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Twitter Has Alzheimers
Twitter Nofollow – My 7 Day Ultimatum
Unlike many people in the SEO, Tech or Marketing community, I don’t write posts just for linkbait & traffic, and when I make up my mind about whether I want to continue being involved in a community, that decision is final.
Posted in Google, marketing, news, web 2.0 Also tagged Google Buzz, nofollow, Twitter Nofollow 44 Comments
Tweetglide vs Twitter For SEO
Twitter deciding to nofollow links 2 years ago really annoyed me.
When they decided to close all loopholes in creating an active link within the bio area, it prevented me linking to my disclosure policy – that annoyed me as well, especially with all the terrible attempts of providing adequate disclosure within paid tweets that are currently being used/proposed.
There was a huge outcry from the SEO community.
Posted in Google, SEO Blog, blogging tips, marketing, vre, web 2.0 Also tagged Google, nofollow, SEO Blog, tweetglide Comments closed
Why Tweetglide Matters – seriously
When Mike Filsaime first mentioned Tweetglide, I signed up to his notification list but I wasn’t really that interested in the concept. I thought it had a few flaws in the business model he was proposing, and there were already enough Adobe Air Twitter applications on the market.
Posted in blog monetization, marketing, web 2.0 Also tagged adobe air, app, tweetglide Comments closed
#Twitter Sucks At Malware Protection (98hrs later)
Just over 4 hours ago I published a post congratulating Google and Stopbadware on their efficiency in responding to malware, and eventually the speed with which they reinstate a "bad" domain after malware has been removed.
In contrast, whist everyone seems to enthuse about how real-time Twitter is, their system handling malware is such a delayed knee-jerk reaction that it should just be removed as a total failure.
You see an hour ago I received the following email
It is good that Twitter is doing something to protect their users, but this is like putting on a condom the morning after.
Update: It has now been 98 hours since Twitter blocked my site
It is good that Twitter is doing something to protect their users, but this is like putting on a condom the morning after.
Update: It has now been 98 hours since Twitter blocked my site
The #Twitter Method?
You might find this interesting, making money on Twitter without any followers. Any system that doesn’t require you to game Twitter for fake followers gets my vote.
They have a ton of training on how everything works, along with guides on how to out-source it.
Twitter Security Hypocrisy
Twitter get Gmail and Google Apps hacked, but expose their customers to a similar danger
Posted in marketing, web 2.0 Also tagged api, gmail, Google, oauth, taf, tell-a-friend, tellafriend Comments closed
Bonus Delivery For Opt-Ins
This is a slightly taboo subject because with many product launches there is a launch competition not only for sales, but also for pre-launch opt-ins.
If you are offering an incentive for people to just opt-in, there is a high possibility that that lead might be worth less than a lead that has viewed some launch material, and decided that they are interested in the product enough to hand over an email address.
Something else to avoid is any mention that you might benefit financially from just an opt-in - the problem there is disclosure, and as more and more launches include a pre-launch opt-in competition with prizes, especially in the internet marketing niche, affiliate program managers are going to specifically have to allow, and encourage disclosure.
Posted in marketing Also tagged Bonus Delivery, Howie Schwartz, IM Remarkable, lead generation, Opt-in, sales automation, sales funnel, traffic funnel, tweet button Comments closed
PageRank Update – Twitter Profiles – Tosh
Today we are going to face an avalanche of Technology bloggers who can't help blogging about every intricate detail of Twitter in one way or another claiming that Google has devalued Twitter profiles in the search engine results pages (SERPs) or reduced the PageRank of profiles.
Whilst this is theoretically possible, it is also unlikely.
To understand why the change has happened
- You have to understand SEO, external and internal linking, and have an advanced knowledge of how PageRank works. This gives me another chance to drop a very blatant affiliate link to Stomping The Search Engines 2 which is probably the best value (just a measly $1) high quality SEO training online. (http://andybeard.eu/Recommends/SEO-Training.html)
- You need to study Twitter Linking structure over a period of time - snapshot SEO is for cowboys - even what I am writing here isn't going to be highly accurate, because I don't have access to analytics, server logs etc, and telling a script to analyse every page of Twitter just isn't viable
Posted in Google, SEO Blog, web 2.0 Also tagged Google PageRank, linking, linking structures, pagerank, Twitter PageRank Comments closed
Why Tweetmeme Sucks For Marketers
The emergence of Tweetmeme during the period I wasn't blogging was interesting - I spent a fair amount of time reading content on sites, and even clicked the tweet buttons occasionally.
