Jun - 24th

How To Completely Clean Your Hacked WordPress Installation

Posted at 10:11 am | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, coding, 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 [...]

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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:

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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 [...]

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May - 23rd

Googlebot Creates Pages Instead of Simply Indexing Them: New FORM Crawling Algo Goes Bad

Posted at 8:03 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, blogthropology, coding, web design

Last month Google revealed a new crawling method that they were testing out, whereby they were filling out forms on sites that they came across, in order to help facilitate the discovery of new pages. Matt Cutts discussed it here last month. I had noticed the phenomena

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May - 20th

With Only 14 Accident Free Days At Google, Should Google Health Come With A Warning?

Posted at 4:12 pm | Filed Under Google, On The Ball-ness, Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds, web design

Often times in factories around the country, looking up on the wall you can see a chalkboard or a sign boasting of how many consecutive “accident free” days those on the job have enjoyed. These are placed there as a form of encouragement for workers to be careful, to encourage healthy competition between departments, and [...]

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Apr - 25th

Introducing: PuzzCAPTCHA Advanced Comment Form Protection, LinkMyPics - The Hotlink Advantage Maximizer… Oh, and Evan Rachel Wood, Topless [NFSW]

Posted at 3:42 pm | Filed Under Google, SEO, Social Media, blogthropology, coding, web design

No, my blog wasn’t hacked by porno webmasters, and no, I’m not converting Smackdown to an adult website (although, to be honest, kids or sensitive people should always approach my blog with caution). I wanted to test some of the various image search algos, and as it just so happens the search [Evan Rachel [...]

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Apr - 8th

Network Solutions: Not Just Thieves and Hijackers, Now Using Tactics That Can Get Your Site Banned From Google

Posted at 11:03 pm | Filed Under Google, SEO, lackofmeds, scams, web design

Network Solutions apparently wasn’t happy just being slimy in the domain purchasing arena (see: WARNING: Do not check domains at Network Solutions by John Honeck for background on that one), and have now moved into the realm of not caring if they damage your existing sites as well.
According to TechCrunch, NetSol is now engaging [...]

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Apr - 4th

Advanced Web Usability: 5 Important Lessons Learned From Digg

Posted at 7:18 am | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, Social Media, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, web design

In the early days of the Internet, one of the biggest attractions was the fact that absolutely anybody was able to sign up for a free email account, and with it get their very own webpage. No design experience whatsoever was required for this… and it showed. Gaudy was vogue, and if you doubt me [...]

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Oct - 25th

Single Source Page Link Test Using Multiple Links With Varying Anchor Text - Part Two

Posted at 12:37 am | Filed Under SEO, blogthropology, coding, nerdiness, web design

Back on October 9th, I blogged about a test I performed that demonstrated only the first link on a given page will count as far as ranking purposes go. In the thread where the test originated, pops (of TOONRefugee cartoon blog) asked what would happen if the first link were nofollowed. Since I had no [...]

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Oct - 9th

You May Be Screwing Yourself With Hyperlinked Headers

Posted at 11:22 am | Filed Under Google, SEO, coding, web design

If you are like me, then you probably link your header images to your homepage. It is natural behavior these days to click on the header of a page and expect to be taken back to the beginning. However, a recent experiment I conducted over on SEO Refugee, and a comment by Wit, has me [...]

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