Jun - 11th
Was The Google Mayday Update A Complete Failure Then?
Posted at 10:52 am | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, search engines, SEO
Earlier this week at SMX Advanced Seattle, during the You&A With Matt Cutts, the topic of the latest Google update, dubbed Mayday by webmaster last month, happened to come up. According to Ryan Jones’ live blogging account of the SMX Keynote the update had nothing to do with the web spam team. It was an [...]
Jun - 1st
WordPress Hacking, Matt Mullenweg, And Some Screwed Up Priorities
Posted at 7:45 am | Filed Under bad research, blogthropology, lackofmeds, priorities, scams, Wordpress, WTF
I clean WordPress installations for people who have been hacked. I can help fix non-Wordpress sites as well, but since often times the way people find me is through the guide I wrote on how to fix WordPress after you’ve been hacked it turns out that’s what they need me to do for them a [...]
May - 31st
My Mom Needed Me To Let The Plumber In While She Was At Work (True Story)
Posted at 9:54 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, how-to, lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness
I work from my house and keep odd hours, so when a family member needs some sort of worker let into their house during the day I am often asked if I am available to do it. I don’t mind, we all live fairly close together, and it’s not that much of a hassle on [...]
May - 14th
GoDaddy’s Suggestion For The Cause Of Their Hacks And Their Community Blog – Can You Smell The Irony?
Posted at 3:52 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, customer service, lackofmeds, nerdiness, Social Media, web design, Wordpress, WTF
Yesterday I blogged about the hacking situation with GoDaddy hosting and a customer service call I had with them concerning some evidence I had found. While it is true that as this has progressed GoDaddy has widened their scope in investigating what the underlying cause of these hacks are, initially they claimed that the issue [...]
May - 13th
Hosting With GoDaddy? Might Want To Rethink That Decision.
Posted at 10:04 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, customer service, Wordpress, WTF
One of the services I offer people is cleaning their WordPress installations of hacks and infections, mostly for those who might not have the time or technical expertise to follow my hacked WordPress cleaning guide. Therefore when something happens that increases the number of people getting hacked, such as when a new exploit is discovered, [...]
Mar - 18th
Test of WordPress’s Default Slug Redirect: 301 or 302?
Posted at 10:06 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, nerdiness, SEO, Wordpress
Just a quick test to see if WordPress by defaults redirects slug changes using a 301 or 302 redirect. The original url for this post is: http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2010/03/18/test-of-wordpress-default-slug-redirect-301-or-302/ and I am going to change it to: http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2010/03/18/wordpress-redirect-302-or-302/
Mar - 13th
The Mahalo Paid Link Evidence Trail
Posted at 5:53 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, marketing, scams, SEO
Matt Cutts asked me in a Sphinn comment the following question relating the my post on paid links on Mahalo.com:
Mar - 11th
Jason Calacanis’ Backup Plan For Replacing Content: Steal It From Wikipedia
Posted at 1:11 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, scams, search engines, SEO, Social Media
/sigh Ok Jason, we get it, you’re desperate. But stealing content from Wikipedia in order to replace what you deleted? Come on! I am flipping through Mahalo.com today, just seeing if
Mar - 10th
Dear Jason Calacanis: This Isn’t An “Absurd Microscope”
Posted at 8:43 am | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, nerdiness, scams, SEO
Jason Calacanis replied to my post from yesterday. In it he discusses how he is indeed deleting many of the spammy pages that I had pointed out. Some, like the duplicate content doorway pages, he continues to defend. Either way, progress is being made. However, he still kinda kills it by tossing in at the [...]
Mar - 8th
Mahalo.com: Meet the New Spam, Worse than the Old Spam
Posted at 12:23 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, scams, SEO
Last week, after Matt Cutts gave Jason Calacanis a warning about Mahalo.com’s spammier pages (and probably a few stern looks as well), Jason changed a few items. He had them rename their spambot from “searchclick” to “stub”, thinking a less obvious name would throw off anyone looking into the spam situation. Very briefly they added [...]
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