tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9464288124706395842024-03-13T19:12:13.872+01:00Cranked.MeSEO, Linux, programming and gamesCrankedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672407202581161noreply@blogger.comBlogger258125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946428812470639584.post-21388813296004901842011-03-08T12:40:00.001+01:002011-03-08T13:00:31.356+01:00Surfing the bleeding edge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-emnFmfg6G_4/TXYZohoCztI/AAAAAAAAQ7Y/EWO3VnjqFSw/s1600/surfer-tux.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-emnFmfg6G_4/TXYZohoCztI/AAAAAAAAQ7Y/EWO3VnjqFSw/s200/surfer-tux.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Recently I figured I can't stand a look of Windows. Once you start to surf the bleeding edge of software, you just don't see downshifting as an option. "The surfing", however, requires some courage... and skills. You _will_ experience setbacks and bugs. Bugs that nobody has experienced before. You won't be able to just run a quick Google or Ubuntuforums search and have your problem resolved in mere seconds. And at that point, your ability - and desire - to take the matter into your own hands and turn all wrongs into rights will automatically make you one of these who define the progress of humankind.<br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><i>(C)</i></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><br/><i>This post was originally posted at <a href="http://cranked.me/">Home of the Cranked SEO</a></i></div>Crankedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672407202581161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946428812470639584.post-5582843101589431562010-10-16T18:58:00.001+02:002010-10-18T16:55:29.441+02:00Show Deluge transfer rates in Docky - working helper for Deluge versions 1.2+I run Docky as my Linux dockmanager and Deluge as my Bittorrent client. After Deluge updated itself to version 1.2, transfer rates stopped showing on my Deluge icon badge in Docky. After some research and hacking I have fixed the helper as well as added some functionality to it - Pause All/Resume All context menu items, stability against Deluge daemon restarts and a display cap of 5kbps or higher on Deluge transfer rates, so I'm not bothered with protocol overhead when there are no active downloads.<br />
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<b>The updated helper can be downloaded here:</b> <a href="http://forum.deluge-torrent.org/download/file.php?id=2987">http://forum.deluge-torrent.org/download/file.php?id=2987</a><br />
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<b>To install it:</b> go to <b>Docky Settings->Helper->Install</b> and select the downloaded <b>docky_deluge12helper.tar</b><br />
It might require reopening of Docky Settings window for helper to show up in list. It should be called <b>Deluge v1.2</b><br />
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The helper works with the recent Docky (2.1.0) and Deluge versions 1.2 and higher.<br />
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<b>P.S.</b> If bandwidths are still not shown, you might be running Deluge in Classic mode instead of daemon. Close Deluge, install deluge daemon with <br />
<code>sudo apt-get install deluged</code> <br />
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<code>deluged</code> - deluge client will recognize it and switch to daemon/client mode. And the helper will be working.<br />
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Special thanks to <a href="http://forum.deluge-torrent.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=30985">this thread</a> and the author of the original 1.2 helper.<br />
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<b>Update:</b> if Docky crashes on install of the helper - this is a known (<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/docky/+bug/587624">#587624</a>) bug in older versions of Docky and have been fixed in latest releases. Meanwhile, you can extract the helper manually:<br />
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wget -O docky_deluge12helper.tar http://forum.deluge-torrent.org/download/file.php?id=2987<br />
sudo tar -C /usr/share/dockmanager -xvf docky_deluge12helper.tar -C /usr/share/dockmanager<br />
</code><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><br/><i>This post was originally posted at <a href="http://cranked.me/">Home of the Cranked SEO</a></i></div>Crankedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672407202581161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946428812470639584.post-36936020310530457772010-10-10T08:16:00.016+02:002010-10-18T01:49:20.297+02:00Best 15 Metal covers of pop songs (with originals and videos)<img border="0" height="149" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/TLt2OBBh-7I/AAAAAAAAQ0I/xF1EirMsPdw/warbeast-wireless-guitar-transparent.png" style="float: left;" width="150" /><br />
<div style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: 3em;">I love metal covers of pop songs. They often make songs more spicy, often even better than the original. They show the metal bands appreciation of the pop singer. They show world's appreciation of the pop singer and his/her songs.<br />
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The premise is simple. It must be a metal band, and it must be a pop (soft rock) song.<br />
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Here's a collection of my favorites. Sorted alphabetically.</div><br />
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<h2 id="1">1. <span style="color: red;">Atreyu - You Give Love A Bad Name</span> <i>(Bon Jovi cover)</i></h2><br />
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<ol><li><a href="http://www.cranked.me/2010/10/best-15-metal-covers-of-pop-songs.html#1">Atreyu - You Give Love A Bad Name</a> <i>(Bon Jovi cover)</i></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cranked.me/2010/10/best-15-metal-covers-of-pop-songs.html#2">Avantasia - Lay All Your Love On Me</a> <i>(ABBA cover)</i></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cranked.me/2010/10/best-15-metal-covers-of-pop-songs.html#3">Beseech - Gimme Gimme Gimme</a> <i>(ABBA cover)</i></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cranked.me/2010/10/best-15-metal-covers-of-pop-songs.html#4">Children of Bodom - Oops!... I Did It Again</a> <i>(Britney Spears cover)</i></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cranked.me/2010/10/best-15-metal-covers-of-pop-songs.html#5"> Cradle of Filth - Temptation</a> <i>(Heaven 17 cover)</i> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.cranked.me/2010/10/best-15-metal-covers-of-pop-songs.html#6"> Darkseed - I Turn To You</a> <i>(Melanie C cover)</i> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.cranked.me/2010/10/best-15-metal-covers-of-pop-songs.html#7"> Graveworm - I Need A Hero</a> <i>(Shrek 2 soundtrack cover of Bonnie Tyler)</i></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cranked.me/2010/10/best-15-metal-covers-of-pop-songs.html#8"> Graveworm - Losing My Religion</a> <i>(R.E.M cover)</i></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cranked.me/2010/10/best-15-metal-covers-of-pop-songs.html#9"> Guano Apes - Big in Japan</a> <i>(Alphaville cover)</i></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cranked.me/2010/10/best-15-metal-covers-of-pop-songs.html#10"> Lillasyster - Umbrella</a> <i>(Rihanna cover)</i></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cranked.me/2010/10/best-15-metal-covers-of-pop-songs.html#11"> Norther - Smash</a> <i>(Offspring cover)</i></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cranked.me/2010/10/best-15-metal-covers-of-pop-songs.html#12"> Norther - The Final Countdown</a> <i>(Europe cover)</i></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cranked.me/2010/10/best-15-metal-covers-of-pop-songs.html#13"> Thyrfing - Over The Hills And Far Away</a> <i>(Nightwish cover of Gary Moore)</i></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cranked.me/2010/10/best-15-metal-covers-of-pop-songs.html#14"> The Berzerker - All The Things She Said</a> <i>(t.A.T.u. cover)</i></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cranked.me/2010/10/best-15-metal-covers-of-pop-songs.html#15"> Yngwie Malmsteen : Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!</a> <i>(ABBA cover)</i></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cranked.me/2010/10/best-15-metal-covers-of-pop-songs.html#bonus"> Bonus track</a></li>
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<h2 id="2">2. <span style="color: red;">Avantasia - Lay All Your Love On Me</span> <i>(ABBA cover)</i></h2><br />
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<h2 id="3">3. <span style="color: red;">Beseech - Gimme Gimme Gimme</span> <i>(ABBA cover)</i></h2><br />
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<h2 id="4">4. <span style="color: red;">Children of Bodom - Oops!... I Did It Again</span> <i>(Britney Spears cover)</i></h2><br />
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<h2 id="5">5. <span style="color: red;">Cradle of Filth - Temptation</span> <i>(Heaven 17 cover)</i></h2><br />
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<h2 id="6">6. <span style="color: red;">Darkseed - I Turn To You</span> <i>(Melanie C cover)</i></h2><br />
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<h2 id="7">7. <span style="color: red;">Graveworm - I Need A Hero</span> <i>(Shrek 2 soundtrack cover of Bonnie Tyler)</i></h2><br />
