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Happy #WorldWideWebDay!

Posted on August 01, 2020
In celebration of the utility and usefulness of the World Wide Web, why not take a look at the original Web page that started it all?

2018 Easy SEO: Update Your Web Site Copyright Date

Posted on January 02, 2018
Here?s a quick and easy SEO trick for you. We all know that Google indexes freshly updated content on your Web site. Since it?s the New Year, take a moment and check if your Web site copyright notices are updated. Not only do you get that piece of mind from an updated copyright date, but you?ve [...

cleverhacken

Posted on December 31, 2016
I love you, German cleverhacken visitor…

New android-app:// referrer

Posted on June 25, 2016
A few days ago, I noticed a new referrer to cleverhack, android-app://com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox Glancing at the user log, it seems that it’s a referrer from a Google search box within an Android OS app. Here are some observations about the android-app referrer via Webmaster World, and here’s the official Android developer documentation for search...

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Google Concert Tour Info

Posted on June 18, 2016
Hot damn, Google now has concert tour information for your favorite acts. The tour info appears to be geo-located and apparently works whether you are logged into your Google account or not. As I write this, all of these are upcoming touring acts for the Philadelphia, PA area...

Twitter for iPhone User Agent

Posted on June 05, 2016
Earlier this week, I had a cleverhack visitor who clicked on the URL in my Twitter bio. Since they were using the Twitter for iPhone app, and the app does not open a mobile Web browser, a unique Twitter for iPhone user agent showed in the visitor logs...

Check My IP Address On Google

Posted on May 16, 2016
This is a cool Google feature. If you type in “Check My IP” into Google, Google will return your device’s current public IP address. (I tested this on my laptop connected to wifi and my iPhone connected to AT&T.) This is a great tip for those occasions when you need to troubleshoot a network connectivity issue...

Questionable Twitter Growth Hacks

Posted on April 26, 2016
For the past few weeks, I’ve been on the receiving end of list notifications that look like the following. Seeing a list notification is nothing new, but this *cough* “Twitter growth strategy” *cough* appears to be awfully automated...

Who Is A Sales Engineer?

Posted on April 19, 2016
If you’ve ever participated in a sales deal for a hardware or software — or other technology — product, you’ve probably been introduced to a Sales Engineer (sometimes called a Presales or Solutions Consultant). But who are they? Sales Engineers are the front-facing technical experts for a product or a solution...

Now this is a ridiculous referer domain

Posted on March 14, 2016
For those of us who were curious, the maximum length of a domain name can be 63 characters. An enterprising spammer used about 57 of them (I could be wrong, I stopped counting) for his URL referer in the screenshot below. In case you were wondering about long domain name efficacy for SEO, Moz advises to [...

RockMelt User Agent

Posted on January 02, 2011
RockMelt, the new browser which takes advantage of your social networks, has a user agent. * /2011/01/01/easy-seo-update-your-copyright-notice/ Http Code: 200 Date: Jan 01 11:02:13 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: 10150 Referer: - Agent: Mozilla/5...

Easy SEO: Update your copyright notice

Posted on January 01, 2011
Here’s a quick and easy SEO trick for you. We all know that Google indexes freshly updated content on your Web site. Since it’s the New Year, take a moment and check if your Web site copyright notices are updated. Not only do you get that piece of mind from an updated copyright notice, but [...

Droid User Agent

Posted on December 19, 2010
I noticed that some (unhip) person with a Motorola built Droid based phone on Verizon visited cleverhack the other day. I’m too lazy to pull my official logs, so here’s the sitemeter report. I am surprised to notice that the Droid runs a version of mobile Safari according to the User Agent string...

Fun with corporate search engine referrers

Posted on October 24, 2010
What’s more amusing… The visitor from Yahoo corporate on Mac OS X/Safari searching for a particular phrase on Google.com or the visitor from Google (Europe) corporate on Windows XP/IE 6 searching for “Yahoo Fantasy Football” on Google...

Modern Email Marketing: Two odious practices

Posted on August 15, 2010
Being a Marketer who is focused on all things Internet related, I read a lot of email on a daily basis. I receive a lot of email, too. I can tell you quite honestly that I probably get more email than you in a day. I don’t really want more email that will take attention [...

Flipboard User Agent

Posted on August 15, 2010
Yes, it seems as if the hot iPad social content app has a user agent that crawls the Web. Interestingly enough, the service is run on Amazon AWS according to the reverse IP lookup. Host: 174.129.125.105 /2010/08/15/modern-email-marketing-two-odious-practices/ Http Code: 200 Date: Aug 15 12:27:35 Http Version: HTTP/1...

