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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion - Latest Comments in Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.disqus.com/</link><description>Internet Marketing, Lead Acquisition, Online Business Strategy and Social Media with Original Opinion and Loads of Attitude</description><atom:link href="https://andybeard.disqus.com/blogcatalog_sezwho_partnership_8211_passes_mybloglog_traffic_62/latest.rss" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:18:20 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-12527517</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I'm a little late to the SezWho thing and also to the BlogCatalog thing, but I did appreciate your review and it was one of the reasons why I finally signed up to both of them.  So Thanks : )&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Actually it was your Alexa ranking comparison that intrigued me.  The trends have flattened out since then and BlogCatalog doesn't seem to be booming as much, but it's still one of the best tools for new bloggers.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Da Vinci</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:18:20 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-10993100</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I'm a little late to the SezWho thing and also to the BlogCatalog thing, but I did appreciate your review and it was one of the reasons why I finally signed up to both of them.  So Thanks : )&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Actually it was your Alexa ranking comparison that intrigued me.  The trends have flattened out since then and BlogCatalog doesn't seem to be booming as much, but it's still one of the best tools for new bloggers.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Da Vinci</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:18:20 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-12527516</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I just got done posting about the &lt;a href="http://pixelheadonline.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/08/blogcatalog-is-using-sezwho/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://pixelheadonline.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/08/blogcatalog-is-using-sezwho/"&gt;Blogcatalog - SezWho deal&lt;/a&gt; on Pixelheadonline. I did not know you could choose to remain a dofollow blog while using the program. That pushes me a little closer to using it.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">PixelHead</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:29:49 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-10993099</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I just got done posting about the &lt;a href="http://pixelheadonline.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/08/blogcatalog-is-using-sezwho/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://pixelheadonline.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/08/blogcatalog-is-using-sezwho/"&gt;Blogcatalog - SezWho deal&lt;/a&gt; on Pixelheadonline. I did not know you could choose to remain a dofollow blog while using the program. That pushes me a little closer to using it.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">PixelHead</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:29:49 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-12527515</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I had a hard time to remember where I've heard of this SezWho, and when I saw those little red squares at the commenters, I remembered that I've joined SezWho last year, only to completely forget about it afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Simonne</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:12:09 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-10993098</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I had a hard time to remember where I've heard of this SezWho, and when I saw those little red squares at the commenters, I remembered that I've joined SezWho last year, only to completely forget about it afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Simonne</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:12:09 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-12527514</link><description>&lt;p&gt;If Jeremy Gislason wants to comment on my blog in person he is more than welcome, but if he has hired you for link building for his blog, I look on it as breaking my comment policy.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">AndyBeard</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:27:36 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-10993097</link><description>&lt;p&gt;If Jeremy Gislason wants to comment on my blog in person he is more than welcome, but if he has hired you for link building for his blog, I look on it as breaking my comment policy.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">AndyBeard</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:27:36 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-12527513</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Wow! I am surprised on how blogs became so important to people nowadays. I do like to comment on peopleâ€™s blog and all but this article really surprised me. Anyway, I really do enjoy reading articles on blogs and it really helps me pass my time on lazy days. More power to all of you bloggers out there!&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">rhei, writer surefirewealth.co</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:01:46 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-10993096</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Wow! I am surprised on how blogs became so important to people nowadays. I do like to comment on peopleâ€™s blog and all but this article really surprised me. Anyway, I really do enjoy reading articles on blogs and it really helps me pass my time on lazy days. More power to all of you bloggers out there!&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">rhei, writer surefirewealth.co</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:01:46 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-12527512</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Testing spam karma filtering issue...I hope this is fixed now.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jitenda</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:25:57 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-10993095</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Testing spam karma filtering issue...I hope this is fixed now.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jitenda</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:25:57 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-12527511</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Lincoln, We are looking at addressing the issue of needing email for rating...We are going to provide different ways for people to identify themselves so that we can provide proper weight to their ratings...Keep the feedback coming.