SEO/SEM Downloads and Other Tools

Yahoo CAPTCHA Code Cracker

Ituloy AngSulong — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:48:07 +0000

Reported by Slightly Shady SEO: Russian crackers found a way to crack Yahoo CAPTCHA. Although he mentioned it, he does not want to try it out as he mentions on his blog post:

I have 2 rules for software. I don’t download odd binaries from Blackhats, and I don’t download anything from russians. Especially russian security experts who operate under pseudonyms.

The crack is found here. So far I see no good use for this. All I see is a bad use for it. Passing CAPTCHA always means some automated form submission in a large quantity. Although this does not surprise me. Russians are very good programmers, I believe Yandex is almost as sophisticated as todays modern search engines which is why Google is not popular in Russia. And passing CAPTCHA is already something old that XRumer.com has been doing for years already in their automated forum poster. I wonder if anyone has plans to use this in SEO contest like SEOContest2008 or in Yicrosoft Directory?

Social Media Plugin for FireFox

Al Khalel Le Beau — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:06:23 +0000

I found this new Firefox plugin for Social Media which was released recently. This plugin will be added to my list of the Best Firefox SEO Plugins which was previously posted.

By using this tool, you can save time in building powerful social media accounts. When you browse social networking sites like Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon and Del.icio.us and you stumble upon some popular stories not yet found on other social news sites, then it will be to your advantage to be the first one to submit these stories to the other sites. In that way, your account will be the one listed next to it and you will gain many fans and friends.

You can manually or automatically set it up. When you do it manually, you need to click the manual button and it will show you the page info such as title and URL. Automatic is recommended when you are browsing social sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit and Del.icio.us.

Would you also like to add this plugin to your Firefox browser?

urllist.txt Automatic Generator

Ituloy AngSulong — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:03:22 +0000

The urllist.txt file is not something new. In fact it is quite old. I just did a quick search on it and found only a few people talking about urllist.txt, and these are like dated in ancient 2005. But still just for that small little quicker submission time advantage, we still use this. But since there is a Sitemap Generator for Wordpress, I decided to have my own urllist.txt generator. Although mine is not really a plugin, it is just a file you upload in the root url together with your sitemap.xml. And the urllist.txt file will read the sitemap.xml file and generate the file from there. You need to be able to mod-rewrite too to use this.

Download urllist.zip Generator

Please remember that this file is not a Wordpress Plugin. It simply reads the sitemap.xml file. Thus if you are not using the Wordpress Sitemap Generator, maybe you should get that first.

Instructions:

Upload the file urllist.php to where your sitemap.xml file is.
Add these lines as the first lines of your .htaccess file:Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule urllist.txt$ urllist.php

Note: They should be the first lines because if you place them by the end, Wordpress’ rewrite rules will be followed.
Done. Visit your urllist.txt file in your browser to see if it’s working.
Go to: Yahoo Site Explorer and submit and authenticate your site and add the urllist.txt there as your feed.

Since this is not a Wordpress Plugin, you can use this on any site that has a sitemap.xml file. Just update the sitemap.xml file, you update the urllist.txt file automatically.