June 2006 Archives

Entries from June 2006

MY .htaccess GOT HACKED!

June 15th, 2006 · 26 Comments

I was checking my Google Adsense report earlier this morning when a message popped from my Google Talk. It's about a comment on my blog that needs to be moderated. So i immediately logged in to my admin area and checked it. I found two pending comments. I approved the first one and deleted the other spammy one. I clicked on "View site" so i can see the result and reply to it. Unfortunately, it didnt load normally as expected. It was redirected to a different URL. I tried refreshing and opening it from Internet Explore since i was using Firefox but to no avail. I was worried and didnt know what happen. I checked the index file too but didnt find any suspicious code. I remember changing the file attributes of my .htaccess file when i configured the permalink structure of my blog. I thought this might be the reason. I logged in to my server using a ftp software, FileZilla and downloaded the .htaccess file. I opened it with notepad and found this:

Tags: SEO/SEM

What is Isulong SEOPh?

June 3rd, 2006 · 40 Comments

Yesterday, while surfing the net I came across this post from macalua.com which entitled "The PHP130,000 Philippine SEO Contest". As I read on the Contest Terms and Conditions, my interest grew big as i moved on with the details. There's no doubt that this will surely be a learning event for me, I thought. I want to be part of this. Prior to that, I was already reading Aaron Wall's SEOBook which i bought through my friend's Paypal who happens to live in the USA. I guess this pretty much tells you about my eagerness to learn about my newly found friend named SEO. :>) After some thinking I decided to sms my web host and asked him if he can register a domain for me and just pay for it later. I settled with isulongseophil.com since most of the keyword-rich domain name I was thinking were already taken. With all that excitement and interest I thought I could email this guy, the author of the book, and ask for his advice. And so I did. An hour or two later, I received a reply and here's what he said:

Tags: SEO/SEM