Why is Google still indexing feeds, especially URLs that do a 301 redirect?
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Why Is Google Still Indexing Feeds?
April 23, 2008 – 12:25 am
Why You Shouldn’t Trust Google
I’ve wanted to write a post about Google and privacy for a long time. I’m writing this post now mainly because I’ve seen discussion among non-profit organizations about whether they should use Google Apps for Nonprofits or other Google services.
This post is primarily written in response to non-profits who are thinking about using Google Apps, but the material is relevant to anyone who uses Google’s services, including universities, businesses and individuals.
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April 17, 2008 – 2:53 am
Glaring Omission from Google’s Cloaking Examples
I was reading through Google’s Webmaster Guidelines for the section that said, “do not cloak your site by giving search engines text content but giving users a login screen.” I wanted to give someone a definitive answer on why they could not cloak their content by presenting a login screen to human visitors. But it doesn’t say anything about that on the cloaking guidelines.
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April 8, 2008 – 5:28 am
WordPress Comment Spam Warning
The /wp-content/1/ WordPress attack is being followed up by a comment spam campaign.
The spammer is sending out casino & poker comment spam that links to the hacked pages that are found in /wp-content/1/ — it looks like this:
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April 1, 2008 – 10:33 pm
How Long Does It Take For a Google Reinclusion Request?
As mentioned on the 20th, PocketSEO.com was hacked and penalized by Google. I submitted a reinclusion request the same day that I discovered the problem.
Today is the first day that the site is coming back in Google’s rankings (8 days). I don’t think that Google has followed up on the reinclusion request. I think that Google has just finally re-spidered the hacked pages that were covered with porn before, but are now clean.
A few days ago, doing a Google search for pocketseo wouldn’t bring up this site at all. Now pocketseo.com is back at #1:
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March 29, 2008 – 12:49 am
Japanese Blogging is #1 (37% Japanese; 36% English)
Interesting fact about Japanese being the #1 language for blogging:
There are more blog posts in Japanese than any other language, according to Technorati Inc., which tracks nearly 113 million blogs globally. Last year, Technorati found 37 percent of all postings were in Japanese — about 1.5 million per day. Postings in English — from Americans, Britons, Australians and people in many other countries — accounted for 36 percent of the total.
March 27, 2008 – 2:12 am
Is Rook Analytics Metapredict?
RookAnalytics.com was mentioned in a comment on my Metapredict post (essential reading for anyone who has ever bought a domain name). Basically, they are a company that swipes peoples’ domain names right after they are searched for. They also do business as Ultrarpm.
Here is what the home page of RookAnalytics.com says:
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March 24, 2008 – 2:38 am
The Final Cure for WordPress Link Injection
Here is an idea for a WordPress hack defense that I think would put an end to WordPress link injection hacking. I don’t have time to write this script, but maybe someone else will.
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March 23, 2008 – 11:04 am
Robots.txt - Watching the Minor Details
I noticed that Google was indexing one of my blog’s feeds that I thought I had blocked with robots.txt:
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March 22, 2008 – 1:04 pm
WordPress, Google Groups, Porn Spam and Malware Distribution
I was cleaning out spam comments today, thinking about how this site got hacked a few days ago. Most of the spam comments that bypass Akismet on this site link to pages full of spam on Google Groups. Google Groups is getting to be worse than MySpace in that respect.
Here is how the spam works:
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March 22, 2008 – 10:12 am
