Category Archives: plugins

Wordpress plugins and my wordpress plugin development

WordPress Comment SEO Solutions

By Andy Beard | Published: July 17, 2009

Changing the way WordPress and other content management systems handle comments for SEO, members areas, aggregated conversations & more.
I am sure some of this post is going to blow people's brains, though this is only the tip of the iceberg.

Also posted in Google, SEO Blog, blogging tips, wordpress | Tagged blog commenting, disqus, dofollow, jskit, nofollow, Social Media, syndication, WordPress SEO | Comments closed

New WordPress SEO Blogging Software

By Andy Beard | Published: May 9, 2008

What a difference 24 hours make.

A few days ago I was honestly prepared to rip a product to shreds. It wasn't that it was a bad product, but it wasn't as well prepared as it should have been, and from what I can tell it was due to an honest communication error between a well respected online marketer and his programming team.

But before I talk about the product itself, I am going to give you a little history lesson.

Wordpress Elite

A few years ago I purchased a script called WordPress Elite. It was pretty useful, and allowed you to point the

Also posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, reviews, wordpress | Tagged search engine optimization, SEO Blog, wordpress, wordpress installation, WordPress SEO | Comments closed

Why TrafficJam.com really…

By Andy Beard | Published: February 23, 2008

I could finish that title in all kinds of ways

does suck
is amazing
can bring you masses of targeted traffic
can be used for market research
can help you optimize your titles
can be used for discovery
is overrated
is underrated
is useful
is a waste of screen pixels

Get the idea? It all depends on perspective and objectives. Even if you have absolutely no interest in TrafficJam or Blogrush, I strongly suggest you read this post, especially if you are interested in viral marketing techniques that are guaranteed to build you an email list.

Also posted in blogging tips, marketing, wordpress | Tagged blogrush, rss, subscribers, traffic, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

Answers.com Answerlinks Plugin – How Much Are Those Links Worth?

By Andy Beard | Published: October 12, 2007

Wordpress.com owners Automattic, working in conjunction with Answers.com and former Wordpress core developer Alex King have just released a new plugin which allows Wordpress.com users, and Wordpress.org users to easily link to topics and definitions on Answers.com.

There are literally hundreds of such plugins for linking to various Wikis and shopping sites, but for some strange reason those haven't been included on Wordpress.com

Users on Wordpress.com aren't really very SEO savvy and thus are most likely to be "link happy" and of course with the plugin being so convenient, they are more likely to link to Answers.com now than rival sites.

Also posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, wordpress | Tagged answerlinks, answers, Automattic, paid links, plugins, wordpress plugins, wordpress.com, wordress | Comments closed

DealDotCom – Feedback and Plugin

By Andy Beard | Published: September 19, 2007

Already on the DealDotCom blog, but many people might not have subscribed to them.

This is a useful plugin until the guys from DealDotCom come up with a solution of their own. They should really be delivering banners of various sizes to us every day without having to change any code, and an RSS or XML feed to play around with. It needs to be a graphic without using any javascript, so it can be used anywhere.

Anyway for now, you might find this DealDotCom plugin useful

Now if this was my plugin, I would be requiring an email address to download

Also posted in blog monetization, wordpress | Tagged dealdotcom, plugin, wordpress | Comments closed

Akismet – Auntie Spam

By Andy Beard | Published: September 14, 2007

If you still insist on using purely Akismet for spam control on your WordPress blog rather than other alternatives, then you will be glad to know Engtech has released a new version of Auntie Spam, which helps you manage your Akismet spam more effectively.

Sphinn Greatest Hits – Could The #1 Be Some Useful Content?

By Andy Beard | Published: August 31, 2007

John Andrews currently has the top rated article on Sphinn with a truly brilliant display of link baiting and social media awareness.

I am not sure I am going to be able to knock him off the top spot, and this very post will probably gain him a few more votes, but I would like to think that one of my older articles could at least be a contender.

If This Content Is So Good, Why Hasn't It Been Submitted Before?

