Tag Archives: utw

How a Blogroll Can Still Kill Your PageRank

By Andy Beard | Published: August 8, 2010

Navigational elements on a blog or any website are an important feature, but you should be careful not to take things to extremes which can hurt the progress of your site, both from a SEO perspective and for website conversion.

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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 blogging tips , plugins , SEO Blog , wordpress | Also tagged Custom Query String , custom wordpress , search engine optimization , SEO Blog , ultimate tag warrior , 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 plugins , SEO Blog , themes , wordpress | Also tagged Dynamic Linking , mininet , search engine optimization , SEO Blog , siloing , tag , tagging , ultimate tag warrior , wordpress , WordPress SEO | Comments closed

WordPress SEO – Siloing vs Massive Ball Linking With Tags

By Andy Beard | Published: June 14, 2007

This is not the definitive guide to WordPress SEO, and I highly doubt I am the right person to write one, in fact I am not sure who would be. That being said this partial guide on a couple of aspects of WordPress SEO might offer a broader perspective on what is possible than I have seen previously published.

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Posted in blogging tips , SEO Blog , vre , wordpress | Also tagged mininet , siloing , synamic linking , tag , tagging , ultimate tag warrior , wordpress , WordPress SEO | 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.

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Posted in blogging tips , plugins , themes , wordpress | Also tagged code , comments , hack , top commenters , ultimate tag warrior , wordpress , wordpress commands , wordpress logic , wordpress plugins , wordpress themes | 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 , tags , technorati , Technorati Favorites , ultimate tag warrior | 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 , tags | 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.

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Posted in plugins , wordpress | Also tagged branding , legacy , lorelle , name recognition , ultimate tag warrior , wordpress , wordpress plugins | Comments closed