Earlier, I mentioned the 90-Day Rule — blogs that haven’t been updated in the last 90 days are dropped from the list of websites visible on pfblogs.org, but are not dropped from the database. They are polled every half hour just like all the others. If their authors happen to return from hiatus, we want to be there to aggregate their new content.
Based on your feedback, 90 days is too generous. By closing the window to 30 days, more blogs have been removed from the list. 47 blogs, or about 12%, are now not included in the pfblogs.org sidebar. Each blog has the opportunity to return once a new post has been published.
You might have also noticed that I’ve modified the styling so blogs in the first level of recency — an update within the last 12 hours — stand out more. I changed my mind. I didn’t like this change.
Hello,
I completely agree with the changes you’ve made. My blog does not show up at all on the sidebar now, when it used to. My blog is called A Penny Saved and can be reached at the url http://money.thatedeguy.com
If you’ll check the site you’ll see it has been updated as recently as the end of last week. It appeared on the sidebar up until I visited the site today.
Thanks,
The sorting method has changed. For example “A Penny Saved” is alphabetized under the word “Penny” rather than “A.” Your blog’s listed.
I see that now. Sorry for the mixup and thanks for the reponse. Great site btw.
No worries — glad you like the site.
I’m late to the ballgame on this comment, but why wait even 30 days to remove a blog? If someone’s going 29 days between posts, they obviously don’t have very much to say, and that probably speaks for the quality of their blog, too. While I know quantity doesn’t directly translate into quality, you’ve gotta have the goods if you’re gonna be in the business.
Of course, that raises the question: if not 30 days, then how many? 20? 10? 7? Personally, I think a week between posts without extenuating circumstances points to a blogger who’s not seriously committed to the subject about which he or she is blogging. And should a blogger return to posting after X number of days, how would it be known whether he or she would repeat the lapse in posting again? My suggestion would be to treat blogs pruned from the list as fresh blogs starting from the moment of the lapse so that they’ll have to crank out a decent bit of new content before being relisted.
It’s certainly a decision I’m glad I don’t have to make, but as the volume of personal finance, real estate, and investing blogs explodes, it might become time soon for more drastic measures to “weed out” those who aren’t dedicated to their work. I’m sure plenty will disagree with me, but I wager there are plenty more bloggers who post daily or semi-daily who wouldn’t mind seeing the twice-a-month bloggers gone from the list.
Well the 30 day limit is just for the list in the sidebar. *Every* feed is crawled *every* 30 minutes, just in case someone returns from the proverbial grave. If they do, the blog is automatically added back to the list. It creates no more or less work for me whether the limit ifor listing s 90 days, 30 days, 7 days, or no limit. The only difference is the lower the limit, the shorter the list on the right-hand sidebar of pfblogs.org.
Remember, EVERY feed gets crawled, whether they’re listed on the right or not.