Nice. Somewhere along the way I installed something that puts the pink boxes around nofollow links, but I wasn't sure what the pink boxes were about. Just knew i saw them here and there. Nice to know what the deal is now.
Also this goes to show that you can't just assume anything. I had been using another plugin that created javascript links to the bookmarking sites, and assumed that sociable did the same thing, so I just loaded up on them. My blog must be a veritable wonderland of what not to do for seo for you, Andy.
Dane's Blogging Tips
· 3 years ago
Nice. Somewhere along the way I installed something that puts the pink boxes around nofollow links, but I wasn't sure what the pink boxes were about. Just knew i saw them here and there. Nice to know what the deal is now.
Also this goes to show that you can't just assume anything. I had been using another plugin that created javascript links to the bookmarking sites, and assumed that sociable did the same thing, so I just loaded up on them. My blog must be a veritable wonderland of what not to do for seo for you, Andy.
AndyBeard
· 3 years ago
The good news is it is very easy to clean these things up.
Subscribeme has a similar problem, so you might think about hacking the code, or adding the subscription buttons manually.
I would also stick your tags somewhere on the single posts, maybe at the bottom and make use of UTW related posts.
You will still end up with quite a "ball" structure, but it is a lot of hard work currently doing anything about that.
You are better at CSS and PHP than me, so I am sure you will have no problems.
AndyBeard
· 3 years ago
The good news is it is very easy to clean these things up.
Subscribeme has a similar problem, so you might think about hacking the code, or adding the subscription buttons manually.
I would also stick your tags somewhere on the single posts, maybe at the bottom and make use of UTW related posts.
You will still end up with quite a "ball" structure, but it is a lot of hard work currently doing anything about that.
You are better at CSS and PHP than me, so I am sure you will have no problems.
My Hot Image
· 3 years ago
Interesting article, thanks man for the tip and the resources you offered
My Hot Image
· 3 years ago
Interesting article, thanks man for the tip and the resources you offered
Dane's Blogging Tips
· 3 years ago
Yeah, related posts is on my list of things to do, but I have to rip it all apart and reinstall it first. Right now the only thing UTW does is create the tag page links in the posts. Everything else is handled by the internal categories code from WP, and the tag cloaud is actually a category heat map plugin modified to point to category pages, modified to seem like tag pages.
What a tangled web. ;)
Back when I started using UTW it didn't do nearly what it does now, and there was no way to make local tag pages, so I hacked away at things to get it to do it anyways, but I had to go to a completely tag formay and turn the categories into tags to make it work. Now, as a result, using some of the other features are unpredictable and quixotic.
Dane's Blogging Tips
· 3 years ago
Yeah, related posts is on my list of things to do, but I have to rip it all apart and reinstall it first. Right now the only thing UTW does is create the tag page links in the posts. Everything else is handled by the internal categories code from WP, and the tag cloaud is actually a category heat map plugin modified to point to category pages, modified to seem like tag pages.
What a tangled web. ;)
Back when I started using UTW it didn't do nearly what it does now, and there was no way to make local tag pages, so I hacked away at things to get it to do it anyways, but I had to go to a completely tag formay and turn the categories into tags to make it work. Now, as a result, using some of the other features are unpredictable and quixotic.
Ray Dotson
· 3 years ago
Andy, thanks for the tips. I know there's a lot of controversy out there regarding page rank leakage, but your explanation here makes sense. I've implemented the change you suggested in the sociable plugin on my own blog. Also, thanks for pointing to the search status firefox plugin. And, yes, I'll be linking to this article.
Ray Dotson
· 3 years ago
Andy, thanks for the tips. I know there's a lot of controversy out there regarding page rank leakage, but your explanation here makes sense. I've implemented the change you suggested in the sociable plugin on my own blog. Also, thanks for pointing to the search status firefox plugin. And, yes, I'll be linking to this article.
Vlad
· 2 years ago
Andy, I just recently came across this post. Great tip on sociable. I was able to hack it and now have nofollow on those links. Would you recommend the same for the digg plugin? With this plugin your link points to a form before your posts is submitted but later it points to the entry at Digg. What do you think about it?
Vlad
· 2 years ago
Andy, I just recently came across this post. Great tip on sociable. I was able to hack it and now have nofollow on those links. Would you recommend the same for the digg plugin? With this plugin your link points to a form before your posts is submitted but later it points to the entry at Digg. What do you think about it?
AndyBeard
· 2 years ago
The DiggThis type plugins all use javascript so no worries
I still intend to use Sociable for at least some bookmark buttons on my redesign
AndyBeard
· 2 years ago
The DiggThis type plugins all use javascript so no worries
I still intend to use Sociable for at least some bookmark buttons on my redesign
Patrick
· 2 years ago
Hi Andy,
Thanks for the great tips. I have been looking for it for some time. Just wondering:
if I am using the latest Sociable 2.0, where do I add the code? Do I add it in the Sociable.php?
If you can be more clear on that, it will be great.
