An intriguing story about time anomalies, paranormal shit and scheduled posts on Wordpress.com that bend the laws of quantum physics.
Wordpress did a Microsoft-ish security move that gets me thinking about those who run security there. Funky!
Been so busy these past weeks didn't notice the CSV thingy present in Google Trends. So my old Google Trends script can now be taken to the next level and it has been taken by Bogdan's nTrendsMaster over at ProfitHunter.ru.
The websites and resources that shocked and resurrected my latent Javascript skills. It's a quite good collection after about two weeks of study but the results of studying these sites were amazing.
I can see clearly now the rain is gone used to say a song. I'd say the fog is gone for me and the Javascript picture is getting sharper by the day.
Last but not least, don't flame me, teach me Javascript!
Had to deal with Firefox more than I wanted to in the past weeks while developing some sites and an eCommerce engine. So I started to search for plugins to make my experience a bit more pleasant.
PS: I got a few more days of hard work and next week I should come with some new cool posts. I kind of neglected this blog lately but… c'est la vie (toujours a bitch)!
14.05.2008 I updated this class adding a new post function metaWeblog compatible provided by Maximus Marius from seo 4you. I added a few tweaks to it, tested it and it works. You can now enjoy tags support. I also added another fix mentioned by netizen.
I just finished coding a implementation for 95% of the XMLRPC functions in Wordpress. It can successfully post, delete, edit, manage categories and so on! It's Wordpress on remote control.
Someone asked me how to use the infamous eHttpClient to count the Google search results and this is my reply and a little kiss script.
PS: I added GZip compression to eHttpClient and I'll post it these days. Cheers!
This is a short rant about a sales letter page I bumped into while searching for some affiliate programs. Pay attention to the BS this guy has on his page.
My question to you is: Do people fall for such crap?
Update: This is an older post that has a lot to do with the previous about cloaking. I've written it when I had less then 50 readers:) Now it's a good time to resurrect it. Read it and apply it if you're into the nasty stuff.
The meta description is very important for a website in both white hat and black hat use. But its importance is only understood when one employs cloaking and it's the last (only) line of defense against curious looks.
Everybody talks cloaking! It's time for me to somehow cover this subject. It's a chaotic, long post but you might get a few points on search engine cloaking from it.
UPDATE: Take a few minutes and read this paper. It somehow reinforces what I said here about interlinking and such practices. It's a good read:)
First steps to a footprint free existence.
Not much to write here except to point you to the original post about the text zones extraction, a post that was quite popular back in the days.
It's time to back it up with code … 5ubliminal style:)
Update: When I pasted this script I had some problems with the slashes that got lost on the way. I did not notice it and most who use it fixed them but I changed the script now to a functional version.
This function should not be abused but it does have some legitimate uses. Google.com would not consider them legitimate but there are …
So use this to get the Google search engine results (SERPs) in your PHP script easily but at your own risk. And use common sense and do not hammer servers!
This is how I picture Yahoo! and Microsoft right now.
Bug Fix: Fixed a small bug that did not remove shuffles properly. Now it works and they're gone.
New Free SEO Software Tool for the taking. Microsoft AD Intelligence friendly. Claim your copy 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.
Follow the Black Dots dear Blog-Farmer and see how deep the Rabbit Hole goes!
This is a Short Guide on How Not To Setup Your Link Farm (aka blog farm) and will soon be followed by a How To Do It guide!
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!
This is a resurected post that has passed unnoticed when I posted it first due to low readership. Now there's more who can benefit from it.
X-Robots-Tag new HTTP Header that Google now understands and obeys has some further implications that pass unnoticed at first glance. At first sight it will allow indexing rules for non HTML files and so on but … was this a mini-hit on the link exchange industry? Learn to harness its power!
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.
Normalizing special characters from languages like: Spanish and French to their ASCII equivalents is not a really easy task in PHP. My goal is to turn all characters that resemble a t (Ţ) to a t and all those that resemble a c (Ç) to a c and all those that resemble an o (Ŏ) to an o and so on … you get the idea.
And the provided code will do just this!
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.
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!
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!
I've lived to be called a blackhat expert, I've been charged for it … but I didn't pay!
First part of the blackhatvolution series where we will discuss on-site and off-site blackhat methods that work and will keep working as most are now obsolete or have extremely diminished income potential.
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.
Finally had the time to read the November update of Aaron's SEOBook and I highly recomment it. I'll share here some of my experiences with it.
How can you find out? and Why you need to know it? Importance of knowing a blog's homepage url.
Why would you care? Keep reading…
Pages on your websites have elements that do make a difference and some that don't and could be labeled as extra fat. Ajax can remove all the extra fat from your websites easily and also help you with your on-site SEO efforts.
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.
The basics of web-scraping plus some practical advice on how to do it right and get what you have been aiming for.
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.
I have a list of English words containing the following forms:
And you can have it too by downloading it from the site ;)
A New Years' gift from me to you: a quite complete list of US Cities.
Download it here! It's CSV format with first line containig column names. Easy to use. N-Joy!
I've overcome a milestone in readership and I wanted to make a few comments about this. Thanks!
A simple function to variate text based on given patterns that can serve a lot of purposes.
Very short linkspam code of ethics. Might be worth paying attention to.
Use the Peekaboo method to flash your black-hat sites to the search engines and get them indexed faster! A method that requires coding finesse and returns rather good results.
My perspective on online-money-making GURUs that promise you everything and charge you for their promises.
A quite simple way to get some targeted traffic and potential prospects for your products.
