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By: Movie Sutra

Movie Sutra — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:00:37 +0000

simple and easy……

By: Lizzie

Lizzie — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:35:50 +0000

There’s a tag cloud plugin (or you can use a sidebar widget in WP 2.3).

Ultimate Tag Warrior isn’t compatible with WP 2.3, Court. Just an FYI for anyone who has upgraded or plans on it in the future.

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:55:09 +0000

Yeah 16% of my subscribers are from my email option. There can be a problem with unverified subscriptions though.

By: Stefani

Stefani — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:50:01 +0000

I use the email subscription box too but through FeedBlitz!

By: JoLynn Braley

JoLynn Braley — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:04:29 +0000

I’ve been using the email subscription option for quite a few months and I get a lot of people signing up for it….I read about this technique on Copyblogger and started using Feedblitz because that’s what Brian uses (he wrote about some good advantages of their service).

I’ve been thinking about switching to Feedburner, though, but I read somewhere else that if you update an old post it gets sent to your subscribers as if you just wrote it. Have you ever had that happen?

By: Court

Court — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:34:19 +0000

Hi again Sutoco! Again, I appreciate another point of view so that we can dig a little deeper into this issue.

I know about the Google webmaster guideline, in fact I have talked about it on this site before. The question is whether right now it’s going to do more good than harm. There’s no way of knowing without trying it out.

There are a lot of really powerful sites that are way over that limit.

This isn’t the kind of thing that can get your site banned so it’s worth the test. If it hurts traffic, I’ll take it off. I have a feeling that it won’t.

By: Court

Court — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:19:16 +0000

Yeah I really don’t know what’s going on with it. Luckily, I haven’t lost any rankings and my PR went up on some other pages.

I guess we’ll see if there are any other effects.

By: Court

Court — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:15:36 +0000

Yeah I noticed it last night. I was worried about it until I figured out that I have some other pages whose PageRank went up.

I found a page that went from a 2 to a 3, and another page that went from a 0 to a 2. I’m not sure what the reason is but I’m not that worried about it anymore.

By: Sutocu

Sutocu — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:45:10 +0000

Court, I understand the purpose, but even Google’s Webmaster Guidelines say “Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100).”

Nofollowing all the links would defeat it’s purpose, but I would use some sort of method to limit the number of links somewhat. For example nofollow or remove half of the cloud.

You could easily modify the script that each link has a 50% possibility to have nofollow. This would make it look static to visitors, but different pages would link to different tags.

Vic, I’m sure you know it’s not that simple. Websites that inlink heavily with the same anchor, or that keyword spam have been banned or penalized in the past.

Yes inbound links help crawl depth, but you don’t need to take chances with Google to achieve a good level of inbound links.

I agree that there are some risk/reward decisions, but you can just look at JohnChow’s case to see what it can cause. This is a situation, where I believe you can reap the rewards without taking too many chances.