I have been watching & listening to PostieCon via Ustream and chatting in the Meebo chat room, and at the same time exchanging a few emails with Ted Murphey about Izea’s (new parent company of PayPerPost) new Advertising marketplace, SocialSpark.com. What Is Social Spark? Advertiser Social Network Advertisers Interact With Bloggers: Build up a network of media … [Read more...]
Real or Fake Pagerank Update in Progress (Round 3)
Courtney stopped by to let me know about what appears to be a real PageRank update that is in progress if there can ever be a real update again. Many of the blogs highlighted in the update just a couple of days ago seem to have reverted to their previous position. Now for anyone who might be thinking otherwise, there are still some obvious penalties in place for a few … [Read more...]
Open Social Web: Google + Feedburner Really Is Bad For RSS
I honestly laughed when I saw the new “Open Social Web” Bill of Rights launched yesterday, not because it isn’t to some extent a useful idea, but because of one specific term… Control of whether and how such personal information is shared with others. 10 months ago I fired off a heated debate about RSS sharing, and how Google with it’s easy to share feeds could be killing the … [Read more...]
Sphinn Support – Antisocial (SEO Friendly Sociable) WordPress Plugin
I have just added support for Sphinn to my hacked version of the popular Sociable plugin. For those unfamiliar with Antisocial, these are the differences All links have nofollow added – this might sound strange coming from someone who strongly supports the removal of nofollow from comments, but there is no logical purpose having a followable link to a social bookmark … [Read more...]
WordPress SEO Masterclass For Competitive Niches
Take a well optimized WordPress blog in a competitive niche, rip it apart, and help maximise its chances of ranking in the SERPs and raking in some cash. This isn’t lame all-in-one optimization plugins, it is entirely geeking it out! Update: 28th August 2010 – this article doesn’t take into account changes to the way Google handles nofollow to combat PageRank … [Read more...]