I just feel like asking a lot of questions as I help my bf get into blogging. Some I know how to do in probably the wrong way. Some I have no idea.
Question #1
How do you install Google Analytics on a blog. Never installed it before on a blog so really have no idea.
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You can also simply add the tracking code to the ‘index.php’ page at the bottom, after all the gobbly gook. However, I really would recommend using a plugin… there are a few to choose from, just make sure they are 2.6 compatible.
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Awesome! Thank you. Next question -
How do you get an ad like this
http://youlovegayporn.com/ (third post)
and like this -
http://queerclick.com/
(second post)
Is that a plug in?
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Could be a banner rotating plugin or such, or simply an entry with nothing else and the title etc removed…
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[QUOTE=abostonboy;18394]Awesome! Thank you. Next question -
How do you get an ad like this
http://youlovegayporn.com/ (third post)
and like this -
http://queerclick.com/
(second post)
Is that a plug in?[/QUOTE]
Could be a plugin. I don’t know of one for 2.6 yet though.
Not sure if that one blog is wp or not. Its simple to do in BO.
Or they edited the index.php with some code to simply insert an ad or whatever after every x post.
Jimmy
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[QUOTE=abostonboy;18394]Awesome! Thank you. Next question -
How do you get an ad like this
http://youlovegayporn.com/ (third post)
and like this -
http://queerclick.com/
(second post)
Is that a plug in?[/QUOTE]
This should do the trick http://www.maxblogpress.com/plugins/mba/mba-use/
Works with 2.6
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I’d strongly recommend putting it in your theme template. Plugins can only slow things down and break.
Put it just after <body> if you intend to do event tagging, or just before </body> if you don’t intend to do event tagging.
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Ok. Here is another one. How do I use the no follow?
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go here http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Plugin_Compatibility/2.6 scroll down to the M-P listings, there are several no follow plugins. Just read up on them and choose the one that fits what you’re wanting to have it do.
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The quick answer is to do the following:
<a href="http://www.gaydemon.biz/ rel=“nofollow”>Great Site</a>
Or if you want you can put a meta tag on the page so all links are nofollow by default. That would look like:
<meta name=“robots” description=“nofollow” />
Then if you wanted to undo the default nofollow you would do the following:
<a href="http://www.gaydemon.biz/ rel=“follow”>Great Site</a>
Thing is WordPress doesn’t make it easy. There are plugins that can help, but I always just drop down into code and edit the link.
I’ve always been a bit fan of nofollow, but I’m starting to change my mind. The issue is that regular people don’t use nofollow - just people who are SEO-aware. So there’s an argument to be made that using nofollow can hurt you in that it identifies you as someone who might be trying to mess with the system. It’s better to look like an average Joe who just happens to have perfect title tags and the like.
That said, you should not let search engine spiders follow paid links, and better yet, not know they exist. The way to handle this is to put all outbound links through a redirect script that you’ve blocked with robots.txt. Most of the major sites do this. I’m just now going through the pain of implementing one and retrofitting hundreds of blog posts with the new links. It’s a pain in the ass, but it gives you a lot of control since you can update all of a particular type of sponsor links with one change. So this weekend I went from PPS to revenue share and back to PPS on all of my links for a particular sponsor by just changing the link codes in one place (they had a special program running that I wanted to take advantage of).
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put all outbound links through a redirect script
Such As ?? and is it free 
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RawTop,
Are you using open ads?
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I use Platinum SEO which is similar to the All In One SEO plugin, it lets you have control of adding no follow, no index, or combination of same, for each post/page.
There is also the robots meta plugin that will give you the same options, on individual posts.
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I’m a programmer who likes writing custom code. Needing something and not really feeling comfortable with what I saw out there, I just started a simple PHP script that does 302 redirects. Here’s a snippet from it…
<?php
if ($_GET['lnk'] == 1){ /* Bareback That Hole */
header("Location:http://www.barebackthathole.com/visitor1.php?idWebMaster=1196801495&idBanner=579&SpecialProgram=0&type=linktext",TRUE,302);
}
elseif ($_GET['lnk'] == 2){ /* Felch That Hole */
header("Location:http://www.felchthathole.com/visitor1.php?idWebMaster=1196801495&idBanner=814&SpecialProgram=0&type=linktext",TRUE,302);
}
elseif ($_GET['lnk'] == 3){ /* Pop Boys */
header("Location:http://in.popboys.com/track/MTk4Nzo0Mzoy/",TRUE,302);
}
?>
So it’s pretty basic and I just call it something like this…
http://www.rawtop.com/scripts/outbound.php?lnk=3
It’s quick and dirty and does the job. In the future I can add database logging and the like if I want. I can already tell I want to create a database of all the links and have it generate and upload the file for me. But that’s part of a bigger project I want to work on - sort of my own personal Blogs Automater with a feature set that’s better suited for how I want to do things including image retrieval from sponsors, image cataloging, and a streamlined process to create collages and gallery pages…
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rawTOP, thanks for this very helpful advice. I’m going to implement a similar script on my blogs and update all my previous blog posts with it.
