An intriguing story about time anomalies, paranormal shit and scheduled posts on Wordpress.com that bend the laws of quantum physics.
Is referer spam traffic worth anything? Let's see with a small experiment. I'll ref spam a sample of 100.000 - 1.000.000 hosts (subdomains) depending on how fast it goes and update you with results.
I'm also interested in your actual results if you care to share them about ref spamming as traffic and not links source.
This is how I picture Yahoo! and Microsoft right now.
Books always know better then 'online experts' and common sense combined with know-how of internal functionality can answer a lot of questions to which the 'experts' fail.
Remember! A celebrity does not always get it right just because of personal fame or charm. Celebrity status can be achieved over-night (usually by doing something really wrong or stupid), getting it right and knowing stuff takes a lot of study and practice.
I'll discuss here the myths behind search engines processing JavaScript and CSS to find on-page factors' violators and why this just doesn't work! I'll also show you a historycal mistake that gave me goosebumps.
No such un-exhaustible commons! But if you drink alone it lasts longer. Share it and you won't know what hit you when it ends.
Some light food for thought about the latest AdSense TOS Changes which I bet you have overlooked just like me but, luckily, Jensen didn't!
I'll also mention: cookies, beacons and how I see this related to the latest European Union discussions about the IP address as being personal data, fact that can couse major problems for search engines that rely on IP tracking for their services.
I just bumped into a thread on WickedFire where ELI from BluetHatSEO.com claims to have setup a .htaccess redirect to the WhiteHouse.gov against a DDos attack.
I bet those who know what I'm talking about are already laughing but for those who are not … please keep reading …!
The tools PHP provides for send emails are simply hilarious and when it all comes down to more advanced stuff you gotta make your own functions.
I went one step further and provided this pretty SMTP class for use in PHP to deliver emails. It supports a lot of cool features including SMTP AUTH for servers that require login, attachments, to, cc, bcc types to destinators and MIME encoding for HTML messages.
Learn to use it and, as my explanations surely suck, test it and ask your questions.
I shall reply promptly!
Trying to fight worm spreads, Microsoft imposed a limit in tcpip.sys to a maximum of 10 half-open connections during one second. Even if this will not affect the average user it will be the difference between night and day for the black hat SEO.
Learn how it works, where to get the patch and how to apply it in this post.
In this post I will discuss this video by Nancy Andrews and some stuff along the long-tail side of SEO :)
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.
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.
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!
Choose your destiny!
A time of joy in the SEO Community. MSNbot seems to have finally figured out 301 permanent redirects (at least for my site) and I warmly congratulate the Microsoft Live Search Coders for this extraordinary accomplishment.
Old link-structure above and new link-structure below!
Jim Boykin agrees with me … indirectly.
Social Web (Blogs, Forums and Social Bookmarking Sites) are fresh content oriented and are designed to fade old content away and aggressively promote the new stuff!
Don't put too much value on volatile links. You may be disappointed or never reach your full potential!
Please help me make some sense of this: (read the post)
Crazy statement but bear with me! All the spam you get is actually conversion tips delivered straight to your email.
A story of John Reese, The Shocking Video, broke people talking about making money online and Guiding Peaks of Diamond!
The easier to use your website is … the better conversion rates you will have on targeted audience. And Steve Krug's - Don't Make Me Think explains how to achieve website usability.
Google backlink searches show almost nothing but Yahoo! tries harder but may miss some important links which could explain unexplainable high rankings.
Cookie your unwilling visitors and get credited for their purchases from your affiliate programs.
Blackhat Rule #1:
Any shared resources (commons) are eventually destroyed by over-use!
… so how can you find what nobody is showing you!
Welcome and this is the bomb. There has been major buzz lately about old, expired, dead domains and how good they are and I will give you my take on this and some advice plus THE TOOL to spot the domain corpses!
Including the first post of a series on this sensitive subject. And, as always, looking forward to your input.
Very short linkspam code of ethics. Might be worth paying attention to.
My perspective on online-money-making GURUs that promise you everything and charge you for their promises.
Found the official Whois Format Specs and this solved a lot of problems and questions for me. Things are much clearer now and my domain aging algorythm is 10 times more reliable.
Over a month ago I published a function to extract Domain From URL in C++. I ported it to PHP and this code will extract Domain Name from Host Name or URL and will Contain Domain, TLD and maybe a Country Level TLD (2nd level TLD).
There's a huge difference between the ones who handle websites and see the internet as professionals and those who just see it a s a library or market lace.
Learn to overcome this difference for greater success.
I will teach you how to negotiate and squire any TLD you might need.
I figured out the real reason for this pandemic of widgets.
Many CSS fan(atic)s start to cry when you tell them about tables. The truth is, for layouts table are here to stay if you goal is to achieve certain design patterns which are unachievable without using them.
After disecting the break-in at WebLogAwards 2007 now I will show you how they failed to protect themselves and how they can do it better. They only did client-side protection but none server-side.
