Tag Archives: tags

WordPress.com Subdomain Spam With Tags?

By Andy Beard | Published: April 23, 2008

Over a year ago I questioned the use of tagging on WordPress.com to spread link equity around as "a rising tide".

If you use similar tags to a high profile blogger, it can help with faster indexing and rankings, at least from what I have observed.

In many ways the effect is similar to linkfarms, using the tagging as a central hub. Many commentators complain when they see Technorati tag pages appearing in the Google SERPs, because Technorati doesn't have a huge amount of editorial control over the content of those pages, they are more like search results.

In that situation however

Google Broke My Christmas * (Supplemental Result Query Changes)

By Andy Beard | Published: December 20, 2007

If you read the Google blog or the coverage on Search Engine Land, you might be rejoicing that supplemental results are no more

It has been described as lipstick on a pig and others have just offered tips on site indexing.

What Happened To My /* Search Query?

Before this change, one of the tools still available to SEO practitioners to give an indication of the depth of site indexing was to add /* to the end on a site: search query.

Thus you would use

site:andybeard.eu/ – this would return the total pages supposedly indexed
site:andybeard.eu/* – this would return the

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MyBlogLog New Features – The Abusive and the Incomplete

By Andy Beard | Published: June 30, 2007

Mass Mailing

I will leave the community of anyone who uses the mass broadcast feature

A few people have played around with it, fair enough, but this is going to be abused to hell.

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Posted in blogging tips , marketing , web 2.0 | Also tagged email , mass messaging , messaging , mybloglog , tagging | Comments closed

SchMOe – I Tagged Myself on MyBlogLog

By Andy Beard | Published: May 25, 2007

I have just tagged myself a SchMOe on MyblogLog

Blogs are a form of social media
I talk about optimizing blogs
MyBlogLog says:-

Spam – If you think someone is spamming you, tag it out loud! Internally, we like to call a user who games the system a SchMOe (Social Media Optimizer). Tag anyone who spams you with the term schmoe. Picture_13 While they have the ability to delete the tag and never see it again, WE can see it internally. As their user account racks up the schoe tag, we’ll investigate their conversations and take appropriate action.

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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…

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Posted in blogging tips , marketing , mininet , reviews , SEO Blog , vre , web 2.0 | Also tagged marketing , niche marketing , niche websites , rss , RSS Sharing , smm , smo , social bookmarking , Social Bookmarks , social marketing , Social Media , social network , social networking , social networks , Social News , social proof , Social Tagging , stampede secrets , syndication , tagging , tracking , traffic , traffic strategy , vre , web 2.0 , web metrics , Website Promotion , website traffic | Comments closed

Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

By Andy Beard | Published: March 24, 2007

How many blogs link to Technorati on every post they publish? Many blogs also use followable links to social bookmarking sites such as Delicious, and social news sites such as Digg on every single page of their site? Google in their recently disclosed patent are saying that it could be a negative indication of quality.

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Posted in blogging tips , Google , plugins , web 2.0 | Also tagged Blog Search , blogsearch , delicious , digg , dofollow , Google , google blogsearch , nofollow , tagging , technorati , wikipedia | Comments closed

In Depth: Google BlogSearch | Ranking Blog Documents Patent

By Andy Beard | Published: March 23, 2007

Using Internal tags with Ultimate Tag Warrior

For a long time my blogs have performed amazingly well with Google Blog Search. I always appear in the relevant results quickly, and the results I obtain have some reasonable longevity, even when I am not the original source of a story.

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Posted in blogging tips , Google , plugins , SEO Blog | Also tagged backlinks , blogging , bloglines , blogsearch , duplicate content , feedburner , Google , Google Blog Search , google blogsearch , linking strategy , rss , RSS Subscribers , search engine optimization , search engines , SEO Blog , subscribers , tag , tagging , technorati , Technorati Favorites , ultimate tag warrior , utw | Comments closed

AuctionAds Review – AuctionAds Partially Solves Two International Affiliate Problems

By Andy Beard | Published: March 6, 2007

Shoemoney Media and Mediawhiz (The parent company of Text Link Ads and ReviewMe) have released an innovative new monetization model, based upon Ebay Auctions – AuctionAds.com

Mainstream media will no doubt not even think let alone write about the 2 core advantages of this system for a large segment of the affiliate marketplace.

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Posted in blog monetization , blogging tips , marketing , mininet , niche website | Also tagged affiliate , Affiliate Marketing , auctionads , blog monetization , blogging , cashflow , Ebay , ebay affiliate program , international affiliates , Make Money , mediawhiz , monetization , niche marketing , niche website , shoemoney , utw | Comments closed

MyFeedz – Should This Really Be Called a Feed Reader?

By Andy Beard | Published: February 19, 2007

I saw a few posts about MyFeedz yesterday and checked it out, and I noticed Robert just gave Myfeedz a test. He is a hardcore feed reader, so I value his opinion (even though we don’t always agree on everything).
I think Robert is being extremely polite about MyFeedz

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Posted in web 2.0 | Also tagged Feed Reader , meme , myfeedz , niche marketing , rss , RSS Reader , tagging | Comments closed

2000 Bloggers and Hypocrisy

By Andy Beard | Published: February 8, 2007

I actually applied only recently for Tino Buntie to add my name to the 2000 Bloggers collage. I thought it was a cool idea, although the SEO benefit is probably minimal simply because although massive cross-linking is happening, it could be looked on as:-

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Posted in news , SEO Blog | Also tagged 2000 bloggers , blogspot , links , microformats , nofollow , tagging , technorati | Comments closed