http://www.seomasterlist.com

Edward

I mostly use your first described list. Alltop’ list seems to be the best one for me and I really like their preview of article function.

Related to the comment on top of mine :
@Lee Odden – I guess this qualitative info should be our part, the users of these websites.

I wouldn’t want you to arbitrarily put Online Marketing Blog on top just because I whined about not being included. Of course I don’t mind it either.

It’s just that there would be more meaning to being included for all blogs listed if there was an indication of “passing the bar” or, meeting some kind of criteria like links, comments, PageRank, Technorati score or similar. Cheers.

http://www.socialseo.com/aggregator_summary

socialseo.org/aggregator_summary

Perhaps slightly makes the cut?

Thanks

Well people have varied levels of technical skill. I know several domainers who are amazingly successful business people but still haven’t worked out RSS. They are very happy to use a site where someone has done the work for them (and spend their time where it will earn them money).

On your second point though, that is why we tried to do something slightly different from the other aggregators.

SocialBlogroll is built on a voting system. We update every day from the blogrolls of the 120+ marketers (including quality controlled sources such as the TopRank BigList). At the moment we are including nearly 1000 blogs from the internet marketing community. All these can be searched (vertical search engine) and blog authors can claim their site to add tags. That has given us several niche aggregators, such as PPC, SMO and Link Building.

Hopefully that adds some value beyond placing 9 feeds on a page.

The whole point of getting RSS feeds is so you can read exactly what you want of the web and nothing else. I don’t see the value of sites like AllTop…

Not sure why this is a trend…?

I’m a big fan of Magpie but in this particular case we’re using a Ruby on Rails parser, slightly adapted to deal with ATOM as well as RSS feeds. We’re relying on auto-discovery to pick up the feed addresses once we have the blogroll URLs.

It was a good excuse to develop in RoR and I also wanted to try setting up a mod_proxy load balancing environment with multiple Mongrel servers per site. That drastically reduced the page load time.

Sorry Lee, will stop the geekiness now

I use something similar, Magpie RSS Parser http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/

Well Sphinn works in the exact way you describe (listed above)

With SocialBlogroll we took blogs as a whole but the votes from the 120+ people in the system determine which are listed on the front page. Hopefully that is a form of quality control as well.