
All who have used Blogbomb,

More than once I have read that many bombers are starting to use Blogbomb more on their pages to get spidered more often.

It seems that the most feeds I am using now do not refresh daily.

What sites/rss feeds have you found (general topics) that give the freshest content?

Steve

Steve, Everyone...

When using a pheed search engine such as Daypop, you will have two search options:

Relevancy (default)
Date

If you want "fresh", you need to do a search BY DATE, then grab the rss url from that search.

If you chose relevancy, your pheeds will not update nearly as often.

Obviously, "By date" will list the newest pheeds first, which is what we need...

LAST EDITED ON Feb-01-05 AT 04:38 PM (PST)
 
Hi,

You can now use MSN Search for news AND search result pheeds. Bombs away!

Rich

Thanks Rich...

All...A quick note, the RSS pheeds from MSN have this copyright notice contained in them:

---

<copyright>Copyright © 2005 Microsoft. All rights reserved. These XML results may not be used, reproduced or transmitted in any manner or for any purpose other than rendering MSN Search results within an RSS aggregator for your personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of these results requires express written permission from Microsoft Corporation. By accessing this web page or using these results in any manner whatsoever, you agree to be bound by the foregoing restrictions.</copyright>

---

With this said, I'm not sure how they can copyright others' news stories, but I'd guess the the "compilations/group of summaries" can be copyright protected.

Also, there is a point in US copyright law called being "set" which means a document has to be finished before it can get copyrights. The concept being, "How can you have copyright protection for something that will changed?"

With this said, getting sued by Microsoft's lawyers is something most of us may not want to risk...

I don't think we listed this one: http://www.prleap.com

It's pretty good and quick.

Chris

www.flickr.com has a search feature that let's you add images via keywords and puts a new twist on using RSS pheeds.

You can go to the flickr homepage and so a search by keyword, or you can just the word "blues" to your keyword(s):

http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=blues&format=rss_200

Just saw this one referenced on Threadwatch:

http://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/Libraries/RSS_Library.shtml

Found this at Warriors: http://www.365articles.com/

Hey Chris old buddy!

Thanks for that link.

Tom

Kurt, somewhere you had said that you provided a list of RSS feeds that you could add to your site and earn PPC.

But, I can't find it anywhere!

Can you please send me in the right direction...please?

Hi Holly,

Welcome to the Madbomber's forum - nice to see you here!

Are you thinking of Cherrybomb? That gets PPC results in XML format and displays them on your page as plain HTML. That's the only revenue-producing PPC feed I can think of that we've discussed here.

There are other revenue-producing feeds available, although they're not PPC. For example, Bo's Buy It Bomb turns merchant data feeds to RSS.

Jeff

Holly,

Maybe this is what you were refering to. Up at the top of the page, you'll find "More PPC Affilate Programs." Several PPCs are listed there by another bomber.

Hope that helps,

John

Holly,

I don't think I ever said that there's a list of RSS pheeds for PPC for BlogBomb (which is probably why you can't find it), since the PPC engines don't use RSS and instead use XML.

As Jeff and John pointed out, there is list of PPCs that use XML (not RSS) to use in CherryBomb with a link at the top of each forum page.

LAST EDITED ON Feb-20-06 AT 05:35 PM (PST)
 
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ (great to see if pheeds are hanging)
More blog search engines: (I'll add to Official thread)
http://www.blogwise.com
http://www.backwash.com
http://blogdex.net
http://www.blogsearchengine.com

The main use I've found for it, is that it lets you publish your feed as either RSS or ATOM, without worrying about conversions. Which is very useful for different syndication programs. You can also control the way people view your feeds, if they decide to view it in a web browser.

http://www.feedburner.com

hope some of you bombers will find this helpful.
This application can be used to turn a RSS feed into a javascript you can put on any of your HTML pages to generate live page news or article updates.
http://www.10001press.com/rss/build.php

The w.bloggar is an application that acts as an interface between the user and one or more blog(s). It is a Post and Template editor,it runs over the Windows GUI, it allows the user to edit posts without being connected to the Internet. Posts can be saved locally, one click will post it to the weblog, and it is compatible with most of the weblog systems available.
http://wbloggar.com/faq.php#243

http://blogsearch.google.com

Here's a couple of ping services:
http://kping.com/pings/ping.php
http://pingoat.com/
One more:
http://pinger.blogflux.com/

Kurt,

Thanks for putting this together.

>Here's a couple of ping services:
>http://kping.com/pings/ping.php
>http://pingoat.com/
>One more:
>http://pinger.blogflux.com/

Watch out for pingoat. It was set up specifically to trap "spam blogs" and to get their Adsense accounts cancelled.

Isobel

Note: Some of the posts on this thread are almost four years old.

If you find a dead/broken resource, please post the Post Number and URL that's bad, and I'll delete it from this thread to try to clean it up some.