RssHugger is a site dedicated to helping bloggers promote their blogs via their rss feeds. The site itself sports a clean simple look with a dark background and orange text. I’m not normally a huge fan of dark backgrounds on websites but I think it works here - specially since there’s not a huge amount of text to read on the site.
The site functions essentially like a top list. Each blog is given a page at RssHugger (see mine here). The more hits you get to that page the higher you rise in the top 100 list. This gives the blogger an incentive to promote RssHugger and thereby promote their own blog. At the moment RssHugger contains just over 1000 feeds and seems to be growing at a fairly slow but steady pace. You won’t find any of the major A-list blogs there but there’s enough variety to ensure that you’ll find something that’s interesting.
One gripe I have with the site design is that it wasn’t immediately apparent to me how to get to the entire blog directory instead of just the “top 100″ or “random blog”. The poorly named “search” link the navigation actually brings you to the entire list.
I’m also not enamored of how they handle the voting for a site. Simply visiting a page for a blog doesn’t mean I’m interested in the blog or giving it my vote of confidence. I’d rather see the voting be done by people clicking through to an actual blog post which is at least somewhat more indicative of interest and would allow multiple “votes” for a site that the reader deems worthy of reading multiple posts.
Overall however RssHugger seems like a worthy addition to the blogosphere which I’d be happy to see succeed.
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