Is it Possible to Subscribe to an SEOmoz Q&A Category via RSS?

[brianspatterson]

I'm interested in tracking new questions in a specific category in SEOmoz's Q&A (the Reputation Management category), and I was thinking RSS would be the easiest way to do this.  Is it possible?

Or is there another way to get new questions asked in a category into your email or RSS reader?

[Mr.Rangen]

I would look at WatchThatPage. As long as their as the page is not sitting behind a login and has a specific URL, watchthatpage may be a viable option.

If you want to get fancier, look into IFTTT. Let me know if you want specifics on this, I could probably help you out this afternoon.

Good question & idea!

[brianspatterson]

Thanks, Brent.  I guess the tricky parts is that the category pages aren't unique.  For example, this is the page I want to watch:  http://www.seomoz.org/q/reputation-management

But that page seems to show what is most popular by default, not the newest.  If you change the filter to 'Latest' or 'Last 24 Hours', the content updates, but the URL doesn't.

Would the tools you suggested get around that somehow?

[Mr.Rangen]

"But that page seems to show what is most popular by default, not the newest.  If you change the filter to 'Latest' or 'Last 24 Hours', the content updates, but the URL doesn't."

I believe watchthatpage would, it'll show a lot of updates because of the bumping though & threads falling off first page. In which case, you could probably shoestring something together with:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/reputation-management?page=1

http://www.seomoz.org/q/reputation-management?page=2

http://www.seomoz.org/q/reputation-management?page=3

You're right though, it's going to be messy. I'm not 100% sure if it will respect the "bumps" and only pick up new posts though. It's worth a shot!

[brianspatterson]

Thank you, I appreciate that!

[KeriMorgret]

Using &sort=6 in the parameters will sort by newest post, which may help. We don't have an RSS feed for questions at this time.

[Mr.Rangen]

I knew it!!

(y)

[brianspatterson]

I must be doing something wrong.   Netiher of these sort by most recent:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/reputation-management?sort=6

http://www.seomoz.org/q/reputation-management?page=1&sort=6

Can you show me the error of my ways?  

[KeriMorgret]

Not sure if it can go together with a category like that, but try

browse?sort=6

in the URL. If I didn't want to limit it to a particular category, I'd use http://www.seomoz.org/q/browse?sort=6.

[brianspatterson]

Thanks, I tried it with categories in a couple of different ways and I think we are probably just SOL if we want to keep up with new stuff in a single category.

Can I submit that as a requested feature?  I'm particularly interested in what goes on in that category, but keeping up with it is sorta difficult with the way it is today.

If I could get a discrete URL that sorts by the latest for a category, then I can use existing tools like http://page2rss.com/  and http://www.feedmyinbox.com/ to stay up to date and contribute more regularly.

Thanks!