Blackhat SEO – Esrun

Esruns Rank Checker is a fast light-weight keyword rank checker. It allows you to quickly see where your site ranks in Google, for a list of keywords. Rather than pretending to be a genuine web browser, it sits on top of, and automates, your regular browser – meaning you can check a lot more keywords without requiring proxies or getting blocked by Google.

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So quite a few years ago, I blogged about how I wished Youtube had some kind of playlist feature, so I could line up a bunch of videos and have them play one after another. Thankfully, we now have that feature.

What I really want now is a volume enhancement option which allows you to hear a volume increased (and perhaps basic audio enhancement) version of the video.

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Let me start by saying that I’m a huge fan of openDNS. For speed and reliability combined, they simply can’t be beaten and I’d much rather they had my DNS data than Google!

However, if you’re a user, you should know that there’s a security flaw that could allow someone to harvest your DNS data and potentially trick you into giving up banking passwords and other sensitive details.

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If you’re on a shared hosting server, you should be extremely careful to apply the correct permissions to your configuration files. Failure to do so, can leave them open to viewing by other users on the server. It’s then a trivial matter for the user to connect to the database server and modify posts. steal customer data and so on.

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In this article, I’ll explain a way that you can auto-hide (kinda) the bookmark toolbar in Google Chrome on Mac OS X. I personally like to use as few toolbars as possible in my browsers, since they eat up valuable screen real-estate. I’ve never really been a fan of the Bookmarks toolbar, but with my increased preference to use the HTTPS version of the sites I login to, I’ve began relying on the bookmarks toolbar to avoid accidentally visiting the non-HTTP version of a site.

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