YouSayToo is so hot right now with Google

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   darksideposted 14 years ago

   I signed up to YouSayToo over two years ago but did nothing with it. I heard recently that they're getting a lot of Google love.
   
   I'm about to publish a few posts and link through to some of my existing capstone hubs. I'll see how long it takes to index a new published page.
   
   Also, YouSayToo has Adsense impression sharing, 50/50.

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      Pacal Votanposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I don't understand what exactly Google love is.

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         darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         'Google love' is when Google quickly finds and indexes your newly published content.
         
         Twenty minutes ago I published something on Roman Emperor Claudius and I've been checking back to see if Google has found it, and just prior to replying to your post it indeed has.
         
         How well it ranks is another matter, but Google still has to find you first.

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            Pacal Votanposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            I see. Thanks.

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      jennasbigbrasposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks, Always great to find more revenue sharing sites with do follow links!

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      viryaboposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Thank you for this info darkside. Im off to check it out.

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      cosetteposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      thank you !!!

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      Lady_Eposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Cheers
      
      Just a thought - how about posting your profile or referral details on yousaytoo, so people can sign up under you.... if they choose to.
      
      Anyway, whatever you decide - thanks for letting us know.

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         darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         I think any URL within my account picks up the referral. I *think* that when I'm surfing around the site and being tracked it automatically switches off my Adsense Publisher ID on the adsense ads. Which is a good safety measure. I checked the source code a few times to check if my Adsense Publisher ID was being used. I'll experiment with that a few more times before I'll 100% vouch for that (I haven't seen it mentioned in any faq)
         
         I think this would be a direct sign-up referral: http://www.yousaytoo.com/account/signup?669
         
         But according to my 'Invite Friends' page this is my ref code: http://www.yousaytoo.com/Slappy/?669 which will take a person to my profile page. And if they click on "Join now and start getting revenue!" the referral I shall get.

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            arthritickneeposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            Come on you lot. All who have not yet signed up, get on board with Darkside's referral link above. You know you want to.

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   darksideposted 14 years ago

   Snap. I published it a few minutes before posting this thread (36 minutes ago) and the post was indexed 32 minutes ago.

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      Neil Ashworthposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks Darkside - good info as always!

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   blue dogposted 14 years ago

   thanks for the info.  you guys (and gals) keep me in the overwhelmed mode.

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   Uninvited Writerposted 14 years ago

   I just joined up Thanks for letting us know...

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   darksideposted 14 years ago

   Apparently you can import your other blogs, but I'm just using their blogging feature. Which is really cool, you can quickly set up multiple blogs categories. I first starting playing around with one about dogs. And now I'm doing a couple of ancient history blogs: Long Dead Greeks and Long Dead Romans.
   
   I'll be using those for backlinks to my Greek Philosophy and Roman Emperor capstone hubs.

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   Himitsu Shugishaposted 14 years ago

   It seems I need to look into this.

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   LRobbinsposted 14 years ago

   Thanks for the tip, I'm signing up as I write this.  I've never heard of it before.

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   sabrebIadeposted 14 years ago

   I looked at the site, but I am unclear on if you can post only blogs or links?
   Can you use it for just backlinks?

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      darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Not sure if there's a bookmarking component to it. But you can pepper your blog posts with tasteful on-topic links.

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   mcbeanposted 14 years ago

   Thanks for the tip 'Slappy'

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      darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Be sure to friend me up if you join the site.

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         travelespressoposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Thanks for the heads up Darkside.  I went over to check it out and it looks great.  I will be sure to go via you when I sign up.

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    oderogposted 14 years ago

    Great Darkside, I will sign up for back linking purpose actually am on backlinkig mission this month

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    Ultimate Hubberposted 14 years ago

    Seems like they are currently having a downtime.
    "Oops! This link appears to be broken."

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       darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Hmmmm, they're all working for me.

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          Ultimate Hubberposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          Yup now they are back. I had to view Google's cached copy of them previously.

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    Ultimate Hubberposted 14 years ago

    And BTW, thank you for informing us about this site.

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    Jeffrey Nealposted 14 years ago

    I am seeing no follow links.

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       darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Two outta three ain't bad (1. Adsense revenue 2. Quick indexing... if the blog posts themselves can get indexed and hopefully rank well, then there's nothing stopping the human traffic from clicking through)

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          Jeffrey Nealposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          Yes, it does look like a very nice site.  It will be great for the short, random things that I could write on and have topics for, but don't want to make into hubs yet.
          
          Thanks for the rec!

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    Dame Scribeposted 14 years ago

    Woohoo! thank you DS I must say that you have always let a 'secret' out now and again is wonderful to see someone give a helping hand now and again. Thank you! I would hug you but a high 5 will do ^5

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    viryaboposted 14 years ago

    Jioned.
    Now to start figuring out what to do. Takes me a little while to master these things.