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Original by Bonnie Tyler (the original was called "Holding out for a hero"):<br />
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<h2 id="8">8. <span style="color: red;">Graveworm - Losing My Religion</span> <i>(R.E.M cover)</i></h2><br />
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<h2 id="9">9. <span style="color: red;">Guano Apes - Big in Japan</span> <i>(Alphaville cover)</i></h2><br />
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<h2 id="10">10. <span style="color: red;">Lillasyster - Umbrella</span> <i>(Rihanna cover)</i></h2><br />
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<h2 id="11">11. <span style="color: red;">Norther - Smash</span> <i>(Offspring cover)</i></h2><br />
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<h2 id="12">12. <span style="color: red;">Norther - The Final Countdown</span> <i>(Europe cover)</i></h2><br />
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<h2 id="13">13. <span style="color: red;">Thyrfing - Over The Hills And Far Away</span> <i>(Nightwish cover of Gary Moore)</i></h2><br />
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<h2 id="14">14. <span style="color: red;">The Berzerker - All The Things She Said</span> <i>(t.A.T.u. cover)</i></h2><br />
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Original by t.A.T.u.:<br />
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<h2 id="15">15. <span style="color: red;">Yngwie Malmsteen : Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!</span> <i>(ABBA cover)</i></h2><br />
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<h2 id="bonus"><span style="color: red;">An anonymous bear - Umbrella</span> <i>(Rihanna cover)</i></h2><br />
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<dl><dt>American SEO</dt>
<dd>Create a website containing words <b>'searchengine'</b> in its name. Talk about SEO until everybody considers you an expert. Afterwards, demand 5-digit prices for your 'add alt tags to images' advices.</dd>
<dt>Russian SEO</dt>
<dd>Create a hundred of doorways leading to fifty illegal mp3/cracks/erotic sites. Stuff them with endless popups leading to a dozen of half-legal erotic/mp3 sites. Redirect some clicks to lead to half a dozen perfectly legal online stores - either for referral bonus, or run the stores on your own. </dd>
<dt>Turkish SEO</dt>
<dd>Pick a niche. Subscribe to 30-40 middle-popularity blogs in that niche. Every day republish one of the posts you read in your blog, removing all the credentials. However, forget to check all the links in the post, accidentally linking back to the author and creating a backlink. </dd>
<dt>Vietnamese SEO</dt>
<dd>Find a blog template/widget/picture. Modify the copyright text to point to you instead of original author. Redistribute. </dd>
<dt>Ukrainian SEO</dt>
<dd>Create a website, claiming that you are a success story and everybody else are losers. Offer others to visit your trainings to learn to become a success story themselves. While doing this, look pathetic, so others in attempt to say 'just look at this idiot' will generate a bunch of links to you. </dd>
<dt>Indian SEO</dt>
<dd>Write a howto article, describing a trivial action (How to properly switch off your computer, for example). Repeat for every possible Google query.</dd> </dl><br />
Did I miss any? :)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><br/><i>This post was originally posted at <a href="http://cranked.me/">Home of the Cranked SEO</a></i></div>Crankedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672407202581161noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946428812470639584.post-87801909517472750142009-03-31T22:01:00.014+02:002010-10-18T21:08:34.435+02:00Funny/Geeky/Weird and Grim pages in Wikipedia<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/S_0Va96TpFI/AAAAAAAANN4/9d_GGOVPDYM/s1600/800px-Cow-on_pole,_with_antlers.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/S_0Va96TpFI/AAAAAAAANN4/9d_GGOVPDYM/s400/800px-Cow-on_pole,_with_antlers.jpeg" style="float: right;" width="400" /></a><br />
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<h3>Real-time statistics</h3>Want to figure out what's hot now on Wikipedia? This page: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Popular_pages" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Popular_pages</a> has it :)<br />
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<h3>Grim statistics</h3>Pages like these give me creeps under my skin. Watch deaths as they occur in real time - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2010" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">htpp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2010</a><br />
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<h3>Users</h3>I find this user page funny: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jesus_Lover" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">htpp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jesus_Lover</a><br />
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<h3>Bots</h3>Love the design of control panel of this bot (by the way, he's also the most active bot on Wikipedia): <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SmackBot" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">htpp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SmackBot</a><br />
The big red button is just amazing:)<br />
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<h3>Wikipedia's "official fun pages"</h3><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_humor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">htpp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_humor</a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Department_of_Fun" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">htpp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Department_of_Fun</a><br />
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<h3>Wikipedia's "official weird pages"<br />
</h3><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles</a><br />
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<h3>Gambling</h3>Wikipedians gamble by making bets on the day something will happen. Like, 666,666th article - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:666,666th_pool" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">htpp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:666,666th_pool</a><br />
All wikipedia pools: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pools" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">htpp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pools</a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Last_topic_pool" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">htpp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Last_topic_pool</a><br />
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<h3>Wikipedia also has a feeling of self-importance</h3><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Awareness_statistics" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">htpp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Awareness_statistics</a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Most_referenced_articles" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">htpp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Most_referenced_articles</a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_charts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">htpp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_charts</a><br />
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<h3>As well as wikipedians</h3>List of wikipedians by number of edits - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">htpp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits</a><br />
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<h3>And even their bots :)</h3>List of wikipedia bots by number of edits - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_bots_by_number_of_edits" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">htpp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_bots_by_number_of_edits</a><br />
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<h3>Web-comics</h3>Want to know which webcomics are recognized and cool?<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_self-sufficient_webcomics" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">htpp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_self-sufficient_webcomics</a><br />
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<h3>Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia</h3>"Just as many hotels have no thirteenth floor <small>(to the great dismay of several late bungee jumpers)</small>, Wikipedia will skip the 666,666th article out of systematically biased prejudice. Or threat of lawsuits from extreme religionists. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Radiant%21" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="User:Radiant!">Radiant</a> 12:50, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)"<br />
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The fear of number six hundred sixty six is called Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia, and also has it's page on Wikipedia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">htpp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia</a><br />
