Kickass performance lately

I’ve been doing some work on conversion optimization, and it seems to be working! Currently kicking ass with a 1:218 ratio on my asian network… If you’re focusing only on SEO, then you may be missing an important part of the picture.

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Technorati

Finding some nice unexpected results with Technorati this last week. Submitted one site not long ago and I’m already starting to see traffic.

The process is straightforward. Register an account, then start a blog claim. They’ll email you a claim code to include in your blog, like EY2MUDY4323H … Just stick it in a post and you’re good to go! (And yes, I’m using this post to validate my blog claim)

They’ll do an automated crawl, scrape a screencap, but final signoff needs to come from a live human being to cut down on spam.

AboutUs

There was some slick tip I swore I was going to write about, but my brain doesn’t seem to be working…

Well, until I remember, I’ll just tell you that I’ve been digging on AboutUs.org lately. They’ve got some really easy to use tools for testing your site, but the heart of it is a giant wiki for any website on the internet. Go edit your own site, or improve on a page for a group you want to help out.

Links are nofollow by default, but if you do a good job with your page, they’ll mark dofollow after a request to a live human.

Oh, they also have a blog with some seo tips, and a frequent weekly project page to improve (generally a charity picked by volunteers to work on as a group).

RSS Ping List for Update Services

If you’re using blog software like wordpress, you can ping an update service on publishing a new blog post to speed distribution. The trouble is in finding a good up to date list… I’ve based this one on a few lists I encountered elsewhere and recently stripped out any that threw a 404, didn’t resolve, or responded slowly.. There are probably a number in there that are inaccurate or that you don’t need, but its a start. If you have any suggestions for changes, I’d welcome comments and will happily give credit.

http://1470.net/api/ping

http://api.feedster.com/ping

RSS Feeds, Pending Posts, and how to clear your backlog

Sometimes your backlog of pending can become a nightmare

Last week I talked about one issue with RSS Feeds… duplication. This week, I’m going to show you how to go scorched earth on your unmanageable backlog of pending posts.

If you’ve set up an autoblogger like Feedwordpress, you’ve no doubt made the mistake of not setting them to mark as pending before running your first fetch… Four hours later, after the cleanup on your site, and stripping out all your automatic notifications to twitter or elsewhere, you’ll never ever make that mistake again…

RSS Feeds, Duplicate Content, Redirects…

The joys of autoblogging... Duplicate posts galore!

I was testing out RSS feeds on one of my sites and found that Feedwordpress was quite happy to post a half dozen copies of the same article. WordPress just adds a -2 to the end and carries on.

 

But you don’t really want duplication like that… Search engines don’t like it, readers don’t like it… what’s the point?

First thing I did was grab a copy of “Delete Duplicate Posts” from CleverPlugins.com. (Sadly, their site is currently offline due to the death of one of the business partners)

This plugin isn’t very sophisticated, but if

I was happy to see a comment correcting me on my Tag clouds, link count and SEO post by the author of Howling Wulf and I wanted to point you guys over to his blog. I’m still finding my way, but it looks like he’s been at this for a while (ten years in the industry, and about two years of blogging), so definitely worth a read. I know I plan to spend a fair chunk of this weekend reading through the archives.

Thanks for the comment, Howling Wulf, I appreciate the correction and its nice to know that I’m not just talking to myself here.

Hmm, I may need to rethink what I’m posting now that I know other people are reading this…