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ProBlogger Room: Steve Mitchell posted a message

“Can I ask my fellow bloggers whether there is some SEO value to having my blog on my main index page of my domain eg www.mydomain.com, OR as a page off the index eg www.mydomain.com/blog ? Appreciate any thoughts?”

May 27 at 8:26 am - Link

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Google themselves recommended the latter on a video I watched. I think it's this one: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=... - Andy Roberts

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Thanks Andy. I did watch it and got a lot of good stuff from the vid, though I didn't catch the answer to my question in it, but appreciate you think the latter is better. - Steve Mitchell

I also have the same question as Steve Mitchell, as I've also seen people use www.blog.mydomain.com as well as www.mydomain/blog or just have the blog page as www.mydomain.com. Also, does anyone have an opinion on whether to put the main blog column to the left, right, or in the center of the other two columns (in a 3-column, customized WP blog)? Are there studies showing which users prefer, or where their eyes tend to look first? I would be putting rollover tabs for my company pages on top, under banner. - Cathryn Hrudicka

from what I can tell domain.com/blog is better than blog.domain.com as it passes on the Google Juice from your domain to your blog and from your blog to your domain. In terms of whether you want to have it on your .com or .com/blog I generally would advise .com/blog if you think there is ANY chance of you developing some other aspect of your site later on. For example if you were going to add forums, a social network, shop etc - to have them all on /blog or /forum etc means you have .com free as aportal pg - Darren Rowse

also - check out this video by Rand from SEOmoz which picks up this question http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whi... - Darren Rowse

I loved this video! I am in the middle of having our web site redesigned to a WP platform by iBusinessLogic/AllBusinessAuctions CEO Scott Pooler, he recommended I do this and have started a free version to test it out, WOW the results have been unbelievable! Along with Scott, these forums, and blogs about blogging has been a tremendous help! http://thefencepost.wordpress.... - Keith Bloemendaal

SEO is over rated! do www.mydomain.com/blog/ Latter you can add different section to the www.mydomain.com You can make static pages! No need to do it all with WP! You may want to code some PHP/MySQL original stuff, not just BlogHive! - Igor The Troll

"Later you can add a different section"? "You can make static pages"? You can already do this with WP, and it keeps everything nice and tidy for when it comes time to update the site or add/change information. I've built very many sites, large and small, using WP as the sole content management system. Some of these sites don't even look like blogs in any way. Sorry, I'm an avid fan of keeping things simple... and WP lets you do that. - Lara Kulpa

Louis Gray posted a link

Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

May 28 at 8:11 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"By forging a partnership with Disqus, FriendFeed users could comment on FriendFeed items, and have comments also post to the originating blog, just as other services, including Fav.or.it and Plaxo have implemented. Combined with the recent introduction of video comments from Seesmic, and the above conversation with SezWho, you can see Disqus' strategy develop, to be open to partnerships of all kinds, establishing their service as one of the most versatile, almost default, in the nascent comment replacement market." - Louis Gray

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sezwho sounds too l33t - Tyler Gillies via twhirl

this would make disqus an invaluable partner for bloggers worried about or interested in retaining relevance in the conversation, regardless of where it takes place. - Morgan

conversation doesn't belong to content generator - Tyler Gillies via twhirl

it doesn't belong to the content generator but i'm sure they want to stay relevant to the conversation and this would help them do so without chasing it down across the internet - Morgan via twhirl

a lot of times the conversationm isn't even relevant to the original post though - Tyler Gillies via twhirl

Still gets them page views. ;-) - Tanath

Disqus is really shaping up lately. New API that doesn't use Javascript (I am 99% sure it doesn't) to display comments coming out soon which will allow you to still get the SEO back on your comments. With FriendFeed integration, Disqus will be huge - Bartek Gniado

i think including images in posting on FF really increases traffic - Tyler Gillies

Daniel Ha confirmed that "two way" integration with FriendFeed was coming in a reply to a comment I left on the Disqus blog about a month ago - see the bottom of http://blog.disqus.net/2008/03... . When this feature appears, it will mean that if I reply to a comment on FriendFeed for a blog which supports Disqus, it will show up back on the originating blog too - that's a massive step forward. - Ian Betteridge

"conversation doesn't belong to content generator." No, but doesn't the content generator have a right to be part of the ongoing conversation? And this feature facilitates that. - Ian Betteridge

Disqus integrating with FriendFeed would be nice, but if they had a "complete" API, then anyone can get into the game. Their API is really close to feature complete, they only need a few more tweaks. - Rob Diana

Loic Le Meur posted a message on Twitter

“Early adopters just like to be amongst themselves. Blogs became mainstream they used Twitter. Twitter is too mainstream they do Friendfeed.”