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<h3>Vandalism</h3>Vandalism in Wikipedia happens quite often (hence so many <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_anti-vandal_bots" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">anti-vandal bots</a> exist). However, it's not always performed because of evil intent. Sometimes it is made for lulz :)<br />
Funny Wikipedia Vandalism - <a href="http://www.imserba.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-94521.html" target="_blank">htpp://www.imserba.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-94521.html</a><br />
Funny Wikipedia Vandalism about government: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Government&diff=118335356&oldid=118335061" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">htpp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Government&diff=118335356&oldid=118335061</a><br />
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<h3>Extras</h3>While writing the article, I also found some other nice leads which I would also like to share.<br />
Meet Fucking, a village in Austria: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria/</a><br />
What makes it even more fun, is that this village is only half an hour away from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissing,_Bavaria" rel="nofollow" target="blank_">Kissing</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petting,_Germany" rel="nofollow" target="blank_">Petting</a> :)<br />
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<b>You may also like:</b> <a href="http://www.cranked.me/2010/10/best-15-metal-covers-of-pop-songs.html" target="_blank">Best 15 Metal covers to pop songs (with originals and videos)</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><br/><i>This post was originally posted at <a href="http://cranked.me/">Home of the Cranked SEO</a></i></div>Crankedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672407202581161noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946428812470639584.post-56792280913845070972009-03-24T20:27:00.000+01:002009-03-24T20:27:23.599+01:00Duplicate title tags, part 2Hello everyone,<br />
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I'm still experimenting on <a href="http://cranked.me/2008/11/duplicate-title-tags-meta-descriptions.html">Duplicate title tags/duplicate meta descriptions issue</a> in Blogger.<br />
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I've roughly described it in my Tweets:<br />
<blockquote><p><a href="http://twitter.com/Eterniel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eterniel</a>:Just did some changes to my website template. Hopefully they will resolve most of the Duplicate Title Tags issues.</p><p><a href="http://twitter.com/Eterniel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eterniel</a>:The biggest problem in this issue, of course, is blogger</p><p><a href="http://twitter.com/Eterniel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eterniel</a>:It generates unneeded '?showcomment=' urls, which are then interpreted by Google Webmaster Tools as distinct pages</p><p><a href="http://twitter.com/Eterniel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eterniel</a>:Furthermore, Blogger exports these links in <yoursite>/feeds/comments/default feed</p><p><a href="http://twitter.com/Eterniel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eterniel</a>:So you have to throw away 'all-head-content' includable and replace it with your own.<br />
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I'm quite sure this will resolve all the issues. However, it takes quite some time while Google re-crawls the whole site.<br />
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I'm quite impatient, so I will use one trick. Don't pay attention to the following lines, that's just some too complicated robot SEO magic:<br />
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</pre><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><br/><i>This post was originally posted at <a href="http://cranked.me/">Home of the Cranked SEO</a></i></div>Crankedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672407202581161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946428812470639584.post-78489970135459360362009-02-19T18:15:00.004+01:002009-02-21T11:19:38.327+01:00Direct traffic from Montara - yet another search engine launch? :)Today I have experienced a spike in direct traffic coming from one particular city: Montara, California (<a href="http://montara.com/">website</a>)<br />
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<dl><dt><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montara">Montara</a></dt>
<dd>is a small city in California, with less than 3,000 inhabitants. A hundred visits a day from city that big was suspicious. </dd></dl><br />
<a href="http://www.webmasterworld.com/analytics/3788630.htm">It seems not only I have experienced this</a>. <br />
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'The visitor' reports Internet Explorer with resolutions 1024x768 and 800x600, Flash version 10 and Java support.<br />
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Do we experience a rise of yet another web crawler? :)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><br/><i>This post was originally posted at <a href="http://cranked.me/">Home of the Cranked SEO</a></i></div>Crankedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672407202581161noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946428812470639584.post-31025100769572309572009-02-19T15:25:00.005+01:002010-10-18T01:29:54.219+02:00Netvibes.com - the worst first impression I ever had<div style="margin: 20px; text-align: right;"><i> — You never have a second chance to make a good first impression.</i></div><br />
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<center>Today I have visited <a href="http://netvibes.com/" rel="nofollow">Netvibes</a></center><br />
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<img alt="highlighted problems of netvibes" src="http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/5860/netvibestheworstfirstimgn3.png" style="border: 0pt none; max-width: 100%;" title="the highest density of fail I've ever seen" /></center><br />
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I havent seen so much fail in quite some time.<br />
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<ol><li>The page is composed from modules that use _three_ different languages at the same time - English, German and French. This is simply incredible. Different languages are even within the same widgets (see "Liste de tâches. Nothing to do")</li>
<li> Every service I've seen so far properly identifies my IP as Swiss. Netvibes shows me weather report for Paris, France. Even more, it shows me news from Switzerland and offers me to use german Google Site (google.de).</li>
<li>Too much spam in the first few seconds of our acquaintance (<b>"Set netvibes as my default homepage"</b>, <b>"Sign up now, it's free"</b>). I want to see first <b>what you can give me</b>, not what I can do for you.</li>
<li>Inconsistent interface - three different types of "close" buttons on the same page. </li>
<li>Set netvibes as my default homepage image gets cut badly on lower resolution (not seen properly on screenshot)</li>
<li>Duplicate search boxes. Why would I need two google searchboxes on the same page? Oh, I forgot, one is german Google search, even though I am in Switzerland. </li>
<li>What the hell will happen when I press "close" button near "Remind me later" and "Don't show this again"? "Remind me later" or "Don't show this again"? One out of these three ("Remind me later", "Don't show this again" and Close Button) is clearly redundant and even brings confusion.This is overall poor design - and on the page that is supposed to make the first impression on the user, in the most important part of screen real estate - header (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law" rel="nofollow">Fitt's law</a>).</li>
<li>Wtf does that check box does near search field in "Recherche Web" multilingual failwidget? You'll have no idea until you click it <i>when you already have some search results to display</i><br />
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Google-bomb "failure" should point to <a href="http://netvibes.com/" rel="nofollow">http://netvibes.com/</a> , not G.W. Bush's profile. I wouild rather set my browser's homepage to <a href="about:robots" target="_blank">about:robots </a>- it is as much informative as default Netvibes page, however less irritating. The only real use of Netvibes <span style="font-weight: bold;">was</span>, probably, <a href="http://vimeo.com/1463913">this</a>.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;display:none;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/TLuG147CynI/AAAAAAAAQ0o/hNwWFVLssks/s1600/failvibes.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/TLuG147CynI/AAAAAAAAQ0o/hNwWFVLssks/s1600/failvibes.png" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><br/><i>This post was originally posted at <a href="http://cranked.me/">Home of the Cranked SEO</a></i></div>Crankedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672407202581161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946428812470639584.post-12979885136323181902009-02-18T13:26:00.001+01:002009-02-19T21:09:27.552+01:00Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up - tags on last.fm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SZv9v6vQzbI/AAAAAAAAIhU/BVm7AMR8U7o/s1600-h/rick-astley-never-gonna-give-you-up-brutal-death-metal-2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SZv9v6vQzbI/AAAAAAAAIhU/BVm7AMR8U7o/s800/rick-astley-never-gonna-give-you-up-brutal-death-metal-2.png" style="max-width:100%"/></a></div><br />
