IP/Header Cloaking, Redirect Tools and Apache Issues, oh my!
Well, here it is, my first blog post, and boy is it going to be a crappy one. I don’t have much to update other than I have gotten parts of the site up and running and it’s going pretty smoothly other than a mis-spelled domain name I accidentally purchased. Oops. Me and my spelling!
Anyway, I am working on a few SEO projects that are probably going to be worth your while to read once I get them working. Unfortuantely, my machines are still in storage from the move so I am borrowing James’ equipment for the time being. He’s being a good sport about me tweaking the web server beyond all recognition and logging millions of packets, despite the fact I am getting the impression he’d rather tell me to go jump off a bridge because he’s too busy. So for that, thank you James (minus the bridge part)!
So let me put on my black hat here while I write out this partial list of the projects I am working on:
IP/Header Cloaking: Okay, I know, cloaking has been done a thousand times before. Well, that’s true. But never like this. I’ve gotten some amazing data accrewed over the last few days, but it’s both not enough and it’s also incomplete in terms of what I am logging. So I imagine this will be a two phased project. The first phase will be a proof of concept of data in aggregate. The second will move on to more types of data by increased logging infrastructure as well as a better range of logging nodes. Stay tuned on this one.
Redirect tools: Once upon a time I invented a tool to do logging of redirect holes found in sites. After much-ado I am resurrecting that project to do better logging, increased detection engine performance, and DB backend. Stay tuned for this one, although this one will have to wait for my machines to come out of storage so I can get my old code. Not that it would take a while to re-write, but it’s only a month away, so I’ll wait and work on other things in the mean-time.
Apache issues: Randomly I came across a problem the other day with Apache that could cause some blackhat SEOs some issues if the search engines out there ever started implementing what I found. I would release it now but I want to do some more tests before I consider it ready for prime-time. Thus far it seems to be working though. I’ll probably have to wait for my machines to come out of storage for this one too, although I might be able to test on another box I have at my disposal. I haven’t decided on this one yet where it falls on my priority list.
I’m also pondering writing a program to spam a bunch of different tools to see which ones actually drive traffic. I have a feeling our “we aren’t evil” friends are basically lying when it comes to privacy, but we’ll see. That one is definitely on the back-burner since it’s 100% a theory and would require me putting a lot of spyware on a VMware install somewhere. It’ll stay a theory at least until I get a lot more time on my hands - which will doubtfully ever happen. Whelp, that’s it for now. I’ll keep this up to date with more info when I have it.