Tag Archives: wikipedia

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

Jason Calacanis – Wikia Mailing List Troll

By Andy Beard | Published: December 27, 2007

I followed a link from Aaron’s writeup on the Alpha for Wikia, to the Wikia Whitelist of sites that will be included in the first few waves of development.

I discovered this touching remark from Wikia and Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales about Jason Calacanis…

Jason Calacanis Mailing List Troll

Posted in web 2.0 | Also tagged jason calacanis , jimbo wales , mahalo , wikia | Comments closed

SEO Linking Gotchas Even The Pros Make

By Andy Beard | Published: November 27, 2007

I am going to attempt to debunk almost every Wordpress SEO "Expert" article ever written, and in some respects this article even debunks some of the things I have written in the past.

This article does not reference Google Toolbar PageRank in any way

First of all you are going to need to do a little homework.

Eric Enge interview with Matt Cutts

The Eric Enge interview with Matt Cutts was truly exceptional and revealed a number of gotchas that for some reason continue to be circulated.

Key takeaways

Matt Cutts: … Now, robots.txt says you are not allowed to crawl a page, and Google

Posted in blogging tips , SEO Blog , wordpress | Also tagged digg , goog , Google , Google PageRank , Internal Linking , Linking Structure , matt cutts , meta follow , meta nofollow , meta noindex , nofollow , pagerank , robots.txt , search engine optimization , SEO Blog | Comments closed

Mahalo To Remove Wikipedia Links!

By Andy Beard | Published: September 6, 2007

I was just reading an interesting article on Mahalo about their absolutely amazing plagiarism checker. (yes it is just a Google search and a bit of javascript)
If Jason wants something useful he should use iplagiarismcheck.com (I wrote a sponsored review about them recently, I am sure Jason can afford the unlimited package)

Anyway one paragraph interested me

One of the most important parts of the QC and serping process is making sure the sites we link to on Mahalo do not have scraped or stolen content, that is, the sites do not take content from another source without attribution

Posted in SEO Blog , web 2.0 | Also tagged jason calacanis , mahalo , plagiarism , plagiarism checker | Comments closed

Jason Calacanis & The 4 Little SEOs Podcast

By Andy Beard | Published: June 22, 2007

I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your SERPs down…

But is it all just hot air?

Also vailable as Audio [MP3] video [mp4] iPod [mp4]

Staring

Jason Calacanis (here is a link to all my Jason Calacanis coverage)

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Posted in SEO Blog , web 2.0 | Also tagged Allen Stern , Brian Provost , centernetworks , graywolf , jason calacanis , mahalo , Michael Gray , podcast , podtech , Scoreboard Media , video | 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.

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Posted in blogging tips , Google , plugins , web 2.0 | Also tagged Blog Search , blogsearch , delicious , digg , dofollow , Google , google blogsearch , nofollow , tagging , tags , technorati | Comments closed

Could Just 1 Character Turn A 4 Day Old News Story Into A Front Page Digg?

By Andy Beard | Published: March 8, 2007

You would think it is impossible for one small detail to have a dramatic effect on whether a story is promoted on Digg. Here is how it happened, decide for yourself…

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Posted in marketing , web 2.0 | Also tagged copywriting , digg , headlines , marketing | Comments closed

Ive Just Been Floored – Am I Out For The Count?

By Andy Beard | Published: February 5, 2007

I started tapping out a comment on Chris’s Search Anyway blog, but decided it would be much better to send him some visitors. It is not like I can send him a massive wave of visitors, because not all my subscribers are heavily into the nitty gritty of the nofollow debate in various contexts, though it is something that fascinates me.

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Posted in SEO Blog | Also tagged nofollow , SEO Blog | Comments closed

Can You Really Take Search Engine and Technology News Seriously?

By Andy Beard | Published: February 4, 2007

There is currently a case running in the Danish courts that will effectively decide the law in Denmark for linking to a page other than a home page, typically known as deep linking.
We are not talking about hot-linking, pulling an image or video off someone else’s server into the middle of your own content, but linking as you might to this blog article, using the permalink.

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Posted in news , SEO Blog | Also tagged blogger , Britney Spears , Deep Linking , global warming , krak , link , linking , news , paris hilton , robert scoble , search , Search Engine , tech | Comments closed

Wikipedia NoFollow Plugin

By Andy Beard | Published: January 23, 2007

I mentioned I was willing to create such a plugin, I was even cobbling the code together.

Then I noticed a mention over on Matt’s blog (just search for Matt) in the comments that somone had written one.

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Posted in plugins , SEO Blog | Also tagged digg , Digg-this , nofollow , SEO Blog , wordpress , wordpress plugin | Comments closed