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

Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, wordpress | Also tagged Google, spam, subdomains, tagging, wordpress, wordpress.com | Comments closed

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

Posted in Google, SEO Blog, blogging tips | Also tagged duplicate content, supplemental_results, tagging | Comments closed

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.

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.

Posted in blogging tips, web 2.0 | Also tagged mybloglog, schmoe, tagging | 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 networking, social networks, Social News, social-bookmarks, social_media, social_proof, social_tagging, stampede_secrets, syndication, tagging, tracking, traffic, traffic_strategy, vre, web 2.0, website traffic, website_promotion, web_metrics | 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.

Posted in Google, blogging tips, plugins, web 2.0 | Also tagged blogsearch, blog_search, 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.

Posted in Google, SEO Blog, blogging tips, plugins | Also tagged backlinks, blogging, bloglines, blogsearch, duplicate content, feedburner, Google, google_blogsearch, google_blog_search, 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.

Posted in blog monetization, blogging tips, marketing, mininet, niche website | Also tagged affiliate, affiliate marketing, auctionads, blogging, blog_monetization, 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

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:-

Posted in SEO Blog, news | Also tagged 2000 bloggers, blogspot, links, microformats, nofollow, tagging, 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 networking, social-bookmarks, social_tagging, tagging | Comments closed

Darren Rouse on Yahoo – Tags Tags Tags

By Andy Beard | Published: January 23, 2007

Darren Rouse gets talked about a lot in the blogosphere, and for good reason. He writes quality articles and is a nice helpful guy.

Darren Rouse Logs

Someone was checking results for Darren on Yahoo. How do I know? I spotted it in my MyBlogLog stats that they had clicked through.

Posted in SEO Blog, niche website | Also tagged allintitle, darren_rouse, mybloglog, search engine optimization, search engines, SEO Blog, serps, tagging, tracking, utw | Comments closed

Lateral | Traditional – Blackhat | White Hat SEO

By Andy Beard | Published: January 13, 2007

Frequently you see discussions regarding certain SEO techniques being Blackhat or Whitehat.

I have always looked on it that the easiest way to determine that is to read the Google webmaster guidelines, and keep an eye out for what Googlers are saying. I think it is also wise to follow the spirit and not the letter of the law.

Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips | Also tagged blackhat, greyhat, laterla_seo, search_engine_optinization, SEO Blog, tagging, technorati, traditional_seo, whitehat | Comments closed

Tagging and traffic analysis

By Andy Beard | Published: December 1, 2006

It is Friday, but I am still going to nag people about SEO and tagging.

It seems in the last 24 hrs that Alexa have caught up a little with their statistics

Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips | Also tagged alexa, blogging tips, google_results, search engine optimization, search engines, SEO Blog, tagging, utw, website traffic | Comments closed

UTW – Tagging SEO Tricks (pt 2)

By Andy Beard | Published: November 25, 2006

This is not a technical trick, but something that many people who confuse categories and tagging really need to get a grasp of.
It is also my belief that this is very much a white-hat strategy, but as with all forms of search engine marketing, it can be abused.

Posted in Google, SEO Blog, plugins | Also tagged backlinks, blogging tips, blog_navigation, duplicate content, folksonomy, Google, google_results, linking strategy, msn, relevant_content, search engines, SEO Blog, tagging, ultimate tag warrior, utw, white_hat, wordpress, wordpress plugins, yahoo | Comments closed

Wordpress.com linking structure

By Andy Beard | Published: November 4, 2006

In the comments discussing my objections to the current implementation of Google Reader on Robert Scobles blog, something very interesting cropped up.

Robert was vehemently questioning the morals of people in a blogging network.

Posted in Google, SEO Blog, wordpress | Also tagged link_strategy, tagging, wordpress, wordpress.com | Comments closed

Revenge of the Mininet | 3rd Party content | Blog Comments | No Follow

By Andy Beard | Published: October 31, 2006

For those that haven’t picked up a copy of Revenge of the Mininet

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Download Revenge of the Mininet for free (It is honestly worth signing up to Michaels list)

Posted in Projects, blogging tips, mininet, niche website, plugins, vre | Also tagged articles, blogging, blogging tips, blog_navigation, customization, duplicate content, Dynamic Linking, folksonomy, google-pr, linking strategy, linking_links, mininet, niche website, pagerank, revenge_of_the_mininet, search engines, SEO Blog, site_navigation, tagging, ultimate tag warrior, utw, WordPress Templates, wordpress themes | Comments closed

Tagging and page views

By Andy Beard | Published: October 23, 2006

A few days ago on my Wordpress Plugins site, I updated to Wordpress 2.04 (from 1.5.2) and switched to using UTW for tagging rather than Taggerati.

Taggerati and UTW have slightly different functionality. 2.04 is supported by both, but Taggerati isn’t really being updated. I am going to miss a couple of the inline tags I could use when posting using a desktop application, but longterm support I hope is more likely with UTW.