Archive for June, 2008

Off Topic Drunken SEO ramblings

So I figure a good drunken dribble to standard seo ratio is about 1:9, its important to know your drunk to sober ratio so you can work out how fun, alcoholic or mediocre your life has been - have you ever noticed how drink enduces “drink” related convo?

In fact if you see this it means I logged in tomorrow morning/afternoon and actually didnt deem it that offensive enough to delete, so horrahhh Im even more fantastic than I thought I was.

Lets get down to it, I am pretty bored of reading the same old seo crap and havent seen any solid seo posts for weeks so what a good time to throw some shit at the wall and see what sticks. Autonomy is a website I happened across, or rather a company which serves the purpose of what it calls “knowledge management” it does this in the corporate sector, but you see a pretty awesome picture of a jet on the page which shows you they mean business. It lead me to thinking in a rather lengthy manner about the Security services, big brother and about ten other conspiricy theory like conundrums.

Now I don’t tend to neigh’say anything that is thinking, without creative thought I wouldnt be able to type this here today, but as the big G (I restrain myself from further publicising them!) and others (is there really many mainstream se’s we need to include anymore?) refine there algorhythyms and SEO finds its place in webdesign I cannot really see the two being seperated. In a years time will anyone purchase or hire a web developer to end up with a website which is not search engine optimised? once you refine a pages on page factors once, then consiquently spend a few minutes once a month is there really any more you can do on page?

Given the spotlight in a networking environment in a years time will anyone be-able to say SEO as a job role without realisation that in fact that is either a munipulative art or simple on page factor editing. Optimising a website for a search engine is in fact a weak role, something of a small percentage of a good pages time, should you have created an excellent content page the seo work on that page should be a fraction of the time spent creating the content - so either an SEO operates above board but needs a ton of pages to be worthy of their cost or some sort of engine munipulation is required, namely offsite.

The development of the big G algorithm (or perhaps this is all Gspin) should as it progresses divide the lines of the above if you ask me, with the munipulatory being the more skilled, risk apt or at least black hat wearing of the two - but the days where SEO is a meaningful title without either the knowledge that white hat stuff is limited and black hat is essentially evil filters down to the plankton that you talk too are numbered - we need to develop (or perhaps it will show itself) a new role, one that is corporate networking friendly but unknown by the masses.

By god I intended to add value but then all i do is talk SEO CRAP.

The fact that I end up talking about my predictions for seo irratates me, as it is not my concern and so many others do it “where will seo be in 10 years”, “how long will it take for my nan to understand seo”. If SEO dies I couldn’t care less - Ill just find another title to hide my black hat under.

Live well people, in ten years time you’ll be moaning about google banning you from public transport not the serps.

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Filed under Big G : Comments (0) : Jun 28th, 2008

Firefox love you long time clicky clicky?

As the interwebs slapped me in the face with the release of a stable version 3 of firefux I sat here and began to wonder why google push it so much, but then firefox = googlesearch as standard = google dollars +google toolbar = all gravy combo company pushing.

Either way I supppppose firefox has served me fairly well despite its memory issues, I do like how when I move computers I don’t have to do sod all other than copy bookmark files etc and I do like tab abuse and the huge collection of fairly well made plugins. I mean lets face it firefox trumps microsofts dishwasher anyday.
In appreciation, and because they are trying to get more people using it so googlezilla becomes even more of a monopoly and gets more dollars per household heres some random photo firefoxage. If you want credit for these images mail my ass @ seounderworld.com

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Filed under Big G, software : Comments (0) : Jun 17th, 2008

IP’s - Need a bit of anonymity? Get anonymous with your router

It is fairly often that when doing mischievous things on the internet that anonymity is an essential requirement. I have just been reading shady’s lost art of proxy scanning, an excellent read if your concerned with who’s looking over your shoulder.

Traditionally proxies fit this bill - adding a barrier between yourself and your deeds much like the infamous “glove box” that stops scientists spilling nuclear stuff all over their fingers. If you are doing a ton of stuff and need a lot of different IP’s second to second, in an automatic style this is probably your best bet, as proxy’s are easy to mess with in code.

Something I have always done though that as I see it has been widely missed or unacknowledged at least, (I am not sure if this is a uk specific thing or whether it counts for all ISP’s) is abuse my ISP.

What I mean is that unless you pay extra with your broadband for a static ip address (likely if your hosting your own) then you are automatically assigned an IP address when your router connects to the ISP. So literally to get a fresh IP address (and I mean completely different - if your with BT for example they have millions to hand out) just disconnect your router and reconnect.

It is physically that simple. I haven’t bothered automating this (although sure a little router hack script would do it simply) but it does work for me - perhaps theres limitations I can’t see - and it doesn’t help if your doing really naughty shiz cos your ISP will still know you.

Still - Widely underused if you ask me ;)

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Filed under Anonymity, IP Related : Comments (5) : Jun 14th, 2008

Web Development :: Image Pack & Icons

When you first learn web development, perhaps a spot of html, a hint of CSS it can be a long learning curve before you can actually get things to look spot on, in fact I am still climbing that curve till this day.

Over the last year though I have got a lot better, because I have done a hell of a lot of it.

“we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”

Whether you are just starting at it or your a seasoned pro - the images can be the longest part of the build and design process - so in a nice sort of random way I have over the last year been collecting some helpful images, mostly repeatable backgrounds, headers, some web2 style ones and some excellent backgrounds. You can download them all by clicking the following, but please do realise that I have NO idea where they all came from ;)

Those should help - whether your slinging together something quick and tasteless or your masterpiece blog template. Next up I want to share a great place to find icons. There are a ton of free icons you can use, I never really bothered searching for them but when I came across the following I was happily suprised - excellent when you want to create something quickly that looks like you spent ages on, content management systems etc etc.

Click the Image to go to Sweetie Icon Site


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Filed under Graphics : Comments (0) : Jun 5th, 2008

Google: best in the world, cant hold a camera steady.

Now I don’t want to seem all negative, but when you become a huge world power in technology you open yourself up for the small criticisms on blogs like this. Google, are you might say pretty big - a fair bit bigger than a chicken or a tractor or a state of america. You would think with all that power, money and smarts that they could get someone to hold a camera steady!

Google webmasters latest post features what is the almost a “how not to film a presentation” guide, in fact thats what I would rename it. “how not to film a presentation, featuring a hot chick talking ip delivery”.

What I don’t get is how they are gonna draw the line between localisation and different content, if we are allowed to provide different content specific to geo localised areas then as the internet expands and ips become more linked with locations (a possibility I think) google is going to have to have either a lot of bots across the world or expect tailored pages that when hashed do not match! “A program such as md5sum or diff can compute a hash to verify that two different files are identical.” - but you have said we can geolocalise a bit so they are gonna be different - and surely if we are trying to improve the website for each user is the bot not a user - cloaking is just giving it what it wants (lol) I don’t cloak by the way I’m just a bystander.

It’d be ideal if we could some how embed our zipcode/postalcode into our browsers - giving webmasters real ability to geolocalize - I have built a few sites that use postcode entry on logon but its an imperfect system for countless reasons.

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Filed under Big G : Comments (2) : Jun 3rd, 2008

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