Mar - 13th

Stray Leftover Hacked Wordpress Database Entry: rzf.php

Posted at 11:27 am | Filed Under Wordpress, coding, how-to

I never use my uploads directory or Wordpress’s built in media management here on Smackdown, instead preferring to upload and manually insert the html for images myself in my posts (I know, I am weird that way), but my friend Donna has when she has guest blogged here in the past. I therefore knew that [...]

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Mar - 3rd

Don’t Think “If” You Will Get Hacked, Or Even “When” – Think In Terms Of “How Often”

Posted at 11:21 am | Filed Under Wordpress, blogthropology, coding, nerdiness

The following “guest post” was a comment left on “How To Completely Clean Your Wordpress Installation” by a gentleman named Daniel J. Dick. He makes some excellent points, and due to it’s length I decided to feature the comment in it’s own post, rather than approve it in place. Enjoy.
I think Nick sums up how [...]

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May - 15th

Is Plagiarism Ok… If It Was An Accident?

Posted at 3:19 pm | Filed Under Social Media, Wordpress, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds

Last year I wrote this handy little script named EasyWP. It makes installing Wordpress much easier for those without Fantastico or shell access, and is many times faster than having to upload all of the files individually. It’s very useful, especially if you install Wordpress on a regular basis, or if you need to do [...]

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Apr - 16th

Google Decides To Slow Down Search Results And Cloak Their New Tracking URLS

Posted at 12:09 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, web design

Today over at ReadWriteWeb Sarah Perez wrote an article on how Google was gaining ground on their share of the search market. In the article she talked about the latest buzz from Google Analytics blog having to do with changes to the way Google.com handles clicks in their serps, which were a implemented as result [...]

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Mar - 13th

Google Re-initiates Testing of AJAX SERP’s With Faulty Proposed Fix

Posted at 11:14 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds

Last month I blogged about the fact that I had noticed that Google was playing around with delivering the SERP’s via AJAX. I pointed out that due to the way that referrers work, using AJAX to generate the pages would cause all traffic coming from Google to look like it was coming from Google’s homepage [...]

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Feb - 2nd

What Will *Really* Break If Google Switches To AJAX…?

Posted at 11:26 am | Filed Under Google, SEO, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, web design

On Friday I wrote a piece on how it looked like Google was testing AJAX results in the main serps. Some discussion followed as to whether, if this change were to become a widespread permanent one, this would affect Firefox plugins that existed (definitely some existing ones would stop working), break some of the rank [...]

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Jan - 30th

Google Web Search Goes Completely AJAX

Posted at 10:28 am | Filed Under Google, SEO, coding, nerdiness, web design

Yes, I know… Google has been offering AJAX driven results through the API and other services for ages, but now they have rolled that out to the main Google Search. It appears to be only on Google US (I tried manually switching to Google UK, and it redirected me from the AjAX version to a [...]

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Jan - 16th

My Blog Hacked, Yet Again – Wordpress 2.6.5 Vulnerability / Exploit?

Posted at 3:51 pm | Filed Under Wordpress, blogthropology, coding, psychoblogging, web design

Again, I’ve been hacked. Well, not me personally… I wear the most up to date tinfoil attire, I assure you, and no one is getting into my head… but my blog was. This time I was running Wordpress 2.6.5 when it happened.
Those who know me know that I always prefer to do manual [...]

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Jan - 12th

How To Find The Best Free Image/Photo/Graphics Downloads For Your Blog Posts

Posted at 8:39 am | Filed Under Google, SEO, apprentice, blogthropology, coding, how-to, tutorial, web design

Adding images to your blog posts can make them much more visually appealing to your readers. This in turn can increase the likelihood that someone will link to that post or subscribe to your feed, which will of course in the long run help to improve your rankings and traffic. The internet is chock [...]

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Nov - 18th

Google Tries Too Hard To Appear Useful, Starts Making Up New Words

Posted at 12:16 am | Filed Under Google, SEO, coding, lackofmeds, nerdiness

The Google Search feature that Google calls “Spell Checker” can be very handy at times. You know the one I mean… you type something hastily in the box, manage to inadvertently slip in a typo or two, and Google, very helpfully, asks you “Did you mean: {some other word}”. Aside from putting a dent in [...]

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