There are a number of reasons why my old post on Wordpress SEO and Dynamic Linking might not have

Also posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, themes, wordpress | Tagged payperpost, reviewme, search engine optimization, SEO Blog, sphinn, sponsored reviews, wordpress, wordpress plugins, WordPress SEO, wordpress themes | Comments closed

Are You A Fake Dofollow Blogger?

By Andy Beard | Published: August 27, 2007

Not all blogs that write a post about dofollow, link through to plugins, and stick up a Dofollow logo have actually removed nofollow from their comments.

Over the last few months I have rejected over 100 blogs to the No Nofollow / Dofollow community on Bumpzee, and all but about 20 were because they didn't have nofollow removed correctly from their comments.

Fortunately about 30 of those subsequently either contacted me to have this explained to them, or fixed the problem and then notified me that things were resolved.

Lots of people for some reason don't get back in touch with

Also posted in blogging tips, wordpress | Tagged bumpzee, dofollow, no nofollow, nofollow | Comments closed

WordPress Plugin – Custom Query String – UTW Edition

By Andy Beard | Published: August 11, 2007

This is the first release of this modified "classic" WordPress plugin and is based upon the original Custom Query String by Matt Read which has been looking for a permanent home for a while.

It contains some simple modifications extending the operation to include the UTW is_tag() function. The changes made are not unique, as they are the same as have been described on a number of Non-english language blogs such as 082Net - a little hard to find if you don't speak Korean, and as I have found in the past, if hacks are not provided as a

Also posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, wordpress | Tagged Custom_Query_String, custom_wordpress, search engine optimization, SEO Blog, ultimate tag warrior, utw, WordPress Loop, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

Wordpress Plugin: Nofollow Those Dupes (Wordpress SEO Masterclass Continued)

By Andy Beard | Published: August 4, 2007

This is a continuation of my WordPress Search Engine Optimization Masterclass. It is really the one missing component, other than a complete theme with everything built in, to achieve the linking structures I described in my previous article. Sandcastles Theme I am still playing around with my Sandcastles Theme on a test site (based upon Sandbox) - it will be released fairly soon, but not until I have this site moved over onto new servers. I thought I would release this now so that those who don't want to work with a modified Sandbox theme are free to use it, and most people can probably gain some benefit from it anyway, as it will reduce external links on duplicate content pages without having to block them. Pagerank is based upon pages and relevant links

Also posted in SEO Blog, themes, wordpress | Tagged Dynamic Linking, mininet, search engine optimization, SEO Blog, siloing, tag, tagging, ultimate tag warrior, utw, wordpress, WordPress SEO | Comments closed

A Dofollow Plugin I Liken To A Subaru

By Andy Beard | Published: July 30, 2007

I was going to liken this plugin to a Ferrari, because it is built to be fast, but it is probably more like a Subaru, not just fast but designed for rugged terrain and can handle the twists and turns of comment spammers without slowing down.

Also posted in blogging tips, wordpress | Tagged dofollow, no nofollow, plugin, wordpress | Comments closed

Sphinn Support – Antisocial (SEO Friendly Sociable) Wordpress Plugin

By Andy Beard | Published: July 24, 2007

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 site that just points to a submission form

Also posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, web 2.0, wordpress | Tagged sociable, social bookmarking, social networking, sphinn, stumbleupon, twitthis, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

Sphinn – SEM Attention Wars

By Andy Beard | Published: July 22, 2007

Having just come back from a week in Florida, striving to improve not only my own powers of concentration and focus, but how to grab and maintain the attention of readers and customers, for the last few days I have been thinking a little about Sphinn… some of those thoughts haven’t been pleasant, and to be perfectly honest, the good thoughts had very selfish motives.

Also posted in SEO Blog, web 2.0, wordpress | Tagged attention, bumpzee, mahalo, plugim, reciprocity, search engine optimization, sem, SEO Blog, social bookmarking, social networking, social networks, Social News, sphinn, truemor | Comments closed

Backdate Nofollow On Specific Domains

By Andy Beard | Published: July 11, 2007

There are times when you might want to retro-actively add nofollow to links you have given freely in the past. As an example some time ago I started using the nofollow Wikipedia plugin.

