SEOktoberfest is Quickly Approaching
The next two weeks are going to be crazy - off to Intel to speak at their private conference in Oregon. But possibly more interesting I got a personal invite to speak at SEOktoberfest in Munich on “SEOwning the Internet.” This speech is primarily around blackhat techniques for improving page rank. Yes, I do talk about whitehat and blackhat techniques both, because I think knowing both is extremely important, even if your business can’t afford the risks and ramifications of getting shut down by the likes of Google, Yahoo, Bing. Trust, me, we don’t advocate the use of blackhat techniques for any legitimate organization - but I still find it personally interesting.
One of the things I’m going to be discussing in my presentation is how Google employees manually look for spam text and try to prevent the search engine from indexing sites that appear to be abusing their search engines. I managed to find, read and digest some of the more interesting techniques that their human review team does to try to prevent spam, and drawing on more than a decade of browser and web application security, I found a way to avoid their prying eyes. Because people are paying a lot of money to go to SEOktoberfest, they get the first look into this, but I’ll release the details of how it works upon my return. Until then…