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Too many dot org biz net com info

During one of my zany moments, I bought up all the dots. I have dot com, dot net, dot info, dot biz and dot org. It is one of those crazy ideas that someday, somehow and somewhat, the iconic 5xmom will be world renowned. (yeah…right.……I can hear you readers saying it)

Now, as I am upgrading my Wordpress, I found that I have two dots lying around, dormant. I do not know what to do with them so I just leave them as it is and renew them yearly. I can continue dreaming my daydreams…..as long as I have money to renew the domains.

Upgrading Wordpress has been my daily routine these few days. I have 4 different servers and if you add one of my church’s site, I have five servers to login to. Sometimes, I upgraded them so fast, I cannot remember which was the last blog I upgraded.

You see, after you have uploaded the new Wordpress 2.6 there, you need to log in Admin to click the upgrade button. And if you don’t sometimes, your site is inaccessible and visitors will get an error code.

Then, you may wonder, why five servers? I have three hostings and on my virtual private server, my webhost has separated the blogs into three different packages, with three different cpanel login. This is to avoid a total crash if something bad happen.

So, sigh….nothing constructive from me for the time being because after I upgraded the Wordpress, I got to upgrade the plugins. Thank God the plugin is easily upgraded from the admin dashboard or else I will go cuckoo. The other thing I like about WP 2.6 is the ability to delete plugins we no longer use. Such a breeze to delete off those lousy plugins that serve no purposes. I love to try new plugins so I have a lot on my server.

Do you secure your domain names by buying up all your dots? I only do so for one URL because I still cannot get my chanlilian for dot com. The previous owner refuse to give up because my name is HOT! *evades rotten tomatoes*

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. 17 Jul 08 | Blogging, Wordpress | Comments (5)

This blog is running on Wordpress 2.6

I have been waiting for the release of Wordpress 2.6 eversince my WP 2.5.1 was hacked with Wordpress spam injection.

Finally, Wordpress 2.6 is released and I will be the first to jump on upgrading all my blogs. Since the internet connection is working ok, I better do it fast.

Here’s a video on the changes. I do not have time to explore yet but I notice they have sorted the plugins to two sections, i.e. one section are plugins we use and the other, non-active plugins.

I was hoping they will give us two widgets side by side but nope, I still have to deal with picking either one widget at a time. I find it so annoying because when I remove a text widget, the things inside disappeared. So, I need to remember to copy the text, remove the box, go to sidebar 2, paste over into a new text box. I wonder why?

Anyway, upgrading from WP 2.5.1 to WP 2.6 is a breeze. Remember to upgrade!

. 15 Jul 08 | Wordpress | Comments (4)

Polishing Matt Cutts of Google shoes

I mentioned that I submitted a form to Google when I notice that one of my blog is showing PSA or public service ads on my Adsense. I got a fast reply as below :

We’d recommend that you contact your webmaster to fix any site
vulnerabilities which may have allowed the links to be placed on your
site. For more information about security for webmasters, see
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/quick-security-checklist-for-webmasters.html.
You may also with to perform a search for results related to “wordpress
spam injection” for more information about the issue.

Once the links have been successfully removed, paid ads or more relevant
ads should start appearing again within a week.

Cheers,

Matt
The Google AdSense Team

And I guess I had cleared up the mess the MTF-ker spammers secretly injected into my blog with the Wordpress spam injection technique. I explained how I clear the Wordpress Spam Injection on my post.

For once, I am glad that Matt seems kind to regular site owners like me. I suddenly feel full of love for Google for taking time to write to me to tell me that :

Thanks for your email. I understand you are concerned about the fact that
public service ads are appearing on your site. Our specialists
investigated and found that pornographic links and links related to
prescription drug offers have been injected into the bottom of your pages.
These links are only visible to web crawlers so you may not see them if
you view the source of your pages. Because our system does not return ads
to pages detected to have adult content, relevant paid ads will not appear
until the links are removed. These links may have been placed on your site
without your knowledge in an attempt to boost other sites’ search engine
rank.

I am what you call a semi-expert where web publishing is because I am such a smart girl. *grins* I read up a lot of SEO and webmaster stuffs so more or less I am in the know.

However, I believe there are millions of clueless blog owners out there who do not know what happened. So, I hope Google will continue to work on this cancerous epidemic of invisible spam injections so that those MTF-kers black hats SEOs do not prey on innocent publishers. They are akin to robbing traffic, pagerank and income from poor and innocent folks.

Matt has a blog post about ‘Helping hacked sites‘ and I highly recommend everyone to read it.

I am not always in Google’s list of obedient bloggers but I certainly appreciate their efforts in contacting the sites that have been hacked without the knowledge of the owners. Can I say that Google watches out for the little people too? But don’t forget, they smack us too. Well, if there is a balance, then I shouldn’t gripe.

. 07 Jul 08 | Google Adsense, Wordpress | Comments (2)

Best advice on Wordpress spam injection evarrr

Thanks to Genkisan, I finally found one blog tutorial that makes sense to me. When I discovered that my site has been hacked silently, I searched and searched for some tutorials that aren’t written in Latin or Greek. Techies alway write in languages I cannot understand so they are like Latin to me.

I only knew my site was hacked because Matt of Google Development Team told me so when I lodged a form asking Google Adsense why I am seeing PSA (public service ads) on my Google Adsense. You see, we wouldn’t know our site has been filled with so many links as they don’t show on regular source codes. Only Google Bot sees these links.

