Tag Archives: ultimate tag warrior

WordPress Plugin – Custom Query String – UTW Edition

By Andy Beard | Published: August 11, 2007

This is the first release of this modified "classic" WordPress plugin and is based upon the original Custom Query String by Matt Read which has been looking for a permanent home for a while.

It contains some simple modifications extending the operation to include the UTW is_tag() function. The changes made are not unique, as they are the same as have been described on a number of Non-english language blogs such as 082Net - a little hard to find if you don't speak Korean, and as I have found in the past, if hacks are not provided as a

Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, plugins, wordpress | Also tagged Custom_Query_String, custom_wordpress, search engine optimization, SEO Blog, utw, WordPress Loop, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

Wordpress Plugin: Nofollow Those Dupes (Wordpress SEO Masterclass Continued)

By Andy Beard | Published: August 4, 2007

This is a continuation of my WordPress Search Engine Optimization Masterclass. It is really the one missing component, other than a complete theme with everything built in, to achieve the linking structures I described in my previous article. Sandcastles Theme I am still playing around with my Sandcastles Theme on a test site (based upon Sandbox) - it will be released fairly soon, but not until I have this site moved over onto new servers. I thought I would release this now so that those who don't want to work with a modified Sandbox theme are free to use it, and most people can probably gain some benefit from it anyway, as it will reduce external links on duplicate content pages without having to block them. Pagerank is based upon pages and relevant links

Posted in SEO Blog, plugins, themes, wordpress | Also tagged Dynamic Linking, mininet, search engine optimization, SEO Blog, siloing, tag, tagging, utw, wordpress, WordPress SEO | Comments closed

Results: Top Wordpress Plugins (March 2007)

By Andy Beard | Published: April 6, 2007

Competition was fierce but with only 24 votes, the winner could easily have been decided in the last few hours.

I have checked the ballots and there doesn’t seem to be any scandals – rigged voting would have been news worthy and actually profitable, it just goes to show how honest people in the Wordpress community are.

Posted in blogging tips, plugins, wordpress | Also tagged bad_behaviour, Best WordPress Plugins, dofollow, donations, image_manager, plugin_authors, plugin_developers, spam_karma, Top WordPress Plugins, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

Best Wordpress Plugins (March 2007) | Poll

By Andy Beard | Published: April 3, 2007

I have opened up the voting for the first round of my cash giveaway for Wordpress plugin authors.
Nominations for the Best Wordpress Plugin each month are made by my readers, and half my income from paid reviews is given away as donations to help support development costs of the best Wordpress plugins.

Posted in Projects, plugins, wordpress | Also tagged bad_behaviour, dofollow, donations, image_manager, plugin_authors, plugin_developers, spam_karma, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

How to Show Top Commenters Only On Your Index Page

By Andy Beard | Published: April 2, 2007

I recently wrote that I don’t like Top Commenters plugins, in fact I used a very strong word… loathe. There are some benefits to introducing Top Commenters to give some level of special recognition, but whatever SEO benefits you think it might offer are discounted by having it placed in your sidebar across the whole of your site including your duplicate content pages.

Posted in blogging tips, plugins, themes, wordpress | Also tagged code, comments, hack, top_commenters, utw, wordpress, wordpress plugins, wordpress themes, wordpress_commands, wordpress_logic | Comments closed

I Bet You Missed Some of These (March 07)

By Andy Beard | Published: April 1, 2007

These are some highlights (in my opinion) of some of the content I have created over the last month. If I have missed anything out which you enjoyed or gained some value from, please let others know in the comments.

