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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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Tue
1
Aug '06

Reminder: Free Site Clinic

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Excerpt: This is just a friendly reminder that once a month I'll be dissecting the architecture of 1-2 sites that readers submit and doing a formal report.  It's free as long as you don't mind me posting the report.  I'll be picking the site at the end of this week.  Click here ...
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Tue
1
Aug '06

Cloaking is Not Evil: Part III

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Excerpt: Matt Cutts reaffirmed his distaste for cloaking in his most recent videos over here.  However, I still fail to see a problem with cloaking used ethically, and every time I think of an ethical use I post it on this blog.Chris Boggs posts here that he implemented load-balancing for a web site via ...
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Mon
31
Jul '06

SEO-Related Apache Exploit

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Excerpt: Most deployed versions of Apache are potentially exploitable, as mod_rewrite has been found to be vulnerable to a stack smashing attack.  It is somewhat muted by the fact that only certain rules cause the problem.  The vulnerability is caused by an off-by-one error -- the mo ...
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Sun
30
Jul '06

Free SEO Site Clinic - Get Your Site Reviewed!

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Excerpt: Once a month, starting this coming month, I will be doing a free SEO site clinic.  Here's how it will work: Leave a comment with your site's URL and specific concerns you may have.After a week, I will pick 1-2 sites in the list and do a public post on what my recommendations are fo ...
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Fri
28
Jul '06

A Little Grammar Lesson

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Excerpt: A major copywriting concern becomes manifest when one realizes that many popular queries happen to be English, but they are just plain awkward constructions.For example, when a user is looking for a "Vioxx attorney," one must consider whether this phrase is actually English. The answer is ...
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Fri
28
Jul '06

RSS Made Even Simpler

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Excerpt: Syndication isn't only for blogs; it can be used for any type of site with any sort of infomation. Blogs typically already include robust feed support (including both RSS & Atom), but what about if you want to create a feed for a site that isn't a blog? Easy -- use the below class to d ...
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