In a CDN’d world, OpenDNS is the enemy!

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

While many people are happy with using DNS service providers such as OpenDNS, Google, etc... I will show you here why they may not produce optimal results. The way most CDNs work is by using DNS routing. When a user attempts to resolve a hostname, the CDN's DNS server responds with ...

Google News ranking factors, 2003 patent revealed

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Via WebProNews by Chris Crum A patent application by Google "Systems and methods for improving the ranking of news articles" was Granted on August 18, 2009. The patent was originally filed about 6 years ago on "September 16, 2003". Interesting analysis in human readable language at Seo By The Sea by ...

Python script to detect bad bots/people faking as Googlebot

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

A script for analyzing my webservers access.log is long overdue here is a small start. Just recently I noticed a bad bot was attempting to scrape whole of my site using Googlebot's useragent. Since im learning python, I thought it might be a nice experience to write a simple script ...

The Good, The Bad and The Greedy!

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

Usually wanting money is a good thing. It makes us work harder. Greed is actually a good thing. It is the only line of defense between working hard and being a full time couch potato. Occasionally greed makes us do things... really evil things.. The Good Greed : FOSS (Free and ...

Goodbye Alexa : Google Trends for websites is here!

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Earlier, every now and then I would go to Alexa to see my ranking to massage my ego. Now, Google has come up with a reality check - Google Trends for websites. Google announced a new layer to Google Trends in an official blogpost. Matt Cutts and Barry Schwartz also blogged ...