I thought it might be time to provide an update on the progress of my lens Seven Of The Best Uses For RSS Feeds. The lens was initially created on June 26th 2008, although it took me a few days to build so the first publication was probably over a week later. Once published I added it to a few directories, bookmarking sites and blogged, with the title RSS Feeds Are The Best, on July 15th 2008 here at Squidtop.
The results are not staggering, but they are interesting. So far there have been 43 visits to Seven Of The Best Uses For RSS Feeds, 10 of them from Google (which means it must be indexed), 10 from Squidoo, 7 from Squidtop and 5 from Digg. The Digg results do seem a bit strange though, according to Digg the lens has been “Dugg” 23 times. I presume that means that people are digging without visiting the lens, how does that work?
One other point worth noting is my experience with Propeller. The admin at Propeller appear to have taken a dislike to Squidoo, their submission page would not allow my Squidoo URL to be entered and came up with some kind of “spam” warning message. To get round this problem I submitted my previous Squidtop posting, which seemed a good idea at the time. When I next tried to log in to Propeller a day or two later my account had been deleted! Seems a bit extreme, but it is their site and I guess they are entitled to do as they like.
Has anybody else had experiences of this nature?