Also posted in blog monetization, blogging tips, wordpress | Comments closed

Split Testing With Wordpress

By Andy Beard | Published: July 10, 2007

So you want to build your website with with Wordpress rather than a static HTML page, but you also want the benefits of being able to split test your copy and use it with Google Website Optimizer.
That sounds like a job for lots of custom programming…

Also posted in blog monetization, blogging tips, marketing, wordpress | Comments closed

Sociable Plugin Error With Wordpress 2.2.1

By Andy Beard | Published: June 27, 2007

There seems to be a bug with the Sociable plugin, for which I provide a hacked version with a couple of minor modifications. The bug seems to only be for users of Wordpress 2.2.1 (which you should upgrade to for security reasons)

Also posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, wordpress | Tagged antisocial, bookmark_plugin, sociable, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

Wordpress SEO Masterclass For Competitive Niches

By Andy Beard | Published: June 19, 2007

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 totally geeking it out!

Having previously written that I don't typically undertake consulting work, I do look on any paid blog posts as a form of consultancy. In this particular case Tim from eMonetized decided to order a review of his blog, and we negotiated a little to ensure what you read is totally impartial and any links I choose to give are in an editorial context. The negotiation itself was an interesting process, and I will be writing about that separately. It should be noted that just because I mention improvements here, that doesn't mean that Tim the site owner isn't aware of something, and as also is almost always the case, I haven't applied many SEO tweaks to this site yet. That being said, some of the linking structures I talk about in the more geeky sections of this article I have never seen anyone talk about, and it is my belief that the resulting linking structure is highly unique, extremely powerful, whilst remaining flexible.

Also posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, themes, wordpress | Tagged backlinks, Dynamic Linking, linking strategy, linking-structure, payperpost direct, revenge of the mininet, search engine optimization, search engines, SEO Blog, tagging, wordpress, wordpress plugins, WordPress SEO | Comments closed

Akismet False Positives & Spam Karma Configuration

By Andy Beard | Published: May 31, 2007

Spam Karma for me is the most effective comment and trackback spam management solution because it doesn’t cause me problems with false positives on many blogs where I comment on a regular basis.
As a blogger, it is a huge time saver by sending me email notifications a few times per day if it finds entries that are “possible” good comments and trackbacks, but which tripped up one or more of the various algorithms it uses.

Also posted in blogging tips, wordpress | Tagged akismet, artificial_intelligence, blacklist, blog_spam, collective_intelligence, commenting, comments, configuration, geotargeting, sk, spam, spam_karma, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

StumbleUpon Quintuplet From The King Of Blogging Gobshites

By Andy Beard | Published: May 10, 2007

Yes that title makes total sense, but you will have to keep reading to find out exactly why.

Stumble Popup

How often do you read a great blog post and forget to share it with your friends? The Stumbleupon toolbar is often a long mouse move away, and most people don’t use shortcuts when browsing, because they can’t remember them, or because of conflicts between different toolbars and other applications that are running on a system by default.

Also posted in blog monetization, blogging tips, marketing, stats, web 2.0 | Tagged digg, stumbleupon, stumble_upon, testing, tracking, web_metrics | Comments closed

Results: Top Wordpress Plugins (April 2007)

By Andy Beard | Published: May 7, 2007

It is hard work giving money away, and it seems it is hard work voting for which Wordpress plugin author should receive $100.

Whilst it might appear that there was an increase of votes this time around, with 29 votes instead of 24, that doesn’t allow for the fact that 8 votes were added as a bonus. Thus there were only 21 fresh votes.

Also posted in blogging tips, wordpress | Tagged bad_behaviour, Best WordPress Plugins, dofollow, donations, image_manager, paid posts, paid reviews, payperpost, plugin_authors, plugin_developers, spam_karma, Top WordPress Plugins, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

Best Wordpress Plugins (April 2007) | Poll

By Andy Beard | Published: May 2, 2007

I have opened up the voting for the second round of my cash giveaway for Wordpress plugin authors.
Nominations for the Best Wordpress Plugin each month are made by my readers, and half my income from paid reviews is given away as donations to help support development costs of the best Wordpress plugins.

