I've noticed that Bloglines is indexing less often than they used to. Some of my sites are only getting indexing once or twice a day. Try contacting Bloglines and let them know. They usually get back to me when I contact them and they get things fixed.

personman wrote:

I've noticed that Bloglines is indexing less often than they used to.

Sorry personman, but I have to disagree with you there. :)

Just had to ban Bloglines from accessing my site. 847 hits on my RSS feed today alone!

Emailed them about it, and their only response was "We don't control what our users request. So you'll just have to ban our IP address."

So consider that done, unfortunately. I like the extra visitors, but somehow I SERIOUSLY doubt there's THAT many people requesting my blog's feed a day.

Note that my post was one year ago. They've ramped up their indexing bot in that time. They've also added a pinging api, so I now send them a ping when a new post is published, so they'll scan the feed. Is 847 hits from a bot putting you in some kind of bandwidth bind? Are you going to ban Google, too? The whole point of RSS is that it's light weight so it can be indexed often. Bloglines is a good service and if you ban them you'll be losing visitors.

It's not putting me in a bind, but to me, that's a rather excessive number of hits in such a short time.

As a comparison, Google tops out with a whopping 71 hits per day on my RSS feed, as the next highest on the list. MAJOR difference there. :)