tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-192483752009-07-02T05:40:48.772-07:00Technology blog about all sorts of crap.<br>Strap yourself in, secure your crash helmet and turn on your profanity filter.IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.comBlogger699125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-52345901647875870192009-06-30T21:19:00.000-07:002009-06-30T21:37:55.851-07:00

After a few weeks it might seem like I've given up on the blog but that's hardly the case.Just been using my blogging efforts in other places, stirring the pot here and there, and taking some heat for stupid comments.If you missed some of the fun try these threads for gigglesSomething AdSense:Google Bugs May Contribute to Lower AdSense IncomeSomething Linux:Making easy graph XML output from log

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There have been several instances of DNS hijacking reported lately so I thought it might be useful to briefly address this problem and it's easy resolution.DNS hijacking occurs when someone using a different domain name aims their domain name at your server and it hijacks a domain on your server. Both domains, the hijackers and yours, now serve up the same exact content. The search engines aren't

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Boy did I hit the panic button tonight when I did a server software update and suddenly everything running in a CGI-BIN folder started generating 500 errors.I remembered this problem with earlier versions of the Plesk control panel I use, but it seems that back then it was a simple CHMOD problem, took a look and the SUEXEC group, owner and flags were all still proper.Lots of stuff down, clock

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Reading this post on WebGuild about "Down and Out in Silicon Valley" really pisses me off.The author is trying to make me feel bad about someone making $12K/month ($144K/year) that's now grabbing grub at the food pantry and using food stamps.Give me a fucking break, why the hell did you spend it all?What part of "bank" didn't you understand?Back in the 90's someone I used to work with was a

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My blogging bone appears to be broken.Got a few good rants backed up, will see what I can do about those.Until then, read this post about Rich Snippets and Microformats

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Here's one for the record books.I just got a wake up call at 8am from the credit card fraud dept. at a major bank, who's name will go unmentioned, but you can purchase their stock for less than the price of a Happy Meal.Anyway, one of my credit cards that's been quietly and securely sitting in my desk drawer and hasn't been used in over 5 years is out making ridiculously small purchases. If this

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A couple of years ago I was faced with the horrors of the cat piss they try to pass off for beer in Florida. Last week I was back in Florida and found myself face to face with the same situation, a state full of cat piss beer, but I was determined to find something drink worthy.A few places had something called Yuengling which by it's very name sent shivers down my spine sounding like some rice

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Guess what boys and girls?There's another wonderful new site that allows people to copy your shit without your permission!Iterasi allows their members to "archive" individual web pages.The pages on my site have a meta tag "NOARCHIVE" which tells everyone DO NOT ARCHIVE this page yet they archived it anyway. They also stripped out my frame busting javascript so they are seriously thwarting sites

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Today I caught MSNBOT-MEDIA crawling thousands of links that were only accessible thru javascript.These links were only intended for human use, only accessible via javascript, therefore never added to robots.txt...... until todayHere's the MSNBOT specifics used for this crawl:65.55.235.202 "GET /feedback.html?id=1010101234 HTTP/1.0""msnbot-media/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"I have a

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With the proliferation of screen shots everywhere you would think that site designers would make sure that their sites make good screen shots, right?Unfortunately this is not always the case.When a surfer uses a visual search engine or a directory that has screen shots of the site the visual appeal often dictates which site is chosen and which site is left behind, not the SEO value of the text

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Trapped another SEO tool called SpyderMate that crawls your site analyzing data.Nothing wrong with using it but don't let competitors get a free ride analyzing your site.The spider details:208.78.98.236 [208-78-98-236.slicehost.net.]"MentorMate Spider"Their host:OrgName: Slicehost LLCOrgID: SLICENetRange: 208.78.96.0 - 208.78.103.255CIDR: 208.78.96.0/21They just keep coming and eventually they'll

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So far this year I've been tracking 9,694 unique IPs attempting to spam 49,492 links on my sites and they all bounced into a spam tracking log file.Using this log file I can track where all the crap is coming from and (not so) surprisingly it's primarily coming from Europe.The #1 spam host is blueconnex.net which wins the prize with 4 IPs in the top 20 and their #1 spammer at 7,798 posts is still