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       darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Takes everyone a while, even me.
       
       I'd be going through and making friend connections but there is a problem with some URLs and I can't find you guys, yet.

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          viryaboposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          I added you as a friend darkside (still figuring out what to do). Thanks for this tip. Maybe i can finally do something about my backlinks.

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    wrenfrost56posted 14 years ago

    Thanks for the info darkside, will check it out. (slappy?!)

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    prettydarkhorseposted 14 years ago

    thanks darkside for the information

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    Jai Warrenposted 14 years ago

    Thanks darkside, I'm adding my blogs today. LOOKS GREAT!

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    Will Apseposted 14 years ago

    I can't really imagine you as 'Slappy', Darkside. Is there a dimension to your character that we don't know about?

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       darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Slappy sounds happy doesn't it.
       
       For the record, Darkside does smile.
       
       

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    Lisa HWposted 14 years ago

    Thanks for mentioning it.  Maybe besides friending you people on this thread could also friend others here?  (I'm going to look at the site now.)

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    shazwellynposted 14 years ago

    Im trying to post a blog on yousaytoo but I get this message...
    
    Your blog RSS/Atom feed seems to be short. Please set your feed to full and
    
    what does it mean?  What do i need to do?
    
    x

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       Uninvited Writerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       What I did was create an RSS feed through feed burner since it didn't accept my Blogger one.

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          shazwellynposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          Ummm.. getting more complicated.. feed burner? Oh my.... educate meeeeeeee! x

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             Uninvited Writerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

             Go to Feedburner.com and they will show you how If you have a Google account you use that log in.

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       Lady_Eposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Wow, Shazwellyn, you didn't hang about. lol. Will check out your profile there. I'm split b/w a few Writing websites now, but will defo check later.
       Good Luck.

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          Lisa HWposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          Go to your settings on your blog, find "feeds", and check "full" (not "short").

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    Lisa HWposted 14 years ago

    I'm up and running (a bunch of blogs already on there) on the site.  I don't know how to find/make friends, though.  I'll have to figure that out later. 
    
    One question I couldn't find the answer to (maybe because it shouldn't be a question); but can we add our HubPages profile pages, or do they have to be "official blogs"?
    
    This looks like a really neat, fun, site.  I like its appearance.  (I'm under Lisa_HW - they don't let you have spaces there.)  I need to think what I'm going to do with the blog on that site, though.

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    Uninvited Writerposted 14 years ago

    By the way, my user name is Uninvitedwri I got cut off.

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       Lisa HWposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Wanna be "yousaytoo" friends?    I just invited you.

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          rebekahELLEposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          let us know how it goes. I'm 'computered' out now, so taking a break the rest of the day. sounds like a fun site. I did see DS's Slappy, nice, and the pug article. adorable.

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       viryaboposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Great site YST. Thanks for friend-ing me UW. Now to figure out how to use it.
       I'm also using my same user name (viryabo) as i use here.

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    Daniel Carterposted 14 years ago

    I believe you are already on the front page at yousaytoo. Very impressive. I'm going to have to investigate more, but I have to address some music deadlines first. Might have to wait till after Christmas.
    
    Thanks, DS.

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       darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       I hadn't even noticed that! Thanks for the heads up!
       
       Being more of a social site with blogging rather than a publishing site with a forum I'll be wanting to friend up every single Hubber that joins YouSayToo.

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          rebekahELLEposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          hmm, maybe I could post my blogs from my old website ... the one that is down?

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             darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

             That'll be a problem solved!
             
             I like how different blogs can be set up on yousaytoo.

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                rebekahELLEposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                NICE! I will definitely take a closer look. I looked at yours and they look good! nice concept with slappy's blog. 

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    Uninvited Writerposted 14 years ago

    I am having trouble linking to my Wordpress blog. It keeps saying to set my RSS to full but I don't know how to do that.

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       sunforgedposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       add this to your wordpress address
       
       your domain here<------/wp-admin/options-reading.php
       
       or find the reading settings in your site..you will see options for For each article in a feed, show

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          Marisa Wrightposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          Sunforged, thanks for this tip.  Can you see any downsides to publishing your blog posts on this site?  Duplicate content?

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             darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

             Not sure about utilising the RSS feature, which I haven't looked into, but I'm using it to publish fresh content.

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             sunforgedposted 14 years agoin reply to this

             Absolutely a duplicate content possibility.
             
             But, as we point out a lot, the duplicate content myth is way overblown, one post will rank over the other...but will only be hidden if they are on the SAME domain i.e. if you have an original blogpost page and an archive page of the same content, only one of those pages should appear in results.
             
