Patrick Coombe
Network security has always been a hobby of mine. I've always been interested in vulnerability scanning, pen testing, hacking and the likes. Last year when our website got hacked I actually got a little excited because I got to figure out how it was done and how to fix it (it was a WordPress SQL injection as a result [...]
Twas' browsing the SERPs recently and reflecting upon a post I ran back when in-depth articles first came out. It's been about a year and a half since then, and I wanted to do a brief check in on one SERP in particular I've been following. Doing a quick query for "SEO" will return a number of results, and [...]
Black, white, or grey - if you are an SEO you probably use Scrapebox as a tool for one purpose or another. It is at the top of every "SEO tools" list in the industry and is still talked about on every IM forum on the web. The original version of Scrapebox was released in 2009 and has ran [...]
As many of you know, I'm not a huge fan of LinkedIn. I mean, I don't despise them as I do Yelp or even the BBB, but I put LinkedIn into the category of "weird, confusing, and challenging." So today I decided to point out the ugliness and non-SEO friendliness of LinkedIn's permalinks. As a programmer, I get it. [...]
Neutral / Whitehat Exponential Keyword Discovery Regulated Content Intervals Algorithmic Discovery Approach Indirect Variable Pageview Inverse Keyword Extraction Symmetric Slawski Search System On-page Action Analytics Knowledge Graph Indexing Backlink Interval Timing Link inequality Functional Search Query Horizontal Keyword Shifting The Quadratic Visitor System Proportional Domain Offsetting Consistent Content Shrinkage Greatest Common Keyword Fundamental Browser Evaluation External Optimization Framework Factoring [...]
Like many folks, I have a last name that is very commonly mispronounced and misspelled. Let's end this right here and now. Listen on this nifty SoundCloud embed: This post is also relevant to my brothers last name: Tom Coombe who apparently is so frustrated with our god given last name that he decided to mock it with his [...]
Enjoy the story of the really shady SEO consultant named Dave from Vegas aka "Vegas Dave".
Just doing my best to keep my Photoshop skills sharp. Did this project in about an hour this evening. Inspiration was taken from a cassette tape I saw earlier, I really miss them sometimes. Had a lot of problems with the shadows but have come a long way with that. Enjoy :) High resolution also available.
If it is one thing I get, it is a lack of transparency. I get that Google keeps a tight lid on trade secrets, algorithm updates, and everything in between. I also get that for whatever reason Google does not feel the need to announce updates for algorithm updates anymore through public channels the way they used to. Penguin [...]
WordPress is probably the most popular website framework on the planet Earth. In the security community it is also known as one of the most exploitable frameworks for a number of reasons. There are pretty much 2 main types of WordPress attacks that I've been seeing these days, nothing new: Brute forcing wp-admin via dictionary attack. Injecting code /payload [...]
