Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Black Hat SEO
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Excerpt: Since BigDaddy, many have been screaming about the decreasing quality of Google's index. Now let's get a few things straight. Some SEOs (ahem, spammers) may be the last demographic that you want to ask about index quality; but even the whitest of white hats are noticing. On ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in Black Hat SEO, Security
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Excerpt: Note: the code for the auditing script is located here.
As a programmer, I cannot stress it enough. What is it? Escaping all data processed by your web application's code! It's a common security issue, but most people are only accustomed to it, these days, in the context of SQL. Every program ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in Black Hat SEO
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Excerpt: What really stops anyone from using a CSS-based layout, throwing up some spammy content, then using CSS with all sorts of positioning to hide it? Spiders can read CSS now, and you'll get busted, right? Perhaps.
But what if one were to place the CSS in a file and exclude that file via robots.txt ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in Black Hat SEO
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Excerpt: I was reading SEO Black Hat during my lunch break, and it pointed me to RSnake's article on using GreaseMonkey to sniff out XSS attack vulnerabilities. Since I'm a white hat SEO, I'll pretend I'm only interested in this stuff to the extent of attack prevention, so I added a few ...