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Blocking hotlinks is usually considered a method used to conserve bandwidth and stop leeching of images off your server. However, you can also use hotlink blocking to quickly and easily find all those sites using your content.The most common solution for Linux servers is to add the following hotlink blocking code into your .htaccess file.RewriteEngine OnRewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$RewriteCond

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I'll be presenting at PubCon '08 on the topic of Competitive Intelligence. The only difference is the other panelists will be discussing how to find competitive intelligence while I'm telling people how to protect themselves from such research.Also, keep your eye on this space:http://twitter.com/CrawlWallAll shortly

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If you have a bunch of local data like I do then you better protect it because JadynAve's Local Business Search appears to be coming after your site with their JadynAveBot!Didn't ask for robots.txt, has no data whatsoever on their robot page except to email them if you have any questions, big whoop.Here's the IP and user agent:38.99.186.40"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; JadynAveBot; +http://

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Something amusing hit my site from from .t-dialin.net which appears to be .t-online.de or the German version of T-Mobile.I see the following IP and user agent:84.153.98.95 "Verdacht Vergehen nach UrhG"Which Google translates into:Suspected offenses under the Copyright ActWell isn't that just the cutest little user agent to get caught in a bot blocker?Now I've had my chuckle for the evening, back

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Never really played around with Copyscape/GoogleAlert much but I noticed it tries to completely hide it's presence when accessing a server which isn't cool.Not that I'm a fan of plagiarism as my copy of the DMCA is almost worn out from use, but I'm even a less fan of sneaky web crawlers that pretend to be shit they aren't.The IP that Copyscape uses:212.100.254.105 -> www.googlealert.comThe

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Here we go again with yet another visual search engine called Viewzi taking a bunch of screen shots without asking for permission from robots.txt.In this case it's a meta search engine and technically the search engines Viewzi culls from has been given permission to crawl, but Viewzi itself was never given access permission.Here's the Viewzi user agent:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:

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Google Analytics has a Hostnames feature that most overlook which normally displays the hostname of the site your visitor landed on, like example.com. However, you'll probably notice a bunch of IP addresses and other interesting information in this list including sites that may have stolen your content!To see what I'm referring to go into your Google Analytics account and go to Visitors ->

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I've seen slow scrapers before but this is fucking ridiculous. 80.197.39.182 has been automatically challenged to answer now 227 times since 09/23/2008 and it just keeps plugging along slow enough to be off the radar of most webmasters but just fast enough it keeps nudging my bot blocker once a day to keep tracking it.The user agent claims to be Firefox 3:Mozilla/

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10/06/08 - A day that will live in internet infamy when a prominent internet company caught millions of webmasters off guard and sent shockwaves around cyberspace.The event that caused this uproar was the launch of Linkscape with supposedly 30 billion pages indexed that stunned even the most savvy webmasters because they didn't see it crawling and were totally taken by surprise.This new snooping

IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-70928409846145073102008-10-08T20:01:00.000-07:002008-10-08T20:13:57.988-07:00

Neil Patel has been making some noise about a lady friend getting his name tattooed her lower back as the ultimate sign of success.Not to be outdone, one of my bot blocking fan girls stepped up to the ink for this IncrediBILL asstravaganza tattoo.So which is the best tattoo?You be the judge!

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Here we go with Tynt, yet another startup trying to socialize the web.Joy.Yesterday there was a little bit of a flap about Tynt as they're running a wide open proxy on tynted.net that allows page hijacking in the search engines.Today Tynt responded on their blog to the SEO community.First, we understand that Tynt has the potential to impact the major search engines in ways that were detrimental

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Did Stanley Kubrick join Google marketing?Ever since Chrome released it's been like watching the online monkeys beat the monolith with bones like the intro of 2001 a Space Odyssey.Sometimes people just make me want to smack them upside the head the way Gibbs dishes it out to DiNozzo on NCIS.First, Google releases a beta product and everyone starts reviewing it like it's a finely polished shipping

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I'm very hard to impress, an old school hard core programmer that detests software bloat from lazy assed programmers using poorly implemented cross-platform development environments.I like fast and lean code, shit that makes an old laptop look all shiny and new and maybe that's why Google named their new browser chrome cause this fucker shines.It was only yesterday that I threw my hands up in the

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