I like how "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley is tagged "brutal death metal" on last.fm :)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><br/><i>This post was originally posted at <a href="http://cranked.me/">Home of the Cranked SEO</a></i></div>Crankedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672407202581161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946428812470639584.post-57471548046237832452009-02-15T18:36:00.005+01:002010-10-18T17:01:36.063+02:00Firefox is slow - how to make it faster?<div style="float: left; margin-right: 40px;"><script src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=5&r=http://www.cranked.me/2009/02/firefox-is-slow-how-to-make-it-faster.html">
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Firefox was quite slow and had the following symptoms: <br />
<ul><li>A delay when resolving host names</li>
<li> A couple-second delay when switching between tabs</li>
<li>Slow scrolling inside the page</li>
</ul>I did some research and tweaking, and now it runs blazingly fast. This post is here as a reference if I ever have to do it again.<br />
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My current setup:<br />
<ul><li> Sony VAIO notebook</li>
<li>Nvidia videocard</li>
<li>Linux Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron</li>
<li>Firefox 3.06 - 3.1 beta - both were lagging about the same </li>
</ul>What I did:<br />
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<h3>Disable IPv6</h3>(this helps with DNS responses from sites)<br />
<ol><li>Type <i>about:config</i> in Firefox address-bar</li>
<li>If needed, press <b>I'll be careful, I promise</b> button :)</li>
<li>Type <i>network.dns</i> in the <b>Filter</b> field, find <b>network.dns.disableIPv6</b> value in the list below and double-click on it to make it change to <b>True</b><br />
</li>
</ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SZhRLVCphLI/AAAAAAAAIg8/YoCckMRqwws/s1600-h/firefox-faster-howto-1-disable-ipv6.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SZhRLVCphLI/AAAAAAAAIg8/YoCckMRqwws/s400/firefox-faster-howto-1-disable-ipv6.png" /></a></div><br />
<h3>Speed-up page loading times by increasing the amount of http request Firefox issues simulataneously</h3><ol><li>On the same <i>about:config</i> page </li>
<li>Type <i>network.http.p</i> in the Filter field<br />
</li>
<li>Set <b>network.http.pipelining</b> to <b>True<br />
</b></li>
<li>Set <b>network.http.proxy.pipelining</b> to <b>True</b> </li>
<li>Increase <b>network.http.pipelining.maxrequests</b> value to about 16-20 from the default 4. <br />
</li>
</ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SZhRMEwFd-I/AAAAAAAAIhE/6JHukz-PX10/s1600-h/firefox-faster-howto-2-network-http-pipelining.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SZhRMEwFd-I/AAAAAAAAIhE/6JHukz-PX10/s400/firefox-faster-howto-2-network-http-pipelining.png" /></a></div><h3> </h3><h3>Tell Firefox to start drawing page immediately after it receives some part of it from the server</h3><ol><li>Right-click somewhere in <i>about:config</i> window </li>
<li>Choose <b>New->Integer</b> from the context menu<br />
</li>
<li>Name it <b>nglayout.initialpaint.delay</b></li>
<li>Set it to "<b>0</b>"<br />
</li>
</ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SZhRM1eq7CI/AAAAAAAAIhM/QnW_J-MtstY/s1600-h/firefox-faster-howto-3-nglayout-initialpaint-delay.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SZhRM1eq7CI/AAAAAAAAIhM/QnW_J-MtstY/s400/firefox-faster-howto-3-nglayout-initialpaint-delay.png" style="cursor: move;" /></a></div><br />
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<i>If you are an Ubuntu user with Emerald</i> <br />
<h3>update your Nvidia driver (this can give drastic performance boost)</h3>Even if you have automatic updates on, you might still have old Nvidia drivers. There is a known interoperability issue between Nvidia drivers and Emerald, so you can either switch to another window decorator, or update drivers.<br />
The easiest way to do it is to use <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EnvyNG">EnvyNG</a>:<br />
<ol><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SZhQtyRVBCI/AAAAAAAAIg0/TwBAidWyKAU/s1600-h/envyng-screenshot2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SZhQtyRVBCI/AAAAAAAAIg0/TwBAidWyKAU/s320/envyng-screenshot2.png" style="cursor: move;" /></a>
<li>Install envyng-gtk if you use Ubuntu/Gnome:<br />
<code>sudo apt-get install envyng-gtk</code> <br />
or envyng-qt if you use Kubuntu/KDE:<br />
<code>sudo apt-get install envyng-qt</code> <br />
</li>
<li>Launch <b>Applications->System tools->EnvyNG</b></li>
<li>Choose <b>NVIDIA->Install the NVIDIA driver (Automatic Hardware Detection)</b></li>
<li>Press <b>Apply</b> and then restart your computer when asked.</li>
</ol><br />
Firefox should be now faster than lightning.<br />
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<h4>References:</h4><ul><li><a href="http://techxplorer.com/2007/02/22/slow-browsing-using-firefox-on-ubuntu/">http://techxplorer.com/2007/02/22/slow-browsing-using-firefox-on-ubuntu/</a></li>
<li> <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/144216">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/144216</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html">EnvyNG homepage</a><br />
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</ul><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><br/><i>This post was originally posted at <a href="http://cranked.me/">Home of the Cranked SEO</a></i></div>Crankedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672407202581161noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946428812470639584.post-66124132550990431712009-02-10T13:37:00.001+01:002009-02-12T10:48:16.670+01:00Hidden text links in commentsI was searching for "<b>how blogger generates comment urls</b>" for <a href="http://cranked.me/2008/11/duplicate-title-tags-meta-descriptions.html">my post about duplicate title tags/meta descriptions</a>, when my eyes stumbled over the heading of this post - not because it was particularly relevant to my query, but because I eventually did it myself for my blog - <a href="http://blog.jeremymartin.name/2008/02/blogger-trick-style-author-comments.html">style author comments</a>.(This guy came out with JavaScript method though, I do it with raw templating & CSS).<br />
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The blog, unfortunately, seemed pretty abandoned. Scrolling through spammy comments, I've noticed this particular one:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SZCeX9V2BEI/AAAAAAAAIfQ/VW-m8GBxz2Y/s1600-h/anchor-hidden-spam-ridden-comment.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SZCeX9V2BEI/AAAAAAAAIfQ/VW-m8GBxz2Y/s800/anchor-hidden-spam-ridden-comment.PNG" border="0" /></a></div><br />
What was that rectangle to the right? I mouse-overed it with <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843">FireBug</a> - it was link-infested:<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SZCg40esRaI/AAAAAAAAIfY/sT0xiqMct6I/s1600-h/link-infested-block.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SZCg40esRaI/AAAAAAAAIfY/sT0xiqMct6I/s800/link-infested-block.PNG" border="0" /></a></div><br />
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Of course, when I turned off <b>Highlight Nofollow Links</b> in <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/321">SearchStatus</a>, the comment looked perfectly ordinary:<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SZCiWcVuEGI/AAAAAAAAIfg/igjKbLHPyQU/s1600-h/spammy-comment-looking-as-ordinary.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SZCiWcVuEGI/AAAAAAAAIfg/igjKbLHPyQU/s800/spammy-comment-looking-as-ordinary.PNG" border="0" /></a></div><br />
<b>But how can it hurt me, if these links are nofollowed and even non-clickable?</b><br />
<ol><li>These links are hidden, thus subject to violating <a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66353">guidelines for Google-friendly sites</a>, which can even result in automatic removal of your page from search index</li>
<li>These links slow down your page . The described above link-pack was 5kb - compared to 30kb original post. Take 6 commenters like that - and your page will load almost twice longer.<br />
</li>
<li>It can (needs more testing) change the keyword density of your site. (It's not caused by this particular comment, but two most popular keywords on that page are "Viagra" and "Tramadol", making 20% of page content. If you were an indexing robot - what would you think that page is about?)<br />
</li>
</ol><br />
<b>How to fight it?</b><br />
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It would be possible to make these anchors visible using CSS (for example, specifying padding and background color for <b><a/></b> tags), however, everyone who visits your page would see them - and even worse - will be able to accidentally click them - which is not exactly what we need. Instead, have Highlight Nofollow Links or similar feature turned on - and once a spammer is detected - fire at will.<br />
