<title> » Featured http://www.adammoro.com/blog Internet Marketing, Web Development and Programming Stuff Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:58:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Major Google Voice Privacy Flaw http://www.adammoro.com/blog/major-google-voice-privacy-flaw.html http://www.adammoro.com/blog/major-google-voice-privacy-flaw.html#comments Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:48:30 +0000 Adam Moro http://www.adammoro.com/blog/?p=200 You know that email you get when you receive a new voicemail from your google voice number? It looks like this:

google voice privacy bug

You'd think that the page that the, "Play message" link takes you to would be a password-protected page. You know - one that required you be logged into your Google account to access it...and listen to the message. You'd think. But unfortunately Google keeps failing to use a fine enough comb to straighten out some of the major privacy flaws in their latest product releases.

I sent a tweet to @googlevoice but haven't done much looking into this other than just testing it to be sure it was a real bug.

So, as far as I can tell, you do not need to be logged into Google to hear Google Voice messages, whether they are messages for your Google Voice number, or not.

]]> http://www.adammoro.com/blog/major-google-voice-privacy-flaw.html/feed 0 Force Google to Show “Latest results for…” http://www.adammoro.com/blog/force-google-to-show-latest-results-for.html http://www.adammoro.com/blog/force-google-to-show-latest-results-for.html#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:08:58 +0000 Adam Moro http://www.adammoro.com/blog/?p=50 If you've read the article at Vizion Interactive about how to force Google into showing the "Latest results for..." (also referred to as, "Real-time results") in the search results and felt like it left you, well, wanting more, then here's how it's done.

Simply append, "&tbs=rltm:1" to Google's url for their search results. For example:

google.com/search?q=anything&tbs=rltm:1

So in other words, do a search for anything, then click in the address bar of your browser and add &tbs=rltm:1 to the end of the URL. That's it.

For more of these fun Google search URL parameters, Yoast has a bunch here.

]]> http://www.adammoro.com/blog/force-google-to-show-latest-results-for.html/feed 0 Search Engine Technology Bookmarks http://www.adammoro.com/blog/search-engine-technology-bookmarks.html http://www.adammoro.com/blog/search-engine-technology-bookmarks.html#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:03:20 +0000 Adam Moro http://www.adammoro.com/blog/?p=30 Here are some bookmarks to get you thinking about SEO from a highly advanced and technical point of view. Not all of this stuff is comprehensible by those without a background in Information Retrieval but be patient, re-read, re-read and re-read again until you understand as much as you can. Once you begin to understand the concepts you thought were impossible for you to understand before, you will not only be a better SEO but you will be able to better distinguish who out there actually knows what they're talking about.

Of course, this is not a complete list. There are so many good articles out there, many of which can be found by following the links in these articles. So get your research on and, if you feel like it, please let me know about any articles you find or already know of that should be on this list.

Essential Reading

Information Retrieval (IR) - Crawling and Indexing the Web

Natural Language Processing (NLP) - Determining Relevance and Word Patterns

Link Analysis - Ranking the Web

Web Spam, Spamdexing, and Link Spamming

]]> http://www.adammoro.com/blog/search-engine-technology-bookmarks.html/feed 3 RFP! RFP! RFP! Then RFP http://www.adammoro.com/blog/rfp-then-rfp.html http://www.adammoro.com/blog/rfp-then-rfp.html#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:46:48 +0000 Adam Moro http://www.adammoro.com/blog/?p=1 If you've been getting more and more requests for SEO proposals that mysteriously keep getting denied, you may be falling victim to a relatively new dirty little SEO secret (or you're just not great at writing proposals but let's assume that you are).

We all know Google has been moving towards leveraging user signals over webmaster signals for some time now. We also know that Eric Schmidt is focused on brands as a solution for removing the cesspool-ish attributes of their SERPs. So let me ask you, what's the first thing you do when you get an SEO RFP? If you're like many of the seasoned SEOs out there then you probably do something like this. But what's the very first thing you do? Is it a search for the prospective client's core keywords? Is it a search for their company name? Either way you probably end up doing both and then what's the next thing you do when you're staring at the results for those searches? Don't you usually click on your prospect's result?

I wonder what sending out hundreds of requests for proposals would do for your brand popularity from Google's algorithmic perspective. Looks like the small guys still have a chance!

]]> http://www.adammoro.com/blog/rfp-then-rfp.html/feed 0 Fake Your Google PageRank http://www.adammoro.com/blog/fake-google-pagerank.html http://www.adammoro.com/blog/fake-google-pagerank.html#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:27:26 +0000 Adam Moro http://www.adammoro.com/blog/?p=10

Every SEO has seen the Dark SEO PR 10 page (which is banned and probably has been for a long time now) and regardless of whether they’ll admit it, have always wanted to give it a shot.

Here’s the code:

<?php
$agent = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
if(strpos($agent, "google") != "") {
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.w3.org/");
exit;
}
?>

Just place this at the top (important that it’s at the very top) of the page for which you want to fake PageRank. As you can see, I’m shooting for a 10 but you can obviously change the url (http://www.w3.org/) to get your desired PR.

If you're wondering how this can be used to boost organic placement, it can't. You would have to use something like this (and replace the link on line 2 with a link to a page you want to promote:

<?php ob_start(); ?>
<a href="http://www.php.net/">php is cool</a>
<?php
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.w3.org/“);
exit;
?>
<?php ob_end_flush(); ?>
]]> http://www.adammoro.com/blog/fake-google-pagerank.html/feed 0 Use PHP Scripts in 3 Steps http://www.adammoro.com/blog/use-php-scripts-in-3-steps.html http://www.adammoro.com/blog/use-php-scripts-in-3-steps.html#comments Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:22:55 +0000 Adam Moro http://www.adammoro.com/blog/?p=7

Here’s a simple three-step process for using/running PHP scripts on a Windows machine.

  1. Download/Install WampServer.
  2. Place script.php into the www directory of your wamp install. If you did everything default it should be located at c:\wamp\www
  3. Run the script by pointing your browser at: http://localhost/script.php. In other words consider the “http://localhost/” to be your domain and the www directory to be the root directory of your server/hosting plan.

If a script isn’t interfaced, step 3 might not be that simple. If you’re lost when this happens, you can do several things: 1) leave a comment here with your question and I’ll do my best to get you through it. 2) learn the basics of PHP. 3) Hire Vadim Zanfirov.

*Mac users: Replace WampServer with XAMPP in step 1. Replace c:\wamp\www with /Applications/XAMPP/htdocs/ in step 2.

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