Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO
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Excerpt: Hacking up old web sites sucks. Many were built without regard for search engine optimization concerns. Just thinking about fixing the architectural problems sends chills down the spine of the web developer. However, a few great enhancements can be performed without disturbing site ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Google
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Excerpt: What's more annoying than knowing your site has 1000s of supplemental search results?Not being able to conveniently view them to see what's wrong ... The Google hack mentioned here enumerates the supplemental pages of a domain, and seemed quite useful to this end. Perhaps Google ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Spam
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Excerpt: The NY Bar has a new set of rules for lawyers floating around. Apparently, they got wind of the blatant cheeseball spamming lawyers are employing to solicit clients on the internet. I'd cite examples, but they'd probably get me sued :( They responded in spades, though: 1. & ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Other
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Excerpt: This recent article cites that many universities are experiencing a sharp drop in computer science student enrollment. Many attribute it to outsourcing scares and a final acknowledgement that the dot Com bubble did indeed pop. It is no longer totally rad to be a computer scientist. ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Google
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Excerpt: I think paid links are just dandy! In every other advertising venue, reputation is purchased. Branding campaigns are ubiquitous. It does not take long to spot paper advertisements that have no real call to action; rather, they aim to increase a product or brand's "ranking& ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Black Hat SEO, Security
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Excerpt: This recent article mentions that XSS and HTML injection are quickly eclipsing the traditional stack smashing and SQL tainting attacks in popularity. But why? I posit that the reason is simple -- XSS & HTML injection vulnerabilities are frighteningly trivial to find. I will dem ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Viral / Link Bait
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Excerpt: 1. Make People Read Your Boring Crap with a Persuasive TitleA title with a persuasive call to action can make or break your Digg. Pretend you're a Digger. Would you click on your article? I don't care how interesting or boring the content is -- the title is all that matters ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Viral / Link Bait
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Excerpt: Traditional SEO is dead. Gone are the days when we can get to the top by studying keyword densities and trading links. Gone are the days when optimization involves pious devotion to the H1 tag. I'm not saying these things are, or will ever be irrelevant, and I'm certainly n ...