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;-Jitendra&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jitenda</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:43:26 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-10993093</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Lincoln, We are looking at addressing the issue of needing email for rating...We are going to provide different ways for people to identify themselves so that we can provide proper weight to their ratings...Keep the feedback coming.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;-Jitendra&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jitenda</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:43:26 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-12527510</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Vlad, the rel-nofollow you see is added by SezWho's JS code. Check the source to see that search engine crawlers still get clean links.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sebastian</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:27:07 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-10993092</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Vlad, the rel-nofollow you see is added by SezWho's JS code. Check the source to see that search engine crawlers still get clean links.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sebastian</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:27:07 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-12527509</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Wow, this thing is scary in what it can potentially track.  After registering, it picked up comments I made 6 months ago on ReadWriteWeb.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This seems to effectively "Slashdot" your comments system.  The ratings seem a bit rudimentary right now, and I'm not sure how many people would be thrilled to have to fill in their email address yet again to a third party service just so they can rate someone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It'd also be nice to have the option of keeping my current avatar plugin instead of now seeing two avatars (I use Gravatar, which ever since it's been snapped up by Automattic has been pretty reliable and fast).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Being able to customize the style would also be nice, but I'm actually quite amazed at how neat my comments still looked once I activated the plugin.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Weird thing though, some kind of loop is occuring here where the page keeps trying to load something, and when it does the comments form here freezes up.  Could that be related to the SezWho plugin?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In any event it's a new toy to play around with.  :-D&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Guest</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:41:44 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-10993091</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Wow, this thing is scary in what it can potentially track.  After registering, it picked up comments I made 6 months ago on ReadWriteWeb.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This seems to effectively "Slashdot" your comments system.  The ratings seem a bit rudimentary right now, and I'm not sure how many people would be thrilled to have to fill in their email address yet again to a third party service just so they can rate someone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It'd also be nice to have the option of keeping my current avatar plugin instead of now seeing two avatars (I use Gravatar, which ever since it's been snapped up by Automattic has been pretty reliable and fast).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Being able to customize the style would also be nice, but I'm actually quite amazed at how neat my comments still looked once I activated the plugin.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Weird thing though, some kind of loop is occuring here where the page keeps trying to load something, and when it does the comments form here freezes up.  Could that be related to the SezWho plugin?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In any event it's a new toy to play around with.  :-D&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Guest</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:41:44 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-12527508</link><description>&lt;p&gt;..if you believe the Alexa numbers..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I've seen some small volume sites where I know the traffic stats, and have seen how far off Alexa can be.  But, when the sites are biggers - Does that mean Alexa is multiplying the inaccuracies?  or lessening them?  Sometimes I wonder.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Inverlochy John</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:07:33 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-10993090</link><description>&lt;p&gt;..if you believe the Alexa numbers..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I've seen some small volume sites where I know the traffic stats, and have seen how far off Alexa can be.  But, when the sites are biggers - Does that mean Alexa is multiplying the inaccuracies?  or lessening them?  Sometimes I wonder.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Inverlochy John</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:07:33 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-12527507</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Kevin the nesting is from Brian's Threaded Comments Plugin, which is used by lots of blogs, though I modified it to split the trackbacks and comments.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">AndyBeard</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:24:55 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-10993089</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Kevin the nesting is from Brian's Threaded Comments Plugin, which is used by lots of blogs, though I modified it to split the trackbacks and comments.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">AndyBeard</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:24:55 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-12527506</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Well explained.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Clement</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:31:49 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-10993088</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Well explained.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Clement</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:31:49 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership &amp;#8211; Passes MyBlogLog Traffic</title><link>http://andybeard.eu/1178/blogcatalog-sezwho.html#comment-12527505</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Entrecard, which is now doing more pageviews that MyBlogLog AND BlogCatalog, and its less than three months old:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://log.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="log.com"&gt;log.com&lt;/a&gt;&amp;amp;site2=&lt;a href="http://blogcatalog.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="blogcatalog.com"&gt;blogcatalog.com&lt;/a&gt;&amp;amp;y=p&amp;amp;z=3&amp;amp;h=300&amp;amp;w=610&amp;amp;range=6m&amp;amp;size=Medium&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:35:06 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>