Feedjit Recommended Reading Widget FAQ

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What does Feedjit's Recommended Reading Widget do?

Feedjit's Recommended Reading Widget suggests other pages on your Blog or Website that may interest your readers. It does this using a sophisticated algorithm called Collaborative Filtering.

For example, a visitor to your blog may view one of your blog entries about coral reefs. Feedjit knows that 10 other visitors to your blog who liked this blog entry visited 2 other entries you wrote about coral reefs. So it suggests these 2 pages to your new visitor.

What else should I know?

Feedjit's Recommended Reading Widget works best on websites with more than 20 page views per day. If you have a very low traffic blog, we recommend our Page Popularity widget, available on our home page. If your website generates more than 20 page views per day, then simply install this widget and it will start learning about your blog or website and recommending pages to your visitors.

Why would I want this widget?

Visitors that arrive on your site from search engines and social media websites like Digg.com and Reddit.com often only view 1 page on your website and then leave. Feedjit's figures out which pages on your site are most interesting to your new visitor. It suggests those pages and, hopefully, keeps new visitors on your site and turns them into regulars.

How often is this widget's data updated?

Feedjit's Recommended Reading Widget starts updating as soon as you install it and is continuously updated as new visitors arrive on your website and provide it with more data.

What about performance?

Feedjit's Collaborative Filtering algorithm has been designed for speed. It performs extremely well, even on high traffic websites that have tens of thousands of pages.

Where can I find out more about Collaborative Filtering?

Wikipedia has an introduction to Collaborative Filtering or CF.

General Questions about Feedjit

What do I need to do to install Feedjit?

Your blog or website must have its own domain name to use any Feedjit widget. We also support subdomains. If you have your own domain name, simply visit our home page and customize the widget you want. Then either cut and paste the script we provide, or if you use Blogger or Typepad you can install Feedjit with one click.

Feedjit will work on all pages hosted on any of the following sites:

http://myblogsdomain.com/
http://mysubdomain.somebloghost.com/
http://myblog.blogger.com/
http://a.whole.bunch.of.subdomains.hosted.on.example.com/

Feedjit will not work correctly if your site is hosted as a subdirectory on a shared host e.g. http://sharedhosting.com/myblog/

Does Feedjit work on Wordpress.com blogs?

Unfortunately Wordpress.com does not support Javascript widgets like Feedjit. Feedjit does work on many other blog platforms including Blogger, Typepad and the open source version of Wordpress available at Wordpress.org.

Does Feedjit work on MySpace?

No. MySpace users don't have their own domain name and MySpace does not support Javascript widgets like Feedjit.

Is Feedjit going to slow down my website?

Feedjit is very fast and is used by several high traffic commercial websites. We constantly analyze our own performance and servers so that we can easily handle traffic spikes.

My website gets a lot of traffic. Can Feedjit support it?

If you serve more than 2 Million page views per day or more than 60 million page views per month then please contact us before you install Feedjit.

How accurate is the geographic database that Feedjit uses?

We can determine the geographic locations at the city level of 90% of your website visitors. Those that we can't determine are usually in remote locations, new towns or developments or behind corporate or ISP firewalls. We periodically update our database to include new locations.

How do I contact you if I have any questions?

If you'd like to contact us, email support at feedjit.com.

What are your terms of use and privacy policy?

Our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy are available on this page. Please read them carefully before you install Feedjit.