Feb - 21st
Email To The FSF About WordPress’s GPL License Violations
Posted at 3:29 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, lackofmeds, web design, Wordpress
So, after it became obvious that the WordPress developers responding to having the GPL violations pointed out to them were unwilling to admit that they needed to abide to the license, I decided that it was best to email the FSF themselves and ask about the violation issues. The email I sent is below: Be [...]
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 [...]
Apr - 16th
Google Decides To Slow Down Search Results And Cloak Their New Tracking URLS
Posted at 12:09 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, SEO, 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 blogthropology, coding, Google, lackofmeds, SEO, 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 coding, Google, nerdiness, SEO, 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 blogthropology, coding, psychoblogging, web design, Wordpress
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 upgrades, [...]
Jan - 12th
How To Find The Best Free Image/Photo/Graphics Downloads For Your Blog Posts
Posted at 8:39 am | Filed Under apprentice, blogthropology, coding, Google, how-to, SEO, 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 full [...]
Oct - 21st
How To Remove Your Website From Linkscape *Without* An SEOmoz Meta Tag
Posted at 3:55 am | Filed Under blogthropology, lackofmeds, nerdiness, On The Ball-ness, psychoblogging, scams, SEO, Social Media, 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 lack [...]
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 [...]
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
Update 11/14/2012 – Please note: if you are currently hosting with either HostPapa or Netregistry and you are here because you were hacked then the following tutorial may not be sufficient. Please see this post for more details: Hosting with HostPapa or Netregistry and Hacked? Switch Hosts Now. (hacked by hacker) Getting hacked sucks, plain [...]
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