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"For a $100 tip on Mahalo Jason Calacanis gained a lot of very good advice on how to improve load time. http://www.mahalo.com/answers... os-pages-load-faster I also wouldn’t use Pingdom as a metric, but check in webmaster tools for page load time when Google caches site." - Andy Beard

"Cash rebates devalue the product Far better to use bonuses as part of your disclosure and purchase incentive. Price is rarely an issue, it is the value proposition." - Andy Beard

"Awstats to show traffic on sales pages Earnings checks without mentioning Adwords expenses Earning checks without mentioning that they were based upon product sales Specific claims of building a list or earning X in a short period of time without mentioning existing social equity, relationships/parnerships, affiliates, or giving away $5000 bonuses to lower value products. Oh, and then there is the springboard effect... but I will piss even more peopple off if I start talking about that." - Andy Beard

"This just breaks for me on the “q”s, though I tend to use the Google Global Plugin by Redfly more than anything else to clean up searches, so I can grab a local result with personalization off." - Andy Beard

"You probably need another dimension, marketing Someone who is an originator who also does a good job marketing them retains the value can build large audiences. There can be an art in aggregation that gives it added value such as linkbait list pieces." - Andy Beard

"Just passing images through Smushit on this page would reduce total data by 87K though the biggest saving of that would be resizing the picture of Matt to the dimensions you used.Google provide tools as mentioned at Pubcon, but which you have most likely reported on in the past such as Page Speed.A local business in the Philipines is not going to be harmed by this, in fact they will probably gain from using local hosting, and I am sure Google also has something up their sleave (Google CDN?)" - Andy Beard

"I haven't crossed the 10K point yet, but then I wasn't an auto-follower However 10K is probably the same as 2K a year ago in regards to how much traffic a link sends - typically 60 - 200 visitors with spikes above 1K plus a network effect. Ad.ly suggest my "influence" is worth $123 per week Sponsored Tweets suggest around $10 per tweet Since Sponsored Tweets were first in early beta, I set my price at $100 per tweet and have never been approached I just set Ad.ly at $1000 per week - I doubt I would get approached for that either. If an advertiser can't achieve at least $1 per visitor value from my audience of influencers in my niche... if I chose to tweet them, then they suck at marketing or they need to improve their value proposition." - Andy Beard

"Great to see all the work paying off The important factor though… did it increase the number of measurable actions such as advertsing clicks, email signups, sales etc?" - Andy Beard

"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

"Yup, legitimate "As seen on", plus don't forget to pimp the hell out of whatever mentions you do get... The one press interview I did with a Guardian reporter I spent a large chunk of the next day promoting it to the front page of Digg. I still didn't get a link, even after blogging about it - but I will in future ensure that at least I mention the desire for a link during any press mentions." - Andy Beard

"Maybe a costumes facebook app? Though someone has probably already done one. "I'm going as..."" - 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