Patrick
· 2 years ago
Hi Andy,
Thanks for the great tips. I have been looking for it for some time. Just wondering:
if I am using the latest Sociable 2.0, where do I add the code? Do I add it in the Sociable.php?
If you can be more clear on that, it will be great.
AndyBeard
· 2 years ago
Check out my hacked wordpress plugins and save yourself 10 minutes working out the code
Awesome - thanks for this - I was just thinking about doing this myself...
Matt Ellsworth
· 2 years ago
Awesome - thanks for this - I was just thinking about doing this myself...
Andy Coates
· 2 years ago
Hi Andy, top blog you have here! I see you came across Viralink at some point, it's still an ongoing experiment and we'll see how Google reacts to it in the coming months. I was looking for a contact email but couldn't find one. I'm commenting to ask how you insert snippets of PHP code into your posts. I have tried a couple of plug-ins but the code still gets processed by php!
Andy help would be much appreciated!
Andy
AndyBeard
· 2 years ago
I actually think the Viral list is one stage worse than the link exchanges people used to do with unrelated sites, with their 20 pages deep of "resource" directories - at least those had anchor test.
So far it cost me around 10 emails explaining why it isn't a very good solution, most of those emails from quite experienced bloggers and webmasters, who just wanted to confirm their opinion.
As a viral idea it is also fairly hard to maintain especially for people who can't or don't know how to send trackbacks.
I have a contact form linked to from the front page.
Yeah, i know you dont like the viralink idea but it has had some non SEO benefits. I've found some great blogs and people through it.
Cheers :-)
Andy
Andy Coates
· 2 years ago
Hi Andy, top blog you have here! I see you came across Viralink at some point, it's still an ongoing experiment and we'll see how Google reacts to it in the coming months. I was looking for a contact email but couldn't find one. I'm commenting to ask how you insert snippets of PHP code into your posts. I have tried a couple of plug-ins but the code still gets processed by php!
Andy help would be much appreciated!
Andy
AndyBeard
· 2 years ago
I actually think the Viral list is one stage worse than the link exchanges people used to do with unrelated sites, with their 20 pages deep of "resource" directories - at least those had anchor test.
So far it cost me around 10 emails explaining why it isn't a very good solution, most of those emails from quite experienced bloggers and webmasters, who just wanted to confirm their opinion.
As a viral idea it is also fairly hard to maintain especially for people who can't or don't know how to send trackbacks.
I have a contact form linked to from the front page.
Yeah, i know you dont like the viralink idea but it has had some non SEO benefits. I've found some great blogs and people through it.
Cheers :-)
Andy
Sarah Wilson
· 2 years ago
SO, I could have saved myself a good 50 hours of online research had I seen this before now.
Found you on StumbleUpon.
~Sarah
Sarah Wilson
· 2 years ago
SO, I could have saved myself a good 50 hours of online research had I seen this before now.
Found you on StumbleUpon.
~Sarah
Mindy Koch
· 2 years ago
Just upgraded to the latest WP version and am getting a "function implode" error with this plugin. Got a quick fix idea for me, Andy?
Mindy Koch
· 2 years ago
Just upgraded to the latest WP version and am getting a "function implode" error with this plugin. Got a quick fix idea for me, Andy?
Lazar
· 2 years ago
Hi,
I was thinking, can you add a 'nofollow' icon to your antisocial plugin linking to plugin homepage, so that blog readers can easily find it from any blog page. Also, if you do that, you can spread a word to your regular readers to switch to antisocial, and in time, hopefully, more and more blog owners will become aware of this nofollow nonsense. Currently, mostly only SEO community is aware of it.
Thanks
Lazar
· 2 years ago
Hi,
I was thinking, can you add a 'nofollow' icon to your antisocial plugin linking to plugin homepage, so that blog readers can easily find it from any blog page. Also, if you do that, you can spread a word to your regular readers to switch to antisocial, and in time, hopefully, more and more blog owners will become aware of this nofollow nonsense. Currently, mostly only SEO community is aware of it.
Thanks
Vic
· 2 years ago
Funny how when I started blogging the first thing that amazed me was this huge blogrolls on some blogs. Do a site: search and you find thousands of links pointing to really bad sites including some where not even active sites they would point to suspended pages. Never really understood that mentality. Yet just did a search of some blogs and sure enough they are still the same. Then you see there bitch post on how Google sends them no traffic lol.
Vic
· 2 years ago
Funny how when I started blogging the first thing that amazed me was this huge blogrolls on some blogs. Do a site: search and you find thousands of links pointing to really bad sites including some where not even active sites they would point to suspended pages. Never really understood that mentality. Yet just did a search of some blogs and sure enough they are still the same. Then you see there bitch post on how Google sends them no traffic lol.
Pam
· 1 year ago
Thank you so much. This is the first time I've heard about social network and bookmarking sites and blogroll links depleting my "Google Juice". I had no idea and here I've been adding all these great blogs to my Blogroll. I will pair it down first thing tomorrow. I've only been bloging for a few months and boy do I have a lot to learn. Thanks again.
