Nov - 22nd
Microsoft Starts Covering Their Ass On Rogue Bot Intrusions
Posted at 12:08 pm | Filed Under MSN, On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, scams
A quick update to the Microsoft Rogue Bot Fiasco. It looks like now they have correctly DNS’d the IP range that they are sending these bogus requests from. Previously, all of the IP’s (which I first mentioned were all coming from the 65.55.165.* block) reverse DNS’d to names such as bl2sch1081901.phx.gbl. They have apparently changed [...]
Nov - 21st
Rand Fishkin Chooses Between Putting Up and Shutting Up – Guess Which He Chose?
Posted at 6:52 pm | Filed Under SEO, blogthropology, scams
I have blogged in the past about how annoying Rand Fishkin’s tactic of avoiding direct questions by obfuscation is. It especially irks me because in order to work it relies on taking advantage of people’s low attention spans, and in making the conversation too painful for most to bear. Often times pursuing winning an argument [...]
Nov - 13th
Microsoft Needs To Quit Fucking With My AdSense Scripts
Posted at 3:13 pm | Filed Under MSN, On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, scams
A few months back I discovered that I was being hit with massive amounts of referrer spam. It was a little odd, because the phrases weren’t made to look like I had links coming from some sleazy little viagra or porn site… no, these were made to look like I was ranking for all kinds [...]
Nov - 6th
Vocabulary Building… Let’s Define: Disconcerting
Posted at 7:25 pm | Filed Under SEO, anti-smackdown, blogthropology
Wiktionary defines “disconcerting” as: tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting.
There. Don’t you feel smarter already?
Now, on a COMPLETELY UNRELATED NOTE…