The hacker apparently added a lot of jpgs files into my root server. When I login, I notice a lot of photos in my main root. My webmaster too wondered why I added them. Then, he notice a sinister looking plugin file as well. Thanks to my webhost who is also my webmaster, Bryan. Normally, I am pretty independent and do most of the Wordpress upgrades and such myself. However, this hacking is serious business so I sought his help.

From the link given by Genkisan, I found this useful tutorial on ‘Did your Wordpress site get hacked?‘

They’re also uploading PHP code disguised as jpeg files to your upload directory and adding those files to the activated plugins list. This makes it harder to find them, but not impossible:

1. Open PHPMyAdmin and go to your blog’s options table and find the active_plugins record.

Now, I think I have cleared the problem because my site is showing ads again.

Note that the blog that was hacked was already running on WP 2.5.1. That blog has good keywords for sex related stuffs so it was like a magnet for p0rn sites.

I had a few sites bookmarked when I was searching for solutions to this hacking. I am afraid that these lead to more confusions because I am not very familiar with tech terms. However, some of you may find them useful. Here they are :

View a website as Google Bot

Wordpress exploit scanner 0.1

Worpress Spam Injection = Google Penalty

One more site hit by Wordpress Spam Injection

Wordpress support, question on hacking

Keep these links handy. You may be the next victim. Oh wait, maybe your Wordpress blog is already infested with the MTF-ker spam injection. Good luck! The spam will kill your blog like cancer does, silently, painfully and by the time you find out, it is too late because you probably lost ads income, traffic and pageranks. OMG! Bwahaha.

Meanwhile, I have come out of this much wiser and smarter. I can almost talk Greek now!

. 06 Jul 08 | Wordpress | Comments (6)

Why Wordpress users should know about Wordpress Spam Injection

If you are using Wordpress, you should know about wordpress spam injection. Otherwise, your blog may be hit and yet, you are not aware of them.

So, whose blogs are most likely to get hit?

1) Blog with high pagerank
2) Blog with good keywords
3) Blog with good traffic

How do we know?

We won’t know because it is not easy for us regular users to trace it. You cannot see the spam links inserted by viewing source codes. For us who are not experts, we won’t even know where to start searching. I read a few posts and still do not understand the workaround it.

What are the signs?

1) You are suddenly getting PSA ads on the main page.
2) Your traffic dropped
3) And if left unattended, you will lose your pagerank and get some good keywords de-indexed

Who are behind these?

Blackhat SEO who uses dirty tactics to inject their spammy links into your blog without your knowledge.

I saw PSA ads on my personal blog and wrote to Google Adsense. Here’s the reply I received :

Thanks for your email. I understand you are concerned about the fact that
public service ads are appearing on your site. Our specialists
investigated and found that pornographic links and links related to
prescription drug offers have been injected into the bottom of your pages.
These links are only visible to web crawlers so you may not see them if
you view the source of your pages. Because our system does not return ads
to pages detected to have adult content, relevant paid ads will not appear
until the links are removed. These links may have been placed on your site
without your knowledge in an attempt to boost other sites’ search engine
rank.

We’d recommend that you contact your webmaster to fix any site
vulnerabilities which may have allowed the links to be placed on your
site. For more information about security for webmasters, see
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/quick-security-checklist-for-webmasters.html.
You may also with to perform a search for results related to “wordpress
spam injection” for more information about the issue.

Once the links have been successfully removed, paid ads or more relevant
ads should start appearing again within a week.

Cheers,

Matt
The Google AdSense Team

How to prevent it?

Hopefully, you have someone who is an expert who can trace where they had inserted the codes. Remember that these people who inserted the codes are really expert and they can breach Wordpress security to get into our folders.

Also, let’s hope Wordpress patch up this real fast. I have a list of some useful sites which I have bookmarked. But let me solve my problems on wordpress spam injection first and see which links’ recommendation works.

. 02 Jul 08 | Wordpress | Comments (9)

Fresh Wordpress themes

I subscribe to Hyder’s Everybodygoto’s blog and just discovered that he has some really bold, fresh, clean and wide column Wordpress Themes. I have immediately downloaded both themes and use them for my ’secret’ blogs. :P

He has two free Wordpress Themes. One is FreshPress which has blue tone, most suitable for our kind of make money blog. He mentioned that he will come up with new themes every month.

And the other is AdMints which has this bright, cheerful green colour banner. He uses minimal images so loading time is fast. But what I like is the very clean and bold fonts because some of my blogs are catered for the less techie folks so I want to make sure that they don’t get lost in the sea of sidebars, ads, tags and etc.

AdMints Theme is available for download from this page.

And FreshPress is over here.

Thanks, Hyder. Please make something red in future, please.

. 29 Apr 08 | Wordpress | Comment (1)

More WP 2.5 rants - Widgets

Am I clueless or what?

Previously, they show us the different panels of the widget. Say your Wordpress theme has three widgets, all three will line up side by side and all I need was to shift the boxes around to how I want them placed. It is pretty easy to do so and from the panel, I can visualise which box should go first and so on.

Now? They have this drop down menu and at any one time, only one widget is shown. So, I need to remove box A, then, choose from the drop down menu for another sidebar and then add box A.

The other thing is - When I have text in those widget boxes, if I removed them (so that I can transfer it over to the next widget), those texts/html/javascripts completely disappeared, the whole box is toally empty.

Arrggh…am I doing something wrong here or those guys didn’t know that the widget boxes placed like this makes life so difficult for clueless bloggers like me?

I know, I know….I got Wordpress.Org for free so I should stop bitching already!

. 14 Apr 08 | Wordpress | Comments (0)
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