Feeding articles by keyword into blog?

  • Resolved msadventures

    (@msadventures)


    17 years, 11 months ago

    Hello all.
    I have something that I’d like to do on a blog but as usual do not know how to do it, don’t know what it’s called, etc, and hope someone can help point me in the right direction.

    What I’d like to do is run a news feed into a sidebar column on a blog, however, rather than going to some sites and subscribing to rss feeds, etc, what I’d like to be able to do is set up a few choice keywords, and anytime an article or blog post containing those words is published on the internet, even from a site I may never have visited, I’d like a link to it to show up in that news feed column in my own blog sidebar.

    Does anyone know what this is called, how to do it, is it possiible, is there a plugin, etc? I think it’s called an aggregator but again I don’t really know. I’d appreciate any pointers!

    Thank you!

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  • Uh, I think it is called “Magic”.

    Good luck.

    mmmm. I’m going to have to pipe in and ask that you refrain from doing that as youve described it. I can tell you from personal experience that that reeks of splogging, and Ive had it happen to me 2x now, both times from a wordpress blog, that picked up certain keywords in my post and republished my feed on their site.

    Why do I know it was based on certain keywords? Because they had set up their categories with those same keywords — in other words, they have a music category, and once I posted an entry that contained the word music I got an immediate pingback from them.

    PLEASE reconsider doing that, aggregating content from a site you actually visit is one thing, but aggregating content from sites you admittedly dont even visit? Thats theft, at a stretch, and very unfriendly at the least.

    Thread Starter msadventures

    (@msadventures)

    Oh, I guess I could have written that better, I didn’t make myself clear enough.

    I don’t want to publish the articles as my primary content, they’d be in a sidebar, and it would only be the title of the article and the name of the website that published it linking back to the original website – no other part of the article would appear…is that still considered splogging/stealing?

    well, its much friendlier than what you originally described, yes ??

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