This post has now been updated with an official response from Tweetmeme - the features have now been added to the development timeline.The Tweetmeme site is a useful content source, but this article is mainly about the Tweetmeme buttons. Adding something to your blog, especially something that can encourage viral behavior and add social proof is highly beneficial, and doing it correctly, without asking for passwords offers huge advantages. Twitter is also a medium that is marketing content tollerant, as long as the people following you are marketers, unlike Digg, Reddit, and to a lesser extent Stumbleupon. Thus I have spent some time delving into the code and API for Tweetmeme and the existing WordPress plugin. It has just been updated, thus if you download the Tweetmeme plugin, it will be the latest version.
Important New Features
- Cleaned up cookie use a little, but it would be better if they set a cookie based on an action, rather than a display.
The original RFC for cookies states that browser support for cookies should be a minimum of:-
- 300 cookies in total
- 20 cookies per domain
- 4095 bytes per cookie
- Ability to brand the retweets with @andybeard etc, though you still get "via @tweetmeme" at the end
- The button is removed from excerpts using a filter on get_the_excerpt() - more on that to follow
Posted in marketing Also tagged buzz marketing, split testing, tweetmeme, tweetmeme plugin, viral marketing, wordpress plugin Comments closed
Twitter Viral Hell With Launch Tree
The security risks for your customers running viral tell-a-friend scripts and widgets.
This post is a year overdue - I have held back the material and refrained from pointing the finger for that period of time, but there is something I have noticed:-
If you don't kick up a big stink, possibly including names, any advice just gets swept under the carpet.
Posted in marketing Also tagged Andy Jenkins, anik singal, launch tree, launchtree, Mike Filsaime, product launch, tell-a-friend, tellafriend, viral inviter, viral marketing, viral optin generator Comments closed
You Can’t Charge For Twitter Popularity
There are a number of fundamental flaws in many of the "calculations" being floated as a business model for Twitter.
I am just going to revert to bullets to make this easier to digest.
- Slapping a charge on your biggest fans is financial suicide - if someone has been evangelising your product for 2 years, and using their influence to build your business, it would be extremely foolish to damage that relationship.
- Om Malik is touting bandwidth costs possibly up to 30GB from Robert Scoble - hosting companies… even free blog hosts such as Wordpress.com give that kind of bandwidth away these
Aha Hmm Mumble Shhh
Just a few miscellaneous tips without too much explanation.
Blogging Prize Giveaways & Social Media Payola
Did you see Jason Calacanis with his incentivized signup program for Twitter, in a bid to take his "Jason Army" above 20,000?
All those twiterroll links are having a significant effect on the highly competitive "Jason Calacanis" SERP.
All those twiterroll links are having a significant effect on the highly competitive "Jason Calacanis" SERP.
Twitter – Just Because It Is Up Doesn’t Make It Reliable
Robert Scoble asked earlier today if Twitter is Now Reliable?
I have been using Twitter a little more than normal over the last week, maybe it will last. During that time I have been looking at the reliability of consuming Twitter content via various tools (no I haven't tested everything).
Last night was actually a very good opportunity to do some data analysis, because Robert was very active on Twitter, with lots of updates in a very short period of time.
Could you follow the conversation on every platform?
Twitter Web Interface
The first interface I tested was the Twitter web interface.
I grabbed a
I Totally Failed Rich Schefren But Kathy Sierra Returning
When one of your mentors gives you the opportunity to really help them, that is the time you should move mountains to achieve results.
Rich Schefren really wanted to get in contact with Kathy Sierra - he mentioned this privately to me on a call last November - I didn't get any immediate results to enquiries I made with a few online friends, and December was a time of turmoil for me - moving house, no internet connection, no telephone.
I dropped the ball
In January I noticed that Kathy Sierra was listed as a speaker at SXSW, but concluded it might be
Nofollow Killed Google Social Graph API 3 Years Ago
Lets face it, I have social profiles all over the web and I am or have been an active participant in tons of conversations on blogs and forums.
