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"I haven't got time for that level of participation - I spend a lot of time in private communities They should put a pay wall on Friendfeed :)" - Andy Beard

"I can see some real benefit in the metrics and being able to segment based upon various social media activity. But these are things that interest marketing geeks like me, and I can see a marketing geek wanting this data within their current applications such as Infusionsoft. I must admit my own initial review was that the landing page creator could be useful as long as I could use my own email service/crm and integrate it with other systems." - Andy Beard

"I think about the only site I have trusted with my Twitter details is Facebook I don’t trust Facebook with my Google Account password" - Andy Beard

Sometimes it is far better to offer free advice as happened when Michael contacted me - nice to be listed among so many influential bloggers. - Andy Beard

"I doubt there are many on the top users list who aren’t on the suggested users list provided by Twitter, and they are randomly added to all new Twitter accounts. How long someone has been on the suggestion list highly influences how many followers they now have. I don’t think any serious conclusions can be drawn from the data" - Andy Beard

"Looking at the dates of the rest of the comment, it looks like somehow the date of the post is being used as the date of the comment within the theme." - Andy Beard

"I have no idea why that comment just came through on my comment subscription, but it was really high value, thank you." - Andy Beard

"Based on real traffic data for a number of large site, you will probably find the Quantcast numbers for Tweetmeme a lot more accurate. 2.6M US, though that might be a little generous. They are not quantified, but it isn’t an order of magnitude off. At least quoting Quantcast you place the onus on a wesite wanting people to write the truth about them." - Andy Beard

"They are no longer a tool as I pointed out in my 2 posts They aren’t using rel=”tag” any more They don’t list blog reactions Then again I am trying to avoid being biased due to my Blogcatalog connection. Andy Beard´s last blog ..Technorati Changes From A Users Perspective" - Andy Beard

Hi Andy, Do the changes negatively impact Technorati tag WordPress plugins? - Tom Usher

You shouldn't really ever link to Technorati as a tag space if you have other options available, such as your own tag pages. - Andy Beard

"Congratulations on linking to an Amazon affiliate site that doesn’t even have an “about us” or contact page filled out" - Andy Beard

"Johnny, Seems like you might do some stuff in the weight loss niche, which is business to consumer. In such a situation you would want to be running a Limited company just for financial security, and then if you have websites as a Ltd company you need to have full business details easily visible. I am not a lawyer… but you probably need one." - Andy Beard

"Johnny, Seems like you might do some stuff in the weight loss niche, which is business to consumer. In such a situation you would want to be running a Limited company just for financial security, and then if you have websites as a Ltd company you need to have full business details easily visible. I am not a lawyer… but you probably need one." - Andy Beard

"Be interesting where they originally scraped their data from (I have a fair idea) I don’t get mentioned in either the SEO or Social Media lists they publish Some of these lists actually results in quite a few links (as they get scraped and linked to) and send useful traffic with a decent listing." - Andy Beard

"Actually Clickbank have no problems with bonuses as long as people stick to the rules set, which aren’t always easy to find. Discounts/rebates are out You have to make it clear that the bonus is your responsibility not Clickbank or vendor. Deliver bonuses within stipulated times (automate it makes sense)" - Andy Beard

"Europe and the UK are much tougher on B2C which is where the diet stuff certain falls. On B2B certainly in the UK it isn’t quite so tough – different rules totally. Someone has already droped one link to me here from the comments but another won’t hurt as I have covered the UK side of this quite extensively. http://andybeard.eu/1330... What is interesting is that the lawyer who responded in the comments, Susan Singleton who really is an authority said that just the act of her dropping a link in the comments which might be looked on as advertorial and thus fall under the same rules and be liable for prosecution. p.s. the comment entry box gets real narrow when the threads become deeply nested." - Andy Beard

"Europe and the UK are much tougher on B2C which is where the diet stuff certain falls. On B2B certainly in the UK it isn’t quite so tough – different rules totally. Someone has already droped one link to me here from the comments but another won’t hurt as I have covered the UK side of this quite extensively. http://andybeard.eu/1330... What is... more... - Andy Beard

Taking action as an affiliate - tons of very interesting stats on how little action most people who buy info products really take. - Andy Beard

"They still haven’t fully fixed their licensing terms – blogger is still liable to police their own syndication." - Andy Beard

