mvandemar

Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2008 - 1:02 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google SEO
An in-depth explanation of exactly why the Google External Keyword Tool should not be relied upon for SEO keyword research, even though it now shows precise numbers. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 4:44 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Blogging
Great post by Donna Fontenot that covers both prevention of and recovery from hacker intrusion, for blogs and other non-blog sites alike. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2008 - 10:47 am
Posted By: mvandemar 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Blogging
Step by step guide on how to completely clean out all signs of intrusion in your WordPress after you have discovered that you have been hacked. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 23, 2008 - 1:15 am
Posted By: mvandemar 33 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Water Cooler
For anyone who hates having to change their passwords because it means memorizing a new one, I built this nifty little tool that generates strong passwords with built in mnemonics. Please, feel free to share this with your family members who still i read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 18, 2008 - 8:59 am
Posted By: mvandemar 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Blogging
Taking what little hassle there is out of installing WordPress. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 13, 2008 - 8:33 am
Posted By: mvandemar 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google AdSense
If you're an AdSense publisher, and you're not using the free widget, it's time to update your privacy policies again. :) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 3, 2008 - 7:11 am
Posted By: mvandemar 52 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google AdSense
A nice little tool I built to help easily stay in line with the new AdSense privacy requirements as far as third party ad providers go. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 28, 2008 - 8:30 am
Posted By: mvandemar 57 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google Searching
Some confusion over an interpretation of one of Google Webmaster Guidelines. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 23, 2008 - 8:31 am
Posted By: mvandemar 61 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google Other
Last month Google revealed a new crawling method that they were testing out, whereby they were filling out forms on sites that they came across, in order to help facilitate the discovery of new pages. Now there appears to be some unintended side eff read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 21, 2008 - 2:15 am
Posted By: mvandemar 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google Other
Should Google be more upfront in it's promotion of Google Health about the possibility of a data mishap? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 29, 2008 - 7:50 am
Posted By: mvandemar 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Blogging
New WordPress comment form spam protection plugin, plus I introduce the LinkMyPics widget to help convert hotlinking into links. Please Note: some pics on the page might be considered NSFW, but they are well below the fold and only PG13. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 9, 2008 - 10:39 am
Posted By: mvandemar 106 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google SEO
NetSol has apparently started engaging in a practice that Google deemed ban-able 2 years ago: subdomain spamming. The twist? They're not subdomain spamming with their sites... they're doing it with *yours*. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 4, 2008 - 2:41 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 110 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: News Sites
Having trouble making everything fit nicely on your page, while still maintaining usability? Here are 5 essential lessons garnered from observing industry giant Digg.com. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 24, 2008 - 7:32 am
Posted By: mvandemar 122 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Blogging
Different from the hidden links injection reported earlier this month, this one involves the attacker creating a new physical directory in your Wordpress installation, and populating it with HTML files that then use Javascript to redirect visitors t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 14, 2008 - 6:52 am
Posted By: mvandemar 132 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: SEO
If you don't think Matt Cutt's retro post on building links to your site that he recently published applies to you, then perhaps you need to reshape your thinking. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 5, 2008 - 5:21 am
Posted By: mvandemar 142 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google Other
On the same day that comScore reports a large downtrend in Google's paid click performance, their Senior Vice President decides for some reason to dump a very large chunk of his stock in the company. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 2, 2008 - 9:31 am
Posted By: mvandemar 145 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Other Social Media
In the grand tradition of Slashdot and Digg, Mybloglog takes down Twitter today! :D read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 28, 2008 - 3:35 am
Posted By: mvandemar 148 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Other Social Media
An Open Letter To A Borderline Sphammer :) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 23, 2008 - 7:49 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 153 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google Other
The changes to the language in the Google Reconsideration Request that were discussed on SEO Scoop back on December 3rd and on Smackdown again on the 18th, have finally gone through.

Kudos Matt Cutts! :) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 23, 2008 - 6:08 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 152 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
Apparently you don't actually have to be a member in good standing to help a story go hot on Sphinn these days. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 27, 2008 - 6:39 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 180 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Water Cooler
So, why is it exactly that Matt Cutts thinks that anonymous employees over at Yahoo have better decision making skills than the search engine industry leaders? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 26, 2008 - 7:11 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 181 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google
Donna, I admire you. You sure do have some stamina, the way you've had them Louisiana lips of yours puckered so firmly to Google's evil ass this long.

They're in the wrong to make you (or anyone else for that matter) jump through hoops like that. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 17, 2008 - 2:59 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 190 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Water Cooler
A post from JaneDoh pointing out that since Wired appears to have gone ahead and completely deleted their robots.txt now, maybe they didn't mean to be as drastic as they were originally, and actually don't understand how something as basic as robots read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 14, 2008 - 2:58 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 191 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: SEO
That'll teach those spammers! :) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 1, 2008 - 12:46 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 205 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: SEO
Donna Fontenot reminisces on how she wishes sometimes she could actually share her best personal SEO secrets with everyone, without sharing them with *everyone*. :)

Are you on the "in" list with Donna...? read more »
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