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April 7th, 2009 — Foo
January 21st, 2008 — Foo
My last post offering to buy readers’ sites turned out to be a modest success, so it’s time to self-whore my blog once again.
My company DomainDev has an acquisitions budget we’d like to spend in the next few months, and I’d rather give it to an intelligent, snarky Tropical SEO reader than some random dude off the InterWebs.
So if you’re thinking you might like to cash in some of your virtual real estate sometime soon, why not take two minutes and fill out our form? We do have some things we’re actively looking for though, so please note the following:
- I am not interested in domains less than a year old, or with multiple hyphens
- Any niche is fine, except: pr0n, pills, casino, or celebrity
- I am not interested in domains which have been banned in Google
- Please don’t submit any site doing less then four figures a month in revenue
Please use the DomainDev ‘We Buy Sites’ form to submit your site for consideration.
p.s. thanks to Media-hyphen-Scoreboard.com for reminding me of what a good idea posts like these are!
October 25th, 2007 — Foo
On the heels of Shoemoney and Neil Patel’s announcement, Scoreboard Media has announced a contest of his own. Winners “get” to “party” with us at “Vegas”. Check out the details here and submit your entry. And don’t forget to bring cash. Lots and lots of cash.
October 15th, 2007 — Foo
Readers, I am really excited about Blog Action Day and all the revolutionary change it is bringing about in the world. I’d like to throw my $.02 into the mix with these five easy tips I suggest everyone follow:
- Read all of the posts about Blog Action Day
- Wash the cat pee out of your clothes
- Repeat after me: No one cares about blogs or the blogosphere
- Get rid of your hybrid car, and buy a Suburban or Hummer. Or anything built before 1980. I drive a 1973 Buick and on a good day it gets 9.5 miles to the gallon (premium only).
- Commit to being smegma-neutral by 2009. This means that for every 4 grams of smegma you produce you have to mail a check for $2.50 to my organization, SmegmaOffset.org. We are not a scam.
* Thanks to Mr. Provost for inspiring me yet again
June 21st, 2007 — Foo
I am trying to help Mr. Provost by writing this terrible post in an effort to get readers to unsubscribe. At this point, my Bloglines subscriber lead is so huge that pretty much nothing short of posting daily links to scat pr0n and my own poetry is going to give him a chance, but at least this way I’m trying to make our bet interesting.
- Did you know the word “handsome” can be used to describe a woman? I think it was used widely in the olden days, like the 30s or 60s or whatnot. As in, “Wow look at that hot chick, she is really handsome.” I am trying to bring it back, so please do what you can to insert it into your daily conversations and blog posts.
- Do me a little favor and join my Facebook Cause: Resolve Uganda. (It’s free. Resolve Uganda is pressuring our leaders to take action to end the two-decade war and humanitarian crisis in northern Uganda.)
- I am moving to Houston, Texas next week, in an effort to get myself a little bit more Tropical than Iowa City. So posting will be light for a while; After I get my stuff moved I’ll have to go shopping and buy boots, a hat, a horse, and a gun, and then get my car inspected, what a pain. Seriously, do I have a personal assistant yet?
June 19th, 2007 — Competitive Webmastering, Foo
#1. Always make sure to follow Google’s Guidelines for Webmasters completely. HAHAHAHA J/K I wouldn’t do that to Tropical readers Uh-huh,
I been in this game for years, it made me a animal. It’s rules to this sh*t, I wrote me a manual. A step by step booklet for you to get your game on track, not your wig pushed back.
Rule nombre uno: never let no one know how much dough you hold, cause you know, the cheddar breed jealousy. ‘Specially if that man f*cked up, get your *ss stuck up.
Number two: never let em know your next move. Don’t you know Bad Boys move in silence or violence. Take it from your highness (uh-huh). I done squeezed mad clips at these cats for they bricks and chips.
Number three: never trust no-bo-dy. Your moms’ll set that *ss up, properly gassed up. Hoodie to mask up, sh*t, for that fast buck, she be layin in the bushes to light that *ss up.
Number four: know you heard this before, Never get high on your own supply.
Number five: never sell no crack where you rest at, I don’t care if they want a ounce, tell em bounce.
Number six: that godd*mn credit, get it. You think a crackhead payin you back, sh*t forget it!
Seven: this rule is so underrated, keep your family and business completely separated. Money and blood don’t mix like two [web 2.0 sites] and no [userbase], find yourself in serious sh*t.
Number eight: never keep no weight on you, them cats that squeeze your guns can hold jobs too.
Number nine shoulda been number one to me, if you ain’t gettin bags stay the f*ck from police (uh-huh). If [dudes] think you snitchin ain’t tryin listen, they be sittin in your kitchen, waitin to start hittin.
Number ten: a strong word called consignment, strictly for live men, not for freshmen. If you ain’t got the clientele say h*ll no, ’cause they gon want they money, rain sleet hail snow.
Follow these rules you’ll have mad bread to break up. If not, twenty-four years, on the wake up, slug hit your temple, watch your frame shake up, caretaker did your makeup, when you pass, your girl [ranked] my man Jake up, heard in three weeks, she sniffed a whole half a cake up. Heard she [linked promiscuously], and can hook a [Web site] up.
