October 2007
The Archives
-
10.31.07The Seocracy.com DISS MY BLOG Contest.I promised you all a contest was coming up, and here it is! But, first, you all have to understand, this ain't just any old contest like you've seen on some other blogs. You see, this ain't about me waving free stuff in your face and telling you to kiss ass, this is about me waving free stuff in your face and telling you to KICK ASS. To win this contest, you are going to have to get nasty. I mean nasty like R. Kelley taking your daughter out on a date. I mean nasty like Senator Larry Craig spending all ...
-
10.31.07Google catches onto Google HackingI came across this query today that ostensibly returns database usernames and passwords. Check it out Notice how every single entry says "...Password Obscured..." Interesting eh? Google has finally caught onto the fact that people have been leveraging their index to find exploitable systems. As most of you know, the practice of using Google to find exploitable systems has been going on for a long long LONG time, but this is the first time I have seen Google react to the problem. I wonder, does this means we are soon going to see google restricting certain wildcard searches? I ...
-
10.30.07Aggregating. All the cool kids are doing it.Look at you, you're a mess. You're bland, and pale and white, and completely boring.... ....you scrape, you steal, you 'borrow' other peoples intellectual copyright, you engage in trackback spamming, you manipulate technorati and the SERPs...... ...Hell, I bet you'd step over your own mother for a backlink...... ...I mean, look at you! Just look at yourself; living on the edge of the internet; you're a scofflaw! A hooligan of the interweb! A digital ner'do'well! How do you sleep at night?!?! Oh, what am I saying...I know you sleep well, because you're an aggregator. You sleep SOUNDLY, because what you do isn't wrong. In fact, what ...
-
10.30.07Seocracy is 4 months oldWell, Seocracy.com has been online for more then 4 months now! Not very long in the grand scheme of things, but I feel pretty damn happy with the way things are going around here! In the past four months we have talked about a LOT of different topics. We've talked a bit about Wealth Management, Scraping, Mini-Networks, Captchas, Google Custom Search, Backlinks, and alot of random humor thrown in for good mix. First of all, I want to thank all you subscribers for sticking around and making this such a fun and rewarding project. I really enjoy writing this blog, and I equally ...
-
10.28.07Transcraping – Translation ScrapingI want to introduce a new topic to you guys: Translation Scraping. Now a day's you see lots of scraper sites that scrape RSS feeds and republish content in adsense laden sites. Well that's all well and good, but clearly, we have other tools in our arsenal to monetize scraper splogs.....we have the ability to translate on the fly. Consider this: A simple script that takes a keyword, does a google blog search for that keyword, collects all the urls that come up as a match, passes that URL to an online translator, and then posts the translated content ...
recent posts
- Detecting anomalous spikes in a line graph via sub-sampling and standard deviation
- Always question the numbers
- Quick and painless geo-location
- building a personal web dashboard
- Introducing STAT – Search Tracking & Analytics Tools
- Amazon S3 bucket limit
- Survey Says: Ipsos Reid presentation to BC Hydro on Social Network Marketing