             Matt Cutts of google explains this better
             
             http://www.google.com/search?q=duplicat … =firefox-a
             
             But, Do i want to risk outranking my own blog where I get 100% ad revenue in exchange for a service like yousaytoo where i only get 50%..No
             
             So what is it good for?
             
             personally,i set up my wordpress.com site and an old myspace blog to post to yousaytoo, since neither of those sources allow me to monetize properly (my wordpress.com site was actually pulled for use of affilaite links, i had to remove all aff links..then they republished for me) I hoped it would read the feed than republish all the content...it doesnt, it simply will mirror any future posts...since I dont write new posts, other than backlink blurbs to wordpress.com at those sites, the feature has no use to me.
             
             If I can figure out a way to quickly edit or mark a post as new so it is mirrored at yousaytoo, i will be happy.
             
             Perhaps, exporting the wordpress site as a backup, starting a new wordpress site and than connecting the new one to yousaytoo, than importing the backup to create a bunch of new articles would work?
             
             just thinking out loud..ive been trying to think of a way to use yousaytoo since darkisde reminded me i had an account w/ his post
             
             sorry for the muddied rambling..i think i answered?
             
             got our first printed sonogram today a few hours ago and its a bit hard to sit still..11 weeks!

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                R.G. San Ramonposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                Exactly. As darkside said, he's delivering fresh content.

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                   sunforgedposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                   yes..hope those two different opportunities dont get mixed up by casual readers of this thread, I was only responding to the ability to mirror other blogs within the yousaytoo format

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                      darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                      There's a good chance of it outranking ones own content published on other blogs. But that's from the results of just one test that I've done.

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                         R.G. San Ramonposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                         Gah...

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                            darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                            That can be used for your advantage. If you have any articles that have fallen out of favour with Google.
                            
                            Otherwise, just publish fresh articles, they don't have to be long. 200 to 300 words, and then link one of the appropriate keywords to a hub (or blog post) that you have that is related in topic.

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                               R.G. San Ramonposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                               Wow. Good take. But as for me, no. My blog earns very very very little because I'm using it only as a platform to rant, nothing more. Still, great analysis.

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    habeeposted 14 years ago

    Okay, I'm stupid. For the URL, do I just copy and paste the one from my HP profile page? What do I put for RSS feed?

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       Lisa HWposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       I was trying to figure out the same thing.  I have my own blogs all up and all set, but I didn't know what to do about my HubPages profile.  (I tried a few things but seemed to keep mucking up.)

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    Jeffrey Nealposted 14 years ago

    Okay, I finally signed up.  I'm SevenSix there if anyone wants to friend me.  I just friended everyone who posted their username here, but it will be a day or two before I get blogs set up and whatnot.  So busy with other things ATM.  Thanks again Darkside!

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    Laura du Toitposted 14 years ago

    Thanks Darkside - Will have a look - still need to find time to write on Infobarrel but I need backlinks to improve my traffic so am busy on all the sites building baclinks.
    
    Will sign up via your link.

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    frogdroppingposted 14 years ago

    Ta Darkside. Been, seen and joined - through you I'm told. I was thanked very nicely too
    
    Now published two *whatever they are called* which amounts to two pages of green glee.
    
    I'm having fun doing it too. A very quick and easy to use site. So far anyway.

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    frogdroppingposted 14 years ago

    Well I'd say the site is sharp. Or google likes it. Or something because they do index fast. Both mine are indexed and one's on page four of google within a matter of a few hours.
    
    Good stuff
    
    *off to drum up more articles*

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    KCC Big Countryposted 14 years ago

    I joined tonight via Darkside's referral link.  Added a couple of folks I could recognize.  I'm KCC there.

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    Marisa Wrightposted 14 years ago

    Thanks for all the feedback, Sunforged and Darkside.  I joined, but am unlikely to post any new articles in a hurry.  My instant reaction was to add my blogs, and I'm sure a lot of other people would too - but it doesn't sound like the best idea.

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    slayer23posted 14 years ago

    First, congratulation darkside for getting so many referrals
    
    I've been a yousaytoo member for a long time. I have to say they've really improved the site over the last few months. I'm getting more from adsense than I did before.
    
    I'm also very pleased with adding my blog there. Even thou my blog traffic didn't change I started earning more from adsense. My  guess is that yousaytoo improved their SEO that's why the entries there are getting Google love.
    
    Sometimes my yousaytoo entries rank higher in searches than my blog entries and sometimes my blog entries are in the lead. It's hard to determine how google ranks them but I don't really care as long as I'm earning more.
    
    Adding hubs or hubpages profiles to yousaytoo won't work because HP's feed isn't full.
    