I heard about the enormous scandal of the Science Blogs Cathegory at 2007 WebLog awards and I decided to take a look at their security and see if the system was vulnerable. And, Oh My God!
Google has a well-trained paid-link tracker who uses some well known features of paid links making them easy to spot. See how I would spot paid links if I were Google. But Google can do it better and faster as they have the firepower.
The conclusions I reached after using my own SEO component for several hours. I might be right or I might be wrong but who knows?
Google knows more then we imagine and more then we want it to. Any scheme, any blackhat method, and trick is known but Google reserves the right whether to punish or not the offender. And every decision it makes is pragmatic and not based on intuition but evindence.
I lived to see this. Finally a search engine figured out life's most well-kept secret. Rumours said that Live Search employed advanced algorythms in content understanding but now I have proof of this fact.
I just launched this Internet Explorer SEO Component that will help you notice the problem about today's web. Relatively new sites don't rank for anything remotely competitive!
I'm really anxious as in the next three days I will publish my first SEO tool see what you have to say. I'm not telling you what it does but it's really cool and helps a SEO quite a lot. Still got a bit of work but less then 10% so stay sharp.
Even if the user experience with Internet Explorer is not the highest with its CSS problems mostly, IE is a blessing for coders. If you learn to automate it properly you can go as far as your with and as you patience takes you.
I'm sure you'll find use for this complete list of whois servers. It features all country codes as I parsed it from IANA.org. Enjoy it.
I don't want to be your sub-affiliate, I want to be your disciple. I want you to be the teacher and teach your padawan to succeed. Don't let your student alone. Help him succeed and he will help you back!
So, give more and receive more!
I will be talking here about bloggers involved in advertising, money making, seo and sem. The rest … please do not feel offended!
First of all let's understand the meaning of bloggers are scottish. The scots are renowned for: bravery (see BraveHeart), for manly dresses (check photo) and for cheapness. And cheapness is where I wanted to get.
I'm 99% sure that Google knows more about any of us then we want it to know. I'm not talking about your address and phone number but of your most valuable assets: your sites!
There is a trend nowaday and people think they can learn everything online. They imagine a 2 page tutorial can teach them everything. Go back to books and return to tutorials for the tricks.
A new scam appeared. It tempts bloggers to play ads on their site to products from major estores. Still ... what's the revenue sharing percantage? They say 3-6$ CPM. What?
Social bookmarking has the concept but it fails exacty where it should not. Quality is not the rule of thumb, users have different Agenda.
The fake referer flood started. I had only drops untill now but today I got over 150 in a few hours. Wtf is wrong with them MSN sickos? Heard others get 1000s / day so I'm lucky.
I see a lot of plugins lately. What if I told you a bit of my history with browser extensions? Hope you'll become more security aware. There's no such thing as free stuff, you eventually pay!
I also want to recommend you a movie which, if you haven't seen, you don't exist!
Conspiracy Theory
What is the best and easiest to use spell checker freely available out there? Take a guess or read on …
Learn to use the daterange advanced search operator to see which pages Google considers more important on your site and see what's fresh in the index. By restricting searches to time spans you can converge on certain moments and see only what's the buzz.
If you pay attention long enough you can spot your strong pages and your weak pages also.
MSN bot knows no rules, has no mother and no father (by its behviour I can assume that reason for the lack of parents) and goes its own way all the way!
301, 302, Robots.txt, GZip Compression are not a part of its vocabulary but I hope he will learn them soon!
How do Google, Slurp or MSNBot actually work? Understand what's going on behind the scenes. This is just a basic explanation for you to get an idea about the amount of work behind your online searches.
I got censored and wiped off PHP.net where I placed links to my open-source scripts. I added them to the right places looking forward to some exposure to coders. And I had it for about 3 days …
The competition no longer plays fair and is willing to hit you with anything that comes in handy. Latest unorthodox methods are the proxy hijackings. How are they achieved and how to defend from them? Learn here.
What is forward and reverse DNS lookup? How can it be done?
With so many online pharmacies it has become very hard to know which to trust. Most are scams and I'll show you how to tell which are safe or not. I'll also tell you which you can trust as I have been active in this environment for quite a while and dealt with many of the scams and lost money and so on … .
Why is Google the undisputable leader search engine? Why and when did Google win The Clash of the Search Engines!
MPAA wants you to pay! And considering the legal hassle they had to go through against copyright infringers they decided to go online and push their new forgiveness online mega-store to all the unwilling 'customers'.
This ad got me to write this short piece of free advice.
I'm more then sure this software will not only verify your email addresses but they will also share them with thrid parties interested in spamming the living hell out of them!
How most of the web content is duplicated and triplicated and replicated so many times. Scrapers steal your content and post it as fresh.
Do you really think there are billions of original pages indexable out there?
It's easy to order from US online stores if you are located outside the US? Think again. It's usually impossible. But there is a forwarding company that makes buying from Amazon or Zappos child-play. And the benefits just begin here.
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