Tag Archives: bumpzee

Supporting Your Most Valued Communities Without WIIFM

By Andy Beard | Published: November 30, 2007

Awards such as the Open Web Awards are a great way for members of a community to show support for the free services they find valuable, and giving something back to the people who run them.

What's In It For Me?

Honestly… nothing directly, unless the community owner pays you to vote for them, either directly or with prizes.
I must admit I am not a big supporter of offering prizes and gifts to encourage participation. As an example I can encourage you to join the Collective Thoughts Community on MyBlogLog, but I am not going to offer a specific incentive.
I have

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Traffic Or Topical Community – What Comes First?

By Andy Beard | Published: September 22, 2007

I have been discussing various kinds of blogging community widgets as a core topic for close to 10 months now, first Mybloglog, then Bumpzee, and shortly after Blogcatalog.

From every single one of those communities I have possibly gained more traffic than I have given them in return, though it is very difficult to judge exactly when you start gaining traffic, and maybe that isn't really the point. You can't easily track RSS clicks to a site unless you destroy the SEO advantages of syndication by having nice clean links and ultimately you hope for people to discover you once, and

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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

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MyBlogLog vs Blogcatalog – Differentiation

By Andy Beard | Published: July 23, 2007

Rose seems to think that Blogcatalog is just a MyBlogLog clone. I have just spent about 2 hours drawing up a list of the current differences between each service, that I believe is able demonstration that both services are being developed by a team that truly want to differentiate their offerings, though sometimes there is some healthy competitive overlap.

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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.

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Choosing The Right Social Bookmarking Sites

By Andy Beard | Published: June 24, 2007

Providing social bookmarking buttons can be a service to your visitors, and help highlight your best content on various social networks and news services, but you must think carefully about which ones you include, and where.

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DoFollow | No Nofollow – Highs & Lows

By Andy Beard | Published: May 24, 2007

Having spent so much time over the last 6 months evangelising the adoption of dofollow plugins and solutions to remove nofollow from comments, the last week has been filled with highs and lows.

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Reciprocal Favoriting Gives Benefits & Adds Value

By Andy Beard | Published: May 1, 2007

Blogging experts and social media marketing experts frequently write about how important it is to build up a network of friends on social bookmarking sites, and even encourage careful gaming of the system by email and instant messenger.

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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.

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How To Remove Nofollow On Moveable Type

By Andy Beard | Published: April 16, 2007

No Nofollow

Gothwalk just pinged me to say that he has now written a guide on how to remove Nofollow on Moveable Type.

Gothwalk had been scratching his head all weekend, because he wanted his blogs to be included in the new DoFollow community on Bumpzee, but everytime he thought he had it cracked, I would spot that something wasn’t quite right.

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