"Here are a few fundamentals that people might not understand 1. You have to be in the index for a link to count – every single article directory has great articles that are not indexed any more, because they are too deep in the linking structure. 2. Reduced trust in the site would eventually result in even lower indexing, at least for the primary index, so even less value for the links. 3. Placing a nofollow on outbound links wasn’t done for some kind of PageRank sculpting – people know me for that topic, but it didn’t even cross my mind. I was also one of the biggest advocates of “dofollow” on blogs. I totally agree that links out to quality sites from articles will be a positive. The only reason was it was clear Google didn’t like a large number of the links to junk sites. Some stuff sneaked in – plenty of article authors were effectively abusing the site 4. I am fully aware that article authors are hoping for links that make a difference. Once Matt has worked through the moderation..." - Andy Beard

What can happen to a website when the owner isn't careful who they link to within user generated content. - Andy Beard

I don't view it as much different than commenting outside of things like i'm doing right now - Matt Ellsworth

If you had a site selling something, and an affiliate decided to iframe it, and stick his opt-in box as an overlay over it, and collect comments, question etc, and then also offer a coupon, you would probably have a legal claim - is it the same as talking somewhere else? There is no way to really switch it off as a site owner. - Andy Beard

I guess I never thought of it from that perspective - Matt Ellsworth

"1. Because WP like to make interfaces as simple to understand as possible 2. Most users wouldn’t need the ability for 3rd parties to create their own blogs 3. Automattic have a responsibility to shareholders 4. I don’t visit trac very much, and I might be missing something, but the level of activity around searches for things like WPMU doesn’t suggest the merge is “in the open” 5. I don’t pay attention to the dev mailing lists as much as I used to, but James certainly seems a little worried about how this will all play out." - Andy Beard

"Technorati & Blogcatalog" - Andy Beard

"Why are people assuming that WP with WPMU features as a merged product will have all the features/flexibility of the current WPMU?" - Andy Beard

"The new format actually places a greater emphasis on the value proposition of Success Chef (compared to other products), and from memory only the monthly subscription is now a little more obvious. Were increased sales across the board?" - Andy Beard

"Authority “brand” sites have latent traffic potential - they are not using up all their juice budget, so Google just split tests to get a balance picking winners from related search terms." - Andy Beard

"Seem like the comments need a bit of a cleanup. Here is an open source project to add to your list http://code.google.com/p... They do have a commercial version as well that boasts a few more features" - Andy Beard

"I seem to be on a "M" curve Rise in expertise, then at least from external appearances throw in the towel for 9 months and now climbing again. In marketing often the best approach is a series of sprints, and that may also be the case in any field of expertise as well." - Andy Beard

"I don't think requiring registration will prove to be a barrier to worthless comments. The spam/moderation features of Disqus are one of the many reasons I recently removed them. There is a feature within Disqus to switch off comments on posts which might prove to a a wise move, unless you eventually plan to liquidate everything. Whatever you do don't just let the registration expire, and find a worthy owner of the domain" - Andy Beard

"I think the most annoying thing for Matt must be that WPMUDev Premium and wp.mu customers are popping out BBPress & BuddyPress integrated communities like clockwork, and this isn’t being done on WordPress.com A lot of code from Wordpress.com makes its way out into the community, but at the same time code that gives them a commercial advantage often does not, or is crippled in functionality often a rewrite for the community that is really only suitable for a small scale WPMU installation. Often the release of the code is a reaction to the availability of commercial offerings, and not a pure “community” act." - Andy Beard

which is I why I don't follow him. One of the few people I refuse in any of my feeds. He only gives to get, and that is NOT what this new world is all about. - Allison

I disagree strongly with tons of things Robert evangelises but I wouldn't say he does things purely for self interest. He evangelises things he likes and other geeks sometimes likes what he likes. What is important is that he handles criticism head on, in his comment, on his blog - it is open... raw - he can be as stubborn as a mule over things he believes in, but aren't we all? - Andy Beard

"You can’t use a page title as a reference – I have been known to change a title 5 times in a day, sometimes just to test a different retweet message. However if the first tweet for a page comes from a button on a home page, will it actually pick up the meta? People always get to see the message before it posts, unless they are logged into Tweetmeme – that is the broken functionality. Otherwise I could safely rotate 5 different “Social Bites” for the same blog post, and measure the performance – they wouldn’t ever match the post title. If necessary I can even ensure that when someone clicks a tweet that has one message, they get greeted with an appropriate headline that matches, but then I would also need to have multiple URLs for the same post – which I believe your dev teams have full details on. Your retweet method is going the way of Twitter, with one click, the message staying the same from everyone – that is a direction contrary to how people use Retweet – other than the robots." - Andy Beard