Posted in SEO Blog, plugins, reviews, web 2.0, wordpress | Also tagged aweber, blogging, blogging tips, blogs, blogsearch, can_spam, citations, digg, disclosure, dofollow, getresponse, gmail, google_blog_search, mybloglog, nofollow, pay per post, plagiarism, plugins, press, product_launch_formula, reddit, reviews, smm, smo, smpt, smtp_server, sociable, social-bookmarks, social_tagging, sponsored reviews, stampede_traffic, stumbleupon, subscribe_to_comments, tag, tagging, technorati, top_commenters, traffic_strategy, twitter, wordpress | 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, tags, technorati, technorati_favorites, utw | Comments closed

Introduction To Ultimate Tag Warrior | Lorelle

By Andy Beard | Published: February 20, 2007

Lorelle has posted a great introduction to Ultimate Tag Warrior. She covers almost all the basics on what makes UTW my favorite plugin.

She has also been reporting on feed stats. Now whilst I don’t want to be accused at looking at her “details” again, if you add her Wordpress.com subscribers to her Feedburner subscribers then her total is approximately 2500 subscribers. I am sure she also gains a lot more readers through various other interfaces on Wordpress.com who don’t use a feed reader.

Posted in plugins, wordpress | Also tagged branding, legacy, lorelle, name_recognition, utw, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

UTW Wordpress Plugin Upgraded

By Andy Beard | Published: January 19, 2007

UTW must be my favorite plugin

Christine has released an upgrade

Ultimate Tag Warrior 3.1415926

I also submitted it to Digg, so Give It Some Digging

Honestly I see so many junk plugins on people’s top 10 list that take almost no effort to create (though sometimes serve a useful purpose).

Posted in blogging tips, plugins, wordpress | Also tagged tag, tagging, upgrade, utw, wordpress, wordpress plugins, wp | Comments closed

Chitika Adverts with Ultimate Tag Warrior

By Andy Beard | Published: January 10, 2007

I talk about how you can use UTW quite a bit from an SEO perspective, but it can also help with monetization. If you have keywords, you can use them for all kinds of things.

Posted in blogging tips, plugins, wordpress | Also tagged chitika, flickr, keyword, keyword_targetting, monetization, pictures, rss, utw, wordpress | Comments closed

Blog SEO | Evaluation | Taking action

By Andy Beard | Published: December 6, 2006

One of the most rewarding things about blogging, at least for me, is when you see people taking action based on something you have suggested.

There are actually 2 distinct stages in taking action

Posted in Google, SEO Blog, blogging tips, wordpress | Also tagged affiliate marketing, backlinks, blogging, linking strategy, nofollow, search engine optimization, search engines, SEO Blog, utw | 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, tags, utw, white_hat, wordpress, wordpress plugins, yahoo | Comments closed

Ultimate Tag Warrior SEO Tricks (pt 1)

By Andy Beard | Published: November 11, 2006

On my blogs, I prefer not to use nofollow for comments and trackback.

It is my belief that if someone adds to the conversation on my blogs, the least I can do is offer them a backlink for their trouble.
I prefer people to write a post about me than to add me to their blogroll. I know a blogroll link theoretically gives me more Google Juice, but if they give 200 people a blogroll link, suddenly the value of that link from every page is greatly deminished.

Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, mininet, wordpress | Also tagged blogging tips, Dynamic Linking, linking strategy, nofollow, pagerank, search engine optimization, SEO Blog, utw, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

How a Blogroll can kill your Pagerank

By Andy Beard | Published: November 7, 2006

I followed a link from Digg a few minutes a go, read the story, and as I frequently do on any site I visit, I snooped around a little.

I actually do exactly the same every time someone writes a blog post referring to me and pings my blog. It is the polite thing to do, and maybe I can add something to the conversation. It also allows me to relate any comment to the person who is writing about me, either positively or negatively. Everyone is entitled to opposing views. What is often important is why they have an opposing view, and it isn’t always obvious.

Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, mininet, vre | Also tagged article marketing, articlemarketer, articles, article_marketer, article_submission, backlinks, better_blogging, blog, blogging, blogging tips, Blogroll, blog_navigation, comments, duplicate content, Dynamic Linking, folksonomy, howto, how_to, linking strategy, mininet, nofollow, revenge_of_the_mininet, search engines, SEO Blog, site_navigation, utw, website traffic | 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, tags, 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.