Are there alternatives to Hittail?
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Hi! I just discovered the joy of Hittail (it can help you climb up the ranks of Google; you can actually own a search word!) …however the joy died as I realized that it’s not applicable to a WordPress free blog. Do you have alternative sources to a program like this? Please please help. Thanks!
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You’ve got to be kidding, right?
Access to pay-for-post, pay-for-click, click tracking, buying key words, spyware toolbars programs that pay you to surf, seo blogs etc. are never ever going to be provided here.
IMO, if this is the direction you are leaning towards, then you’d be best off to hire a web host and get him or her to download a free blog from http://wordpress.org -
While the way TT put that is a bit much, I gotta agree. Staff has stated that SEO tricks and methods are one of the quickest ways to get banned from here as it goes against the reasoning behind these sites.
Suggestion – Blogger. They love spam sites. :)
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{she nods} Yahoo geo-cities has a lot of spammers too but blog-spot is by far the front-runner
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Hi. As the others have pointed out, alternatives to HitTail wouldn’t work here either. We would love to support the free hosted version of Word Press, but have the same problem as every other package–namely, Word Press doesn’t allow the insertion of third-party JavaScript. If you would like to see it supported, send Word Press a request to make a special exception for the HitTail code. We would love to see that happen. Word Press and HitTail are a natural match. — Mike Levin of HitTail
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In what way? Sorry but from what I’ve read this looks almost perfectly antithecal to the WordPress.com ethic. Search engine gaming is not something that is held in high esteem around these parts, not even by hit whores like me.
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Link from the FAQ:
Adsense, Yahoo, Chitika and other ads are not permitted to be added by users. Adverts that may be inserted when using an external blogging program will be blocked.
PayPerPost is not permitted.
Multiple affiliate links are also not permitted. One discreet text link per blog is okay. Any more than that, send a feedback for clarification. Clicktrackers and any promotion of the “I made a million on the internet and so can you” type of advertising are expressly forbidden.
We have a very low tolerance for blogs created purely for search engine optimization or commercial purposes, machine-generated blogs, and will continue to nuke them, so if that’s what you’re interested in WordPress.com is not for you.
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TT, you may have wanted to cite where you got that from. Sounds like it’s your own opinion and not copied out of the FAQ.
I’ll go ahead and do it for you.
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All right, got it! Thanks guys. I was just looking up Hittail upon my professor’s recommendation.
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@kidswereus
You’re welcome. :)
I hope you clearly understand that you can download a blog from http://wordpress.org and have hit-tail, etc. but you cannot have it here at wordpress.comP.S. Thanks drmike for adding in the SAQs link. I did intend to place it there but I obviously forgot.
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I think TimeThief misunderstands HitTail, and your professor has a good understanding. It is a tool that turns your entire blog into a suggestion-box for writing topics. Yes, it’s associated with SEO, but it’s even more tied to total quality management (TQM) in the spirit of quality business guru Edwards Demming. Google him to get an idea of his business philosophies, and why HitTail represents a fundamential shift in Web publishing.
I think what WordPress is trying to avoid is cross-site-scripting (XSS) attacks of the sort that hit MySpace with their no-JavaScript policy. I don’t think the intent is to prevent the use of valuable tools. In fact, I suspect it is only a matter of time before WordPress and HitTail form a partnership to have available as a built-in option.
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Mike, have you approached staff about your product? A number of the features we’ve had add in here have either come from interaction of outside organizations. While you’re right about the XSS issue with user input, staff has made available tools built into the code in the past.
I’m tempted to reply to your description of your product but I took a look at your website and some of the associated websites that you link to and I gotta admit that I’m leaning towards it being a SEO/PR tool and those are frowned upon around here. I’m not staff though so I don’t get a vote.
Regards,
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We haven’t approached the WordPress staff yet, mostly because we’ve been getting our ducks in a row. But yes, we’d like them to start considering such a partnership. Part of our role in the partnership would be to play-down the SEO connection and emphasize it as a writing suggestion tool. It is completely invisible on the sites where it runs, and not an ad network or affiliate program as stated. Rather, it just shows you your website visits in real-time, and distills out of that info what your website visitors are trying to tell you. I really plan on educating the world about how this came from the same business practices that made Japan recover as an economic force after WWII rather than what folks think of today as SEO, which is a cat-and-mouse game that’s not really worth playing.
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Friends, I have 2 emails into Matt through the forms–one from his photo site, and one through the parent company to WordPress. Any suggestions about who from the staff to contact? You can reply here, or email me at mlevin at connors dot com. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Matt would be the one to contact. I’m sure you’ll hear in due course: they’re pretty proactive about such things, but they can be busy.
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I’d send a copy to support at this domain as well just to be on the safe side. I’m sure Matt has a pretty full inbox. :)
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Not always true, samureye. Sometimes you need additional facts to base your writing decisions on–feedback beyond what reader comments can provide. Readers who didn’t leave comments are also trying to tell you things based on what terms they used in their searches to find you.
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We have that information, though.
All I can glean from what you’ve posted here is that it’s an analysis algorhithm that the stats themselves get run through to distill out some pointers. Is that correct? We’re sort of doing that manually (cerebrally) right now.
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Yes, that’s correct. It’s a systematic process of doing something that many people do manually/cerebrally. But because an algorithm picks out the most promising subject-matter, there is a high likelihood that you can build whatever potential traffic is lurking there most quickly. With the right habits, the idea is to generate the snowball effect with natural search traffic.
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