Also posted in blog monetization, blogging tips, wordpress | Tagged donations, geek, gpl, pay per post, review_me, sponsored_posts, tech, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

I Have A New Pet

By Andy Beard | Published: April 23, 2007

Tumbleweed

If you happen to click through to my site from your feedreader (I know it is a huge sacrifice) then you will see I have a new pet in my sidebar.
He is actually quite a smart little guy, because unlike you, he knows which posts on my blog you might have missed over the last 3 months, based on the number of comments that were posted, or in this case, lack of comments.

Vlad Ripped Me Apart

By Andy Beard | Published: April 17, 2007

Well more to the point, he asked me some damn tough questions that made me think for more than 5 minutes before answering them. Actually I spent quite some time on the reply, and it wasn’t as straight forward as I was expecting.

The Ultimate Way To Show Reader Appreciation

By Andy Beard | Published: April 12, 2007

If you weren’t already aware, this week is reader appreciation week. Now the idea of reader appreciation is fairly good, give out some prizes, give a reader a link, etc etc.

Also posted in blogging tips, themes, wordpress | Tagged ajax, ajax_comments, brians_threaded_comments, btc, buttonsnap, comments, dofollow, myavatars, nofollow, plugin, reader_appreciation, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

Exclusive: Blogcatalog vs Technorati? – Sharing The Love & Tagging (nofollow removed)

By Andy Beard | Published: April 9, 2007

As most of my readers are no doubt aware, I am a strong supporter of sharing the link love, but I always advocate sharing it in a focused manner, preferably from relevant content or from comments and trackbacks. If you trackback/pingback this blog you receive a reciprocal link between highly relevant content automatically, and not only Google and other major search engines count the links as relevant, but also blogging search engines such as Technorati, though with Technorati it is best to do it on a more recent post.

Also posted in Projects, SEO Blog, blogging tips, marketing, web 2.0, wordpress | Tagged Blogcatalog, blogging, blogging tips, dofollow, latent_semantic_indexing, linking_structure, link_love, lsi, marketing, mybloglog, nofollow, related_entries, related_posts, related_terms, relevance, relevant_content, search engine optimization, SEO Blog, tagging, technorati | Comments closed

Results: Top Wordpress Plugins (March 2007)

By Andy Beard | Published: April 6, 2007

Competition was fierce but with only 24 votes, the winner could easily have been decided in the last few hours.

I have checked the ballots and there doesn’t seem to be any scandals – rigged voting would have been news worthy and actually profitable, it just goes to show how honest people in the Wordpress community are.

Also posted in blogging tips, wordpress | Tagged bad_behaviour, Best WordPress Plugins, dofollow, donations, image_manager, plugin_authors, plugin_developers, spam_karma, Top WordPress Plugins, ultimate tag warrior, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

Best Wordpress Plugins (March 2007) | Poll

By Andy Beard | Published: April 3, 2007

I have opened up the voting for the first round of my cash giveaway for Wordpress plugin authors.
Nominations for the Best Wordpress Plugin each month are made by my readers, and half my income from paid reviews is given away as donations to help support development costs of the best Wordpress plugins.

Also posted in Projects, wordpress | Tagged bad_behaviour, dofollow, donations, image_manager, plugin_authors, plugin_developers, spam_karma, ultimate tag warrior, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

How to Show Top Commenters Only On Your Index Page

By Andy Beard | Published: April 2, 2007

I recently wrote that I don’t like Top Commenters plugins, in fact I used a very strong word… loathe. There are some benefits to introducing Top Commenters to give some level of special recognition, but whatever SEO benefits you think it might offer are discounted by having it placed in your sidebar across the whole of your site including your duplicate content pages.

Also posted in blogging tips, themes, wordpress | Tagged code, comments, hack, top_commenters, ultimate tag warrior, utw, wordpress, wordpress plugins, wordpress themes, wordpress_commands, wordpress_logic | Comments closed

TwitThis Causes Pages To Load Slowly – Here is a fix

By Andy Beard | Published: April 2, 2007

Have you noticed my pages loading extremely slowly over the last few days? I am not talking about my sidebars, which appear after my content, but my articles which always load first, and usually quite fast.