Pam
· 1 year ago
Thank you so much. This is the first time I've heard about social network and bookmarking sites and blogroll links depleting my "Google Juice". I had no idea and here I've been adding all these great blogs to my Blogroll. I will pair it down first thing tomorrow. I've only been bloging for a few months and boy do I have a lot to learn. Thanks again.
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Also this goes to show that you can't just assume anything. I had been using another plugin that created javascript links to the bookmarking sites, and assumed that sociable did the same thing, so I just loaded up on them. My blog must be a veritable wonderland of what not to do for seo for you, Andy.
Also this goes to show that you can't just assume anything. I had been using another plugin that created javascript links to the bookmarking sites, and assumed that sociable did the same thing, so I just loaded up on them. My blog must be a veritable wonderland of what not to do for seo for you, Andy.
Subscribeme has a similar problem, so you might think about hacking the code, or adding the subscription buttons manually.
I would also stick your tags somewhere on the single posts, maybe at the bottom and make use of UTW related posts.
You will still end up with quite a "ball" structure, but it is a lot of hard work currently doing anything about that.
You are better at CSS and PHP than me, so I am sure you will have no problems.
Subscribeme has a similar problem, so you might think about hacking the code, or adding the subscription buttons manually.
I would also stick your tags somewhere on the single posts, maybe at the bottom and make use of UTW related posts.
You will still end up with quite a "ball" structure, but it is a lot of hard work currently doing anything about that.
You are better at CSS and PHP than me, so I am sure you will have no problems.
What a tangled web. ;)
Back when I started using UTW it didn't do nearly what it does now, and there was no way to make local tag pages, so I hacked away at things to get it to do it anyways, but I had to go to a completely tag formay and turn the categories into tags to make it work. Now, as a result, using some of the other features are unpredictable and quixotic.
What a tangled web. ;)
Back when I started using UTW it didn't do nearly what it does now, and there was no way to make local tag pages, so I hacked away at things to get it to do it anyways, but I had to go to a completely tag formay and turn the categories into tags to make it work. Now, as a result, using some of the other features are unpredictable and quixotic.
I still intend to use Sociable for at least some bookmark buttons on my redesign
I still intend to use Sociable for at least some bookmark buttons on my redesign
Thanks for the great tips. I have been looking for it for some time.
Just wondering:
if I am using the latest Sociable 2.0, where do I add the code? Do I add it in the Sociable.php?
If you can be more clear on that, it will be great.
Thanks for the great tips. I have been looking for it for some time.
Just wondering:
if I am using the latest Sociable 2.0, where do I add the code? Do I add it in the Sociable.php?
If you can be more clear on that, it will be great.
http://andybeard.eu/wordpress-plugin-hacks/
http://andybeard.eu/wordpress-plugin-hacks/
I was looking for a contact email but couldn't find one. I'm commenting to ask how you insert snippets of PHP code into your posts. I have tried a couple of plug-ins but the code still gets processed by php!
Andy help would be much appreciated!
Andy
So far it cost me around 10 emails explaining why it isn't a very good solution, most of those emails from quite experienced bloggers and webmasters, who just wanted to confirm their opinion.
As a viral idea it is also fairly hard to maintain especially for people who can't or don't know how to send trackbacks.
I have a contact form linked to from the front page.
For displaying code I use a combination of
http://blog.igeek.info/wp-plugins/igsyntax-hili...
and
http://www.semiologic.com/software/unfancy-quote/
Cheers :-)
Andy
I was looking for a contact email but couldn't find one. I'm commenting to ask how you insert snippets of PHP code into your posts. I have tried a couple of plug-ins but the code still gets processed by php!
Andy help would be much appreciated!
Andy
So far it cost me around 10 emails explaining why it isn't a very good solution, most of those emails from quite experienced bloggers and webmasters, who just wanted to confirm their opinion.
As a viral idea it is also fairly hard to maintain especially for people who can't or don't know how to send trackbacks.
I have a contact form linked to from the front page.
For displaying code I use a combination of
http://blog.igeek.info/wp-plugins/igsyntax-hili...
and
http://www.semiologic.com/software/unfancy-quote/
Cheers :-)
Andy
Found you on StumbleUpon.
~Sarah
Found you on StumbleUpon.
~Sarah
I was thinking, can you add a 'nofollow' icon to your antisocial plugin linking to plugin homepage, so that blog readers can easily find it from any blog page. Also, if you do that, you can spread a word to your regular readers to switch to antisocial, and in time, hopefully, more and more blog owners will become aware of this nofollow nonsense. Currently, mostly only SEO community is aware of it.
Thanks
I was thinking, can you add a 'nofollow' icon to your antisocial plugin linking to plugin homepage, so that blog readers can easily find it from any blog page. Also, if you do that, you can spread a word to your regular readers to switch to antisocial, and in time, hopefully, more and more blog owners will become aware of this nofollow nonsense. Currently, mostly only SEO community is aware of it.
Thanks