Google Suggests can give us up to 10 related keywords suggestion which we can easily use ourselves in PHP scripts.
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.
Easy to use PHP code to access Google Trends data automagically from your own PHP scripts for an idea on keyword search volume.
I will teach you how to negotiate and squire any TLD you might need.
What else is there to say when we look at this image?
I figured out the real reason for this pandemic of widgets.
Next time you get slapped for an unsked gesture of appreciation know why it happened. You had it coming!
Like any developer that needs to debug software the major browsers have now provided this option for a visual debugging of pages in terms of CSS, HTML and HTTP requests. Find web-design flaws easily with the tools provided.
Some lamers get major rankings on 'buy viagra' on Google and Google seems 'impotent' about this. This problem with hidden links has been with us for a while but Google seems unable to figure it out!
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.
There comes a time in every webmasters life when a friend / acquaintance will pop the question about a site of his: What's the amount of traffic you get?
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.
I'll explain you my favourite content generation methods and how to take advantage best of each of them. This is dirty and not meant for the Average Snow White Hat SEO!
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.
You are at least as good as any SEO GURU but there is still a sad difference.
No more un-asked help anymore from me! All the help from now on will consist of my mumblings on this site.
Yahoo! Search API InLinks results seems to have caught the flu and is locked on the first 50 results regardless of parameters you serve. But there is a workaround for this problem!
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!
I needed this to play with some Whois queries and, as I did not find any code online to do it, here it is. Might come in handy to some C++ coders who need to convert URLs or host names to domain names.
This page will point you to the article content scraping scripts I published. Bookmark it as any article educational scraping script will be linked here.
Free articles for the taking should be easy to access and retrieve. I made this script especially to demonstrate you how to use PHP and cUrl in order to get the content you need from ArticleInsert.com.
Mastering Google's Advanced Search Operators is mandatory for any serious SEO practitioner. So, to spot real search engine competition, you need to know how to use them wisely.
Many get discouraged because of the numbers but people do not know that usually less then 1% of pages that match a normal search are optimized for the search.
That's not real competition. Read on and learn how to spot real competition!
Problogger launched a comment bait contest for people to comment and reply to this question. Feedback is enormous and I want to say what I would do but not there. Here, on my site!
I did an experiment and removed the reader count from the page. I got 6 new subscriptions overnight. It's not important if they stay... the increase is dramatic for me:)
Like my subscriber count? 
I just had a revelation today. After I was shocked by something I've seen one day ago I came to see the bigger picture and reached some conclusions about things that held me back before.
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?
A tool I found over 2 years ago that I don't seem to find anymore. It'll give you an idea about pages rank distribution across your pages.
Don't you want pingback ability in your custom built blog? Here's the script. Integrate and enjoy pingback. It was a tough nut to crack but I nailed it. N-Joy!
A week ago I posted an article about Digg and my opinion on it. It was only meant to express my thoughts and diggsapointment towards this service and how diggusted I got using it. The article was refered to as The Digg Backrub Effect. I will now tell you what happened to my site and what a Digg actually is.
Would you consider a street address written in lower case different then one written in upper case? It appears Google, as specs teach it to, considers URLs where only letter case differs as different. This is correct according to specs but should there not be any common sense involved? What length is Google willing to go to artificially inflate their index.
The SEObook which I have just purchased is really good and worth the $80. It cover many subjects, points to excellent resources and has over 300 pages very well written. Read more …
If you feel like 'seeing' a ninja movie on the internet ration check this one out feature John Chow. N-Joy!
A dirty trick to add more value to your Link Exchanges.
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 finally did it. No game or software managed to go over 10% in CPU usage on my gaming beast. So I wrote the software that managed to do it!
I would say no but everyone's entitled to an opinion. Do consider the link juice that they received from many homepages. Not bad?
Where there's hype there's not me! I don't like to flock and I, with my dirty mind, can see / imagine more than meets the untrained eye. Why would such a service be made free by one of the guru internet marketers: John Reese?
This is important if you do no have a steady hand! It happened to clikc my own ads by mistake and I hate messing stats with all my impressions. So I kindly asked AdSense to ingore me!
How I see the best site structure based on the site's actual porpouse.
Which one is your site? I hope not the weeping one! ;)
Google Condones Link Spamming (CounterMeasures Would be so Easy!). Read about some spamming known methods and see how common sense would be the only new feature require to fight them!
See how the link exchange pages should be structured in order to provide the greatest amount of link juice and ranking points to the linked pages.
What is Link Juice, what is Page Rank and what is Site Rank? By reading this you will learn to trasure any drop of link juice you get.
Link PIMPs have been marked for retirement. Link brokers all around the web experienced dramatic rank loss and along with this business loss.
This entire weekend I worked to port all my PHP functions, like getting keywords from my WordTracker account or parsing search engine results and indexing pages and a lot of black hat tricks I have, to work in C++. It's a great day!
What exactly is nofollow, where it came from and what it does? Why is it good and why is it so bad? Read my insight on this disturbing SEO matter!
Apparently Yahoo has taken the keyword selector tool down. No query works anymore and no error appears. Data is just not found! I assume this is permanent.
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
Do you need to fake your user agent and verify / visit other sites? Is it important for you to see how sites are seen by Googlebot and so on? Do you need to pretend you are a different browser? Learn to easily change your HTTP User-Agent!
This function should not be abused but it does have some legitimate uses. MSN (Live Search) would not consider them legitimate but there are …
Still I incline to consider the rules with MSN are more permisive as they are offering search results through RSS fee
