Andy Beard

"It is a 2 or 3 year old post The product is dead - never updated" - Andy Beard

"Sorry no help, but I think using Adsense is a better option - in my testing there was a very low CPC from Bidvertizer" - Andy Beard

"Recently moved servers to fix some problems, but the plugin needs to be updated to no longer use Nofollow, otherwise it doesn't really give a benefit now." - Andy Beard

"@AndrewKeir, Lucia’s Linky Love, as mentioned in my comment is one such plugin, but a link in a name isn’t a “call to action” that encourages a click. For regular readers I would like to help them gain a little more traffic. At the same time Lucia’s, like default WordPress uses nofollow, which due to recent events I want to avoid, so I will start off using a new hacked version from Hobo Web, and then either hack it more or exert extreme pressure on Shaun to customize it more. http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/seo-blo..." - Andy Beard

"I love the idea of comment love, but selectively Blogs can build a core group of community members, and they tend to be the most frequent people linking, at least in the blogging niche, possibly the design niche as well. I will soon be switching back from Disqus, and enabling a modified version of Lucia’s Linky Love, but it would be good to see if I can hack it further to enable Comment Love only for people who are core community members. I might also make the links only visible to core community members as well – no search value. I am a heavy moderator, most of the comments that are purely for backlinks get deleted, 70-90%, but I am also exploring the best way to monetize those commenters." - Andy Beard

"First, you are investing time into a blog that is not on its own domain. You don't really own it - not sure how easy it would be to migrate. In many ways my blog is just waking up again, I took 9 months off - when I started blogging on this site I was pumping out 90 posts per month, I could have done much better spending my times in other ways, but I was looking to attract a specific audience which I couldn't attract with a landing page and squeeze. If you are looking to optimize a site, you need to do it for terms that set searched for and which you can monetize." - Andy Beard

"I received the email a while back - instead of offering to promote at this early stage, I sent the PR person some practical tips on how to set up the product launch for backend sales, and suggested a few mutual friends Gary should chat with. If it had been Gary, he would have sent me a reply - his PR people didn’t reply. Andy Beards last blog post..Climbing The Heights Of Mount Google" - Andy Beard

If you're trying to sell stuff (SM marketing), numbers are important. Sure, 2000 passionate fans beat 25K dispassionate lurkers. But, more = better. It's just like money. Nobody wants to pay a consultant to help them make consistently small amounts of money. - Jason Nunnelley

Watched the vid. Totally agree connecting is better than getting volume superficial follows. - Jason Nunnelley

"The Tom Cruise picture didn't depict the scene, but the film graphically portrayed the use of various state-of-the-art gadgets. I am not going to get into what Tom does outside acting." - Andy Beard

"Let me know a non payday loan site (that Matt Cutts would be happy I linked to) I should change all your links to. I welcome you as part of my community and your contribution, but multiple comments with multiple names, all from the same IP address to multiple micro payday loan sites is just "Extracting the Michael"" - Andy Beard

"I think it gets more complicated than that Briefly... Lots of authority sites have lots of hanging/dangling pages, especially PDFs Since the original patent, even IBM have published patents on how to handle dangling nodes, I am sure Google has refined things as well What happens to the PageRank from dangling pages/nodes, as well as nofollow links? They might be treated in a similar way Why distribute all that PageRank randomly? Why not allocate it to indexed pages on the same domain? This would partially explain .edu and .gov ranking, and why very little was observed in overall changes on major sites." - Andy Beard

"I will send you a new export, but please understand, the poor sync is on posts and comments made after nuconomy was removed. 2. WP 2.8 3. Type in passwords etc as if it was a new installation - I switch plugins on/off fairly frequently, just an annoying bug. 4. Rather than switching off comments on posts in options/discussion, a snippet of code in functions.php should be used. Otherwise the individual post settings for all new posts will be not to allow comments on the post, which is time consuming to fix at a later date if you migrate back. Thus you use a WordPress filter not a saved setting to switch off comments. It could be built into the Disqus plugin 5. See 1 "even on my most recent posts where I haven't been using Nuconomy" 5." - Andy Beard

"Hey Andy, I think I just need to explain better how Disqus picks up your comments. Every thread (post) is created based on the webpage link. The additional parameters that Nuconomy added broke those links cached on our side and created a new threads. Those new threads were hiding those previously stored comments. We just need to do one more import and all your comments will return. Also keep in mind on wordpress, trackbacks are counted as comments so your numbers maybe skewed. Once I get a new export I can give you the actual number of comments and a comparison. 1. Could you send me one more export and I can cross reference your comments. http://wiki.disqus.net/ExportW... 2. Are you using Wordpress 2.7 or 2.8 now? 3. What do you mean exactly by reactivate? 4. I do not entirely understand this statement, can you show me a screenshot? 5. Sync works fine just one of your plugins messed with the naming of your threads. Giannii DISQUS Community Manager help@disqus.com..." - Andy Beard

"Sorry, when commenting on a US blog I tend to use phrases that fit with the culture. I would look on my use of “play” as being synonymous to “playbook”, though it should be noted that playbook is also a term used in Rugby. Fortunately you haven’t learned to use threaded comment systems, so your grammar policing will most likely get pushed totally out of context, where it belongs." - Andy Beard

"I can see lots of people having problems with this interface when web browsers start to get sluggish due to memory management issues. You want links you can click before javascript kicks in, before a page is fully loaded, and positive actions should be totally separate from negative." - Andy Beard

"This reminds me of the WordPress trademark fiasco of a few years back. WordPress still have their domain name policy hidden, and their policing of the trademark only increases the cost to market WordPress related services via Adwords (lower quality score because less specific “WP” used by advertisers)" - Andy Beard

"There are actually huge holes in the video space that haven’t been filled, that would be immensely profitable. The right play, with the right marketing could be cashflow positive within 3 months of launching." - Andy Beard