Frequently Asked Questions

Wikio is a new information portal that allows you to follow online news from press sites and blogs, and also offers an extremely useful shopping tool.

By typing a keyword into the search box, you will gain immediate access to all relevant articles, videos and audio podcasts that have been published on the subject.

With Wikio Shopping, the search results will provide you with the best offers for each product, as well as press and user scores, reviews, photos and videos that we have found online.

You can sign up for free and receive all the news about any and all topics that interest you, or the most recent articles published on your favorite media sites and blogs. This news will be continuously updated on personal news pages that you can create with a few simple clicks of your mouse.

You can also contribute personally to the high-quality and comprehensive nature of Wikio news by voting for articles that interest you and boosting their positions in search results, or even publishing an article yourself.

If you don’t want to run the risk of loosing your news pages when deleting cookies, you will need to create a Wikio account.

You will find the sign up link on the top right of every page, and creating a Wikio account takes less than a minute.

If you create a Wikio account you will also be able to access your personal news pages from any computer.

Creating personal pages on Wikio allows you to automatically remain up to date with news on topics that you are interested in, or follow new entries published on your favourite press sites and blogs.

You can subscribe to a press site or blog by simply clicking on the “subscribe” link found next to the title of every article published on Wikio.

If you want to subscribe to news on a specific topic, you need simply perform a search on a related keyword, and click on the link “subscribe to this news” that appears at the top of the results page.

You can also create a personal page by directly clicking on the “new page” tab underneath the Wikio logo. You can then add keywords relating to your favourite subjects or those with which you wish to remain up to date. You may also simply add your favourite press sites and blogs and then follow all the new articles that they publish via your personal page.

You can, of course, create several personal pages for different areas of interest. These pages will be updated with new articles and posts on a continuous basis.

An RSS feed (acronym for Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication), provides a summary of the content generated on a website.

It takes the title of an article, followed by an image if there is one, the date and time, name of the author and principle keywords or a summary of the text, and presents this to users. This system allows news sites and blogs to diffuse a summary of their content in real time.

Using an RSS reader (available with Firefox, Safari, Opera, RssReader, etc.), an Internet user can consult the various titles of the latest articles on a given site or blog, and then should they find a news story or blog post particularly interesting, they can go directly to the site itself to read it in its entirety.

Your new articles will be automatically included if you have an RSS feed for your site. Unfortunately we cannot index sites that do not have this.

If you want to publish a scoop or breaking story on Wikio, you can do so by using our publication tool: http://www.wikio.com/publish.

You will find more info on RSS feeds here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss

The Wikio rankings are updated on a monthly basis. If you submit your blog during the recalculation of the new ranking, it is possible that your blog will not appear straight away the following month.

It should also be noted that a Wikio search is carried out on the content of articles, and not the names of the sites indexed. So if you search the name of a site, company or organisation, you will only see articles containing the words you have searched for, rather than those published by it.

If you can't find your blog on Wikio but believe it should be there, send us an email to info@wikio.com clearly providing your URL and the problem you are encountering.

Please send an email to info@wikio.com indicating your old URL or RSS feed and the new one, and we will re-index it.