Some sites were reporting MSN was showing weird search behavior for current seo contest,

Lots of blogs are monitoring the ongoing SEO contest, Some blogs report MSN is showing weird behavior for the search http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=V7ndotcom+elursrebmem&FORM=QBRE ,

First many thought MSN is filtering out results for this keywords, Now it revealed its not the case, MSN search looks brilliant than what we think of, It seems msn search first try to understand the meaning of the words, Later if it cant find the words in dictionary, it adds the words to adult search keywords,

Now the search V7ndotcom elursrebmem reveals 41,000 results but we have the following note below the search bar,

Web ResultsPage 1 of 41,216 results containing V7ndotcom elursrebmem (0.06 seconds) (with SafeSearch: Moderate)

You can see the mention safesearch moderate, Usually this gets displayed it adult related keywords are searched,

So is MSN so concerned about po*n in its results, if its true MSN looks great,

Million Dollar Homepage back after a severe and malicious DDOS attack,

We reported in our previous posting that million dollar homepage is suffering from ddos attack, Now they are back online,

this is what Alex says in his blog

“I can confirm that MillionDollarHomepage.com has been subjected to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack by malicious hackers who have caused the site to be extremely slow loading or completely unavailable since last Thursday, 12th January 2006.
I can also confirm that a demand for a substantial amount of money was made which makes this a criminal act of extorsion. The FBI are investigating and I’m currently working closely with my hosting company, Sitelutions, to bring the site back online as soon as possible. More news soon.
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Million Dollar Homepage down for past 2 days, Reports says its because of a major DDOS attack launched against the site,

The Million Dollar Homepage which has been reported to run for 5 years is now down for a considerably long time, Most reports say the site was down because of a major DDOS ( distributed denial of service ) attack against the site,

Infoworld reports

“The wildly successful pixel-powered Web page of a British university student is coming under increasingly intense DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks trying to knock down the profitable brainstorm

The site is hosted on a server in Ashburn, Virginia, in a data center run by Equinix, where InfoRelay has much of its hardware, Weiss said. The high bandwidth use didn’t cause problems for InfoRelay, as the company has a multigigabit network and provides bandwidth for a major search engine, Weiss said.

But The Million Dollar HomePage attracted malicious attention, coming under DDOS fire late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, he said.

Officials from InfoRelay met to figure out what they could do to stem the attacks within the constraints of Tew’s service package, Weiss said. Tew wasn’t on an enterprise-level deal that often includes advanced hardware, from vendors such as Cisco Systems (Profile, Products, Articles), used to prevent the effects of DDOS attacks, Weiss said.

Administrators implemented several proprietary internal techniques to slow and alleviate the effects, he said. “We sort of volunteered our time to do what we could,” Weiss said.

The attacks are coming from computers worldwide, including the U.S., Europe and Asia, Weiss said. The attacks could be the work of a botnet — a network of computers illegally commandeered for sending spam and DDOS attacks.

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Sitelutions.com their webhost says the site was burning 200 megabits per second of internet bandwidth ( Oops )

“We are honored that Alex selected us to host his site. With so much worldwide coverage, Alex needed a host that could support [the site’s intense bandwidth requirements,” said Paul Singh, Assistant Director of Operations at InfoRelay Online Systems, Inc.

Sitelutions has hosted The Million Dollar Homepage since September, 23, 2005. At that time, Mr. Tew’s site had grossed approximately $108,000. Since Sitelutions has hosted the site, Mr. Tew’s site has received up to 16 million hits per day, 500,000 unique visitors per day, and has utilized up to 200 megabits per second of Internet bandwidth.”

So when will the site be online?

sketchy testimonial of a seo company – fake seo testimonail,

We got a link exchange request from a new seo company, when we checked their site we saw something very funny, the testimonial which is listed on every page of their site is totally fake,

It reads,

“My experience with Guide SEO has been exceptional. Our website, www.xyz.com moved from virtually no page ranking and listing on the search engines to being in the top ten in many of our most important keywords. Daily traffic to the site has increased eightfold in just a few months. My experience with Guide SEO has been exceptional. I highly recommend the group.” Salmon.Mc Donald, President, e-learn, inc.

optimized xyz.com>?? look at that, xyz consulting owns xyz.com and they don’t do any seo,

e-learn, INC??? who owns e-learn inc? it belongs to passged.com and definitely salmon.Mc.donald is not the president, So how many seo companies have sketchy testimonials???

Very interesting.

