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Social Power Linking Now Only $29.95

By Andy Beard | Published: December 20, 2007

Back in August I reviewed Jack's Social Power Linking Home Study Course which he created with Peter Lenkefi I claim it as a review, even though I hadn't actually seen the product. I had one major problem with it which wouldn't have worried many of my readers, but was a significant problem for me - it was a physical product.

Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, web 2.0 | Also tagged Social Media, social power linking, social-bookmarks, web2.0, website traffic, website_promotion | Comments closed

MyBlogLog Ian Kennedy Interviewed

By Andy Beard | Published: December 18, 2007

A few weeks ago the Collective Thoughts team got together and compiled a bunch of tough questions we didn't expect to get all the answers for.

Almost without exception Ian Kennedy, MBL Product Manager has provided detailed answers

If you are a fan of MBL you will find some interesting stats, and some things to look forward to in the near future.

Here is an extra little titbit.

Google's Toolbar currently regards my MBL profile as more valuable content than my blog, and the same is true for my Blogcatalog profile.

Whilst the true value Google places on my site can't be

Posted in blogging tips, web 2.0 | Also tagged mbl, mybloglog | Comments closed

Social Power Linking Review

By Andy Beard | Published: August 17, 2007

There is only one small detail that prevents me from immediately whipping out my credit card in the next 30 seconds and buying Social Power Linking, but for many people that small detail is actually the primary reason they would make a purchase.

Its Not The Quality Of The Product

I have experienced some of Jacks training in the past, and it is always phenomenal, he gives so much valuable information and presents it in a way that is easy for anyone to understand. I have absolutely no doubt that Social Power Linking will be no exception to the rule.

It Is Not

Posted in SEO Blog, blog monetization, blogging tips, reviews, vre, web 2.0 | Also tagged blogging, blogging tips, socialpowerlinking, social_linking_power, spl, traffic, traffic_strategy, web 2.0, web2.0, website traffic, website_promotion | Comments closed

Sphinn Support – Antisocial (SEO Friendly Sociable) Wordpress Plugin

By Andy Beard | Published: July 24, 2007

I have just added support for Sphinn to my hacked version of the popular Sociable plugin.

For those unfamiliar with Antisocial, these are the differences

All links have nofollow added – this might sound strange coming from someone who strongly supports the removal of nofollow from comments, but there is no logical purpose having a followable link to a social bookmark site that just points to a submission form

Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, plugins, web 2.0, wordpress | Also tagged sociable, social bookmarking, sphinn, stumbleupon, twitthis, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

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.

Posted in blogging tips, web 2.0 | Also tagged api, Blogcatalog, blog_directory, bumpzee, mybloglog, social networks | Comments closed

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.

Posted in SEO Blog, plugins, web 2.0, wordpress | Also tagged attention, bumpzee, mahalo, plugim, reciprocity, search engine optimization, sem, SEO Blog, social bookmarking, social networks, Social News, sphinn, truemor | Comments closed

BlogCatalog Updates

By Andy Beard | Published: July 7, 2007

Blogcatalog announced on their blog yesterday some fairly major changes and I just spent an hour or so looking around to get a feel for what has changed.

The first thing I suggest you do is pop over to Blogcatalog and grab a free 7 day trial of their supporters service, so you can actually try out some of these new features (today may be the last day this is available)

Letting Other People Write The LinkBait

By Andy Beard | Published: May 27, 2007

A lot of the things I write go completely over the head of many of my readers, and in some ways that is actually a concious decision which certainly costs me a much higher readership.

Posted in SEO Blog, news | Also tagged charity, disclosure, linking, niche marketing, payperpost, SEO Blog, WordPress Security | Comments closed

In Depth Review | Traffic Strategy | Stampede Secrets 2.0 – Social Media Marketing From A Unique Perspective?

By Andy Beard | Published: March 31, 2007

Stampede Secrets 2.0 is unlike any internet marketing report or ebook I have read…

If spending $97 on an ebook is a major financial commitment, don’t read any further

Ok, for the rest of you lets get on with the review…

Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, marketing, mininet, reviews, vre, web 2.0 | Also tagged marketing, niche marketing, niche_websites, rss, rss-sharing, smm, smo, social bookmarking, social marketing, social network, social networks, Social News, social-bookmarks, social_media, social_proof, social_tagging, stampede_secrets, syndication, tagging, tags, tracking, traffic, traffic_strategy, vre, web 2.0, website traffic, website_promotion, web_metrics | Comments closed

Maki From DoshDosh on 10e20 – Reddit – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About It

By Andy Beard | Published: March 30, 2007

Maki from DoshDosh is one of my favorite emerging bloggers and it seems that the talent is being noticed, as this post on 10e20 seems to show.

As you would expect from Maki, this article really does go into great depth on how to use Reddit effectively and ethically.

Posted in web 2.0 | Also tagged 10e20, doshdosh, maki, reddit, social bookmarking, social marketing, social network, social networks, social_media | Comments closed

Exclusive: LinkedIn Kill LinkedIn Fast Widget Functionality

By Andy Beard | Published: March 28, 2007

It was good while it lasted, and provided needed functionality to LinkedIn, and was widely supported by open networkers on the social networking platform.

