Amazon encourages users to click phishing emails
While Amazon are not the worst culprits, they sent me an email today which illustrates how larger organisations are failing to help their users protect themselves against phishing emails.Phishing...
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Rel="canonical" - does it actually fix duplicate content issues?
All of the major search engines recently agreed on an element to address the problems webmasters experience related to duplicate content. I feel their pain, and while I dislike proprietary features...
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Breaking Google with advanced search operators
Or: What is it with all of the weird Google Books/YouTube results?If you're an advanced SEO or have an interest in search engines, then you're more than likely well-acquainted with the various advanced...
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The Scream Of Unicode Desperation
Do you remember a while ago when unicode symbols were common in Google SERPs? Things like using the unicode for a star to get a "five star" listings, and prefixing titles with pictures of hearts. It...
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By EmailYou can contact me via email to andy at andylangton.co.uk. I use fairly strict spam filtering, so if you want to sell me pills or enlarge certain parts of my body, I'm unlikely to see your...
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Google Crawling from China?
Most people involved in organic search in one way or another will know that Google's crawling infrastructure is located in the US. I came across a somewhat odd counter-example today. One tool on this...
View ArticleVirgin Media: ports 3128 and 8080
Every now and then I use a port scanner on computers I work with to check which services are accepting connections from the internet. For a typical client PC, there should normally be no ports...
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Drupal Tip: Dynamic Unapproved Comments Shortcut
One of the most common tasks in Drupal is to review comments awaiting approval. I found a quick trick which allows you to add a link in your admin shortcuts which will dynamically add the count of...
View ArticleUse PHP and cURL to retrieve URL contents (with a few options)
url_get_contents - a function to retrieve the contents of a remote URL with PHP and the cURL library.[break]Because I've used this function for a few different projects, it's grown to be a bit of a...
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Excel Toolsets: Merging Tables
As is the case with many in the world in online marketing (and, indeed, most IT-based jobs) I spend a lot of time with Excel. One of the reasons for that is that it's excellent software - especially...
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