A few months ago, we submitted the main Tea Trade blog feed to Alltop, just the other day, we finally received notice from them that they are adding our feed to their Tea page. This is great news for Tea Trade, and great news for all the Tea Trade bloggers.

About Alltop

They are best described in their own words:

The purpose of Alltop is to help you answer the question, “What’s happening?” in “all the topics” that interest you. You may wonder how Alltop is different from a search engine. A search engine is good to answer a question like, “How many people live in China?” However, it has a much harder time answering the question, “What’s happening in China?” That’s the kind of question that we answer. We do this by collecting the headlines of the latest stories from the best sites and blogs that cover a topic. We group these collections — “aggregations” — into individual web pages…You can think of Alltop as the “online magazine rack” of the web.

 What this means to you:

You’ve all probably heard about SEO (Search Engine Optimization). It’s basically stuff that people do to make their websites rank better in search engines. Google has a nice feature were your site gets extra points when another site that Google considers an Authoritative Website links to yours. That’s what the Alltop tea page is – its an authoritative site. By hosting your blog on Tea Trade, you will now get that automatic benefit in the search engines. We get it and you get it, because every time you write a blog post, your headline is going to show up (almost immediately) on Alltop, where the Googlebot will find it – and then give you a little boost in the ranking, just because the link is coming from Alltop.

Another reason this is special

Every feed is personally reviewed by Alltop staff before it gets added to a page, it’s not easy to meet the criteria for submission. They grade a feed based on frequency, quality and length of time blogging. Tea Trade hasn’t been around very long, but by banding together, the Tea Trade network publishes several blog posts a day (we’ve seen days with ten or more posts popping up!). All this activity clearly makes Tea Trade an exceptional place – and having our feed on Alltop recognizes that – something that wouldn’t have happened without this amazing group of people, writing interesting, relevant, and fascinating articles about tea.