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"This is the genuine Disqus account for Matt Cutts as far as I am aware http://disqus.com/MattCutts/  The 4 current comments I believe are fake." - Andy Beard

"Here Matt used the terminology "Uncrawled reference" http://www.stonetemple.com/art... Just to confuse matters John Mu does say "for indexing if we don't crawl" https://plus.google.com/107576... I think what Matt says is much cleaner... why? Because then if a URL is "indexed" it means it has been crawled, and then a meta "noindex" or x-robots noindex can remove it." - Andy Beard

"I have some rough code that I can drop in a stripped down genesis template to remove it from a page I am using in an iframe if that is useful. You didn't say why you wanted to remove it. Otherwise if it is purely cosmetic it would be easy to use some javascript to change the CSS and hide it" - Andy Beard

"The 14 day free trial makes it even worse for an affiliate, because they wouldn't know if traffic converted to $ for 14 days. You need to front load the offer even if you are selling it that cheap. e.g. $3 per qualified lead You would need to know the people sending the traffic and know your conversion rates into paying subscribers, lifetime customer value etc. Even it would only be possible if it was in a niche with massive traffic potential that is otherwise hard to monetize." - Andy Beard

"All the Adsense I am seeing seems to be retargetting which based on a recent SEOmoz article suggests the actual source is Adroll. Surely you should cut out the middleman and show Adroll through FM" - Andy Beard

"All the Adsense I am seeing seems to be retargetting which based on a recent SEOmoz article suggests the actual source is Adroll. Surely you should cut out the middleman and show Adroll through FM" - Andy Beard

"PageRank with a huge fudge factor for perceived quality are the primary factors in indexation still." - Andy Beard

"Dennis don't forget crawl efficiency, canonicalization etc. Google could easily crawl 400% less pages, and potentially less Twitter home page hits if it could be assured to eventually get the same content later. That is especially true if the crawler understands the site structure. They don't need to crawl individual tweets." - Andy Beard

"Google respect nofollow specific to this guideline http://support.google.com/webm... There are some details there of situations where they might crawl a link, such as when it includes rel="me" but that doesn't mean the link passes PageRank." - Andy Beard

"There is no such thing as a noindex link directive. Noindex is only page based using a number of mechanisms but those work only after Google has crawled the page to see the directive. Even when it is a page directive, Google can still cache the page, and use the links on the page in its calculations." - Andy Beard

"Matt I really hope he doesn't amend it. The don't be evil bookmarklet is actually very evil as it links to a Mark Zuckerberg topic page on Quora, not a profile that he has verified as his. You also block natural crawling, at least you are no longer forcing juice to list pages and spam accounts as was the case a while back. I will be responding with yet another blog post on your indexation issues as Twitter has pretty much ignored all the pro bono advice it has received from the SEO community up until now." - Andy Beard

"I don't need to hattip people for wrong information Disallow: /*?That line has been blocking natural crawlingof the site from the pagination at the bottom of the pages for atleast the last 2 years that I have been monitoring it.Current indexation of my own 5100 tweets is around 5%I have achieved better than that on a site with hardly any juice that archive them" - Andy Beard

"Matt, Twitter blocks crawling beyond the first page, so whilst individual tweets may get indexed, the site internal linking is broken thus preventing a natural crawl." - Andy Beard

"submitted by reddit to blog." - Andy Beard

"The ultimate interface for Facebook is to have a link from any item posted to pull up content from your open graph of similar content. So you see a review of a holiday destination, and one click away are all your friends holiday snaps from that place, their reviews, any travel guides they liked etc." - Andy Beard

"Tweet = "I'm currently watching Sherlock Holmes - great movie - come join me" I am not sure the model would work immediately with film, it should be rolled out with shows that have a relatively short shelf life where the studios totally fail currently. e.g. Britain's Got Talent (and other international versions) X-Factor These are shows where there is already mass distribution & commentary on social networks during the initial airing, and the pirates have videos up on YouTube within 5 mins of each performance finishing" - Andy Beard

"I am really looking forward to that Twitter's restrictions don't only restrict Google - they restrict users from accessing their own content. They prevent me finding my own Tweets beyond the 3K or so that can be retrieved by API,what I have in backup services, and what Topsy may have indexed and cached of their own accord. Their internal link structure is a great way to promote accounts leveraging Twitter for parasite hosting." - Andy Beard