Also posted in web 2.0, wordpress | Tagged amazon, amazon_s3, antisocial, page_load, slow_page_load, sociable, twitter, twitthis, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

I Bet You Missed Some of These (March 07)

By Andy Beard | Published: April 1, 2007

These are some highlights (in my opinion) of some of the content I have created over the last month. If I have missed anything out which you enjoyed or gained some value from, please let others know in the comments.

Also posted in SEO Blog, reviews, web 2.0, wordpress | Tagged aweber, blogging, blogging tips, blogs, blogsearch, can_spam, citations, digg, disclosure, dofollow, getresponse, gmail, google_blog_search, mybloglog, nofollow, pay per post, plagiarism, plugins, press, product_launch_formula, reddit, reviews, smm, smo, smpt, smtp_server, sociable, social-bookmarks, social_tagging, sponsored reviews, stampede_traffic, stumbleupon, subscribe_to_comments, tag, tagging, technorati, top_commenters, traffic_strategy, twitter, ultimate tag warrior, wordpress | Comments closed

Spam Karma 2.3 Still The Best Comment Spam System For Niche Websites

By Andy Beard | Published: March 30, 2007

Spam Karma is one of my favorite plugins and despite rumours to the contrary, it is still being supported.

Dr Dave has just released a new version

New in 2.3 of Spam Karma:

Posted in plugins | Tagged blog_spam, comment_spam, spam, spam_karma, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

By Andy Beard | Published: March 24, 2007

How many blogs link to Technorati on every post they publish? Many blogs also use followable links to social bookmarking sites such as Delicious, and social news sites such as Digg on every single page of their site? Google in their recently disclosed patent are saying that it could be a negative indication of quality.

Also posted in Google, blogging tips, web 2.0 | Tagged blogsearch, blog_search, delicious, digg, dofollow, Google, google_blogsearch, nofollow, tagging, tags, technorati, wikipedia | Comments closed

Wordpress Plugin: Antisocial

By Andy Beard | Published: March 24, 2007

You could blame this plugin on Lorelle for suggesting this weekend as a “Code Marathon Party“. Honestly though her code weekend idea just gave me a kick up the backside to finally just archive something on my harddisk and stick it on the web for public download.

Also posted in SEO Blog | Tagged nofollow, SEO Blog, sociable, wordpress, wordpress plugin, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

In Depth: Google BlogSearch | Ranking Blog Documents Patent

By Andy Beard | Published: March 23, 2007

Using Internal tags with Ultimate Tag Warrior

For a long time my blogs have performed amazingly well with Google Blog Search. I always appear in the relevant results quickly, and the results I obtain have some reasonable longevity, even when I am not the original source of a story.

Also posted in Google, SEO Blog, blogging tips | Tagged backlinks, blogging, bloglines, blogsearch, duplicate content, feedburner, Google, google_blogsearch, google_blog_search, linking strategy, rss, rss_subscribers, search engine optimization, search engines, SEO Blog, subscribers, tag, tagging, tags, technorati, technorati_favorites, ultimate tag warrior, utw | Comments closed

Best Wordpress Plugins – Nominations and Results

By Andy Beard | Published: March 17, 2007

I earn money from this blog, but as I have hinted in the past, that isn't my primary goal. I write paid reviews for products that take a fair amount of time, but nothing compared to the amount of time Wordpress plugin authors spend on their creations, only to give them away for free and often still provide support.

Admittedly I have been a little lax with my donations to other authors, though I have invested money in plugin development, only to publish the plugins myself under a GPL license, thus in my own way giving to the community.

What I have

Also posted in blog monetization, blogging tips, wordpress | Tagged donations, geek, gpl, pay per post, review_me, sponsored_posts, tech, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

Multiple Reasons Why I Loathe Top Commenters Plugins

By Andy Beard | Published: March 15, 2007

I benefit from being a top commenter on a number of blogs simply because I am consistently active on those sites, and I have gained the benefit without changing my commenting habits.
Some of my blogging friends are aware of the problems, but have opted to use such a plugin anyway – I fully respect that decision, but many make that decision “blindly” without being aware of the possible consequences.