Gotta go gotta go, more pies to bake up, word up… RIP
June 17th, 2007 — Foo
Someone has a great sense of humor. I noticed a Google search for [mahalo] in my referrers, but couldn’t find it in the organic listings. Then I realized it was an Adwords ad! (Only one advertiser is bidding on the term.)
Mahalo
It’s seriously just About.com.
Only worse.
www.tropicalseo.com
Nope, that wasn’t me bidding. I sure as hell don’t pay for clicks to my “just for fun” blog! Refreshing the search, I also saw:
Mahalo
That’s Hawaiian for 8 visitors a
month.
www.scoreboard-media.com
Mahalo
12 reasons this is the worst idea
ever and won’t make money.
www.stuntdubl.com
Mahalo
When relevancy is this poor
why show any results at all?
www.threadwatch.org
So who’s the funny man? My money’s on The Wolf.
May 30th, 2007 — Competitive Webmastering, Foo
So SEO Public Enemy #1 launched his future failure today: Mahalo. A cross between Wikipedia and DMOZ, except they have to pay their editors. Sweet! (Where is the sarcasm smiley?)
My question is: why bother spamming it, when it won’t gain enough users to send any real traffic?
Nevertheless, whoever writes the first ‘How to: Spam Maholo’ gets a link from this post, just trackback me.
Update: I think this IM exchange sums it up nicely:
Me: It’s seriously just About.com
AaronWall: But worse.
May 30th, 2007 — Foo
As I posted earlier I’m out of the client game, but I got bored this morning and checked the rankings of the old client services site (old habits die hard). I usually own the top spot for [link building] and what can I say it’s a matter of pride. Well today I was a bit perplexed that not only was AndyHagans.com not ranking #1 for [link building], it was nowhere to be found! However, the site wasn’t banned–an internal page was still ranking in the top 100 for [link building]. I figured that maybe I hit some sort of filter. I wasn’t going to lose any sleep over its rankings considering the site isn’t monetized at all.
Then later today I got an email from a friendly contact letting me know I had about a thousand animal sex-related links which were hidden below the footer on the AndyHagans.com homepage. (Apparently, this contact sometimes refers to my site–which I coded myself–when showing people the benefits of clean code & the efficient use of CSS. Take that, Pearson!)
Anyway, I wonder how someone was able to hack my site and inject these links. Some sort of “exploit”? (I don’t even really know what that means.) Maybe I shouldn’t have used [password] as my password. (Just kidding.) I’ll fix it later in the week, meanwhile I am trying to figure out if any black hat SEO has a grudge against me, but honestly I’m not sure I even know any black hat dudes! Could be just a coincidence, but my instict says it isn’t.
Thibault tells me it looks like the links pointed elsewhere earlier this week, but they were updated to animal sex-related topics recently (judging from the cache). Anyone have a theory how this hack could have happened? I don’t want to fix it only to have it hacked again the next day… any help is very appreciated and will be rewarded in link equity.
Check it out: AndyHagans.com (view the source code to see the animal sex links)
Update: in case it helps, some more details on the site–it’s hosted on Dreamhost (normal shared plan), and runs on PHP (custom files, no CMS, I mainly use PHP just to include files like the header and footer).
Update2: OK so this affected another site I host on the same account. Shoemoney pointed out it only is happening on the index.* files. So either someone broke into my ftp with a script, or somehow they did it to all the files named index.* hosted on this Dreamhost box?
Update3: Frederick Townes tells me:
about the injection issue (I wrote an article about this long ago) about XSS and injections etc.
My best guess is your host has a very old copy of apache:
Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_throttle/3.1.2 DAV/1.0.3 mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a PHP/4.4.4 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7e
That, combined with those other modules, which are also very old means that there are tons of opportunities for someone to exploit your site - it’s a matter of time and checking the changelog for those different software packages.
There also could be other holes (potentially) in you’re your web site as you seem to use PHP, for server side includes no doubt, unnecessarily. Swithing to flat HTML with Server Side Includes is a good move if you don’t want to change hosts.
You can always parse PHP files in your server side includes if you need some advanced scripting.
Ugh. Sounds about right, but still not sure what exactly to do to remove the current links and script?
Update4: Thibault is telling me he doesn’t think its the XSS thing, but instead either weak code, or they just cracked my password.
Update5: Thibault and Bapin SSH’d in and found the problem. Looks like someone just cracked the FTP password and put a file in every domain’s directory which then injected the links. Bapin is helping me fix it and meanwhile it’s a spring cleaning, we’re deleting a bunch of old junk like Movable Type test installations, etc. This was a great way to spend my afternoon!
Update6: OK Bapin fixed everything. Fingers crossed it doesn’t happen again, all the passwords are changed and we deleted some files which may have been vulnerable…Â
May 24th, 2007 — Foo
It was high time to freshen up around here! Many thanks to Chris Pearson for coming up with this theme (and helping me hack a Tropical SEO color scheme for it), and thanks to Copyblogger for releasing in the first place.
Of course a few things are sticking around from the old design. Namely, every post still ends with:
Don’t forget to subscribe to the Tropical SEO feed!
(That’s my best tip ever.) Sometimes people just need a little reminder. Take a minute right now and put that tiny snippet across all your blogs’ permalink templates, it is truly amazing how much it helps. Forget about rankings, subscribers are worth much, much more. 