AideRSS analyzes RSS/blog feeds to determine the popularity of each item according to the number of comments, Diggs, Del.icio.us bookmarks, backlinks and clickthroughs.
One of the most useful features of AideRSS for bloggers is the ability to analyze the popularity of items in your own blog feed. Consequently, you can use this data to create a widget of your highest ranking feed items - your popular posts - which can be displayed in a widget in your sidebar, which is very easy to install!
Getting Started With AideRSS?
To begin analyzing the rank of items in your own blog feed, simply visit the AideRSS homepage and type your blog's RSS feed URL into the box.
If you use Feedburner to burn your Blogger feed, enter the URL of your Feedburner feed (eg: http://feeds.feedburner.com/YOUR-FEED-NAME).
If you do not redirect your feeds through Feedburner, you will need to enter your feed URL like this instead:
http://yourblog.blogspot.com/rss.xmlOn the following page, AideRSS will analyze your blog feed, then refresh to offer results of each items Postrank:
Once you've taken a look at the popularity of your most recent posts, you can go ahead to create your popular posts widget by clicking the "Sharing and Widgets" link near the top right of the screen.
This page displays a preview of what your widget would appear like on the left, and the code you can use to display this widget to the right.
Adding the AideRSS Popular Posts Widget to Your Blog
To add the widget in it's default format, simply copy the code in the box, and paste this into an HTML/JavaScript widget.
If you would prefer to customize the widget, there are prompts in the JavaScript code which explain how to change the following:
- Date Range: Choose from Year, Month, Week or Day
- The Number of Posts: by default, this is set to 5. Simply replace this variable with the actual number of posts you would like to display.
If you prefer, you can even add the JavaScript code to display the results with a post, like this:
To use the JavaScript in a blog post, you must ensure that you create your post in Edit HTML mode, otherwise the JavaScript will become malformed and not display once your post is published.
There is no need to register with AideRSS to analyze your blog feeds or use the popular posts widget.
Once you have first analyzed a feed URL using this free service, you will be able to access the data anytime you like.
More about AideRSS
This popular posts feature is not the only useful aspect of AideRSS. You can also use this free service to save time by filtering your feed subscriptions to display only those which you may be interested to read. Also, Jake Luciani used AideRSS functionality to research the best time of day to publish blog posts.
You can learn more about this popular internet startup on the AideRSS about page, and get a feel of what this system is capable of by looking through the API pages.
Please let me know what you think about this widget by leaving your comments and opinions below.
26 Comments:
My blog is quite new and currently there are only 6-7 quality posts.
But I wish to use this widget some day. It was a great tutorial plus review that you have done.
Amanda, thanks for the great review!
Just one tip to add: when you're entering the URL of the blog to analyze, you don't necessarily have to specify the RSS feed. If you simply put in your main URL (for example: http://www.bloggerbuster.com), we will try to find the associated RSS feed automatically.
Ilya
I added the widget to the bottom of my sidebar, but because I had my Feedburner feed set to show only 5 posts, the widget is only analyzing 5 at this time. I just reset my feed to show all my posts so I'll see how the widget data changes over the next few weeks. Thanks for another excellent tip and tutorial!
Hi Amanda! Thanks for another great review! When I put in my feedburner feed url it comes up as showing this at the top:
3 posts since Jan 12, 08 • Last update: about 16 hours ago
Which is quite inaccurate. Am I doing something wrong?
@mudiva Something must have gone wrong during the import process - we're looking into it. Having said that, take a look now @ http://www.aiderss.com/all/themakeupdivas.blogspot.com/
ilya, thank you, it is working fine now. :)
Amanda I just used this widget and this is really a nice and clean looking popular post widget I have seen so far . Thanks !
What am i missing? I have gone through their official site, as well as read a few posts but can't seem to figure out what went wrong ---
When I go to AideRSS to review my posts status, I see that the diggs that I have listed on my site aren't there. For example, one post called "How Sex and Violence Made Jim Henson a Star" actually has 14 diggs, and AideRSS only sees this as 1 digg. Help!
Cool except for the fact that it doesn't support Firefox 3 just yet. Just have to wait a little more..
@idhren - Do you mean that you installed the widget on a site, and viewing the widget and that site in FF3 wasn't working?
Or were you referring to the Google Reader extension, which doesn't always work well with FF3?
If it's the first scenario, drop me a line with the details: melanie at aiderss dot com.
If it's the second scenario, you can get the beta version of the Google Reader extension, which does work better with FF3/Greasemonkey here.
@finnfactory - Just had a look at your feed analysis, and it's now showing that post at 16 diggs: http://www.aiderss.com/all/finnfactory.blogspot.com
I imagine the issue was just a backlog of info for one of the spiders to get through. The post is showing as an 8.8 now, so it looks like things are all caught up.
Ah right, I looked into it again and noticed it was about the extension. I just saw a line referring to "do you support FF3", read with haste and thought "oh dammit". Anyway, good thing I looked back :D
So the widget is working fine except for one thing - it shows the score of posts for each post before the topic, okay, but it only shows one digit, the last one. So when I actually have like rank 9,2, it only shows the number 2. I have no idea what to do, the widget really should have enough space around it and all.
Oh, and one more thing - I have 65 posts, though the AideRss -site claims I have only 41. And when I try to examine all my posts and their ranks, it only shows the ones I've made this month.
Time to upgrade !
PostRank has relaunched their popular posts / top posts widget . It is a must use feature.
If you have used my popular posts widget with postrank feed before, you might want to upgrade to it !
http://itblood.blogspot.com/2008/12/postrank-top-posts-widget-relaunch.html
http://itblood.blogspot.com
Hi.. I added the Top posts widget to my blog
http://forkspoonnknife.blogspot.com/ and the window shows a highest ranked post of 8.4. T
he AideRSS website analysis of my feed shows a post at 9.8 but the widget ranks the same post at 6.0
what am i missing?
i need it for my blog.
http://pmodels.blogspot.com/
thanks for this usefull informations..
now i find what i want to know..
thanks..
Excellent information and the best part is that we can use this data to create a widget of your highest ranking feed items, I think that's the best source.m10m
Thank you very much for the extensive explanation. Very nicely written. Really makes think.
But sometimes we can get some complications because it doesn't support Firefox 3, we would have to think in something totally different, what do you think about it?
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I must say that AideRSS is something new to me. Looks like a great widget indeed. Thanks for the info.
If you can make costume feeds I will change the default that blogspot has for this one. Thanks for the recommendation.
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