May 21 at 10:45 pm - Link

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What's next? - Tad, TV's Patrick Duffy

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Telepathy. - Simon

We already have telepathy. Bluetooth headset. :D - Tad, TV's Patrick Duffy

I'm not going to start reading Scoble's mind! :) - Morton Fox

Imagine telepathy spam... - Simon

The voices in my head tell me not to imagine telepathy spam, but instead to buy some more Tide detergent. - Tad, TV's Patrick Duffy

Mine keep tellng me to email my ssn to Duke Wellsworth at Buckingham palace. - Simon

http://www.25hoursaday.com/web... - Phil Jeudy

Sarah Perez posted a message on Twitter

“have you found any useful apps on facebook? like not toys, games, sheep throwing, goofing off, but like actually useful apps?”

May 19 at 8:59 am - Link

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I haven't, but would like to know if anyone actually finds any. - Mike Wills

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You are asking the wrong people, you should be asking college kids ;-) - Alexander van Elsas

I haven't, have you any suggestion? or a black list? :) - funkyboy

i have, the friendfeed app. :) - Nathan Eckenrode

I kinda like Bookshare and the Flixter app has been of some use as well - Deepak

Visual Bookshelf can be useful - add books you own or want to read, and it'll notify you of other Facebook users posting reviews of them. - Brent Newhall via twhirl

Friendfeed, Flickr, TwitterSynch, Skype, Spock, Business Cards, Gaping Void, LinkedIn Contacts, MyLinkedIn Profile, Professional Profile, As seen on, Paneras near me, Starbucks near me, Upcoming, Digsby Widget (chat), Rock your Firefox - my favs. - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

Yes. Actually useful stuff in the area of dating, music sharing, and photo sharing (flickr/picasaweb). With that said, I've found 99% of the apps to be junk and wish I had a shortcut key to Block Application. - Adam Lasnik

Seems like the only useful things on facebook are the interfaces to apps outside of the walled-garden - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

i like the friend wheel app as it is so shiny and colourful but yes, many apps are workind with outside data / services klike the ff app. - Nicole Simon

check back tomorrow on RWW for a big post on this :) And THANKS!! - Sarah Perez

Chiming in way late: Stitchbook was good pre-Ravelry, but the hunger site app is the only one still really useful to me (previously I would click several times a day not sure if I had clicked it before or not, which is a waste of time). - Alix Whitmire ƸӜƷ

friendfeed is probably the best facebook app - Dobromir Hadzhiev

@Dobromir agreed, I have the FriendFeed App on my page, also good article Sarah! - Joe Dawson (beta)

Feedheads! http://www.louisgray.com/live/... - Ashton

Take a look at http://apprate.com It's a site I was editing (and writing a number of reviews for) as part of my internship last summer. As part of that process I installed, tested, analyzed the hell out of, and reviewed dozens of Apps, and believe it or not there are some good ones. - Ryan MF

Facebook? What's a facebook? I dimly remember something people used to call Facebook from the way back a long time ago. - Thomas Hawk

...after hearing all the hub-bub and how it was "the thing" to do, I create a profile a few months ago. All I have ever really done with it is play Scrabulous and keep in touch with one or two people. - JA Castillo

College kid to the rescue ;) There's one called Weekly Schedule that I really like. If everyone used it, you'd know when they all had class or work. You'd also know who all was in a particular class - helpful if you have a sick day and need notes! Other than that, ehhhh... not much going on in the way of useful apps. - Shawn Farner

The iPhone interface. Facebook is my address book with a little bit of peanut gallery thrown in for good measure. - Eric Rice

I find the Google Calendar/Facebook even integration kinda handy, but I usually just have greasemonkey set up to removed all the crap from peoples profiles before I view them... - Fearghas

just FriendFeed sync.. - Erhan Erdogan

Shawn Farner posted a message

“I've been ferocious in my defense of Twitter and the fact people think FF could replace it. They are making it very hard for me to keep it up.”