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I just had a brainstorm on the redirect script I mentioned above… I’m in the process of automating quite a bit of what I do (at least the parts that can be automated). So I’ve got a database that generates that file for me based on data in the database. Then it dawned on me… Instead of blocking that file with robots.txt, I’ll let bots crawl it but redirect the bots to category pages on my site appropriate to the outbound link. So a link that would send a user to hotbarebacking.com would redirect the bot to a page on my site about hotbarebacking.com… I’ll just modify the script to detect the user agent or the reverse IP lookup and work from there…
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In case anyone’s interested… Here’s a snippet from my modified routine that serves one page to users and another to spiders… When there isn’t a suitable equivalent I just send the spider to the home page of the porn blog with a 302 redirect (instead of 301)…
<?php
if (stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'googlebot') > 0) { $spider = TRUE; }
elseif (stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'msnbot') > 0) { $spider = TRUE; }
elseif (stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'teoma') > 0) { $spider = TRUE; }
elseif (stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'slurp') > 0) { $spider = TRUE; }
else { $spider = FALSE; }
if (FALSE) { }
/* */
elseif (($_GET['lnk'] == 26) && ($spider)) { header("Location:http://www.rawtop.com/porn/",TRUE,302); }
elseif ($_GET['lnk'] == 26) { header("Location:http://www.gaydemon.com/dicktionary/".$_GET['t']."/",TRUE,302); }
/* Gunz Blazing */
elseif (($_GET['lnk'] == 44) && ($spider)) { header("Location:http://www.rawtop.com/porn/",TRUE,302); }
elseif ($_GET['lnk'] == 44) { header("Location:http://gunzblazing.com/ref.php?w=101203",TRUE,302); }
/* Gunz Blazing - hotbarebacking.com */
elseif (($_GET['lnk'] == 38) && ($spider)) { header("Location:http://www.rawtop.com/porn/labels/hot-barebacking.html",TRUE,301); }
elseif ($_GET['lnk'] == 38) { header("Location:http://gunzblazing.com/hit.php?w=101203&s=16&p=2&c=579&t=0&cs=",TRUE,302); }
?>
The GayDemon Dicktionary link case is how link trades will work (yes Bjorn, I am still working on that). That’s followed by a program referral that doesn’t have a suitable internal link and sends spiders to the home page of the porn blog. Then that’s followed by a site referral.
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[quote=rawTOP;18920]In case anyone’s interested… Here’s a snippet from my modified routine that serves one page to users and another to spiders… When there isn’t a suitable equivalent I just send the spider to the home page of the porn blog with a 302 redirect (instead of 301)…
<?php
if (stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'googlebot') > 0) { $spider = TRUE; }
elseif (stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'msnbot') > 0) { $spider = TRUE; }
elseif (stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'teoma') > 0) { $spider = TRUE; }
elseif (stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'slurp') > 0) { $spider = TRUE; }
else { $spider = FALSE; }
if (FALSE) { }
/* */
elseif (($_GET['lnk'] == 26) && ($spider)) { header("Location:http://www.rawtop.com/porn/",TRUE,302); }
elseif ($_GET['lnk'] == 26) { header("Location:http://www.gaydemon.com/dicktionary/".$_GET['t']."/",TRUE,302); }
/* Gunz Blazing */
elseif (($_GET['lnk'] == 44) && ($spider)) { header("Location:http://www.rawtop.com/porn/",TRUE,302); }
elseif ($_GET['lnk'] == 44) { header("Location:http://gunzblazing.com/ref.php?w=101203",TRUE,302); }
/* Gunz Blazing - hotbarebacking.com */
elseif (($_GET['lnk'] == 38) && ($spider)) { header("Location:http://www.rawtop.com/porn/labels/hot-barebacking.html",TRUE,301); }
elseif ($_GET['lnk'] == 38) { header("Location:http://gunzblazing.com/hit.php?w=101203&s=16&p=2&c=579&t=0&cs=",TRUE,302); }
?>
The GayDemon Dicktionary link case is how link trades will work (yes Bjorn, I am still working on that). That’s followed by a program referral that doesn’t have a suitable internal link and sends spiders to the home page of the porn blog. Then that’s followed by a site referral.[/quote]
Sounds interesting, but what about the rules of cloaking, about serving a different page for spiders than surfers? This sounds an awful lot like cloaking.
Cloaking Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to users and search engines. Serving up different results based on user agent may cause your site to be perceived as deceptive and removed from the Google index.
Some examples of cloaking include:
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Is keeping them away from something they have said they don’t want to see “cloaking”? Not really…
“Cloaking” is allowed to reduce duplicate content because duplicate content messes them up. Hence when you have links that do things like changing the number of products shown in a product list, you’re allowed to “cloak” those URLs to reduce the amount of duplicate content googlebot has to deal with.
Google has said they do not want to see “paid links” - that if they exist, they should be “nofollowed”. What I’m doing is keeping them away from something they’ve said they don’t want to see and redirecting them to pages on the same exact topic. I’m only using a 301 when the topic is identical. So, “Join HotBarebacking.com” would go to the page on my site that is all about HotBarebacking.com.
True, it’s not pure white hat, but it’s not black hat either… It’s more light gray hat…
[I should mention that Google doesn’t like to admit that their definition of cloaking covers things they allow - like duplicate content reduction. But it does. To them the term cloaking is only bad - there are no good forms of cloaking… But the real world is different. Rand Fishkin had a good post on it a couple weeks ago and it brought the whole issue up and Matt Cutts was in the discussion - pretty interesting…]