Oct - 20th
How To Add 7 Billion Pages To Your Index Overnight
Posted at 3:22 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, Google, psychoblogging, scams, SEO, Social Media
A couple of days ago I posted my assertion that Rand Fishkin had lied about the details of the new Linkscape tool on SEOmoz. During the discussion that followed, Rand continued to maintain that they owned the bots that collected the data that powered the tool, despite several points on that being very unclear, and [...]
Oct - 17th
How To Block The Bots SEOmoz *Isn’t* Telling You About
Posted at 2:05 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, nerdiness, On The Ball-ness, psychoblogging, scams, SEO, Social Media
Ok, so, looks like Rand and gang finally decided to reveal their top-secret recipe about how they gathered all that information on everybody’s websites without anyone noticing what they were doing. There was quite a bit of hoopla over the fact that when they announced their new index of 30 billion web pages (and the [...]
Sep - 22nd
Quick Anatomy Of A Minor Google Bug
Posted at 7:49 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, Google
Ok, I know most of the people who read my blog won’t really care about this one, but since it’s much easier for me to explain it with screenshots, and just a tad too long for Twitter, I figured I would go ahead and just blog it. John Mueller, this is in reference to the [...]
Sep - 15th
Google Fundamentally Changes The Way They Handle 302 Redirects (Welcome Back 302 Hijack!)
Posted at 8:00 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness, SEO, web design
For years now, on an on-again/off-again basis, Google has had issues with the way that they treat 302 Temporary Redirects. Going back at least as far as 2004, you can find discussions about websites getting hijacked in the serps, all due to problems arising from the way that 302′s were treated. The issue was that [...]
Jul - 15th
Why The Google Keyword Tool Is Useless For SEO, Even With Exact Numbers
Posted at 8:36 am | Filed Under coding, Google, lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness, SEO
Recently there was a bit of a hubbub surrounding Google’s Keyword Tool External (the keyword suggestion portion of AdWords that was made public a couple of years back). It started when a few people, like Barry Schwartz from SERoundtable, noticed that the tool was showing specific numbers for search terms instead of just green bars. [...]
Jun - 24th
How To Completely Clean Your Hacked WordPress Installation
Posted at 10:11 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, how-to, On The Ball-ness, SEO, web design
Getting hacked sucks, plain and simple. It can affect your rankings, cause your readership to be exposed to virus and trojan attacks, make you an unwilling promoter to subject material you may not actually endorse, and in many cases cause the loss of valuable content. However, once it happens it is usually best to not [...]
Jun - 18th
EasyWP WordPress Installer – Cause There Ain’t No Such Thing As “Too Easy”
Posted at 8:30 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, how-to, nerdiness, Social Media
Let’s face it… generally speaking, installing WordPress is not exactly an arduous task. It’s designed to be relatively easy, allowing pretty much anyone to set up a blog of their own, regardless of their technical expertise. For the most part, WordPress succeeds at this. However,
Jun - 5th
AdSense Customer Service On New Feeds Question: Look It Up Yourself!
Posted at 12:26 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, coding
Recently Feedburner announced that they were integrating AdSense into the feeds. Great idea, but one thing they did not cover, nor could I find when searching AdSense help, was whether or not this would conflict with AdSense TOS if someone happened to be running another contextual advertising program on their site, and the feed happened [...]
Jun - 1st
Free Google Third-Party Ad Providers Widget
Posted at 8:10 pm | Filed Under coding, Google, Social Media, web design
On February 26, 2008 Google updated it’s AdSense program’s terms to include the following language:
May - 27th
If Googleplex Employees Don’t Understand The Webmaster Guidelines, How Can They Expect Webmasters To Adhere To Them?
Posted at 8:43 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, SEO, web design
Last month, in one of my posts, I had decided to include a few images to see how well they might rank for their keyphrases. I had never targeted any of the image searches, and due to one of the topics of the post it seemed like a good opportunity to do so. When I [...]
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