Tag Archives: typepad

Typepad AntiSpam

By Andy Beard | Published: May 30, 2008

I have switched Spam Karma off... temporarily, to test Typepad's new Antispam plugin As is well known I am not a huge fan of collective intelligence as the sole arbiter of whether a comment is "spam or ham", and long term I am most likely to switch back to Spam Karma, possibly using Typepad Antispam as an additional filter. I am also going to grab the code from Igor so I can test Typepad Antispam in conjunction with his Project Honeypot though I think that too is best served as a Spam Karma filter/plugin with probably a high threshold. Typepad Antispam was quite easy to set up

Posted in blogging tips | Also tagged akismet, comment spam, skap, Spam Karma, typepad antispam | Comments closed

Some Fun With Zemanta

By Andy Beard | Published: March 28, 2008

Whilst writing the last post about a marketing book survey I was also testing out a new Firefox plugin that is currently in beta, Zemanta

What Does Zemanta Do Exactly?

It adds editing functions to various popular online blogging interfaces, Wordpress (both .org and .com), Blogger and Typepad. These are the type of functions you could probably add a plugin for if you are using Wordpress on your own hosting, but wouldn't be available for Blogger, Typepad and Wordpress.com users.

That makes it something worth taking a careful look at for niche marketers, even if you use WordPress for most of

Posted in blogging tips, web 2.0 | Also tagged blogger, firefox, Mozilla Firefox, wikipedia, wordpress, wordpress.com, Zemanta | Comments closed

Typepad Trackback & Pingback

By Andy Beard | Published: July 5, 2007

I have never used Typepad, I have never felt the need. I started with Blogger a couple of years ago, quickly progressed to using predominantly Wordpress and never looked back. When I link to a Wordperss blog, most of the time I can just use pingback which autodiscovers the trackback URL for any blog I link to within a post and sends a trackback to the blog owner. On some Wordpress blogs they have removed the pingback code to reduce spam. Fair enough I enter a trackback URL if I want to give them a signal that I have written something that might be worth their while reading. On Blogger there are now linkbacks powered by Google blogsearch, so you can tell who has linked to you. A Blogger user can also send

Posted in blogging tips | Also tagged blogger, moveable_type, pingback, pinging, trackback | Comments closed

Mike Sansone Cracks The Secret Code to Removing Nofollow From Typepad

By Andy Beard | Published: April 14, 2007

For two years people have been struggling to remove Nofollow from Typepad so they can share the link love with their regular visitors who add great value to the conversation on the host blog.
Many blog owners are unaware that the links people leave on their blogs are shrouded with a “link condom” which tells the major search engines to ignore any links left that provide a benefit to the blog community.

Posted in blogging tips | Also tagged blog, blogging, blogging tips, blog_coach, dawud_miracle, dofollow, mike_sansone, nofollow, remove_nofollow, typepad_customization, typepad_hacks | Comments closed

25 Tips To Optimize Your Blog For Readers & Search Engines

By Andy Beard | Published: January 10, 2007

Jennifer Slegg has written a great post on blog optimization, though it is not highly technical.

What a SEO Blunder though. Do you see that URL? Now read point 24 on the list “24) Use a Good URL Structure“.
I think Search Engine Land made a major mistake launching their new blog on Typepad instead of Wordpress.

Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips | Also tagged blogging tips, content, search, search engine optimization, search_engine_land, SEL, SEO Blog, traffic, utw | Comments closed