RE: [syndication] Contacting Aggregators

[Steven Roussey <sroussey@network54.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: james@xmlTree.com [mailto:james@xmltree.com]
> > I think our forums have been picked up by some aggregators as I
> have seen
> > our XML Exports grow greatly as of late. We are used to maybe a couple
> > thousand a day but that has grown to over 200,000 a day this week.
>
> If the XML is generated dynamically, this starts to amount to
> significant overhead.

That was the part that got my attention, actually. I've added a caching
system so checks when the data has not changed are saved and not
regenerated. That has helped alot, but still...

Also, the idea about the user-agent (like search engines use) is a good one.
I encourage everyone that reads this list do use it if they can.

And for anyone our there that uses our channels, I'm switching to RSS 0.91
and taking 0.90 out of the OCS files (although it will still work). I hope
the aggregators are not getting the RSS 0.9 and 0.91 and ScriptingNews
versions for the same resource. Ick.

Sincerely,

Steven Roussey
Network54.com
http://network54.com/?pp=e