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How a Blogroll Can Still Kill Your PageRank

By Andy Beard | Published: August 8, 2010

Navigational elements on a blog or any website are an important feature, but you should be careful not to take things to extremes which can hurt the progress of your site, both from a SEO perspective and for website conversion.

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How To Find The Hottest Breaking Stories On Sphinn

By Andy Beard | Published: August 10, 2007

We all lead busy lives, and finding ways to optimize our online research is vital for time management.
As the Sphinn user base increases, finding the wheat among the chaff becomes more time consuming.
In the future Sphinn will allow some sort of filtering based upon your friends, but what can you do now to maximise the signal to noise ratio?
The Front Page Of Sphinn
This is an obvious stop, and hopefully it won't be filled with "made For Sphinn" articles every day.
Sphinn Greatest Hits
Eventually this will contain a superb overview of the online marketing industry, though as Sphinn is still very new, a lot of the current top posts are related to Sphinn.
Sphinn Upcoming Most Popular
I found a gem from Danny Sullivan in a comment and wanted to highlight how much

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Comments Policy How To

By Andy Beard | Published: January 5, 2007

Ezine Articles are in the process of implementing a new comments policy for their blog, and the good part is that they are also removing nofollow from the comments.

I love Ezine Articles, and the blog is one I read “religiously”. Bloggers can learn an awful lot from Article Marketing, and in fact I recommend that all bloggers also use article marketing especially when they have a new blog with low readership.

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7 Best Ways to Judge Blogging Success

By Andy Beard | Published: November 27, 2006

These are in no particular order, though I am actually going to place the most obvious last.

  1. Are your most frequently clicked links for your subscriber buttons? – long-term subscribers are the lifeblood of any blog or website, and are immune to the whims of search engines

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