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P.S. <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843">FireBug</a> and <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/321">SearchStatus</a> are two great Firefox addons. No competent web developer/SEO can imagine his life without them.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><br/><i>This post was originally posted at <a href="http://cranked.me/">Home of the Cranked SEO</a></i></div>Crankedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672407202581161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946428812470639584.post-39591495441302885822009-01-18T21:09:00.001+01:002009-01-18T21:24:25.973+01:00[SOLVED] Amarok lags on every song or volume changeSince I reinstalled my Kubuntu Hardy (to Interpid Ibex -> Jaunty Jackal alpha -> back to Hardy), my <a href="http://amarok.kde.org/">Amarok</a> started to lag heavily on every song change/volume control or basically any other action. I thought this is somehow connected with the new version of Amarok, with Compiz Fusion, and I even changed to Gnome from KDE to test it. Amarok was still lagging the same - Amarok window slowly fades out, stands still for ~5-6 seconds, and then unfreezes.<br />
Finally, I've found what was causing the trouble: <b>SQLite as Connection Database</b>. It seems that Amarok stores every configuration parameter in a database - so every configuration change invokes long and lagging cooperation with SQLite. With other databases (like MySQL) it's way faster.<br />
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<b>How to fix it: </b><br />
<ul><li>Go to <b>Settings->Configure Amarok </b></li>
<li>Switch to <b>Collection</b> tab</li>
<li>Under <b>Database</b> choose MySQL:<br />
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<li>Specify your MySQL credentials. If you don't have MySQL server running on your machine you'll receive an error message like this: <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SXOOKyRFm4I/AAAAAAAAIY4/FDMc5PYZjJs/s1600-h/amarok-error-window-MySQL-server-not-found.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="amarok error window - MySQL server not found" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SXOOKyRFm4I/AAAAAAAAIY4/FDMc5PYZjJs/s800/amarok-error-window-MySQL-server-not-found.png" title="amarok error window - MySQL server not found" /></a></div>So you can either setup a MySQL server on your machine, or just ignore the messages - but trust me, no matter what you choose it will be a small price to pay for the joy of having that incredibly annoying lag gone.<br />
</li>
<li>Press <b>OK</b> to save configuration</li>
</ul><br />
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P.S. KDE 4 sucks.<br />
P.P.S. I've switched to Gnome.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><br/><i>This post was originally posted at <a href="http://cranked.me/">Home of the Cranked SEO</a></i></div>Crankedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672407202581161noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946428812470639584.post-70044627977827937322008-12-24T13:59:00.001+01:002008-12-24T14:35:16.604+01:00Google promotes payed text links through adsThis is what I've seen today in my Gmail:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SVIzu2-7hnI/AAAAAAAAIWw/_isr4HGereM/s1600-h/buy-quality-text-links-for-better-search-engine-results" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" style="max-width:100%" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SVIzu2-7hnI/AAAAAAAAIWw/_isr4HGereM/s800/buy-quality-text-links-for-better-search-engine-results" alt="buy quality text links for better search engine results" title="buy quality text links for better search engine results - ad by google"/></a></div>The text says: <q><b>Increase page rank</b> - Buy quality text links for better search engine results</q><br /><br />Nice advertising partners, Google :) Looking forward to see more links (to porn, warez etc) delivered directly into my Gmail interface :)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><br/><i>This post was originally posted at <a href="http://cranked.me/">Home of the Cranked SEO</a></i></div>Crankedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672407202581161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946428812470639584.post-85534433599930841342008-12-10T13:31:00.001+01:002009-03-21T20:47:09.654+01:00Seo is going to die... Isn't it?About half a year ago I was planning to make a fortune by creating a socially-tailored custom search engine pages. I even started to write a Firefox addon like <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/" target="_blank">StumbleUpon Toolbar</a>. But then I discovered <a href="http://www.scour.com/" target="_blank">scour.com</a>.<br />
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Couple of weeks ago, Google has introduced <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-search-your-own.html" target="_blank">SearchWiki</a>. The search will never be the same again. <br />
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My rant: frankly, I think this sucks. Playing with the system was fun. Discovering the things that the system "likes", being fast to react and getting thousands of hits from search engines (recent example: <a href="http://draft.blogger.com/2008/08/msn-worm-virus-g00d-stuffcom-epidemy.html%20">g00d-stuff epidemy</a>). <br />
Now it all is pretty much gone. Seems botnets is the future of SEO.</i><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><br/><i>This post was originally posted at <a href="http://cranked.me/">Home of the Cranked SEO</a></i></div>Crankedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672407202581161noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946428812470639584.post-91690148779228924792008-12-10T13:14:00.001+01:002008-12-10T13:52:45.921+01:00RankedHard SEO ComicI love <a href="http://www.rankedhard.com/" target="_blank">RankedHard SEO Comic</a>. Really. They disappoint me with duplicating content though - check the last two comics - did they run out of topics?<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/ST-0SLfkkyI/AAAAAAAAITM/g2INkEH7-B0/s1600-h/seo-birthday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/ST-0SLfkkyI/AAAAAAAAITM/g2INkEH7-B0/s800/seo-birthday.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" border="0" /></a></div><br />And this one:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/ST-0SkDoKaI/AAAAAAAAITU/RJlOEdNPQjM/s1600-h/keyword-stuffing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/ST-0SkDoKaI/AAAAAAAAITU/RJlOEdNPQjM/s800/keyword-stuffing.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" border="0" /></a></div><br /><br />Seriously, keyword stuffing makes my eyes bleed. Hopefully with <a href="http://cranked.me/2008/12/seo-is-going-to-die-isnt-it.html">rated search results</a> it will be gone.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><br/><i>This post was originally posted at <a href="http://cranked.me/">Home of the Cranked SEO</a></i></div>Crankedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672407202581161noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946428812470639584.post-46926657894756450982008-11-13T14:37:00.020+01:002011-01-11T12:46:15.132+01:00Duplicate title tags / meta descriptions: Google Webmaster Tools and Blogger blogs (fix-it manual included)Sometimes I receive very interesting e-mails or insightful comments like this: <a href="http://cranked.me/2008/07/blogger-templates-and-xhtml-markup.html#c7051926467725606787" target="_blank">Have you found a solution to duplicate title tags/duplicate meta description issue?</a>. I try to respond as extensive as possible at that moment, and often even dedicate posts to describe it in more detail.<br />
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So today's post in dedicated to <b>Blogger generated "Duplicate title tags/Duplicate meta descriptions" warnings in Google Webmaster Tools.</b><br />
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<a href="http://cranked.me/2008/11/duplicate-title-tags-meta-descriptions.html#duplicate_title_tags_duplicate_meta_descriptions_how_to_fix">I know how bad duplicate title tags and duplicate meta descriptions are, just give me "fix it" paragraph fast.</a><br />
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<h2>What is "Duplicate title tags" or "Duplicate meta descriptions"?</h2>Search engines nowadays are smart. Very smart. However they are still what they are - machines. Sometimes they can't decide which exactly your page matches the search query the best - so they check everything that can give them more clue - titles of your pages, their meta keywords, meta descriptions - everything. However, if two your pages have the same title and same meta description, there is no such clue. That's the reason search engines consider duplicate meta descriptions/title tags as "bad", and can actually penalize you for that.<br />
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<h2>What is Google Webmaster Tools and how is it related to Duplicate title tags and Duplicate meta descriptions warning?</h2>We all know <a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/">Google Webmaster Tools</a>. It is a great tool that gives you some insight on how your website is seen by Google (and can also give you some hints about up-to-date Page Rank of your pages (while toolbar rank is updated once in a couple of months, data in Google Webmaster Tools is more fresh, see "Crawl stats").<br />
However, sometimes Google Webmaster Tools provide us with such an intimidating picture:<br />
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<center><i>(Numbers in this image are photoshopped, since after applying everything I wrote in this guide I don't have any duplicate title tags/meta descriptions issues anymore)</i></center><br />
