Search Commander Blog - Scott Hendison

WordPress Brute Force Attacks

Scott — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:37:12 +0000

As pointed out over a month ago by Sucuri, brute force attacks on WordPress are on the rise, and this past week the entire web hosting world was rocked by a coordinated and persistent attack on WordPress that has attempted (and continues to attempt) to gain access to millions of WordPress installations. The ‘official’ details [...]

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Google Analytics For Beginners

Scott — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:37:35 +0000

I’ll be giving a completely non-technical presentation for business owners and executives, on the important things to know about Google Analytics. When: Thursday, April 18th, 5:00 – 7:00pm Where: Red Lion Convention Center 1021 Northeast Grand Ave. Portland Map For Who: Open to business owners, employees, web developers, executives, friends, relatives, and all Internet marketing [...]

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Report Fake Google Review Profiles

Scott — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:43:29 +0000

I’m writing this because Google needs your help to weed out fake reviewers, and this is how I reported one. I just reported this user, Heather C-H, where I suspect that it’s a fake profile for a number of reasons… No “About” information No personal information No full name No profile photo No images, albums [...]

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Easily Compare Analytics to Last Year

Scott — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:04:45 +0000

In Google Analytics, a small improvement was made a couple of months ago to the interface for comparing your stats to a previous period in time, and I think it was long overdue. As a manager for Ross Dress for Less in the early 1990′s I lived and died by my “comps” , which were [...]

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Kickstarter – Facebook Event Promotion

Scott — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:12:58 +0000

I learned a lot about Kickstarter over the past two weeks, and I thought this might interest some of you, plus, I need your help too. With Kickstarter crowd funding, people don’t actually “invest” in a project, instead they “pledge” an amount, in exchange for something tangible, related to the project being funded. The “rewards” [...]

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Pubcon New Orleans 2013 – 4 Sessions!

Scott — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:40:01 +0000

I am honored and excited to be appearing in FOUR separate sessions at PubCon in New Orleans this spring, even if it’s going to be a lot of work. (Really, it IS work, I swear)! I never give the same presentation twice at a paid event, and I always work hard, but this year I [...]

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One Code Verifies Google+ / Local Pages

Scott — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:40:09 +0000

I have a high school friend whom I’ve helped with his website intermittently over the years, and I claimed his Google Local page for him quite a few years ago. Last summer, I created a Google+ page for him also, and I never thought much about it after that. A few weeks ago, I edited [...]

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Local Search Presentation Friday

Scott — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:51:36 +0000

I’m going to be speaking to about 150 local businesses, most of whom are in the travel and hospitality industry, this Friday, February 8th at the Social Media & Web Marketing Conference. The event is at the Portland Convention Center Red Lion Inn, and it’s sponsored by Oregon Live. Also on the agenda will be representatives [...]

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Link Diversity Revisited for 2013

Scott — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:40:52 +0000

I got to thinking about things that I’ve said in the past about linkbuilding, especially where I’ve been dead wrong. Then I wondered if I’d ever written what I (and a lot of SEOs) had believed for a long time - “I don’t think Google can ever penalize you for inbound links”, and after a [...]

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Scamazon Alert

Scott — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:15:03 +0000

At this time of year, a lot of people might fall for this Amazon phishing scam, and it could lead to disastrous consequences. I buy a lot of stuff at Amazon, especially at this time of year. This email ended up in my in-box on the same day as several purchases I made, so at [...]

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