Recent content by Sulphur

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    Botnets doing a brute force attack as of now, Friday 4pm EST

    Google "wordpress brute force" Apparently they're finding WP sites, and trying the username "admin" with thousands of passwords on each one. When they get in, they install a remote-control trojan script to allow them to use their own password, regardless of whatever you change the password to...
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    Over 300 sports-related .com, .org domains seized

    Feds Seize 307 Sports-Related Domains Ahead of Super Sunday | Threat Level | Wired.com The US Gov't seized hundreds of domains over the past few months for selling fake goods and for streaming live games. The interesting section (for me) is "The feds are able to seize the domains because...
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    Cool websites and webapps, for inspiration or wasting time

    There's a lot of interesting websites out there that should be more famous. I'll start off with swole.me, the instant diet planner. Pick your calories and it tells you what to eat Swole.me - The automatic diet planner Musicovery, play the music that fits your mood Musicovery Any WF...
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    Accreditation?

    MS and Google offer ad certification credentials. They're aimed at people who plan to work for ad agencies. I've already read all the guidelines and I was going to go for it. But, I haven't seen any mentions of people here getting these... are they a waste of time for AM's?
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    Annoying vendor website popups

    So, I'm learning the whole build sites/SEO organic growth thing. Spent a bunch of time researching products, found one I liked with no leaks or popups, and built a site for it. Tonight, as I'm about to link in the vendor's sales page to my nice new site , I find they've added a "leaving the...
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    Newbies! Give us a progress report!

    What have you done in the last 7 days? And what is your goal for the next 2 weeks? I've set up an account with a marketing site.. running through their intro videos about the affiliate marketing business in general and overviews of different niches. I figure if I know what each segment of the...
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    SEO noob question; how can you be sure you're on the first page?

    So, this is probably a dumb question. I saw a TED talks speaker demonstrate how Google and Facebook personalize their results. For example, Facebook news feed tends to show only the people you read regularly. Google checks which IP you're coming from, where you're located, what you've searched...