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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.

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LinkedIn Invites – LinkedIn Fast Generator Improvements

By Andy Beard | Published: March 1, 2007
Unfortunately LinkedIn decided to block this solution because it represented a security risk. There were other alternatives to make things secure, but they decided it was better not to have a free method of connecting with someone you know quickly.
It is assumed that this is nothing related with them wanting to charge money for premium services

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The Perfect Way to Use Feedburner Without Giving Them Your Subscribers?

By Andy Beard | Published: February 28, 2007
Feedburner Hack

Do you worry about the danger of giving a 3rd party service control over the most important part of your blogging business – your subscribers?

Up until today there were only 2 realistic alternatives to retain some control over your RSS subscribers while using Feedburner for collecting stats.

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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.

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Wolfpack of Lies – Hack Baiting Web 2.0 Startups For Diggs

By Andy Beard | Published: February 24, 2007
MyBlogLog

This seems to be a growing trend, and so many bloggers are falling for the linkbait, poorly researched content, and unethical marketing practices.

Reactionary development of computer products and services can prove to be a disaster both for development cycles and the feature set of a product. An extremely careful balance has to be achieved between supporting the wishes of hardcore supporters of a product, and achieving core goals and maintaining a development schedule.

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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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LinkedIN Fast Generator

By Andy Beard | Published: February 4, 2007

My LinkedIn Fast Button has proven to be quite popular but some people might struggle with customizing the code, and it is easy to make a mistake, so I have developed a simple generator.

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Hacking LinkedIn To Speed Up the Invite Process

By Andy Beard | Published: February 2, 2007

LinkedIn as a concept is great, but the Invite process is fairly laborious. That is probably why I have 160+ MyBlogLog community members and at time of writing, only 10 connections in LinkedIn.

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