%22 and the BBC news feed

I've been getting some non-property-related ads coming through via Adsense. In fact I haven't yet had any property-related ads.

This is due I think to the kind of material that has been coming through at the top of the blog via the BBC news feed based on the incidence of the word "property".

I tried creating feeds based on a couple of more specific searches - "commercial property" and "real estate". Running the searches on the BBC site, with the quotes, worked to find the exact phrases within the text. However when attempting to create an RSS feed based on that search (which replaced the quotes in the string with %22), it returns all stories with either word in it.

For the time being therefore I have replaced the (too wide) "property" search with a news feed based on the word "mortgage".

NB Alexa 1-week rating is up again to 316,984. It must be updated every day.

Google search RSS, updates

Google news and blog searches have automatic RSS feeds, I've added both a news and blog search for "commercial property" and they seem to be search-engine friendly feeds.

I've also combined them in a FeedBlendr search, which has replaced the previous FeedBlendr version of the Google Reader feed.

FeedBlendr still seems a little flaky to me, in terms of what it returns and how quickly it updates.

Replaced the Widgetbox version of the Nestoria feed with one from the source itself; this now works fine so I guess it was a problem with Widgetbox...