How can I track blog articles about Neopets?

In fact there is a better alternative, and I completely understand your upset with the NewsGator search service: I too find that there are lots of junk matches in the "smart feed" capability. The new alternative? One of the premier blog search tools that's always been a go-to site for this sort of thing: Technorati.

The key is that in Technorati you can specify that you only want to have search matches with authority, or, what I specify, "a lot of authority". Let me show you how...

Go to Technorati's home page and search for your key phrase. In this case, "neopets":

Near the top of the search results page is a set of menus allowing customizing results, with immediate results:

Going from "any authority" to "a lot of authority" quickly shrinks the results from over 22,000 blog entries on neopets to about 185. Far more manageable!

Now, the key: notice the "subscribe" link on the right side. Search looks good? Subscribe to the search results in your favorite RSS reader (perhaps NewsGator Online, as I use) and you'll always have the latest high-authority blog entries on Neopets to read. And, hopefully, you can help your daughter be a highly successful Neopets community member!

Btw, if you're a geek, notice that you can construct Technorati searches pretty easily, by following this model:

Simply replace "neopets" with the word or phrase of choice. Want to constrain it to sites with high authority only? Just add a parameter:

Neat, eh? :-)