Referrer spoofing with PrefBar 3.4.1
Testing browser optimization, search engine friendly user-agent cloaking, referrer based navigation or dynamic landing pages with scripts or by changing the user agent name in the browser’s settings...
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Getting the most out of Google’s 404 stats
The 404 reports in Google’s Webmaster Central panel are great to debug your site, but they contain URLs generated by invalid –respectively truncated– URL drops or typos of other Webmasters too. Are...
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Validate your robots.txt - Googlebot becomes smarter
Last week I reported that Google experiments with new crawler directives for use in robots.txt. Today Google has confirmed that Googlebot understands experimental REP syntax like Noindex:. That means...
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Do search engines index references to password protected smut?
Recently Matt Cutts said that Google doesn’t index password protected content. I wasn’t sure whether or not that goes for all search engines. I thought that they might index at least references to...
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Comment rating and filtering with SezWho
I’ve added SezWho to the comment area. SezWho enables rating and filtering of comments, and shows you even comments an author has left on other blogs. Neat. Currently there are no ratings, so the...
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The hacker tool MSN-LiveSearch is responsible for brute force attacks
A while ago I’ve staged a public SEO contest, asking whether the 401 HTTP response code prevents from search engine indexing or not. Password protected site areas should be safe from indexing, because...
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Nofollow still means don’t follow, and how to instruct Google to crawl...
What was meant as a quick test of rel-nofollow once again (inspired by Michelle’s post stating that nofollow’ed comment author links result in rankings), turned out to some interesting observations:...
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The moment you’ve read Google’s announcement and Matt’s question “What about spam?” you concluded “spamming it is a breeze”, right? You’re not alone. Before we discuss how to abuse it, it might be a...
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