"My understanding is that Google is using public data from Google+ that is available to all, but then displaying the data from that that is most relevant. Thinking back, did Facebook really have much "public to all" back in 2009? Others have highlighted API issues to access the graph I have seen lots of people talk about monopoly but no mention of another evil. If competitors in a free market all get into bed with each other thus reducing competition, and maybe excluding lesser players, that could be looked on as a cartel." - Andy Beard

"I haven't written a blog post in over 6 months, and I went working for a startup run by a guy I have known and respected for a number of years doing something parallel to what I wanted to create as a startup but the bar was simply too high to achieve by myself. Time is a factor but these for me are the real barriers. 1. Pissing off potential investors in current startup because I wrote something bad about one of their current crop 2. Annoying technology partners - Google Twitter & Facebook especially - if I ever want my media embeds to work in Google Reader, G+, Google Currents, various Twitter streams and apps, Facebook Streams etc, then blog posts aren't necessarily going to do it (well unless I tie it into a SOPA post next week) For example there are tons of things I have major issues with on G+ that effectively prevent me using it, because using it means I approve it... and I don't fully. 3. I can't fairly write about new competitors... being the honest straight shooter (or trying..." - Andy Beard

"I am trying to work out where we stand on this with uQast.com (I am effectively the product manager) We were planning in some way to add an iPhone app so people can consume content directly on their iOS device, maintain their account, even add content directly from their preferred device. But a large part of the content is premium content, and long-term a fair number of users will have premium subscriptions and features as a SAAS and Apple's billing system can't cope. They certainly forbid their payment system being used for micropayments - which is a core feature. I have no worries about APple making money from our platform, but it should be for the benefit they provide - if they provide traffic from their app store, they can receive payment in the same way as all our other affiliates. 25% - 75% determined by the content publisher" - Andy Beard

"I am trying to work out where we stand on this with uQast.com (I am effectively the product manager) We were planning in some way to add an iPhone app so people can consume content directly on their iOS device, maintain their account, even add content directly from their preferred device. But a large part of the content is premium content, and long-term a fair number of users will have premium subscriptions and features as a SAAS and Apple's billing system can't cope. They certainly forbid their payment system being used for micropayments - which is a core feature. I have no worries about APple making money from our platform, but it should be for the benefit they provide - if they provide traffic from their app store, they can receive payment in the same way as all our other affiliates. 25% - 75% determined by the content publisher" - Andy Beard

"The whitelisting is just Adwords related - something probably tripped up something in the quality score and they somehow manually tweaked it. I haven't seen anywhere where they have claimed to be whitelisted for organic. They still have major issues, but then they haven't really fixed their site either" - Andy Beard

"The whitelisting is just Adwords related - something probably tripped up something in the quality score and they somehow manually tweaked it. I haven't seen anywhere where they have claimed to be whitelisted for organic. They still have major issues, but then they haven't really fixed their site either" - Andy Beard

"Don't forget to insist on cross domain canonical when you syndicate Techcrunch posts elsewhere. p.s. in a tiff with RWW? Really strange not to link to them as Google did in the original article and instead link to an article by Kedrosky that is over a year old." - Andy Beard

"Don't forget to insist on cross domain canonical when you syndicate Techcrunch posts elsewhere. p.s. in a tiff with RWW? Really strange not to link to them as Google did in the original article and instead link to an article by Kedrosky that is over a year old." - Andy Beard

"So if I am using user agent sniffing to identify browser capabilities to deliver html5 javascript flash content in an iframe, or maybe directly on a page, possibly a bit like Youtube html5 beta or other sites, which version should I serve Googlebot? I am tempted to treat Googlebot as Chrome" - Andy Beard

"So if I am using user agent sniffing to identify browser capabilities to deliver html5 javascript flash content in an iframe, or maybe directly on a page, possibly a bit like Youtube html5 beta or other sites, which version should I serve Googlebot? I am tempted to treat Googlebot as Chrome" - Andy Beard

"So if I am using user agent sniffing to identify browser capabilities to deliver html5 javascript flash content in an iframe, or maybe directly on a page, possibly a bit like Youtube html5 beta or other sites, which version should I serve Googlebot? I am tempted to treat Googlebot as Chrome" - Andy Beard

"Facebook should just buy Myspace even if it is just for talent 5% of Facebook for Myspace would be a pretty fair deal long-term" - Andy Beard

"Facebook should just buy Myspace even if it is just for talent 5% of Facebook for Myspace would be a pretty fair deal long-term" - Andy Beard