I had wrote about Aggregation feeds back in June. With anything, there is always the good and the bad. I have always had mixed feelings about them.
The problem I am having more of right now is Saturation of using one’s feed… Domaining.com, AdamDicker.com are two of the main ones that grab DotWeekly.com’s feed. I’m sure other’s do as well and now DnHeadlines.com is interested as well.
Here is my recent Q&A with Michael from DnHeadlines:
DnHeadlines: Q, What do you think about becoming part of the DNHeadlines.com RSS inventory?
My Answer:
Hi Michael,
I guess I have always had mixed feelings about blog aggregation.
The good for the blog owner:
It can provide extra traffic (readers) to your site, which can also bring in more direct readers.
Gain in links.
The bad for the blog owner:
The person grabbing the feed is "getting something for nothing"! Who says they will be sending traffic "back" and not just using the content.
The person grabbing the feed is profiting from somebody else’s work. IMO (ie, adding "ads") because without the aggregation, Domaining.com and DNHeadlines.com wouldn’t have the content they do and the advertisers wouldn’t be around or getting clicks.
The bloggers unique content is spread around the web, making the blogs unique content not very unique anymore. Although the blogger was the first, that doesn’t mean all the traffic from that content goes TO the site that started it.
Saturation. After domaining.com started, more and more "domain" aggregation sites are coming up. Do we really need more?
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I think our industry is way to spread out already. Don’t get me wrong, competition is good but when is the fine line of to many or to much?
How many think like I do, that the domain industry has way to many Auction Services? Same thing as the Blog Aggregation. It’s good and bad. Bad for buyers, because how do you be so many places? How can you reasearch so many different domains all over the place, let alone find them all..
What if the auction services offered up all their domains into 2 auctions per day as a Group? Each get to keep their own profits etc. Then you would only have One Place to do your reasearch. One auction for Expired Domains, the second auction for the day would be "customer domains". TDNAM, Pool, SnapNames, Afternic and Namjet, Sedo all on ONE auction service… I know I’m dreaming, but it "could" be done.
Damir
Interesting post – nice one
Matt MacKay
I am wondering what you think of a “keyword” aggregation service like RSScram.com? It pulls in RSS feeds from all over the internet based on custom keywords and aggregates them for the user. The user can also enter feeds manually or choose from one of the thousands of available feeds.
With the vast amounts of information on the internet, any tool to help organize that information is welcome, in my opinion.
Scott
I partially agree with you. Call me crazy, but I think one place where everyone can go to get their domaining info would be great. Several are ok, and beyond that it’s just watered down.
That said, I like Domaining.com the best. But it’s not perfect. DNHeadlines.com is ok, but the front page is too damn huge and bulky to navigate.
I like DNHour.com, but I think for something like this to work the entire community needs to participate and contribute. If this is done, I think DNHour could be really good.
If DNHour can convince all domain bloggers and news sites to carry their “Digg” button, and everyone treated it respectfully without abuse, it would be fantastic.
As for taking my content, I think everyone has differing opinions on the matter. Personally, as long as you don’t post my entire story and link back to my site, I’m generally ok with it. I’m not ok with you posting my entire story.
Also, if your site is benefiting from my content in any way, a general link and perhaps a site review would be in order, in my opinion. It’s the least that can be done, especially if you are making money off of my content.