Also posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips | Tagged backlinks, Blogroll, dofollow, google_juice, links, nofollow, search engine optimization, SEO Blog, top_commenters, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

Shoemoney Nofollow Plugin

By Andy Beard | Published: February 24, 2007

This plugin retroactively places the rel=”nofollow” tag on all links to Shoemoney.com – you don’t have to modify any links manually, and it is easy to switch off should you feel in the future that the site no longer contains offensive material.

Read more on Shoemoney Nofollow Plugin…

Also posted in Projects, wordpress | Tagged adsense, Google, hack, hacking, nofollow, shoemoney, shoemoney_nofollow_plugin, wordpress, wordpress plugin | Comments closed

Introduction To Ultimate Tag Warrior | Lorelle

By Andy Beard | Published: February 20, 2007

Lorelle has posted a great introduction to Ultimate Tag Warrior. She covers almost all the basics on what makes UTW my favorite plugin.

She has also been reporting on feed stats. Now whilst I don’t want to be accused at looking at her “details” again, if you add her Wordpress.com subscribers to her Feedburner subscribers then her total is approximately 2500 subscribers. I am sure she also gains a lot more readers through various other interfaces on Wordpress.com who don’t use a feed reader.

Also posted in wordpress | Tagged branding, legacy, lorelle, name_recognition, ultimate tag warrior, utw, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

MyBlogLog Spam Hack Update & Widget Performance | Linkbait Idea

By Andy Beard | Published: February 20, 2007

MyBlogLog Spam

Lots of people are aware that there was a problem over the weekend with co-author requests being sent out, and some forced adding as authors to communities.

It was a long weekend in the US, but it seems the MyBlogLog team have already fixed it, rolled back any changes, and hopefully it won’t happen again.

Also posted in web 2.0, wordpress | Tagged comments, cron, curl, hack, mybloglog, php, spam, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

Ultimate List of DoFollow & Nofollow Plugins – Banish Nofollow From Comments and Trackbacks

By Andy Beard | Published: February 17, 2007

Wordpress by default, just like other blogging platforms, has automatically been adding the "nofollow" microformat extension to all links from user generated content such as comments and trackbacks. To support the growing rejection of NoFollow for blog comments, I have compiled this list of plugins that help you remove nofollow from your blog forever.

Lucia's Linky Love Plugin - I was going to liken this plugin to a Ferrari, because it is built to be fast, but it is probably more like a Subaru, not just fast but designed for rugged terrain and can handle the twists and turns of

Also posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, wordpress | Tagged dofollow, drupal, i_follow, moveabletype, moveable_type, no nofollow, nofollow, wordpress, wordpress plugin, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

How to Switch Off All Wordpress Plugins

By Andy Beard | Published: February 6, 2007

I just picked up a very useful tip on Dougal Campbells blog that I thought I should note down for posterity, especially with so many people planning to upgrade to Wordpress 2.1 in the near future.

Also posted in wordpress | Tagged function_calls, wordpress, wordpress plugins, WordPress Tip | Comments closed

Feed Styling Alternative and some Traffic Analysis

By Andy Beard | Published: February 3, 2007

Recently I wrote about how you can customise some of the elements in your RSS feed for correct display.

I just found out about another alternative for those comfortable with CSS called Feed Styler. It allows you to apply CSS to various page elements automatically, effectively using 2 style sheets, one for your blog pages, and another for your feeds.
It achieves this by automatically adding inline CSS styling to various page elements.

Also posted in blogging tips | Tagged css, css_styling, feed, feed_css, feed_reader, feed_styler, style, styling, wordpress, wordpress plugin | Comments closed

Sociable Beta | PlugIm | Bumpzee | Technorati WTF

By Andy Beard | Published: February 1, 2007

Social Bookmarking and Social Networks - Technorati WTF PlugIM Bumpzee

Sociable has been due for an update for a long time. In popularity I am sure it is among the top 20 plugins in use, maybe even top 10 – it is certainly very visible on blogs, more so than the very discreet Share This plugin.