These numbers can indeed be scary.<br />
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<h2>Why it happens?</h2>Blogger has a bad habit to refer to comments through links like this: http://cranked.me/2008/07/blogger-templates-and-xhtml-markup.html?showComment=1219419960000#c7051926467725606787. Thus Google threats links like these as separate pages (while it is actually simply a link to an anchor on your page). Actually, there are <a href="http://cranked.me/2008/07/blogspot-cares-about-spammers-more-then.html">quite a few other SEO problems in Blogger</a> as well (doesn't mean they can't be fixed though, we'll see it later :)<br />
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<h2>How bad is it for SEO?</h2>For every comment you have in your blog, Google thinks there exists another page with the same title tag and meta description, thus Google might decide your site is not search-engine-friendly. (Since it's actually one page, these "multiple" pages in Google's eyes will also have the same content, which can lead to <a href="http://cranked.me/2008/07/blogger-seo-tip-for-sunday-wrap-your.html">duplicate content issue</a> as well). Google Webmaster Tools doesn't show you any statistics about your pages that are considered 'duplicate content', however numbers of 'duplicate title tag issues' and 'duplicate meta description issues' might ring a bell and give you the general idea.<br />
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<h2 id="duplicate_title_tags_duplicate_meta_descriptions_how_to_fix">Ok, duplicate title tags/duplicate meta descriptions are really bad. How to fix it?</h2>Basically, all we need to do to fix duplicate title tags and duplicate meta descriptions issue in Blogger is to hide links to comments in your posts from search engines. Content of the comments will still be in search engines because it is a part of your post page.<br />
So the fix is performed in three steps:<br />
<ol><li><b>Edit template</b></li>
<li><b>Wrap blog archive widget</b></li>
<li><b>Remove or replace recent comments widget</b></li>
</ol><i>Note: there is a small twist though: Google will still be able to dig some links to your comment pages from your comments feed (usually located at /feeds/comments/default).<br />
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<h3 id="step1">Step 1. Edit your blog template</h3>We need to hide the permalink to the comment from search engines:<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SRw1KK8dNtI/AAAAAAAAIRk/b5RdxNGPsfs/s1600-h/interesting-and-motivating-silfiriels-comment-3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SRw1KK8dNtI/AAAAAAAAIRk/b5RdxNGPsfs/s800/interesting-and-motivating-silfiriels-comment-3.png" /></a></div>(the link that says <i>August 22, 2008 5:46 PM</i>). However, we would still like to be able to <a href="http://cranked.me/2008/07/blogger-templates-and-xhtml-markup.html#c7051926467725606787">link to the comment</a> if needed, so the link should still be there for users.<br />
I'm not a big fan of JavaScript because content generated by it cannot be used for SEO purposes, however this time we will use this weakness for our benefit.<br />
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So, open your blog template (remember to previously save it). Tick "Expand Widget Templates" checkbox, and find this code in your template:<br />
<code><a expr:href='data:comment.url' title='comment permalink'><br />
<data:comment.timestamp/><br />
</a><br />
</code><br />
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It should look like this:<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SZ2YpxcUVEI/AAAAAAAAIh0/jRAVdq_Gy_g/s1600-h/blogger-template-comment-footer-code-2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SZ2YpxcUVEI/AAAAAAAAIh0/jRAVdq_Gy_g/s800/blogger-template-comment-footer-code-2.png" /></a></div><br />
Replace it with the following code:<br />
<code><b:if cond='data:post.commentPagingRequired'><br />
<a expr:href='data:comment.url' title='comment permalink'> <data.comment.timestamp/> </a><br />
<b:else/><br />
<a expr:href='data:blog.url + &quot;#&quot; + data:comment.anchorName' title='comment permalink'> <data:comment.timestamp/> </a><br />
</b:if><br />
</code><br />
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Save the template and check how it looks. It should look the same as original, however now timestamps should link to comments by their anchor ID's, without confusing Google crawler with ?showcomment= part. (In case multi-page comments are required, the long form will be used). <br />
The described trick works in all browsers that I know of.<br />
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<h3 id="step2">Step 2. Wrap blog archive widget</h3>Blog archive widget for Blogger is very nice, however it has a bad habit of generating long links Google doesn't understand. This leads to <a href="http://cranked.me/2008/07/blogger-seo-tip-for-sunday-wrap-your.html">duplicate content issues</a> and duplicate title tags/meta descriptions. It is easy to fix, however: click the small wrench <img src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_wrench_allbkg.png" /> icon under your blog archive widget, and choose <b>flat list</b> option in the settings window:<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SRwk3m5y_0I/AAAAAAAAIRc/pWRk6Lbrth8/s1600-h/blogger-blog-archive-widget-configuration-page.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SRwk3m5y_0I/AAAAAAAAIRc/pWRk6Lbrth8/s800/blogger-blog-archive-widget-configuration-page.png" /></a></div>Don't forget to press <b>Save</b> button :)<br />
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<h3 id="step3">Step 3. Remove recent comments widget</h3>Recent comments widget is made by creating a feed widget with <b>http://<i><yoursiteurl></i>/feeds/comments/default</b> url as feed source. It is nifty to have, however it supplies search engines with links to your blog comments, what we try to avoid (because comment content goes to search engines' index with your post page anyway). Either remove the widget or use the <a href="http://www.bloggerbuster.com/2007/08/create-your-oen-recent-comments-widgets.html">javascript recent comments widget</a>. (The javascript one, however, might slow down loading time of your sidebar a bit).<br />
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After following instructions supplied here, Google Webmaster Tools will not bother you with the duplicate title tags/meta descriptions issue as there will be none (it takes time for Google to re-crawl all your site, so be patient, takes about 2-3 weeks). This will boost your search engine rankings a little bit since Google now thinks your site is "Google friendly" (and in fact it is).<br />
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In the next post I'll describe how to teach Blogger to highlight your own comments with different color/style, so make sure you subscribe to my <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Eterniel">rss feed</a>.<br />
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Good luck and enjoy your Google Webmaster Tools experience :)<br />
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<p>Talk to a <a href="http://www.gearyseo.com/">professional seo agency</a> specialist for your website seo needs.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><br/><i>This post was originally posted at <a href="http://cranked.me/">Home of the Cranked SEO</a></i></div>Crankedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672407202581161noreply@blogger.com52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946428812470639584.post-3624879988224809042008-10-17T18:43:00.000+02:002008-10-17T19:24:18.714+02:00How to redirect 404 www subdomains to your main site or Google Blogger got it 404 broken again<div style="text-align: center;"><b>warning: if you use Blogger for publishing, try to access your blog through its www. form - you may have this problem too</b></div><br />
When I came back from <a href="http://cranked.me/2008/10/back-in-business.html" target="_blank">my vacation</a>, I was quite surprised to see that the www. form of my blog (<a href="http://www.cranked.me/" target="_blank">http://www.cranked.me/</a> form of my blog is not getting redirected to my <a href="http://cranked.me/" target="_blank">http://cranked.me/</a> site, and instead I receive a <b>Server Not Found Error 404</b> message: <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SPjCZsMp5jI/AAAAAAAAGmI/tLfNyb1ioz0/s1600-h/server-not-found-error-404-message.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SPjCZsMp5jI/AAAAAAAAGmI/yHXml0cbOzI/s400-R/server-not-found-error-404-message.PNG" /></a></div>Amused, I ran to check all the CNAME, A, and even MX records in my DNS domain management interfaces. Everything was intact. <b>Redirect www.cranked.me to cranked.me</b> checkbox in Blogger dashboard was checked as well.<br />
After half an hour of scratching my head and trial-and-error approach I have found a way that worked:<br />
<ol><li>Go to your <b><a href="http://blogger.com/home" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blogger dashboard</a>->Settings->Publishing</b> and uncheck <b>Redirect www.</b><i>yoursite.com</i><b> to </b><i>yoursite.com</i>:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SPjF20foF2I/AAAAAAAAGmQ/eKRw3r4sybA/s1600-h/google-blogger-hosting-www-redirect-unchecked.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SPjF20foF2I/AAAAAAAAGmQ/bwcS5UJLEWs/s800-R/google-blogger-hosting-www-redirect-unchecked.PNG" /></a></div></li>
