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Well hopefully no bloggers will use it, at least any bloggers intending to make money from their blogs

"It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License."

If you have a blog that accepts advertising, or for a business, that is commercial use under creative commons. Damn they really should get some lawyers for all that money they charge to join.

At the end of the day, most SEO bloggers I know either ignore scrapers or try to take advantage of them more. If they rank for your content, most likely you wouldn't have ranked for the term anyway, and the scrapers are siloing.

In the early days of a blogs life, I encourage blog scraping, syndication etc and continue to do so throughout its life.

p.s. it is Dave or David Naylor

I go through every now and then - there are still 2 people who are not active and reciprocal that Stay on the list anyway, Mark from 45n5 and AgentSully.

I actually choose people based upon what they submit more than anything else, but that 200 limit is a pain. I am up to almost 800 fans on Stumbleupon and I would guess I know 600 of them by their avatar and other online activity.

I have had people quite upset when I don't friend them back.

If you use Akismet with SK2 then all it does is add a small penalty to the comment, just like the other filters.

I mentioned the akismet plugin for SK2 in my config post

Vlad you can actually use them together often a much better combination - I don't because I haven't seen the need, though I moderate every comment.
Get the extra plugin to use them both together.

I have been using
http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/wordpress/sk2-moderate-p...

You have to switch the captcha off

With this enabled, all but you most loyal commenters end up in the SK moderation queue.

I don't bother editing links - if it is spam, I generally don't allow the comment. On Akismet due to collective intelligence you are basically saying the spam is ok if you approve it with the link removed.

I must admit I end up using the this is spam button a lot, but some of my most loyal readers came due to the links - I am sure they would stay if I changed.

I am awaiting the monetization solution that is coming.

Some things to consider

Your post title will appear in RSS feeds and get used by a large number of people giving you backlinks, even the splogs.
Social bookmark plugins will pick up the page title, not your headline

There are good reasons to make your initial headline useful for SEO, and if it is written for high CTR then it is also potentially something better to have in the SERPs as well.

I am hoping people will start using this rather than for a newsletter to be just used for special broadcasts. I am not a big fan of "I have just posted a new article to my blog titled...."

The scheduling is important, sometimes I go a week without publishing anything, but on occasion I have been known to write 5+ articles in a day if lots of things are worth writing about. Sending 5 emails to people in one day would put a strain on a relationship.

They serve different SERPs all the time from different datacentres, thus what you are seeing might be what is going to happen, or what may happen in the future, or due to local or personalized results.

They serve different SERPs all the time from different datacentres, thus what you are seeing might be what is going to happen, or what may happen in the future, or due to local or personalized results.

Hmm, that being said, you are only 11th here :)

Hmm, that being said, you are only 11th here :)

You received some useful anchor text links from my list of sites hit with a penalty, and that page itself is quite strong now.
It isn't such a competitive term that a few strong links can't have a dramatic effect.

You received some useful anchor text links from my list of sites hit with a penalty, and that page itself is quite strong now.
It isn't such a competitive term that a few strong links can't have a dramatic effect.

This kind of thing is good for promoting niche sites where you don't want to invest too much personal time. I must admit I have never been a huge fan of any kind of article rewriting, either automatically or rotating human written phrases around.

I am sure the articles are currently effective for most directories.

The biggest problem is that most article sites these days have very little juice and so many articles. There is a real need to pump out a lot of articles to have any large benefits.

This kind of thing is good for promoting niche sites where you don't want to invest too much personal time. I must admit I have never been a huge fan of any kind of article rewriting, either automatically or rotating human written phrases around.

I am sure the articles are currently effective for most directories.

The biggest problem is that most article sites these days have very little juice and so many articles. There is a real need to pump out a lot of articles to have any large benefits.

Honestly I feel I did a lot of research before writing my piece, and Mike has used controversy to build up traffic in the past.
I still need to link through to Rick's post, but then that contradicts what Mike has written in many ways.

I linked through to all my research sources, and the links represented both sides of the discussion.

The conclusions I made were my personal opinion based on the information available.I was really looking forward to the New Media Fundraising presentation, albeit from a writeup from a 3rd party, but that has yet to materialize.

Mike himself is a proponent of link early, link often

Vlad as far as I am concerned you keep a seat as a founder member, plus you are still allowing Yahoo and MSN to index your content, so the dofollow helps.

It is a brave thing to do, many will say it is foolish, but as a temporary trial it is a very useful test that might have some surprising results.

Just make sure you make some money on other sites.

Vlad as far as I am concerned you keep a seat as a founder member, plus you are still allowing Yahoo and MSN to index your content, so the dofollow helps.

It is a brave thing to do, many will say it is foolish, but as a temporary trial it is a very useful test that might have some surprising results.

Just make sure you make some money on other sites.

I think that might be a little drastic

I am considering some other alternatives

I think that might be a little drastic

I am considering some other alternatives

Pumping out content on a daily basis is a lot of hard work.
one good aspect of this, I am sure those technical skills you have picked up are useful.

I will try to keep Google Chat up and running for a chat

Despite the fact that I got hit with a penalty, I think my Sandcastles approach works better. I can have links followed from my comments, and trackbacks.

Good community encourages links more than being stingy, and people who comment subscribe.

Google just lost the Facebook bid as well

Google just lost the Facebook bid as well

Sam, that would be like Clicks to Customers saying that CTR isn't important, it is how poetic your Adwords ads are that make the difference.

In marketing statistics are important, though it is very hard currently to measure how influential or valuable a blog audience is.