Ways to Find Out if Your Site Has Been Hacked or Hijacked

More and more sites have fallen victim to hackers recently and some important steps should be taken to (1) secure your site and (2) monitor that your site hasn't been hacked. (1) Previously I have already listed some basic tips on how to secure your site from being hacked: make sure your hosting company is safe and able to handle the situation properly; make sure your CMS (Wordpress) … [Read more...]

More and more sites have fallen victim to hackers recently and some important steps should be taken to (1) secure your site and (2) monitor that your site hasn’t been hacked. (1) Previously I have already listed some basic tips on how to secure your site from being hacked: make sure your hosting company is [...]

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July 30, 2008 | 14 Comments | Read Story

Google UK Extending Financial Services Comparison Trial : Death to UK Quotes Sites?

Comparing quotes from financial services is a big market in the UK, as sites which deliver quotes from unsecured loan, car insurance and even pet insurance providers battle for top rankings in both paid search and organic search on Google UK. For an example, search on Google UK for secured loans. Back in May, Google.co.uk [...]

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July 30, 2008 | 4 Comments | Read Story

Another Shareholder Picks on Yahoo over Failed Microsoft Deal

Adding to the list of Yahoo shareholders who are “furious” about the failed Microsoft-Yahoo deal is billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens who has to sell his Yahoo shares at a loss  because he was tired of waiting for the deal to materialize. Interestingly, Mr. Pickens bought his share last May with the hopes that he [...]

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July 29, 2008 | 2 Comments | Read Story

Checking Page HTTP Headers

To ensure that search engines understand your website structure correctly you should control each page HTTP headers. Your server should handle all requests properly – by this you will both achieve better crawl rate and higher rankings. Understanding HTTP header status codes: I don’t want to go into too much details here and describe only [...]

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July 29, 2008 | 7 Comments | Read Story

3 Ways to Give Your Keywords Prominence

While I’ve never been advocative of focusing on such an old and overused SEO technique as keyword density, keyword prominence is something you should always bear in mind. If you handle it right you will achieve: better rankings; higher crawl rate; better-looking snippets in SERPs (and thus better clickthrough), etc.

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July 29, 2008 | 13 Comments | Read Story

Yahoo’s 2nd Largest Shareholder is Furious about the Failed Microsoft Deal

Just a few days before the Yahoo Annual Shareholders’ Meeting where the fate of the current Yahoo Board is no longer at stake, here comes its second biggest investor planning on withdrawing their support for the Board. Gordon Crawford of Capital Research and Management was said to be not happy with how both Jerry Yang [...]

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July 28, 2008 | 6 Comments | Read Story

7 FireFox Extensions to Explore Page Source Code

SEOs look at the source code of almost every page – I do even when I am not analyzing the page and just browsing. That’s quite natural, I’ve been looking for tools that can represent the information in a better way or allow for more valuable options to experiment with. I personally don’t use all [...]

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July 28, 2008 | 18 Comments | Read Story

Cuil Takes on Google and 5 Simple Reasons Why it Will Fail

Here comes another challenger who wants to take on Google search and the way it indexes and organizes the web. From some ex-Googlers come, Cuil – being touted as an innovative search engine that brags of indexing 120 billion pages. That’s three times the number of pages indexed and crawled by Google folks. What else? [...]

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July 28, 2008 | 35 Comments | Read Story

Google PageRank Update : How Did July’s Update Affect your PageRank?

Google’s Matt Cutts issued the announcement that Google [Toolbar] PageRank was going through an update over the weekend, and it seems that the rollout of the update began Friday night or yesterday, with the PageRank of some sites rising in value and others dropping. Sure, Toolbar PageRank is not a valid indicator of everything that [...]

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July 27, 2008 | 43 Comments | Read Story

China Has 253 Million Users – Largest in the World

China has now 253 million internet users according to the latest report of the China Internet Network Information Centre (The CNNIC is a government agency). That’s 43 million users more than the last report released at the end of last year and it also makes it the world leader in Internet users. 253 million internet [...]

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July 27, 2008 | 3 Comments | Read Story