Twitter Phish

Posted on July 11, 2010
Well, I guess when you have enough Twitter followers, you start seeing the phishing scams. It looks pretty close - design wise - to an official Twitter email. However, the thing was a) sent to an address that isn’t used for Twitter and b) sent from a hotmail address, which means these guys were just [...

End of an Era: Yahoo is killing MyBlogLog

Posted on December 23, 2009
Way back in late 2006, when the social Web was just starting and Twitter was but a mere messaging Web site, along MyBlogLog, which gave us the concept of a social Web profile and creating a community around your Web site. The idea was a good one, and oh so exploitable by some unseemly social [...

Google Android User Agent

Posted on December 21, 2009
Looks like someone with an Android handset visited cleverhack earlier today… Notice that Google has a special version of the search engine interface for Android (hint: click on the referrer). This seems to be the latest build of Android at 2.0.1, had no idea Google was using the AppleWebKit framework though...

Hey, thanks for the identity theft, Verizon Wireless

Posted on September 21, 2009
So, today, I get this email from Verizon Wireless about their privacy policies for their wireless customers. At first I thought the email was spam because I haven not been a Verizon Wireless customer for OVER 2 years. I imagine my shock when I see my old Vermont cell phone number on the email...

Cuil referrer info (just because you like it)

Posted on July 28, 2008
Because of the hoopla around cuil today, I thought I’d take a peek at this newest search engine’s referrers. Cuil crawler info. I know I’ve been seeing this bot for the past year or so. Cuil’s crawler is apparently called twiceler (is that a pun?) and the user agent string uses cuill...

Rogue SEO spells out oh so not awesome

Posted on July 06, 2008
So earlier today I was doing some catching up on Google Alerts for some domains that I manage. And I kept on finding pages that look like the one below - same formatting, even. When I first noticed these pages the middle of last week, I took them for a stupidly overzealous SEO who was [...

Don?t like Shyftr? Block the IP.

Posted on April 12, 2008
This past weekend there’s been a conversation about Shyftr a new RSS service that allows people to read and comment on full text stories on the Shyftr site, rather making the reader click through to the originating blog to comment. The thought is that folks who care about pageviews for advertising will lose out [...

6 steps to optimize (and make money on) your Web site - Title Tags

Posted on February 02, 2008
As a real life, in the trenches Web Marketer/Web Designer, I am often asked questions about Web site optimization. This is a subject I think about because the focus of my work is to create Web sites that drive traffic, increase conversions and, of course, make money...

Some real people feedback about bookmarklets?

Posted on January 20, 2008
On the MSNBC developer blog, the question was posed How do you share?. Not in the grade school way, but in the newfangled Web 2.0 way. Overall, the comments from MSNBC readers were pretty… negative. Aside from the “I’ll just paste the link I want to share in an email” or the “I’ll just add [...

Apple TV

Posted on January 18, 2008
For those of you with Apple TV, do you like it? I’m thinking of springing for it, seeing as the idea of downloading movies and watching them on my (nearly outdated last of the mohicans CRT TV) does appeal to me. I don’t watch broadcast TV, I don’t have on-demand anything nor do I Netflix...

Brute force SEO: NY Times using keyword tagging in the page title tag

Posted on January 06, 2008
Building upon a discussion elsewhere on the Web, here’s some brute force SEO for you. Apparently, the NY Times is inserting tagging in the page META title tag, in the instances where it seems that article headlines lack sufficient keywords. Normally, the Times just carries the article’s headline into the page META title tag...

Guy loses his domain due to a Gmail exploit

Posted on December 29, 2007
Had anyone else read this story of David Airey’s domains being stolen from him because of a Gmail exploit? Both of David’s domains have been subsequently restored, thanks to the publicity he received this week. Technorati Tags: Gmail, Gmail filters, exploit, cracked, domain stealing

Netscape Navigator End of Lifed, The Rest of Us Get A Little Nostalgic

Posted on December 28, 2007
Let’s all take a moment and remember the good old days of the Internet in the 1990s … the Netscape Web browser is being end of lifed as of Feb 2008. If you didn’t catch Code Rush, a documentary on Netscape which was shown on PBS in 2000, I highly recommend you do so...

SWSE - Semantic Web Search Engine

Posted on December 23, 2007
This particular crawler is being deployed from the Semantic Web Search Engine (SWSE) project, which is attempting to crawl the nascent Semantic Web, including RSS and FOAF data. This is yet another reason why deploying RSS is a good idea for any Web presence...

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