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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.
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Disqus – Why 95% Of Bloggers Should Switch

By Andy Beard | Published: June 16, 2009
When Disqus first launched, I was a little critical because I like to maintain control of comments, give commenters the benefit of Dofollow links, and ultimately retain control of their user generated content. I now feel that 95% of bloggers should switch to using Disqus, though I have some reservations. These are some of the reasons why:-
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Why Have Blogs At All? – The Race To Kill Blogging

By Andy Beard | Published: March 20, 2008
How would a human differentiate between the original source for a piece of content on the web, and a syndicated or splogged copy? One of the most important factors would almost certainly be the comments. What is one of the primary reasons people click through from an RSS feed to actually visit a blog? Almost certainly it is either to read comments others have made, or to make one of their own. It is not to view advertising... at least for most. How would a machine, such as Google differentiate between original source and whether a piece of content is valuable to include in its search index? Factors could include:-
  • The content within comments - keywords, language structure, length etc
  • The number of comments
  • Update frequency of the page (gaining additional comments over time)
Sure there are other factors, such as links People link to comments on blogs, typically using a #fragment - the link is going to the blog permalink page How many times have you found the answer to a question by reading a blog comment? For me it is actually quite frequently - comments quite often provide alternatives to the original content that offer improvements. A large part of blogging is engaging your audience in conversation Business blogging is about engaging your customers It hasn't happened yet, but soon a blog might become no more than an RSS feed that is read on another domain, and discussed in small communities of friends, sometimes private, sometimes public, but still fragmented conversation.
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Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership – Passes MyBlogLog Traffic

By Andy Beard | Published: January 30, 2008
Blogcatalog SezWhoFor the last few weeks Blogcatalog have been driving full steam with new features, and today announce a partnership with SezWho, the comment and reputation ranking platform. I have been slacking a little over the last month on the updates, so time to play catch up. First of all some big news, Blogcatalog has now surpassed MyBlogLog in traffic levels, if you believe Alexa data. They are in exactly the same niche, and share plenty of users, so whilst I don't trust Alexa data extensively, this is a significant achievement considering it wasn't long ago when people had trouble differentiating the two services.
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  • 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.

    >Affiliate Program

    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.