Also posted in blogging tips, marketing, web 2.0, wordpress | Tagged bookmarking, bumpzee, nofollow, plugim, sociable, social bookmarking, social_tagging, tag, tagging, technorati, wordpress, wordpress plugin, wtf | Comments closed

Wikipedia NoFollow Plugin

By Andy Beard | Published: January 23, 2007

I mentioned I was willing to create such a plugin, I was even cobbling the code together.

Then I noticed a mention over on Matt’s blog (just search for Matt) in the comments that somone had written one.

Read more on Wikipedia NoFollow Plugin…

Also posted in SEO Blog | Tagged digg, digg_this, nofollow, SEO Blog, wikipedia, wordpress, wordpress plugin | Comments closed

How to Make Corrections When Blogging

By Andy Beard | Published: January 19, 2007

Sometimes you make a mistake when blogging and get the facts wrong. How do you follow up with a correction?

I don’t know the exact terminology that press guidelines or rules use, but generally it is something like

Also posted in blogging tips, wordpress | Tagged blogging, blogging tips, corrections, disclosure, ethics, plugin, podcast, wordpess_plugin, wordpress, wordpress_podcast | Comments closed

UTW Wordpress Plugin Upgraded

By Andy Beard | Published: January 19, 2007

UTW must be my favorite plugin

Christine has released an upgrade

Ultimate Tag Warrior 3.1415926

I also submitted it to Digg, so Give It Some Digging

Honestly I see so many junk plugins on people’s top 10 list that take almost no effort to create (though sometimes serve a useful purpose).

Also posted in blogging tips, wordpress | Tagged tag, tagging, ultimate tag warrior, upgrade, utw, wordpress, wordpress plugins, wp | Comments closed

Chitika Adverts with Ultimate Tag Warrior

By Andy Beard | Published: January 10, 2007

I talk about how you can use UTW quite a bit from an SEO perspective, but it can also help with monetization. If you have keywords, you can use them for all kinds of things.

Also posted in blogging tips, wordpress | Tagged chitika, flickr, keyword, keyword_targetting, monetization, pictures, rss, ultimate tag warrior, utw, wordpress | Comments closed

FTC | Word of Mouth and Affiliates

By Andy Beard | Published: December 14, 2006

I was honestly so caught up in other things over the last 36 hours, I totally missed this and it is highly relevant to my Disclosure Policy Plugin.

I am not a lawyer, thus any interpretation of the situation I am going to leave in the hands of lawyers who I have a great deal of respect for, and who themselves are involved in the internet marketing field.

Also posted in Projects, marketing | Tagged affiliate, affiliate marketing, amazon, clickbank, Commission_Junction, disclosure, disclosure policy, Ebay, ftc, Google, Linkshare, pay per post, techcrunch, word_of_mouth | Comments closed

Disclosure Policy Wordpress Plugin Now Available

By Andy Beard | Published: December 11, 2006

The site is live, the plugin available for download.

I’m exhausted…

There are still a lot of things that need tweaking on the site before I promote it but thought I would at least mention it here before hitting the sack.

Also posted in Projects | Tagged disclosure policy, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

Nofollow | SEO & Dynamic Linking | Disclosure

By Andy Beard | Published: December 3, 2006

Here are some more links discussing the use of NoFollow for SEO purposes.

Seo Blog has a solid overview of how each search engine treats nofollow.
I am not sure the final conclusion regarding Yahoo and treating nofollow for ranking purposes is correct. I know many people who have done well with blog comments with Yahoo search, even on blogs using nofollow. I haven’t got any recent data.

Also posted in blogging tips, wordpress | Tagged backlinks, disclosure policy, disclosurepolicy, Dynamic Linking, linking strategy, nofollow, paid reviews, pay per post, payperpost, reviewme, review_me, search engine optimization, search engines, SEO Blog | Comments closed

CoComment added in under 5 minutes

By Andy Beard | Published: November 28, 2006

Some things are very easy to install on a blog.

coComment is certainly one of them

They provide some javascript to add to your blog template, or there is a very easy to install coComment plugin for Wordpress.