<li>Solve the CAPTCHA below and press <b>SAVE SETTINGS</b></li>
<li>Now, on the same page, check back <b>Redirect www.</b><i>yoursite.com</i><b> to </b><i>yoursite.com</i> checkbox:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SPjF49s7scI/AAAAAAAAGmY/YuyYzlH3oVc/s1600-h/google-blogger-hosting-www-redirect-checked.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SPjF49s7scI/AAAAAAAAGmY/Q6qw2H_CGD8/s800-R/google-blogger-hosting-www-redirect-checked.PNG" /></a></div></li>
<li>Solve the CAPTCHA below and press <b>SAVE SETTINGS</b></li>
<li>Wait a couple of minutes and try to access your site/blog through it's <b>www.</b> form - it should work.</li>
</ol><br />
Explanation? Google uses Name-based <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_hosting" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">virtual hosting</a> to host all sites. Somehow, maybe while updating Blogger engine, the setting of <b>Redirect www.</b><i>yoursite.com</i><b> to </b><i>yoursite.com</i> checkbox got messed up, and Blogger was no more redirecting the www- form of your blog to your main blog. This could cause a loss of some PageRank and problems with sites like <a href="http://alexa.com" target="_blank">Alexa</a> or <a href="http://domaintools.com" target="_blank">Domaintools</a> which often use www- form to access your website.<br />
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Luckily, we got everything covered up :)<br />
I also recommend you to subscribe to <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Eterniel">my RSS feed</a> if you haven't done so yet, so you can always receive fresh SEO and webmaster updates from the constantly changing Internet world.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><br/><i>This post was originally posted at <a href="http://cranked.me/">Home of the Cranked SEO</a></i></div>Crankedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672407202581161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946428812470639584.post-3845809178094676752008-10-14T08:51:00.006+02:002008-10-17T20:00:07.427+02:00Back in businessMy vacation is coming to end.<br />
I'm writing this post as I sit on a plane home.<br />
Korean 'hello' greeting <b>안녕하세요</b> 'anniong haseyo' <b>[ANION: HASEJO:]</b> literally means 'my soul is at peace, and yours?'<br />
My soul <b>is</b> at peace. I feel very relaxed and at ease. Refreshed and ready for action.<br />
For my vacation, I took almost a hitchhikers route through Central and Eastern Europe. (Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Russia). The original plan was to end up in Russia - just like my friend Markus did once, however, I got 'delayed' in Ukraine :)<br />
Ukrainian girls are beautiful and sweet as always.<br />
Roads in western Ukraine are very nice. With markup even in smallest villages, and - omg - flashing lights on signs.<br />
There were also a lot of <strike>shoplifting</strike> shopping in Prague.<br />
I didn't want to go home.<br />
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--- Offtopic ends here ---<br />
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I've spent as much time as I could replying to e-mails and following people back on <a href="http://twitter.com/eterniel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>.<br />
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Some things I have also managed to notice, even while being on vacation: <br />
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<ol><li>Judging from analytics statistics, <b>Google Chrome now has around 2.5% market share</b> - and this is statistics from different sites, not only SEO - oriented.</li>
<li>I've discovered a strange Google page - <a href="http://google.com/home" target="_blank">http://google.com/home</a>. Wonder how it's functionality is connected with 'home' keyword in url.</li>
<li>There is also a problem with <a href="http://cranked.me/2008/10/how-to-redirect-404-www-subdomains-to.html">www. subdomains redirect with Google hosting</a> which I will describe in <a href="http://cranked.me/2008/10/how-to-redirect-404-www-subdomains-to.html">my next post</a>.</li>
</ol><br />
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I will also upload some photos - just need to get back to my notebook.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><br/><i>This post was originally posted at <a href="http://cranked.me/">Home of the Cranked SEO</a></i></div>Crankedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672407202581161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946428812470639584.post-33919382816065532932008-09-12T14:59:00.002+02:002008-09-12T15:26:46.771+02:00Offtopic: Vacation in Prague<b>offtopic</b> - my vacation.<br /><br />Not only Alex Papadimoulis of <a href="http://thedailywtf.com/">TheDailyWTF</a> has his vacation now - I'm having one too :)<br /><br />Let me introduce my younger brother:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SMpn7t4t2OI/AAAAAAAAGNU/KW4cr4WAPow/s1600-h/Yuri.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SMpn7t4t2OI/AAAAAAAAGNU/JjfXiZRISVc/s800-R/Yuri.JPG" style="max-width: 100%;" /></a></div><br />He keeps sending me photos from parties in Prague, like this<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SMpoaFOPT4I/AAAAAAAAGNc/vvCO7J5lm70/s1600-h/machac__08_..085.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SMpoaFOPT4I/AAAAAAAAGNc/5LsQzieSEUA/s400-R/machac__08_..085.jpg" style="max-width:100%" /></a></div><center><a href="http://monsterbeat.cz/index.php?option=com_rsgallery2&Itemid=5&page=inline&catid=25&id=2932&limit=1&limitstart=84">source - monsterbeat.cz</a></center><br /><br />so I have finally decided to pay him a visit. I'm going to Czech Republic to hang around with my brother and some friends from IBM - that will start my vacation. Where will I go after that - I don't know yet, and that's the part that I like the most :)<br /><br />The vacation will last around 2 weeks - I won't probably post much in this time, yet I will try to do some updates on <a href="http://twitter.com/Eterniel" rel="nofollow">my Twitter profile</a>. <br /><br />Meanwhile, Happy Programmer's Day, everyone, and <a href="http://cranked.me/2008/05/getstringfromobj-by-marcus-and-have.html">have a nice weekend :)</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><br/><i>This post was originally posted at <a href="http://cranked.me/">Home of the Cranked SEO</a></i></div>Crankedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672407202581161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946428812470639584.post-87392632335960444732008-09-12T13:33:00.005+02:002008-09-12T14:51:27.351+02:00John McCain and Barack Obama on social networks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SMpX-OrmSBI/AAAAAAAAGM8/7189caz_PB8/s1600-h/john-mccain-profile-on-linkedin-professional-network.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="John McCain's profile on linkedin professional network" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SMpX-OrmSBI/AAAAAAAAGM8/wDu5F-gUR1s/s800-R/john-mccain-profile-on-linkedin-professional-network.png" style="max-width: 100%;" title="John McCain's profile on linkedin professional network" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SMpYA9v4HwI/AAAAAAAAGNE/bCXIbTF_AHo/s1600-h/barack-obama-profile-on-linkedin-professional-network.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Barack Obama's profile on linkedin professional network" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SMpYA9v4HwI/AAAAAAAAGNE/W-TMBLeD2hg/s800-R/barack-obama-profile-on-linkedin-professional-network.png" style="max-width: 100%;" title="Barack Obama's profile on linkedin professional network" /></a></div><br />Social and professional networks take a big share of Internet activities of modern users. Thus, company activities like <a href="http://www.sugarrae.com/an-actual-non-big-brand-twitter-case-study/" title="marketing on social sites">marketing on social sites</a> emerge, and presidential candidates are no different. (<a href="http://www.wolf-howl.com/socialmedia/fake-social-media-profiles/" title="Barack Obama friends 52,000 users on Twitter">Barack Obama friends 52,000 users on Twitter</a>). <br /><br />Public profiles of USA president candidates on LinkedIn (in alphabetical order :)<br /><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnmccain2008">John McCain</a><br /><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/barackobama">Barack Obama</a><br /><br />Oh, btw, profile links on LinkedIn <b>do</b> pass PageRank.<br /><br />Social media is important. Do it. If your company still doesn't have a page on <a href="http://twitter.com/" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a> - it's about time. <a href="http://twitter.com/eterniel" rel="nofollow">Friend me there as well.</a><br /><br />And, as a bonus: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewRecs=&key=22495529#rec6190710">John McCain recommends Sarah Palin on LinkedIn ;)</a>(you will need to log in) : <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SMpYCESC0_I/AAAAAAAAGNM/bqioTOJARtc/s1600-h/john-mccain-recommends-sarah-palin-on-linkedin-professional-network.