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SEO for your own personal brand

Lamnk — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:58:42 +0000

Update Nov 6.: Yup, first place now, not even one week. Given my name is quite unique, it’s not something extraordinary

I searched for my own name “Ngo Ky Lam” and this website is not even in the top five. Have a look:

I knew this a long time ago but i didn’t bother to optimize my website for my name. No more. I changed the title of the blog’s homepage a bit, let’s see if i can get to number one spot in one month …

PS: it’s strange to see Quora profile page get the first position. Quora has PR of 5, when Github has 7. Because the search term shows up in title, content and URL ? I think so.

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7 things to remember when optimize your ads

Lamnk — Fri, 11 May 2007 09:27:32 +0000

Always blend ads with content: the colors of the background, the URL, the text must be the same as your site’s.
Put the things you want clicked most towards the top and left.
The first link in a series gets clicked most.
Certain color combinations draw in the eye.
Standard banner sizes in standard banner positions will get ignored, so be more creative in ads positioning.
A frustrating or confusing navigation or layout leads to the “back” button. Even worse: “Close the window”. And immediately.
“Professional” looking sites with nice graphics are trusted more. Here is where the affiliate links come in to play.

Update: if your site is content-based, then you should pay attention to your typography, too. According to this article: the more similar between the type of your site and Adsense type, the higher the CTR.

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70.000 backlinks to your site ?

Lamnk — Wed, 09 May 2007 09:48:20 +0000

Some declarations first:

This is blackhat.
Do this at your own risk.

Here we go:

There’s an exploit for PHP versions 4.4.3 -> 4.4.6 lurking around in the phpinfo() files. Basically, it’s an XSS vulnerability in the phpinfo() function which gives unescaped output for all user-submitted arrays in GET, POST and Cookies (More info can be found here). You can find all of the affected sites by querying this in Google:

“PHP Version 4.4″ “phpinfo()”

If you find one of the URLs and add this on the end:

?f[]=%3Ca%20href%3Dhttp%3A//WWW.YOURWEBSITE.COM/%3EYOUR%20ANCHOR%20TEXT%3C/a%3E

Replacing the YOURWEBSITE.COM for your URL and entering YOUR ANCHOR TEXT (with %20 as spaces). Hit enter, then scroll down to “PHP Variables” and you’ll see you’ve injected two of your links on the page.

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