May 20 at 1:08 pm - Link

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Please keep it up!! This discussion/debate is healthy for Twitter and FriendFeed alike! - Bwana

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I still like Twitter. I think it and FriendFeed serve different purposes. Not sure where exactly to draw the line, though. - ha3rvey

I'll take an ugly (but functional) FriendFeed over a broken Twitter - Aaron B. Hockley

I just wish that Twitter would at least give us the impression they're trying to fix things. I still don't think FF can replace a Twitter-like service, there's too much going on info-wise to keep up with the updates. Unless they used all that nice empty space over there on the right side to house short updates and direct messages... - Shawn Farner

I don't know why they won't tell us what's going on. So frustrating - Bwana

@Bwana: I think it's simply that they don't want to admit the entire infrastructure they are built on is crap. That's just be guessing, though. Maybe they DO just like the publicity...or both. - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

I like both. But I usually go here if Twitter is down again. - Rosana Kooymans

If Twitter does not resolve the scalability issue FF is going to replace it. Fast. - israel

I never bought into Twitter. I do like FF though. - m.i.a

Anyone on Pownce or Jaiku? I wonder if they'd fold under the traffic that Twitter gets.. - Shawn Farner

I also go on Jaiku and Pownce, just not as much because I lack contacts there. - Rosana Kooymans

@Shawn Farner I tried Pownce last year. meh. Felt like posting into a void. Maybe its better now. Never tried Jaiku - m.i.a

Steve Rubel posted a link

Is Twitter down? Ask this site.

May 15 at 2:28 pm - Link

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Definitely bookmarked! - Bwana

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Excellent link! - Sarah Perez

I checked it and all signs point to Yes. :) - Morton Fox

So why aren't people moving to Pownce? - Garrido via twhirl

They probably are...The twitter faithful scatter when it goes down. Some go to Pownce, some go to Jaiku, some come here, some catch up on email or RSS... it varies. - Bwana

They confirmed it on their mailing list - today's and yesterdays outages are due to caching issues - Jesse Stay via twhirl

woot ! Twitter is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..c.c......TIME OUT Hold on, no it's not - Shaf

Steve Rubel posted a message

“OMFG Twitter is down! What if there's an earthquake?”

May 15 at 1:55 pm - Link

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If there were an earthquake in SF, Twitter would probably go down then, too. Right now, no eqrthquake here, so what's Twitter's excuse today? ;-) - Cathryn Hrudicka

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And the chatter is moving here. - Steve Rubel

They should atleast put a note on blog.twitter.com (it seems to be running on blogger.com) to let people know it is down. - Atul Arora

oh sorry Steve, to interrupt your precious feed with our "chatter". thought the comment link was for comments. my bad. - rambn

friendfeed should buy twitter show them uptime :) - Jay Martinez via twhirl

no earthquake, just Belgium that is spliting .... no... just kidding :-) - Damien Van Achter via twhirl

FriendFeed would take over. So would Jaiku and Pownce. - Robert Scoble

It's probably due to the heat. It's so damn hot in the bay area today :( Milk would be a bad choice. - ClunkClunk

I would agree with Scoble. But if Twitter is becoming so critical, why not put servers on the East Coast and In AZ just to cover all bases? - Mike Wills

@scoble Hey what happened to Jaiku? Didnt Google buy them? I never hear anyone mention it. I get adds on other sites but not Jaiku. - Britney Mason

Join us for Twit-Out. Let Twitter know, through tough love, that the community wants some answers. http://jerseysuburbia.com/2008... - Andrew Dobrow

Yeah, Google bought Jaiku. I just blogged about this at http://scobleizer.com by the way. - Robert Scoble

IF {earthquake} AND {no twitter} then {FF "share"} post success! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

Friendfeed..Did you plug out the server wires? :) - Varun Mahajan

BTW, lack of integrated search Twitter is a real killer. - Steve Rubel

Also thinking this can be Friendfeed's moment if they add mobile/IM features. - Steve Rubel

LOL...I guess we'll just have to use FF, huh? - Sarah Perez

Check out this site http://www.istwitterdown.com - Steve Rubel

long live the FEED - Dan Rockwell via twhirl

Clicking on "Yes" on http://www.istwitterdown.com takes you to Amazon. Better idea would be to take people to friendfeed :-) - Atul Arora

I was all ready to try Jaiku and realized they changed to "Beta and Invite' mode. Oh well. - Robyn Miller

Looool, man when my twirl made that little sound, I read this and I literally fell on the floor laughing :)) - Xavier Donat

Dewald Pretorius posted a message on Twitter

“Just upgraded TweetLater.com to not auto-follow the folks who follow and immediately unfollow. Serves them right! *pow!*”

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