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SMpYCESC0_I/AAAAAAAAGNM/USJCXsXITlo/s320-R/john-mccain-recommends-sarah-palin-on-linkedin-professional-network.png" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><br/><i>This post was originally posted at <a href="http://cranked.me/">Home of the Cranked SEO</a></i></div>Crankedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672407202581161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946428812470639584.post-57499770961175503852008-09-07T23:17:00.010+02:002009-01-22T14:01:04.387+01:00Download Metallica - Death Magnetic (2008) - the newest album from legendary metal band<span style="font-weight:bold;color:red;">READ THIS: This was a SEO experiment, there's no unlicensed music here and never was.</span><br /><br /><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SMRFOQXDuaI/AAAAAAAAGB0/bPHzwRZzbAQ/s1600-h/metallica-death-magnetic-2008-download-album-logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="metallica death magnetic album download logo" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6cdJM5oXUS8/SMRFOQXDuaI/AAAAAAAAGB0/FxqWOJg3uPs/s320-R/metallica-death-magnetic-2008-download-album-logo.jpg" style="float: right;" title="metallica death magnetic album download logo" /></a><br />Some fast guys have already put Metallica - Death Magnetic album for download: <strike>http://letitbit.net/download/a58339622514/Metallica---Death-Magnetic-28200829-www.hard-mus.com.rar.html</strike><br /><b>Update:</b> the link doesn't work anymore. You can try this one:<br /><span style="text-decoration: line-through;"> http://www4.sendthisfile.com/d.jsp?t=fj5yZgZvwTCfgMU78XZgvET8">http://www4.sendthisfile.com/d.jsp?t=fj5yZgZvwTCfgMU78XZgvET8</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Update:</span> I have put all the music to dedicated hosting. Links down in the post.<br /><br />Make sure you download it fast, until it has reached it's download limit. Metallica's last album from 2008 - it's something we all were waiting for. I will buy Death Magnetic as soon as it is in stores, yet I'm glad I can have at least a peek at this album right now :) (P.S. "The Unforgiven 3" and "That Was Just Your Life" are cool).<br /><br />List of tracks for <b>Metallica - Death Magnetic</b>:<br />1. That Was Just Your Life<br />2. The End of the Line<br />3. Broken, Beat & Scarred<br />4. The Day That Never Comes<br />5. All Nightmare Long<br />6. Cyanide<br />7. The Unforgiven III<br />8. The Judas Kiss<br />9. Suicide & Redemption<br />10. My Apocalypse<br /><br /><h2>Metallica - Death Magnetic</h2><ol><li><a href="http://alternate.me/music/Metallica/2008%20-%20Death%20Magnetic/01%20-%20That%20Was%20Just%20Your%20Life.mp3"> That Was Just Your Life</a>(10mb)</li><li><a href="http://alternate.me/music/Metallica/2008%20-%20Death%20Magnetic/02%20-%20The%20End%20of%20the%20Line.mp3"> The End of the Line</a>(11mb)</li><li><a href="http://alternate.me/music/Metallica/2008%20-%20Death%20Magnetic/03%20-%20Broken%20Beat%20and%20Scarred.mp3"> Broken Beat and Scarred</a>(9mb)</li><li><a href="http://alternate.me/music/Metallica/2008%20-%20Death%20Magnetic/04%20-%20The%20Day%20That%20Never%20Comes.mp3"> The Day That Never Comes</a>(11mb)</li><li><a href="http://alternate.me/music/Metallica/2008%20-%20Death%20Magnetic/05%20-%20All%20Nightmare%20Long.mp3"> All Nightmare Long</a>(11mb)</li><li><a href="http://alternate.me/music/Metallica/2008%20-%20Death%20Magnetic/06%20-%20Cyanide.mp3"> Cyanide</a>(9mb)</li><li><a href="http://alternate.me/music/Metallica/2008%20-%20Death%20Magnetic/07%20-%20The%20Unforgiven%20III.mp3"> The Unforgiven III</a>(11mb)</li><li><a href="http://alternate.me/music/Metallica/2008%20-%20Death%20Magnetic/08%20-%20The%20Judas%20Kiss.mp3"> The Judas Kiss</a>(11mb)</li><li><a href="http://alternate.me/music/Metallica/2008%20-%20Death%20Magnetic/09%20-%20Suicide%20and%20Redemption.mp3"> Suicide and Redemption</a>(14mb)</li><li><a href="http://alternate.me/music/Metallica/2008%20-%20Death%20Magnetic/10%20-%20My%20Apocalypse.mp3"> My Apocalypse</a>(17mb)</li></ol><br /><br />Special thanks to Cheese for sharing the link.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><br/><i>This post was originally posted at <a href="http://cranked.me/">Home of the Cranked SEO</a></i></div>Crankedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672407202581161noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946428812470639584.post-70278104820962230452008-09-06T11:40:00.001+02:002008-09-06T11:40:51.155+02:00Google Chrome security flaw - first vulnerability found<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><a target='_blank' href='http://julianrdz.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/google-chrome-buffer-overflow-vulnerability/'>Google Chrome Buffer Overflow vulnerability</a><br/><br/>The SVRT-Bkis guys have found a first vulnerability in Google Chrome that allows a malicious website to execute code on remote system. It works on Windows XP SP2 - on other systems the exploit just crashes Google Chrome.<br/><br/>How to check: goto <a target='_blank' href='http://security.bkis.vn/Proof-Of-Concept/PoC-XPSP2.html'>http://security.bkis.vn/Proof-Of-Concept/PoC-XPSP2.html</a> and click SaveAs.<br/>(you will need win XP SP2 however).<br/><br/>It is super sad that this 'vulnerability' is a stupid buffer overflow. Somehow I believe there will be way more to come. Welcome to the real world, Google Chrome.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><br/><i>This post was originally posted at <a href="http://cranked.me/">Home of the Cranked SEO</a></i></div>Crankedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672407202581161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946428812470639584.post-721530276990198342008-09-04T17:45:00.005+02:002008-09-04T18:47:13.658+02:00Twitter nofollow bugfix yields angry reaction from exploiters<img alt="twitter logo" src="http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/125/twitterlogort8.png" style="float: left;" title="twitter logo" /> <br />
Yesterday, <a href="http://twitter.com/" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a> fixed a bug that allowed you to have a value-passing link from Twitter to your website. This caused a <a href="http://www.sugarrae.com/twitter-lays-down-for-google/">big reaction</a>, and since it was <a href="http://mattcutts.com/">Matt Cutts</a> who <a href="http://twitter.com/mattcutts/statuses/865610396" rel="nofollow">pointed this bug</a>, Google took all the blame.<br />
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It is popular nowadays to nofollow all the links that go from your domain. Wikipedia does it. Twitter was no exception. The scenario is simple:<br />
<ol><li>get all the link juice in</li>
<li> give no link juice out</li>
<li>Profit $$$. </li>
</ol> This boosts your pagerank <i>a little</i>, but also turns you into a "black hole", sucking link juice from everyone and keeping it all for yourself, thus giving you a reputation of a bitch.<br />
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All the links that you would drop in your twitter messages were nofollowed. A website that you specify in your twitter profile was nofollowed as well. However, due to poor skills of Twitter engineers, a good workaround was found by inventive <strike>blackhats</strike> SEOs. All you needed to do is to put a link to your website into your <i>One Line Bio</i> profile field - and stupid processing engine would turn it into a fancy value-passing link from a high pagerank page (Twitter currently has PR8, your page could be PR5-7).<br />
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Of course, everyone who had even a slightest idea what SEO is, exploited this heavily.<br />
Now it has been shut down. Oh well, happens - exploits usually don't last long. But what the hell is the reaction to this?<br />
I will quote Sugarrae in <a href="http://www.sugarrae.com/twitter-lays-down-for-google/">her post</a> to which I have linked before:<br />
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<blockquote>An even bigger question for me is, if, IF, Google is really coercing companies like Twitter based on threats of dropping them from their index for non-compliance, at what point does someone decide that due to Google’s reach and power, that doing so is no longer a case of “guidelines” but rather one of blackmail?</blockquote>What the fuck is wrong with you, people? It was a bug - <b>if Twitter creators really intended to give you a credit for your work on Twitter they wouldn't nofollow your webpage link from the very beginning</b>. You exploited this bug as hard as you could - and once it's been shut up - it's Googles fault - because it was Matt Cutts who finally pointed this out.<br />
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The biggest flaw in your claim is that Google actually gives a damn about followed/nofollowed links from Twitter. Why would it care? How will it influence Google? Google would actually benefit more — because if you are a smartass that can build a nice internal PR on Twitter, and then pass it to your website, then you are obviously smart and worth showing high in search results. Now, instead of this 'extra information' that would do Google even better, Google has one more black hole on its hands.<br />
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So give it a break, stop whining and don't blame Google because you have just lost a fancy high PR link that you got by cheating anyway.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/><br/><i>This post was originally posted at <a href="http://cranked.me/">Home of the Cranked SEO</a></i></div>Crankedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672407202581161noreply@blogger.com2