Tag Archives: blogspot

Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

By Andy Beard | Published: May 31, 2009

Just because Blogger / Blogspot is owned by Google doesn't make it SEO Friendly For years I have been reading absurd suggestions that Google's Blogger / Blogspot service is SEO friendly. At one time this was semi-true, and it is even possible with the current incarnation. However if you use the service "as intended", without expert knowledge, you might find yourself up a creek without a paddle. I am writing this on a Sunday, thus I am going to avoid vulgarities, cussing, and even an attention grabbing headline. The Google engineers at Blogger deserve that and more. Blogspot currently stinks for SEO.

Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips | Also tagged 301 redirect, blogger, custom domain, labels, robots.txt, SEO Blog | Comments closed

Bidvertiser Feed Advertising For Wordpress & Blogger

By Andy Beard | Published: January 20, 2008

It looks like Bidvertiser have worked fast to address the problems many bloggers noted about their new feed advertising solution a short while ago and have come up with a way so that you can now use Bidvertiser using your existing feeds, and still use Feedburner as before, so that it doesn't affect your stats, and most importantly your feed readers.

From the Bidvertiser Blog

To address this, we have now launched 3 unique solutions:

1. WordPress Plugin to allow you to seamlessly embed the BidVertiser Ads in your feeds. You can download the plugin from your publisher account.

2. Solution for FeedBurner

Posted in blog monetization | Also tagged bidvertiser, blogger, blog_monetization, feedburner, feed_advertising, monetization, wordpress | Comments closed

GreaseMonkey & Firefox – How To Send a Trackback With Blogger (Part 2)

By Andy Beard | Published: June 5, 2007

Logging into Haloscan every time you want to send a trackback is time consuming, so if you use Firefox, and the Greasemonkey plugin, this might be your ideal answer.

Install Greasemonkey

Posted in blogging tips | Also tagged blogger, firefox, greasemonkey, trackback, trackbacks | Comments closed

Haloscan – How To Send a Trackback With Blogger (Part 1)

By Andy Beard | Published: June 3, 2007

If you are using Blogger, one of the most annoying missing features is the ability to send a trackback. Fortunately there are a number of ways to send a trackback with Blogger using 3rd Party services or desktop blogging software.

Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips | Also tagged blogger, haloscan, trackback, trackbacks | Comments closed

Interviewed By Martin | Blogger Trackbacks | Technorati Junk

By Andy Beard | Published: April 13, 2007

A few days ago I was interviewed by email by Martin Lindsey.

When I checked on Wednesday due to timezones it hadn’t been published yet, Thursday I was so buried in code, themes and plugins I didn’t spot it being published (yes I need more vanity Google Alerts), and so I am linking through to it today.

Posted in blogging tips | Also tagged blogger, interview, martin_lindsey, martyblog, technorati, trackback | Comments closed

How To Remove Nofollow On New Blogger – Dofollow on Blogspot

By Andy Beard | Published: March 23, 2007

When I wrote my Ultimate Guide to DoFollow plugins, I hadn’t read a solution to removing Nofollow from comments for Blogger that actually passed the link credit from your own domain.

Posted in blogging tips | Also tagged blogger, dofollow, new_blogger, nofollow | Comments closed

2000 Bloggers and Hypocrisy

By Andy Beard | Published: February 8, 2007

I actually applied only recently for Tino Buntie to add my name to the 2000 Bloggers collage. I thought it was a cool idea, although the SEO benefit is probably minimal simply because although massive cross-linking is happening, it could be looked on as:-

Posted in SEO Blog, news | Also tagged 2000 bloggers, links, microformats, nofollow, tagging, tags, technorati | Comments closed

Blogger on own domain

By Andy Beard | Published: January 6, 2007

Amit Agarwal and Ionut have both posted about Blogger on your own domain.

The problem is you have to be using the new blogger, and there seems to be some access restriction for existing Bloggers.

Redirects from Blogspot | Bug in Wordpress Import

By Andy Beard | Published: November 13, 2006

I have finally got my redirects from blogspot working perfectly.

Well almost…

It is not as good as a 301 redirect, as it will not transfer pagerank.

There is also a bug I found which means I will have to go through my imported content carefully checking page slugs.

Posted in wordpress | Also tagged blogger, blog_import, wordpress, WordPress Bug | Comments closed

How to move your blog or start a new one

By Andy Beard | Published: October 20, 2006

21 Surefire Tips for a Successful Blog Launch also contains some great information. Whilst I Digged it, I don't agree with the original comment on Digg.

Posted in blogging tips | Also tagged 301_redirects, article marketing, articlemarketer, article_marketer, article_submission, better_blogging, blog, blogger, blogging, blogging tips, blogging_help, customization, email marketing, feedburner, Google, google_sandbox, howto, how_to, linkbaiting, linking strategy, new_blog, readers, redirect_code, rss_syndication, search engines, SEO Blog, subscribers, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

Fixing Redirects

By Andy Beard | Published: October 17, 2006

As visitors to my niche websites blog have almost certainly noticed, it is now being hosted on one of my many incarnations of andybeard.x

The redirect code isn’t quite working as intended and will hopefully be fixed soon.