Alltop – An Alternative To Search Engine


Alltop

I did a check on my last post 10 factors to aim for if you want your blog to be successful and i am surprised that it has 4 retweets on the posts. Alltop_Blogging is one of them and immediately i logged into my twitter account to have a look as i am curious to find out what Alltop_blogging is all about. I went into their website to take a look. After visiting their website, seriously i think it maybe useful to some of you if you like to know the latest stories from the other bloggers who are blogging the same niche as you. For those who don’t know about Alltop here is a explaination from them of what their website is all about :

You can think of Alltop as the “online magazine rack” of the web. We’ve subscribed to thousands of sources to provide “aggregation without aggravation.” To be clear, Alltop pages are starting points—they are not destinations per se. Ultimately, our goal is to enhance your online reading by displaying stories from sources that you’re already visiting plus helping you discover sources that you didn’t know existed.

We do this by collecting the headlines of the latest stories from the best sites and blogs that cover a topic. We group these collections — “aggregations” — into individual web pages. Then we display the five most recent headlines of the information sources as well as their first paragraph. Our topics run from adoption to zoology with photographyfoodsciencereligioncelebritiesfashiongamingsportspoliticsautomobilesMacintosh, and hundreds of other subjects along the way.

If you are into the blogging niche, just choose the blogging categories and you can see the most recent 5 headlines from most of the top blogs in the blogging niche. For example there is copyblogger, problogger, dailyblogtips and many of the rest that you can think of. There is also a category displaying the most popular stories.

Glance through the headline and place your cursor on the headline that you are interested in, part of the story will surface so that you can decide whether to read it or not.

If you want to submit your sites or you find that some of your favorite sites are missing, you can go to their submission form to complete the form. Do take note that your favorite site need to have RSS feeds in order for them to import the stories.

I believe this is a site that i will visit often as I think it is pretty useful. Most of the times i will tend to miss out some of the awesome posts by other bloggers. This is a place that consolidate most of the site that i regularly visit and i can scan through all of them under one roof.

Share your thoughts

Have you visited Alltop? Do you think its useful to you? Please let me know your thoughts in the comment box.

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Written by Lye Kuek Hin

Lye Kuek Hin is the founder of Findmyblogway who lives in Singapore. He is passionate about blogging and aims at bringing you the best blogging tips to help you become a better blogger. Connect with Lye on Twitter or Facebook.


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7 Responses to Alltop – An Alternative To Search Engine
  1. Michael
    August 16, 2010 | 6:02 pm

    Hi Lye

    I did not know about this, so I have learned something from this post, as I do with all your posts.

    Will most certainly take advantage of this resource.

    Thanks for sharing.

    Michael

    P.s I have implemented #1 of my blog challenge several times today!
    Michael recently posted..3 Ways To Become A Better BloggerMy Profile

  2. Lye Kuek Hin
    August 16, 2010 | 6:12 pm

    Hi Michael,

    You are most welcome. Thanks a lot for your #1 challenge :) I am glad that you find this useful. There are other topics in Alltop that i am interested at so definitely its useful for me too.

    Lye

  3. Knut
    August 17, 2010 | 4:35 pm

    Hi Lye.

    Thanks for a very useful post, and I have to add as usual.

    I never heard of alltop before, but from now on I will use it daily.

    Thanks again.

    Knut
    Knut recently posted..Real Writing Jobs – make money writingMy Profile

  4. Lye Kuek Hin
    August 17, 2010 | 6:05 pm

    Hi Knut,

    You are most welcome. I am glad that you find it useful. I am visiting it everyday as it saves me the hassle of visiting every blog and tends to miss some of them.

    Talk to you soon.

    Lye

  5. Samuel
    August 18, 2010 | 2:45 am

    Thanks man! Have nt heard bout it before, i will definately check them out thanks alot.

  6. Lye Kuek Hin
    August 18, 2010 | 5:50 pm

    Hi Samuel,

    I hope you will find it useful and make use of it to visit the blog that you like.

    Talk to you soon.

    Lye

  7. TracyAnn0312
    January 13, 2012 | 3:15 pm

    Hi Lye. never thought all about this. Thanks for giving us your time to write such information about Alltop!
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