Archive for the ‘SEO’ Category

Wordpress Whos Online Plugin

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

Sometime ago I had posted about a Wordpress plugin that enables you to see how many users you have on your blog. Well good news, I have now released an updated version with all new features. Not only this but the plugin now has a new home. (more…)

Need Help Developing Your Sites?

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

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Unfortunately I have had no choice but to scrap the idea. Only 2 people have expressed any interest in this idea. This was very disappointing to be honest.

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Hey all.

As many of you know I am a team leader over at Namepros. Well recently Namepros has updated to the latest version of vBulletin.

As part of this upgrade are social groups. Most people decided to spam these and create silly groups (like all new features people like to play with them). Well the groups got me thinking.

Like many people I am good at 1 certain aspect of developing sites (PHP) but am not so good at design for example. This is usually the problem people have. Well I came up with an idea! (more…)

Wordpress wordspew vulnerable

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Came home from work today and have started getting a lot of alerts regarding nefarious URL’s being requested on this very blog.

Luckily enough I have SEO egghead’s Firewall Plugin (more…)

Google Screwed up

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Have just been going about my normal business and decided to do a few Google searches while investigating something. Guess what, Google have screwed up.

Whenever you do a search on Google now every single result has a warning (more…)

“High Performance Web Sites” A Review

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Title High Performance Web Sites
Author Steve Sounders
ISBN-10 0-596-52930-9 (ISBN-13 978-0-596-52930-7)
Pages 146 (including index)

High Performance Web Sites by Steve Saunders is an attempt at teaching people how to best go about optimizing their web sites. No I do not mean optimizing for search engines, I mean optimizing for the best user experience (and believe me it is a relief to have a book aimed at giving the user a better experience rather than the search engines). (more…)

Wikia Released But Obvious Problems.

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Finally a couple of days ago Wikia was released. We have been hearing publicity for this search engine for some time.

Wikia is of course only in beta mode at the moment but I already have a couple of problems with it. (more…)

Google Sitemaps And Subdomains.

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Some time ago I used to run a forum host which allowed people to have their forum hosted on a subdomain.

This of course caused problems with regards to sitemaps as the sitemap had to be placed within the domain/subdomain that it was being used under. And Google treated subdomains as if they were different domain names.

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Google Misleading Adword Customers?

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Recently I was playing around in Google Webmaster Tools and found that I was ranking first for a particular term. I decided to see how popular this term is so signed into my Google Adwords account and found something a little surprising. (more…)

Matt Cutts Promoting Security By Obscurity?

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

Matt Cutts has recently posted an article about Fuzz Testing.

For those of you that are unaware fuzz testing is the art of testing a piece of software by giving it random input. The reason this can be effective is that it can trigger unforeseen bugs within an application. In fact Matt gives an example of tests carried out on UNIX software which found that a substantial percentage of softwares were vulnerable and the fuzz testing caused the application to crash. (more…)

Wordpress Vulnerable (2.3.1 and below)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

It has been reported that the latest version of Wordpress is still vulnerable to abuse.

Jaimie Sirovich over at SEO Egg Head today reported that on returning from holiday he found that his blog had been hit by what he calls a HTML tainting attack. (more…)