Tag Archives: megite

The Pied Piper Of PayPerPost?

By Andy Beard | Published: November 6, 2007

Over the last year I have given a fair amount of coverage to PayPerPost, who now house the service along with other endeavours under the name Izea. There are multiple reasons why I have supported PayPerPost and similar programs so strongly, and yet at the same time have never reviewed a link buying / selling service. I have mentioned link buying and selling in passing, and also a couple of Wordpress plugins, but those plugins generally allow you to sell links which have a nofollow. My emphasis both in editorial about services and in the few reviews I have myself written is to encourage the writing of quality content with editorial links. Compensation in whatever form should be based upon the time involved, expertise, and possibly the size and influence of the audience, and not based upon any SEO benefit to a site or service being reviewed.

Posted in Google, SEO Blog, blog monetization, blogging tips, stats | Also tagged advertising, alexa, blogging tips, goog, Google, izea, marketing, metrics, monetization, pagerank, payperpost, rating, reputation_management, techmeme, technorati | Comments closed

Technorati Favorites – Interesting New Message

By Andy Beard | Published: August 29, 2007

Many people with lots of favorites in Technorati might have noticed that for the last month or so that Technorati were not displaying them, and thought that for some reason their account might have been banned.

I think one of the problems was that Technorati created some great features that no one was really using extensively for managing OPML in interesting ways, and then with various methods of exchanging Technorati favorites, and my suggestion to import opml into Technorati favorites, the system might have become slightly overwhelmed.

If a legitimate blogger like Robert Scoble can read 100s or even 1000s of

Posted in blogging tips, web 2.0 | Also tagged opml, technorati, technorati_favorites | Comments closed

How To Optimize Your Blog For Syndication | Meme Trackers

By Andy Beard | Published: January 30, 2007

With the growing adoption of RSS readers, Meme Trackers and content being syndicated on 3rd party sites, how your content is ultimately presented becomes increasingly important.
What follows are some basic steps to optimize your content for syndication, as well as some more advanced techniques.

Posted in blogging tips, marketing | Also tagged css, disclosure_policy_plugin, feedburner, feed_flare, landing_page, meme, meme_tracker, subscribers, syndication | Comments closed

How to Get Better Technology Search Results and News

By Andy Beard | Published: January 22, 2007

Carefully Selected News Source

What would be better than Robert Scoble’s OPML file?

The Best Search Technology

Google Custom Search Engine gives great search results, and quite often gives better results than the main index.

Posted in Google, marketing, web 2.0 | Also tagged geek, gooble_toolbar_button, Google, google_cse, google_toolbar, meme, robert_scoble, scobleizer, search, search_engine, tech, technology, web 2.0 | Comments closed

Toolbar Buttons site launched

By Andy Beard | Published: January 15, 2007

I just spent a few hours cobbling together a new site.

This one focuses on Google Toolbar buttons

The first button is ideal for anyone interested in SEO

It is a mashup of

Posted in Google, SEO Blog | Also tagged Google, google_cse, google_toolbar, lee_odden, search, search engine optimization, sem, SEO Blog, toprank | Comments closed

Web 2.0 Marketing | Convergence

By Andy Beard | Published: January 13, 2007

I love being the catalyst that encourages some level of convergence between different web 2.0 platforms. Actually this is the first time it has happened with web 2.0, but it has happened for me in other topic areas.

Posted in web 2.0 | Also tagged convergence, mybloglog, tech, technology, web 2.0 | Comments closed

SEO Blog A List

By Andy Beard | Published: January 13, 2007

I am now on the A list of SEO related blogs.

Ok I should really qualify that statement… I am listed under “A” on the TopRank Online Marketing list of SEO related blogs.