Captcha Breaking in detail

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This paper describes in minute detail how to crack a captcha.
Interesting, to say the least. Grab the pdf, enjoy your reading.
No commentsEasy Link Building Tool - Review

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One of the tasks you face as an affiliate marketer is getting plenty of good links to your site. A task that can be hard, expensive, or both.
Also a task that has been attacked at various angles, giving rise to link building services, link exchanges and more..
Here is where Lord’s newest invention, the oh-so-cleverly named “Link Building Tool” comes in.
Without further ado, let’s jump straight into the review.
What is it?
The “Link Building Tool” is a small desktop application that will help you in the task of finding good sites to get links from.
The actual task of entering the information into those sites is still left up to you, but the tool will help you in building those lists and ranking the sites for quality and accesibility.
How does it work?
When opening the link building tool, you are prompted to give it a search query, the number of pages it should crawl and which search engines (MSN and/or Google) it should get the results from.
In the first step, the link building tool goes and grabs the search results, displaying the URLs in the list window.
You can now proceed to give it more search terms to grow the list, or let it analyze those links via the “Rank new URLs” button.
Once you press that button, each URL gets a ranking value between 0 and 10.
This value is a mix of the search engine ranking and the ease with which you can insert a link there.
You can sort by ranking with a click of the mouse and off you go, inserting your link.
For this task, you can open either one selected website or 5 at a time.
Once you open a website, it is marked with a 0-done and will disappear from the top ranks.
My experiences so far
This tool makes it far easier to find good websites to get links from. Once you get sites ranked 5 or above in the tool, it is usually just a matter of seconds to enter your link in some comment form.
However, the tool can’t work miracles. When you move in competetive environments, you have to look around. My best strategy for this case is to hit the long tail keywords.
The save / load options make it easy to get back to previous lists and continue working.
The ranking is a godsend, as is the “open pages in browser” feature.
I already got more than a few nice links from sites I found with this tool, so I am more than happy.
The price of 67 US dollars is not really a steal, but more than justified by the ease of getting good links.
Summary
Head on over and get your copy.
huh?
So the old simian reads a certain small business blog quite regularly.
The guy is quite openly describing his experiences regarding his drop-shipping site and other ventures and has recently begun a series of posts explaining changes and improvements he is making to his shop in order to improve sales.
Some of the commenters pipe up and want to hear about SEO.
- cue cheap eastern kung fu movie music -
The blind ape enters the scene.
Writing the guy an email asking if he would like a guest post by yours truly about various SEO improvements that could be done.
He denies the offer politely.
OK. No bad feelings here, just a short WTF?
He denies a complete SEO Analysis, directions for improvement AND content for his blog at no cost other than a backlink in the article?
Can anyone explain this? Because this sight impaired old ape sure can’t.
10 commentsThe blind ape guest posting at domainingtips.com
After reading the latest article on domaining strategies, the simian sensei took one of his drafts and turned it into a case study on how to develop and sell a domain.
Go and read this perfectly noob-friendly domaining case study.
In this case study I walk you through every step of the domain selling process. From registering the domain to actually selling it. Costs and revenues are shown as well as things that went well and those that could have gone better.
No commentsDomaining - extensive how to
Head on over to domainingtips.com and read the newest article by Lord Brar on his domaining strategy .
A good read and a step by step tutorial for wannabe domainers.
No commentsBlog setup checklist
- Install blog
- Choose theme
Do eventual necessary theme modifications - Install plugins
(Just copy that plugin folder with your favs) - Activate Plugins
Don’t forget this - SEO setup for the blog
Set up title structure
Ping list with your favorite victims…err ping targets
Set up permalink structure
Edit blogroll - Include ads
Index page
Individual post pages - Write about page
Make it gripping - Write content
I usually do 5-10 posts, spaced out over 1-2 weeks - Profit!!!
My favorite part
Free resource list not only for supporters
I think all those will be of interest to web workers / sys admins / power users of all trades.
http://www.runpcrun.com/free_IT_support_engineers_toolkit
Enjoy,
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Future post plugin
This plugin for displaying future post dates on a sidebar calendar was exactly what I was looking for.
If you subscribe to the idea of batching work on your blogs, get and install it.
Simply removing the comment function “//” from the second line adds this to your dashboard overview as well.