I would have a problem if someone “spun” my content, and didn’t claim that the content had in some way been modified.

Most of the sites that pick up my full content give me more attribution than I could ask for, leaving all links intact even to my related content and tag pages.

They also pick up affiliate links.

The one thing I do is if they pick up all my content, I block trackbacks, because that is just a little too much.

What really is the difference between having full content syndicated on WebProNews, and full content on a splog? Only their current number of readers and incoming links. This is from an SEO point of view, not from a credibility point of view, which is different.

In fact WPN for most people used to give a link through to their domain, in a standard footer.

I asked them to change that to a link through to the original article. I am not sure they do that for everyone.

The only problem I have had is when people pick up the content from WPN, and strip off the link back to the original article.

If someone published a “Top 1000 tags to use to get splogged” I would probably buy it, as long as it was from someone I knew and they showed some tests.

Andy, forgive my ignorance. Are you saying that you do not mind if your blog posts get “splogged”?

The reason I am asking is that one time a post of mine was splogged along with an affiliate link in it.

I use that code on all my single pages – the more comments, the more tags.

By default my pages have lots of internal linkage, and my feeds also have lots of links leading back to my site.

Each blog post that gets splogged often gives me 20 links, from each site.

Tagspaces are simply places you can link to that end with a keyword as a URL. UTW creates this internally, or you could (if you weren’t smart) link to Technorati or Wikipedia instead.
Those links, which could then contain rel=”tag” would be used for categorising you content by Technorati, Google, and a host of other services, even if you don’t link to them.

More info is on Microformats.org

Note Bumpzee is also a tagspace, and so is Blogcatalog, and both offer feeds of the tags

With some caching that could add some useful content to tag pages, and both sites provide backlinks.

Now is not a good time to jump onboard atgging – WP 2.2 will offer it by default, and that is just around the corner – I have seen some hacks to get UTW to work with the new system, but still haven’t tested it. I am hoping for an official solution from Christine.

I e-mailed Andy but I am sure he is going to monitor this. Great questions James, I am looking froward myself to Andy’s answers. Thanks.

A question for Andy (which I’ll post here out of the same respect he had for you in not reposting your interview on his site). I’ll bet Andy will be monitoring…

Andy you state that “A smart site would use links to an internal tagspace, but most do not.” Can you comment more on what this means? Do you have some posts that talk about what this is, and how to implement it? Plus why a “smart site” does this?

I would also be interested in getting pointed in the right direction to learn more about the “balancing of internal and external links” on a page. Is it safe to assume that you are talking about all links that appear on that page at any given time? Meaning, the internal navigation links, tag cloud (internal) links if you have one, contact, disclaimer, about us, etc. And the externals being the MBL, BC, BZ, trackback/pingback/backlinks in your post content? I’ve not seen information about automating the balance, so any directional pointing there would be helpful to me, and others, I’d bet.

Thanks for the great interview, Vlad!

I would have a problem if someone “spun” my content, and didn't claim that the content had in some way been modified.

Most of the sites that pick up my full content give me more attribution than I could ask for, leaving all links intact even to my related content and tag pages.

They also pick up affiliate links.

The one thing I do is if they pick up all my content, I block trackbacks, because that is just a little too much.

What really is the difference between having full content syndicated on WebProNews, and full content on a splog? Only their current number of readers and incoming links. This is from an SEO point of view, not from a credibility point of view, which is different.

In fact WPN for most people used to give a link through to their domain, in a standard footer.

I asked them to change that to a link through to the original article. I am not sure they do that for everyone.

The only problem I have had is when people pick up the content from WPN, and strip off the link back to the original article.

If someone published a “Top 1000 tags to use to get splogged” I would probably buy it, as long as it was from someone I knew and they showed some tests.

Andy, forgive my ignorance. Are you saying that you do not mind if your blog posts get “splogged”?

The reason I am asking is that one time a post of mine was splogged along with an affiliate link in it.

I use that code on all my single pages – the more comments, the more tags.

By default my pages have lots of internal linkage, and my feeds also have lots of links leading back to my site.

Each blog post that gets splogged often gives me 20 links, from each site.

Tagspaces are simply places you can link to that end with a keyword as a URL. UTW creates this internally, or you could (if you weren't smart) link to Technorati or Wikipedia instead.
Those links, which could then contain rel=”tag” would be used for categorising you content by Technorati, Google, and a host of other services, even if you don't link to them.

More info is on Microformats.org

Note Bumpzee is also a tagspace, and so is Blogcatalog, and both offer feeds of the tags

With some caching that could add some useful content to tag pages, and both sites provide backlinks.

Now is not a good time to jump onboard atgging – WP 2.2 will offer it by default, and that is just around the corner – I have seen some hacks to get UTW to work with the new system, but still haven't tested it. I am hoping for an official solution from Christine.

I e-mailed Andy but I am sure he is going to monitor this. Great questions James, I am looking froward myself to Andy's answers. Thanks.

A question for Andy (which I'll post here out of the same respect he had for you in not reposting your interview on his site). I'll bet Andy will be monitoring…

Andy you state that “A smart site would use links to an internal tagspace, but most do not.” Can you comment more on what this means? Do you have some posts that talk about what this is, and how to implement it? Plus why a “smart site” does this?

I would also be interested in getting pointed in the right direction to learn more about the “balancing of internal and external links” on a page. Is it safe to assume that you are talking about all links that appear on that page at any given time? Meaning, the internal navigation links, tag cloud (internal) links if you have one, contact, disclaimer, about us, etc. And the externals being the MBL, BC, BZ, trackback/pingback/backlinks in your post content? I've not seen information about automating the balance, so any directional pointing there would be helpful to me, and others, I'd bet.

Thanks for the great interview, Vlad!