During a routine check of functionality I discovered that the “get” method of form completion which was used by the fast connection solution is now being blocked, and thus have made a notification post on the LinkedIn Answers service within “Using LinkedIn”, and have also changed the graphic that was being served to a number of sites to hopefully notify them of the change.

Posted in web 2.0 | Also tagged linkedin, linkedin_button, linkedin_fast, linkedin_script, linkedin_widget, social network, social networks | Comments closed

SEO | SEO OPML Update | SEO Search | SEO Google Toolbar Button | Bumpzee SEO

By Andy Beard | Published: March 9, 2007

Toprank Blog every week updates their list of the top search blogs and Lee has just made another update. That OPML file in turn is used by others to create some great services. Check this out…

Posted in Google, Projects, SEO Blog | Also tagged bumpzee, bumpzee_seo, gooble_toolbar_button, Google, google_toolbar, search engine optimization, sem, SEO Blog, seo_search, social networks, toprank | Comments closed

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

Posted in Projects, marketing | Also tagged geek, hack, linkedin, linkedin_button, linkedin_invite, linkedin_script, linkedin_widget, php | Comments closed

Cocomments.com Technorati Claim – New Feature – Full Exclusive Story

By Andy Beard | Published: February 7, 2007

A little over 2 months ago, I spent some time trying to claim my coComment RSS feed in Technorati.
I was able to enter the feed and have it listed in Technorati as unclaimed, but I couldn’t claim it.

Posted in SEO Blog, web 2.0 | Also tagged blogging, claim_feed, cocomment, comment, comment_management, SEO Blog, technorati | Comments closed

Bumpzee Adds Amazing Feature – Autotagging

By Andy Beard | Published: February 6, 2007

One of the many features that have been added to Bumpzee over the last few days is something I was really looking forward to.

Auto Tagging

This feature is important because all my content that is relevant is being automatically being posted to Bumpzee, no need to submit it.
But it would become a pain if I had to visit the site after every post I made on the blog to add tags.

Bumpzee is now automatically parsing each post for tags, such as rel=”tag” used for Technorati, and adding them automatically with each entry.

Posted in web 2.0 | Also tagged bumpzee, social marketing, social-bookmarks, social_tagging, tagging, tags | Comments closed

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.

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.

Posted in marketing, web 2.0 | Also tagged geek, hack, linkedin | Comments closed

MyBlogLog Flaw

By Andy Beard | Published: January 11, 2007

SoloSeo is in the news today for noting a flaw in MyBlogLog.
Techcrunch, and Andy Beal have had their say.

My opinion – this method of gaming MyBlogLog is useless and pointless. SoloSeo has gained some nice linkbait from the article, but very few new community members. It is a bit like Jason Calacanis and his gaming Alexa experiment. Sure it can be done, but what is really the point?

MyBlogLog Acquisition Coverage

By Andy Beard | Published: January 10, 2007

It is interesting looking at the acquisition coverage for MyBlogLog.

First of all Techmeme gets it partially right, that one of the original sources for the sale was Forbes.

If you expand all the related coverage, it is a shame the announcement on the MyBlogLog Blog doesn’t seem to have been cited anywhere near as many times.

Posted in marketing, web 2.0 | Also tagged digg, forbes, mashable, mybloglog, techmeme, yahoo | Comments closed

CoComment added in under 5 minutes

By Andy Beard | Published: November 28, 2006

Some things are very easy to install on a blog.

coComment is certainly one of them

They provide some javascript to add to your blog template, or there is a very easy to install coComment plugin for Wordpress.

Posted in blogging tips, plugins | Also tagged blogging, cocomment, javascript, wordpress plugin | Comments closed

Mike Filsaime | Social Marketing | Copyright Violations

By Andy Beard | Published: November 12, 2006

Mike Filsaime always provides real quality in his free reports, and The Death of Internet Marketing is no exception.

I have read all 59 pages of this free report. It certainly isn’t junk, and it shouldn’t be ignored.

Posted in blogging tips, reviews, web 2.0 | Also tagged affiliate marketing, alexa, blogging tips, copyright., Digg-this, email marketing, how_to, link_blogs, mailing_list, marketing, marketing_technique, out-sourcing, rss, rss-sharing, rss_syndication, sales_technique, splog, technorati, youtube | Comments closed

Long Sales Letters and Social Networking Clash

By Andy Beard | Published: November 8, 2006

I just gave Brian a Digg on this, as it is a subject rarely discussed.

A thought provoking post by Brian addressing quite a major issue.
As the marketing world comes to terms with social networking, and social networks get invaded or enhanced by marketers there are many aspects that both sides have to address to come to some form of consensus and safe middle ground.

Posted in web 2.0 | Also tagged Digg-this, long-form, sales-letter | Comments closed

Technorati Favorites

By Andy Beard | Published: October 20, 2006

I was just browsing Technorati.

It would only take 67 favorites to get in their top 100 favorites

Top 50 – currently only 115 favorites

327 Favorites to get in their Top 10 !

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