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v7n seo contest – kicks off – keyword v7ndotcom elursrebmem to be ranked by may 15th 2006 for a prize money of 4000$,

v7n.com seo contest has started, we can see many webmasters and SEOs directly getting involved in this contest, we will be actively monitoring this contest to bring the latest updates and improvements,

v7ndotcom elursrebmem is the keyword phrase that needs to be ranked by may 15th 2006, The prize money is 4000$,

First prize also includes an apple IPOD,

The rules for the competition are as follows:1. In order to win the first prize, you must place first in Google (organic rankings) for the search term on May 15, 2006, noon, Pacific standard time. 2. Prizes for 2nd place through 5th place will be awarded based on web page placing in the corresponding positions in Google on May 15, 2006, noon, Pacific standard time. 3. For the purpose of this competition, indented listings in the SERPs will not be counted.4. In order to qualify for the prize, a web page must include one of the following:a. A link back to the V7N home page. The link can be in any manner you wish, any anchor text you wish, with nofollow, without nofollow, JavaScript, cloaked or fried up and served with potatoes. b. One of these Official V7n SEO Contest banners:
The banners may link to V7N, or not link to V7N. Linking the banner to any domain other than v7n will disqualify the contestant. Just to make this very clear, the banner may be unlinked. You do not need to link the banner graphic to v7n. For those who do not speak English: you do not need to link el-banner-o to v7n-o.c. The following text:We support v7n.com Please remember, in order for the web page to be compliant, it must contain at least one of the elements listed above. If datacenters show different results on the 15 of May, the winner will be declared solely at the discretion of V7N. If there are any disputes as to the validity of the winner declaration, V7N will be the sole arbiter.

Good luck everyone with the SEO contest v7ndotcom elursrebmem , wish everyone all the best,

Good day,
SEO Blog Team,

Million Dollar Homepage owner Alex is a new millioniare

Alex of million dollar homepage has sold out all his pixels, Alex came out with a great concept milliondollarhomepage.com , he sold a million pixels on his homepage at 1$ per pixel, He sold out his final pixels at ebay auction for more than 38,000$,

He came out with one of the greatest concepts in the history of internet, He has featured BBC, CNN and other top news sites,

In SEO its all about natural linking and doing something unique to make people link to, Alex did this and we hope some else does something more interesting, we are willing to hear from our readers any good suggestions which can bring in lot of natural links,

Care to share??????

Is triangular linking / 3 way linking helpful for a site? Is three way link exchange helpful?

3 way linking is not a great strategy, We at SEG dont endorse 3 way link exchange, It is not an healthy way to gain links, Most of the 3 way link exchange requests we get, we see people proposing back link from some spam directory and we have to give link from the main legitimate site, that is pretty unfair,

Plus if doesnt work properly, We recommend no one should do 3 way linkings,

Yahoo site explorer – A nice friend for SEO companies,

Yahoo site explorer is a tool which helps to search a sites backlinks, pages links in yahoo search etc, It gives the data in a more simple form than the normal search, Also it is very quick and is very helpful for major research,

The export feature of yahoo’s site explorer is very helpful in search engine optimization, you can do a linkdomain: search and just export all the data to an excel sheet,

Yahoo’s approach is just opposite to google’s approach,

Google just don’t show proper backlinks for a site, Also their arrangement of site: search is not logical a tall, apart from homepage they don’t arrange all other pages properly,

Yahoo site: arrangement is more logical, it is based on the quality of each and every page listed algorithmically,

Hope continues this great service for a longer time,

Pages falling out of MSN search for No reason, – webmasterworld members report fall of pages in MSN results

webmasterworld.com members report fall of pages from MSN’s index, some of them notice their homepages dropping, some notice that their pages drop by a trend,

Most notice a huge flux with MSN results after christmas, Is MSN onto something, lets wait and see,

Rich of webmasterworld says,

“Pages are falling off for no reason. On using the site command it returns 650 pages which is less than 1% of the sites content.
I noticed that some pages return the page title with the following in the description field rather than the meta description on the page:-
“To get the most out of the XXXX site please either enable Javascript or download a newer version of your favourite browser – Mircosoft Explorer Mozilla Firefox Alternatively please follow “
On watching the recent video clip of the two msn guys talking about the search engine learning from itself i do wonder if the have a major problem with this search facility.
I would say they are trying to be smart by reading a sites pages in a different browser and it clearly doesn’t work – rather than trying to be cleaver they should try and get the basic search right first – such as deep indexing of websites for a start
In this example msn clearly does not cash all of the sites pages despite the site being an established site and authority with thousands of backlinks nor does the bot fully index the site when it visits.
On the face of it i would say that the site has triggered some sort of filter and that’s why its a)not deep spidering the site and b) not indexing the pages and c) removing pages it already has in its index – whats causing this i am clueless of!
Currently based on other sites we work on i would say that if you knock together a thin site low on content, with keyword domain name you will rank top for that keyword very easily. In one example a site with one page but loads of links to it ranks high in an extremely sought after sector.
All in all, its still early days for the search but i think its got serious problems and issues that need fixing”

More here, webmasterworld.com/forum97/716.htm

The amazing Google Proxy – Google’s proxy helps safe surfing of the web,

its Amazing to see Google offering proxy services, Though this was a bit old news I just heard of it, it offers safe browsing, though it doesnt hide the IP but still it prevents system from potential viruses, spywares, trojans, adware, malware, scumwares etc,

http://www.google.com/gwt/n

SEO blog Team,