Mar
31
2011

miXfeed – Make Scheduled Tasks Off Your Blogs List

In twindeXator, you may add only one feed into the task in the schedule mode.
But what to do if you have multiple feeds which you want to add to the task quickly?

Introducing miXfeed, RSS-feeds aggregation tool.

What Is miXfeed?

miXfeed is a tool for RSS-feeds aggregation.

You can take as many feeds as you like, put them into miXfeed and get the single URL for their united feed.
Then you just create a scheduled task in twindeXator with this united feed.

miXfeed was purposely developed for Link Farm Evolution users who have hundreds and thousands blogs they want to index.

Hosting Requirements

miXfeed can run on almost every server, even on most of shared hostings. You need only PHP5, MySQL and CURL installed.
Unlike twiXer and linXfeed, miXfeed needs also MySQL.

You also need cron, but if your hosting doesn’t have it you can use some external tool like webcron.org. And no, we have no idea whether there are free tools like this.

miXfeed can’t work on your localhost, unless you can figure out how to keep constant feed URLs. We can’t provide any help in this issue.

How To Work With miXfeed

1. Create a new feed

1.1. Click on Create feed.

miXfeed Create a new feed

1.2. Insert your feeds list

miXfeed works with two types of input items: ready RSS-feed URLs in different format, and blog URLs.

If these are WordPress blogs, as in the case of LFE they are, all you need to do in order to get the feed URL is to add feed/ after blog’s URL.
Now you can export your blogs list from LFE and enter it as is into miXfeed window, and miXfeed will automatically add feed/ in the end.

Note: The blog URL must end with / .

1.3. Choose the settings for the feed

Choose how many items the feed will contain.

Choose a periodicity of the feed renewal.

Click Submit.

2. Here comes the Feed

You see the feed appeared in the list.

miXfeed - Feeds in the list

The feed is being renewed every chosen period of time and gives out links from all source feeds.

3. Grab the Feed

Copy the feed URL by clicking on Copy button.

Then go to twindeXator and paste the feed URL in the new scheduled task. Set task parameters according to the feed parameters.

4. Rinse and Repeat

Create as many mixed feeds as you wish, feed them to twindeXator tasks.

5. Lean Back And Enjoy

You’re finish then!

6. Profit!

How To Choose Feed Parameters Better?

Do the reverse math. The starting point – the twindeXator bandwith. Every task can post 50-100 tweets per hour. If you want to post every link to three accounts, then build the feed the way that every hour there will be 20 new items.

If your blogs doesn’t have many new posts, then maybe you can batch all your blogs feeds into one mixed feed. Then, choose a longer period to diminish an effect of possible posting many posts in different blogs synchronously.

If your blogs post many, then make opposite – divide your blog list to many small ones. Then you make many mixed feeds and create from them many twindeXator tasks.

This little miracle costs only $20!