Monthly Archives: February 2007

Day Job Killer | Allan Gardyne’s Newsletter

By Andy Beard | Published: February 20, 2007

One of the few newsletters I subscribe to and always read as soon as it hits my mailbox is Allan Gardyne’s. I have always loved the way he presents products pre-selling them, but he does it very honestly and I don’t think in the near 2 years I have bee a subscriber to his list that I have seen him promote a duff product. There have been products I couldn’t afford, or weren’t what I was looking for at that particular time.
Today I received an email with 2 useful resources for those that purchased Day Job Killer, the first is an exclusive article from Chris the author with some useful tips, and the second information on a product to automate bonuses.

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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.

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MyBlogLog Spam Hack Update & Widget Performance | Linkbait Idea

By Andy Beard | Published: February 20, 2007
MyBlogLog

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.

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Compete Toolbar Bug With Google Reader – Compete vs Alexa vs Quantcast Stats

By Andy Beard | Published: February 19, 2007

I have had long term problems with the Compete Toolbar as I pointed out some time ago on my friend Paul’s blog, I think I actually made that comment on my first visit to his blog.

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MyFeedz – Should This Really Be Called a Feed Reader?

By Andy Beard | Published: February 19, 2007

I saw a few posts about MyFeedz yesterday and checked it out, and I noticed Robert just gave Myfeedz a test. He is a hardcore feed reader, so I value his opinion (even though we don’t always agree on everything).
I think Robert is being extremely polite about MyFeedz

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Conclusive Proof: Affiliate Marketers Can Recommend a Site Without a Referral Link

By Andy Beard | Published: February 18, 2007

I just read over on Sam Harrelson’s CostPerNews that Jim Kukral. He will still be running it, but no longer on the payroll of Forge Corporation.

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Polish Gmail vs Google Gmail – The Poets vs The Court Jester

By Andy Beard | Published: February 17, 2007

Google might well have goofed again with Gmail domain registrations. I live in Poland so this is quite comical for me, and thus the comical headline. The Polish court system isn't quite as well organised as the US, but decisions are often made faster and a lot cheaper. What that means to Google is that they can't throw a fit and expect a small group of poets to concede defeat, and that their size as a company might not give them any advantage (unless they know someone who can influence decisions).

I am not a lawyer, and the following is for

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Google Reader | FeedBurner Stats Show Significant Market Share – Google Reader Now #1?

By Andy Beard | Published: February 17, 2007

Until yesterday, the only statistics available for the Google Reader user base was based upon site traffic, and to a lesser extent click-throughs from Google Reader (although that data doesn’t tell you from whose feed currently).

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Alexa Finally Provide Some Useful Data

By Andy Beard | Published: February 17, 2007

Ok that is a bit tongue in cheek – Alexa data has always had some use for sites that are not gamed, and within similar niches, and it is always nice to see.

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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
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