Patrick Coombe
Hootsuite, Buffer and Sprout Social are all ways to automate your social media postings. Some folks use it religiously while others use it to supplement when they are not around. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to spot a social network profile that automates its postings. I can spot one from a mile away. Many times they are ugly [...]
The best blackhat SEO's in the world are the ones that look like whitehats. Today I'm going to take competitor research to the next level. We're going to define, identify, and analyze the private blog networks your competitors are using to rank and bank. But why are we doing this? That is really something you have to answer yourself. [...]
Since the dawn of modern web browsers the favicon has been used as a mini-icon to represent the brand of your website in your browsers title bar. Over the last few years, the favicon has grown up. We have icons, favicons, shortcut-icons, apple touch icons and many more. These icons have various default settings in quality and size. Today [...]
Whether you are a ginormous hosting company or a one man band, WHMCS can help you manage tons of domains. I've been using it personally for a number of years now, and have recently added another install since I've co-founded our hosting company. If you landed here, chances are you need some help getting setup. This is no easy [...]
I've literally been asked this question about 20 times over the years, it is now time I write a post about it. The steps are easy: Find icons Upload them to a server Add them to Gmail signature Hyperlink them w/ click tracking Finding the icons This part is easy for me, since I already made my own social [...]
I don't know why, but I keep seeing this on many different servers, with various different profiles. Over the past year, I've seen this problem randomly happen to at least 10 different websites. One day everything is fine, then an update happens to WordPress, PHP or Apache and poof, WordPress wp-admin spits out a 403 forbidden error. To keep [...]
How to prevent your friends from seeing where you are on Facebook I was calmly going about my day last week when a friend of mine called me with an urgent situation: "Can you check Facebook, where does it say I'm at?" "Uh, Chicago dude, why?" "Dammit, I need help turning that off." It turns out he wasn't crazy [...]
This problem has been persistent and a real pain in the neck for the last few years. I first ran across this example when implementing schema (itemprop, etc) within my code. I would be hacking away in WordPress HTML editor (text tab) for hours upon end. At some point I would switch to the visual editor (visual tab) and [...]
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 [...]
If you have ever tried to login to Facebook from a new device, Facebook might prompt you to prove that you are the account holder by identifying photos of your friends. Recently I needed to gain control of an account that was not mine (that I had full authorization to do so) and had to go through this task. [...]
