Content published in February, 2008

In this post I will discuss this video by Nancy Andrews and some stuff along the long-tail side of SEO :)

A small tip for black hat SEO who use MFA sites. There are two ways to build MFAs: the smart and less smart way. I'm for the smart way and the reasons are listed here.

strip_tags php function to strip html tags from text has some small issues which lead me to write my own replacement for it. It might come in handy to many of you good PHP coders out there.

This is an updated version so if you got it already overwrite it with this new one.

Short while back I published a tutorial on how to easily find and extract text blocks within HTML. Time has come to evolve. We need to dig deeper and get the sentences out of the text chunks.

Had greatly improved speed based on (PR) Papa Rage's comment in last performance bottleneck post but had to go further as DNS resolving functions in Windows are as slow as it gets.

See what happened, in terms of speed, after rewriting the DNS resolving functions with a twist.

For about two week I will be hiding in the Blackhat Research Lab along with some fellow Blackhat Research Scientists to figure out the new changes in the search engines. We will be running a series of tests and I will share some of the results.

Comments will be handled as usual but I won't be posting during these two weeks unless the sky falls :)

Care to contribute? Enroll!

Large scale link-spam is out. Surgically inserted links to blackhat sites are the future … but will be covered in a future post.

It's almost impossible to get blackhat sites even indexed in MSN in a decent timeframe. Has MSN smartened up? I would read (between the lines) this Interesting Comment from WebMaster Forums' Jeremiah and Interesting Post in their Webmaster Blog.

Sort quizz where you could give me some input ;) … if you fancy! This is not on front page so just subscribers see it.

Most of you will learn almost nothing from this post (so reading is optional :)) but you'll see the things I struggle with, on a daily basis ;) And later on I'll have a cool piece of software for you … not this one :)

Another day has passed and another problem was solved. See how I overcame a bottleneck in performance on a violent scraper C++ software.

Check out the YouTube video2 on Scientology Cult.

Scientology.org was googlebombed with the following two phrases: dangerous cult and brainwashing cult and I'm cool with that.

The tone Google had in it's blog post made me all wooshy inside. I hope this transaction goes and Microsoft gets Yahoo!. There are two future developements: they funk it as they did with their search engine and give Google the World or they put up a fight against Google … which I would love!

Microsoft's Letter to Yahoo!'s Board of Directors!

Given too many choices people will make the wrong ones. So, we should guide them (and their navigation throughout our sites) the right way - our way!