    Your entries get loads of links at yousaytoo. I'm guessing that's a big bonus for quick indexing.

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    Lisa HWposted 14 years ago

    I'd think it may matter whether someone's blog already gets lots of traffic or not.  I've had a "three-phase" approach to my blogs, which was to first think up the theme, second use them to "categorize" a lot of the writing I had, and third (not quite there yet) further polish them and turn them into something more than just a "dumping ground".  When I started them, though, I wasn't even thinking about aiming to get traffic (weird as they may seem to some people).  I was thinking more about tying together/organizing a bunch of loose, online, endeavors.  (So, I didn't even care about what name I gave them.)
    
    I don't have great traffic to them; and even now that I'm considering doing a new one "the right way" right from the start; I don't have any immediate plans to take the others down right now (because over time I can shift them into something better) - so, for me, more traffic (even a little more) is better than less.  They do earn a little here and there, but taking the risk and putting them on YouSayTo doesn't mean I have a whole lot to lose.  I do like the look of the way they present your stuff, and the activity level that means everything keeps moving on there.

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    sunforgedposted 14 years ago

    It seems YST has more of a social aspect to it: im there as Sunforged , put up a test post, it WAS indexed very fast, not sure how to track traffic or earnings yet though

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       viryaboposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Thanks for friend-ing me sunforged. seems like a great site.

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          darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          We 'friended' up? Yes?

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             sunforgedposted 14 years agoin reply to this

             yep..you were my first friend 
             
             been trying to work out some technicalities before posting more test articles
             
             I have been tracking with a URL channel in adsense...can see about 15 hits a day - so prob 30 visitors mostly hubbers, but my title wasnt researched - wanted to know if i could track at all
             
             have old non-earning blog blog attached with rss..I can copy an old post, paste it into a new post, tweak title and rewrite content slightly and YST picks it up and autoposts it. Thats my first plan for the site since I have a year of stats for that content...want to see what YST will do with it
             
             IS this the site you mentioned your becoming more involved with?

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                darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                Actually no, Factoidz is the site. But I am taking notes on YST to eventually write a hub.

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                   darksideposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                   An update on Factoidz: Factoidz sucks.
                   
                   A lot of change have been made without consulting or even informing the members. And after requesting that my articles and profile be deleted the Site Owner, Mike Quoc, told me he could close my account, but he'd keep my articles.
                   
                   In other news, YouSayToo is still feeling the Google love.

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    Laura du Toitposted 14 years ago

    Does anyone else have problems with the speed of this site. I find it extremely slow and very frustrating to work on. First thought it was my PC but I do not have the same problem with other sites.

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       Marisa Wrightposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       I noticed that too - very annoying.

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    Laura du Toitposted 14 years ago

    Pity because it is really annoying and I want to post more articles there but its a pain!

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    Lissieposted 14 years ago

    Am I missing something -I am seeing nofollow on links on Darkside's blog e.g. http://www.yousaytoo.com/the-greek-phil … des/140927 ?

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       darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       It was mentioned earlier that links are nofollow, but for me it's not the be all and end all of promotion. The posts themselves are quickly indexed, there is revenue sharing and if human traffic click through to my linked hubs then its a bonus.

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    Lisa HWposted 14 years ago

    I make no secret of my ignorance here:  How can you tell if there are no-follow links?

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       darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       There are plug-ins for Firefox but if you look at the source code there's a rel="nofollow" nested in my hyperlink tags.

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    Laura du Toitposted 14 years ago

    Darkside do you not have problems with the speed of the site?

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       darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       I'm in rural Australia and on satellite broadband so for almost half a month after I've hit my bandwidth quota I'm shaped thereafter. So I have problems with the speed of the internet in general

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    Laura du Toitposted 14 years ago

    I find it very frustrating as it takes a few minutes to open anything on yousaytoo. Pity because I like the idea of just making shorter posts as opposed to hubs or lenses. Just to increase traffic but I find I leave the site too quickly out of frustration

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    Georgina_writesposted 14 years ago

    That's my planned afternoon gone, I'll now be playing with the site.

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    sunforgedposted 14 years ago

    wow, just checked the front page - pearldiver, two slappy, two lisahw...making a quick impact!

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    sunforgedposted 14 years ago

    just a thought...some of you have already written quite abit, might be worth grabbing your YST rss feed and sticking it into some of your related hubs

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    Lisa HWposted 14 years ago

    sunforged, Ah...  I see now.  Hey - neat.  (I have a way of just tunnel-vision-muddling my way through stuff and not seeing what's right in front of my eyes on new sites.  )  Thanks for pointing that out.     Thanks for the tip about the RSS feed/Hubs.
    
    frogdropping, with regard to your remark about Darkside - same here.  Thanks, Darkside.

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