This is a consumer alert about a computer virus/malware issue that the FBI is trying to get the word out on:
Come this summer, an estimated 550,000+ computers will lose their connectivity to the internet, and all the computer users might think is that internet is “broken.” But it won’t be. These victims were the thousands of web surfers that had landed on a bogus website and clicked on a bogus ad on that site.
When they (was it you?) did that, the bogus ad installed malicious software that pointed victims computers to a rogue DNS server that’s been faking the internet to the victims computers… up until a certain date, when the fake DNS servers go offline.
(DNS Server is short for Domain Name System (or Service or Server), an Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses.)
That date will be July 9th.
But there’s a way to figure out if you’ve been duped and became a victim.
“Visit http://www.dns-ok.us/ to find out whether your computer is infected. If you think your computer is infected, visit http://www.dcwg.org/fix/ to learn how to fix the problem.”
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Are Website SEO Practices Really Having That Much Impact???
The other day I was wondering about web SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and all the time spent by website admins into applying these practices. I ask that because I’ve been seeing some interesting trends in my websites that seem to completely buck the system.
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For me, I can crank out an article in about 10 to 15 minutes and be done with it. Maybe 20 if I stop to fix all my typos and wordos!
But…
But then I have to stop to address ideas like Vision Based Page Segmentation and Semantic Distances and the nuances of a supposed properly formatted SEO’d page with …
- The appropriate amount of minimum words,
- “Relevant links” at the appropriate locations,
- Weighted links at the front or near the top of a page,
- Keywords are properly placed,
- Execute the appropriate tags,
- Insert a picture,
- Make sure the picture has proper alternate text,
etc., etc., etc..
By the time I’m really done with “formatting” my article to kiss the search engines ass, each article takes about an hour. It can be exhausting because small sites have a deficit while established sites can pretty much either ignore or constantly muck with their page formatting.
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