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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
    To be perfectly honest, I don't want all those cookies, whether they are 1st party or 3rd party.
  • 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
However essential features of Tweetmeme and Tweetmeme Button are missing if it is going to be used by serious marketers.
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Wordpress Plugin: Antisocial

You could blame this plugin on Lorelle for suggesting this weekend as a “Code Marathon Party“. Honestly though her code weekend idea just gave me a kick up the backside to finally just archive something on my harddisk and stick it on the web for public download.

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Shoemoney Nofollow Plugin

This plugin retroactively places the rel=”nofollow” tag on all links to Shoemoney.com – you don’t have to modify any links manually, and it is easy to switch off should you feel in the future that the site no longer contains offensive material.

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Ultimate List of DoFollow & Nofollow Plugins – Banish Nofollow From Comments and Trackbacks

Wordpress by default, just like other blogging platforms, has automatically been adding the "nofollow" microformat extension to all links from user generated content such as comments and trackbacks. To support the growing rejection of NoFollow for blog comments, I have compiled this list of plugins that help you remove nofollow from your blog forever.

  • Lucia's Linky Love Plugin - I was going to liken this plugin to a Ferrari, because it is built to be fast, but it is probably more like a Subaru, not just fast but designed for rugged terrain and can handle the twists and turns of
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Related Posts in Feeds With UTW – How to Encourage RSS Subscribers to Visit Your Blog

Ninety Percent of your readers might be using an RSS reader or email to browse your content, and whilst your subscriber base is growing, your page views are remaining fairly static unless you receive a burst of traffic from Digg or another social bookmarking site.

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Feed Styling Alternative and some Traffic Analysis

Recently I wrote about how you can customise some of the elements in your RSS feed for correct display.

Feed Styler
I just found out about another alternative for those comfortable with CSS called Feed Styler. It allows you to apply CSS to various page elements automatically, effectively using 2 style sheets, one for your blog pages, and another for your feeds.
It achieves this by automatically adding inline CSS styling to various page elements.

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Sociable Beta | PlugIm | Bumpzee | Technorati WTF

Social Bookmarking and Social Networks - Technorati WTF PlugIM Bumpzee

Sociable has been due for an update for a long time. In popularity I am sure it is among the top 20 plugins in use, maybe even top 10 – it is certainly very visible on blogs, more so than the very discreet Share This plugin.

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Related Posts with UTW

Patrick Schaber just dropped me an email asking me which related posts plugin I am using. Actually I am using one of the functions of the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin to make the list.

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Wikipedia NoFollow Plugin

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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Wikipedia NoFollow Plugin? WikiDigg?

The news today seems to be that Wikipedia have added nofollow to external links.

I have seen a lot of sites mention that all the search engines respect nofollow. Actually they don’t. Anlaysis has shown that Yahoo certainly follow and index pages despite the nofollow tag.

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CoComment added in under 5 minutes

Some things are very easy to install on a blog.

coComment is certainly one of them

They provide some javascript to add to your blog template, or there is a very easy to install coComment plugin for Wordpress.

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Wordpress Plugin: Snowfall

I launched a new site today, along with a little seasonal gift

I have mentioned using Taggerati in the past, along with Blog Auto Publisher. This site has Taggerati implemented, although the tagging is currently being performed manually rather than by keyword list.

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