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Tue
8
Aug '06

Virtual Hosting is a Liability

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Excerpt: I was playing around with the What is Hosted on that IP? tool I just published, and some of what I found is a bit scary.  I see cases where there are a few relatively legitimate sites nestled on the same IP with hundreds of spammy sites.  Needless to say, this is a liability.Suppose I am a ...
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Mon
7
Aug '06

"Preferred Domain" Feature Added to Sitemaps

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Excerpt: Google just added a curious new feature to Sitemaps, now renamed "Webmaster Central."  It allows the webmaster to specify whether he or she prefers a site be indexed as www.example.com or example.com.  It is documented here.  This is curious for a few reasons:1. BigDaddy was ...
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Mon
7
Aug '06

Some New Site Tools

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Excerpt: I added some new tools to this blog.  Not all of it is the mundane "link bait" you see on most SEO web sites.  Some of it is kind of neat.  Here's what I have so far:1. View HTTP Headers - This one is pretty boring, but it's the first one I created while figuring out ...
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Mon
7
Aug '06

Matt Cutts Gems: Part III

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Excerpt: This is a summary of the videos located at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/video-reinclusion-requests/ and http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/video-tips-for-ses-san-jose-2006/ titled "Video: Reinclusion requests," and "Video: Tips for SES San Jose 2006," respectively.  The latter i ...
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Fri
4
Aug '06

Link Equity Defined (And my upcoming article)

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Excerpt: By way of Search Marketing Standard's blog post here, I came across the article titled Natural-Born Search Killers by Rob Garner.  It points out that as the web matures, web designers and programmers are increasingly faced with more redesigns and fewer designs from scratch.  Everyone k ...
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Thu
3
Aug '06

Matt Cutts Gems: Part II

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Excerpt: This is a summary of the videos located at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/another-two-videos/ titled "Another two videos," and dated August 3, 2006.  Note: As before, my opinions are in italics to indicate where I'm expressing an opinion, not citing Matt. 1) All IPs in a particular ...
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Thu
3
Aug '06

Finding Spammers' Hideouts

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Excerpt: RSnake of ha.ckers.org documents in this post how to conveniently obtain all the subdomains of a domain using a search engine.  This can help you isolate some spammers.  He later says " ... wouldn’t it be nice if we could somehow get access to all the IP address to hostname map ...
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Wed
2
Aug '06

Matt Cutts Brand(tm) Gems

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Excerpt: Matt Cutts has a blog filled with lots of good stuff, and lots of boring stuff.  Even some of the SEO stuff is mundane and basic, so I decided I'd filter it out and enumerate the gems from his new videos.  Unfortunately, though Matt's videos are super cool and employ totally cool s ...
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