Here Are Two Quick Ways to Catch Cloaked Nofollows

Posted on September 11, 2007 - Filed Under Blogging, Blog Hacks, Monetize | 20 Comments

Recently, rustybrick at SEO Roundtable mentioned that some publishers are selling links, but then adding cloaked nofollows. That is: The links appear to “follow” and pass page rank to normal visitors, but say “nofollow” to Google.

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Don’t Get Hacked:
Google Bot Trick!

Posted on August 25, 2007 - Filed Under Blogging, Blog Hacks, Plugins, WordPress | 4 Comments

Justin’s blog was hacked and he didn’t notice for a while. Why not? The hack made blog look normal to everyone except Google. This caused Justin’s blog for dropping out of Google’s index– which results in a major loss of traffic.
If this happened to Justin, you can bet it could happen to you! […]

Blog Security: htaccess block

Posted on August 16, 2007 - Filed Under Blogging, Blog Hacks, Plugins, WordPress | 18 Comments

Reading Matt Cutts blog, I got a chuckle when I read a blog security tip I’d been using at my knitting blog for two years. Evidently, the tips is news to SEO blogging types?

(Which maybe means if you get your security tips from knitting blogs, you an avoid getting hacked […]