FeedShot.com: New Blog Search Engine Submission Tool

September 25, 2005 7:28 PM

FeedShot.com: I just stumbled on a service named FeedShot that submits your RSS feed to 17 blog search engines. It covers the big ones: DayPop, Feedster, IceRocket, and Technorati, and it's free. It's not a pinging service, it's designed to handle the first submission to each of the search engines. I liked the report indicating which submissions were successful, which failed, and which were duplicates. The main drawback is it only submits to 17 sites out of the 50 or so available.
posted by rwalling (13 comments total)

This post seems especially pepsi-blueish and self promoting, although I can't prove it.

New poster, first post to the blue, advertising for a crappy site...

Fishy, is all.
posted by qwip at 7:39 PM on September 25, 2005

how is it pepsi blue if it's not selling anything?

if its a big fakeout to get my spam email address then whatever, they got it.

if its a free service to help promote my dumb blogs then thanks rwalling
posted by tsarfan at 7:43 PM on September 25, 2005

*snif snif*

Smells like a self link
posted by delmoi at 8:11 PM on September 25, 2005

this one seems nicer. And google knows about 83 pages that link to it, unlike the zero that link to feedshot. I wonder how rwalling found out about it.
posted by delmoi at 8:22 PM on September 25, 2005

I get zero hits for this site on Google, Yahoo, alltheweb, altavista, technorati and icerocket. Feedster has one link to a delicious bookmark for it. How did you stumble across this, rwalling?
posted by jessamyn at 8:25 PM on September 25, 2005

Looks like a self link to me, both this and the user's www.softwarebyrob.com page use not only asp but the (extremely ugly though admittedly popular) __viewstate, and (surprise surprise) are hosted on the same machine.
posted by fvw at 8:31 PM on September 25, 2005

The domain is registered to Domains By Proxy. The only 'blog' search engine that rwalling linked too that actualy found any refrence to feedshot was feedster, which linked to this del.icio.us page where the first link was by none other then rwalling, just two hours ago. All of rwalling's other posts on del.icio.us go to his own site, http://www.softwarebyrob.com, which is full of boring pap.
posted by delmoi at 8:31 PM on September 25, 2005

Another 5-dolla newb busted? How de.licio.us!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:34 PM on September 25, 2005

Looks like a self link to me, both this and the user's www.softwarebyrob.com page ... are hosted on the same machine.

I whent through all that trouble looking up the whois info, and I never bothered to do an nslookup. Oh well.

Hmm, check this out.

DotNetNuke supports multiple portals from a single database/codebase. It accomplishes this by converting the URL of the client browser Request to a valid PortalID in the Portals database table. The following steps describe the process:

So it's obviously not a major hosting provider, and it seems that all the sites use the same DB...
posted by delmoi at 8:35 PM on September 25, 2005

Yep, fvw. The poster and the linked site share an IP.

http://www.whois.sc/reverse-ip/69.24.76.32

>4 domains found on 69.24.76.32
>Showing all 4.
>
>Website
>www.Feedshot.com
>www.Santamonicavacation.com
>www.Softwarebyrob.com
>1 more domains found...
posted by merlinmann at 8:35 PM on September 25, 2005

That was fun. Let's have one mystery self-link every week.
posted by fvw at 8:37 PM on September 25, 2005

>I get zero hits for this site on Google, Yahoo, alltheweb, altavista, technorati and icerocket.

>All of rwalling's other posts on del.icio.us go to his own site, http://www.softwarebyrob.com, which is full of boring pap.

I knew some people smarter (and much better looking, I'm sure) than me would easily start filling in the blanks. Glad to see how it's done.
posted by qwip at 8:38 PM on September 25, 2005

Bleh, what fun is uncovering a self link without the posters protestations of innocence?
posted by delmoi at 8:39 PM on September 25, 2005