Also posted in blogging tips | Tagged blogging, cocomment, javascript, social networking, wordpress plugin | Comments closed

UTW – Tagging SEO Tricks (pt 2)

By Andy Beard | Published: November 25, 2006

This is not a technical trick, but something that many people who confuse categories and tagging really need to get a grasp of.
It is also my belief that this is very much a white-hat strategy, but as with all forms of search engine marketing, it can be abused.

Also posted in Google, SEO Blog | Tagged backlinks, blogging tips, blog_navigation, duplicate content, folksonomy, Google, google_results, linking strategy, msn, relevant_content, search engines, SEO Blog, tagging, tags, ultimate tag warrior, utw, white_hat, wordpress, wordpress plugins, yahoo | Comments closed

Revenge of the Mininet | 3rd Party content | Blog Comments | No Follow

By Andy Beard | Published: October 31, 2006

For those that haven’t picked up a copy of Revenge of the Mininet

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Download Revenge of the Mininet for free (It is honestly worth signing up to Michaels list)

Also posted in Projects, blogging tips, mininet, niche website, vre | Tagged articles, blogging, blogging tips, blog_navigation, customization, duplicate content, Dynamic Linking, folksonomy, google-pr, linking strategy, linking_links, mininet, niche website, pagerank, revenge_of_the_mininet, search engines, SEO Blog, site_navigation, tagging, tags, ultimate tag warrior, utw, WordPress Templates, wordpress themes | Comments closed

Wordpress | Mininet membership site

By Andy Beard | Published: October 28, 2006

I have been planning for a long time to launch a membership site based on custom wordpress plugins, and also taking advantage of various mininet strategies, especially those discussed in Revenge of the Mininet (which you can now get free). It is honestly required reading.

Also posted in reviews, vre | Tagged butterflymarketing, butterfly_marketing, butterfly_marketing_manuscript, launchformulamarketing, launch_formula_marketing, membership_site, membership_site_php, membership_site_script, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

Tagging and page views

By Andy Beard | Published: October 23, 2006

A few days ago on my Wordpress Plugins site, I updated to Wordpress 2.04 (from 1.5.2) and switched to using UTW for tagging rather than Taggerati.

Taggerati and UTW have slightly different functionality. 2.04 is supported by both, but Taggerati isn’t really being updated. I am going to miss a couple of the inline tags I could use when posting using a desktop application, but longterm support I hope is more likely with UTW.

Constant problems with plugins and hooks

By Andy Beard | Published: October 21, 2006

A little something for discussion over on my Wordpress plugins blog. I actually have a full-time programmer working on Wordpress plugins for me.

I just asked the following question to the Wordpress Hackers mailing list, and thought it worth publishing it here to a wider audience.

Posted in plugins | Tagged hooks, plugin_hooks, template_hooks, wordpress, wordpress plugins, WordPress Templates, wordpress themes | Comments closed

Wordpress Plugin: Snowfall

By Andy Beard | Published: December 23, 2005

I launched a new site today, along with a little seasonal gift

Wpplugins.info

I have mentioned using Taggerati in the past, along with Blog Auto Publisher. This site has Taggerati implemented, although the tagging is currently being performed manually rather than by keyword list.

Also posted in niche website | Tagged christmas, niche website, plugin, snowfall, wordpress, wordpress plugin | Comments closed

RAP Bank

I have just signed up for RAP Bank myself - call this a mini-review.
It seems to be one of the smartest ideas for a long time as a great way to consolidate 100s of affiliate programs under a single entity for promotion.

It is also one of the best implementations of WordPress I have ever seen.
It is not without its bugs, as this is effectively pre-launch. For example I just found a bug in the keyword based search RSS feeds (yes RSS feeds for any term will be hot), but it looks like they might be onto a winner.
Check it out - signup for the basic service is free.

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P.S. It is not immediately obvious who is running the site, but looking at my Paypal receipt (yes I signed up for Vendor Plus) I believe the site is run by Bill Ortell From Rap-Extras.com who is RAP certified and does the membership add-on that is highly popular.
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