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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Oct - 21st
How To Remove Your Website From Linkscape *Without* An SEOmoz Meta Tag
Posted at 3:55 am | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, SEO, Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds, nerdiness, psychoblogging, scams, web design
Over the past couple of weeks, one of the biggest concerns about SEOmoz’s new Linkscape tool (which I recently blogged about in reference to the bots that Rand refuses to identify, and then again due to suspicious additions of a phantom 7 billion pages to one of his index sources) has been the complete [...]
Sep - 15th
Google Fundamentally Changes The Way They Handle 302 Redirects (Welcome Back 302 Hijack!)
Posted at 8:00 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, 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 [...]
Jun - 24th
How To Completely Clean Your Hacked WordPress Installation
Posted at 10:11 am | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, coding, how-to, 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 [...]
Jun - 1st
Free Google Third-Party Ad Providers Widget
Posted at 8:10 pm | Filed Under Google, Social Media, coding, 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 Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, 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 [...]
keep looking »