3 years ago Google introduced rel="nofollow", very similar to rel="me" , rel="friend" and other XFN and FOAF standards. Today Google are championing their new API with the slogan "URLs Are People Too"
3 years ago that was true, now URLs on many (most) places where people congregate on the web are no longer "people" because in a supposed attempt to combat comment spam, Google encouraged major sites to use rel="nofollow" making the
Posted in Google, web 2.0 Also tagged foaf, Google, nofollow, social graph api, stumbleupon, technorati, xfn, xpn Comments closed
Twitter Nofollow
News of Twitter adopting rel="nofollow" is disturbing.
Sure links from Twitter can be abused, because Twitter profiles are so heavily interlinked.
What they should have done is stuck nofollow on your "twitter blogroll" links thus making each Twitter account a little more independent and negating the benefit of building up mass friendships for more than traffic generation.
It isn't a minor thing, Twitter has just become another "Wikipedia", a black hole sucking in link juice and only allowing it to flow internally.
I would no longer class Twitter as a microblogging application, because in many ways the content you submit
Pownce Invites – But Don’t Follow Kevin Rose
I have a few invites to Pownce available, so if you are in desperate need to suffer even more distractions, just use my contact form or drop me an email.
Kevin Rose
Reciprocal Favoriting Gives Benefits & Adds Value
Blogging experts and social media marketing experts frequently write about how important it is to build up a network of friends on social bookmarking sites, and even encourage careful gaming of the system by email and instant messenger.
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Posted in blogging tips, web 2.0 Also tagged benefits, Blogcatalog, bumpzee, marketing, reciprocal_favorites, stats, technorati, technorati_favorites, traffic Comments closed
Which Technorati Top Keyword Gets You Splogged The Most? (part1)
This is a little experiment to see which of these Technorati terms are currently being used by content aggregators and niche content sites that could be looked on as legitimate, or could be looked on as the scum of the earth, depending on your view-point.
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TwitterAdder – Software Specification
I am sure such an application is just around the corner, and as I speculated about it in a comment thread over on Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim, I just wanted to have a record of “I called it first”
WOOT Creating Twitter Splogs
If an affiliate created a blog and fed a datafeed to that blog, a large proportion of the blogosphere would regard that blog as a splog, especially if it was on blogspot.
Posted in marketing, web 2.0 Also tagged blog_spam, command_line, disclosure, disclosure policy, marketing, rss, rss_spam, sms, spam, splog, webspam, web_services Comments closed
A List Bloggers | A List Twitters
I have been involved a little in the conversation over on Tony Hung’s blog regarding A List Bloggers, and Tony has actually just made a clarifying post. I thought these screenshots from Twitter would bring a few smiles for all involved.
Posted in blogging tips, web 2.0 Also tagged a-list, a_list_bloggers, jason calacanis, tony_hung, twitter_a_list Comments closed
Twitter Is Unethical For Business Use
How many people are using Twitter for more than saying what they just ate or where friends can meet them? Lots of people are certainly using Twitter to express their ideas, and often link to blog posts that are related to their business, or opinion.
Twitter is thus being used for WOMM (Word of Mouth Marketing), and should be subject to the same ethics rules and recommendations as blogging. (note: I am not a lawyer)
Technorati Can’t Cope With Twitter, coComment, Blog Networks, and Blog Rolls
Technorati simply can’t cope with new forms of blogging and RSS feed generation. I am not talking about splogs, which seem to still be rampant, and reblogs, likewise, but totally legitimate alternative unique content sources that are effectively blogs.
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Posted in blogging tips, stats, web 2.0 Also tagged 2000 bloggers, blog, blogging, cocomment, geek, rss, syndication, tech, technology, technorati, technorati_links, technorati_ranking Comments closed
Twitter | Google Toolbar Button
Just added a new toolbar button to my toolbar buttons site for Twitter addicts.
There has been so much talk about Freebase.com, but Twitter.com seriously should have some kind of health warning – so many people are becoming addicted.
Posted in Google, Projects, web 2.0 Also tagged friends, geek, Google, google-toolbar, google-toolbar-buttons, messaging, rss, search, sms, social networks, tech, toolbar-buttons Comments closed
Twitter’s 2M+ Indexed Search Results Pages
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