Tech Ravings

In a post on Come Adventuring I made an announcement that I was web casting again. I also Twittered this information. Since I used UrlBrief I was also able to see click thru. As a whim I checked them an hour later and was suprised to see that traffic had been generated. Especially since Googlebot had come through twice. Because I had used the same link in both places and the surprising traffic which one drew the traffic?

So started the experiment.

Using the traditional blogging methods: make a post; have it ping news aggregates, I created a link for than. I let it run for an hour to see if anything click the UrlBrief link and thus being recorded. The only two hits were from my Wordpress blog, none others.

After an hour and to the minute I made a Tweet with a fresh link for Come Adventuring. Absolutely no inclusion in any post. Even though I’m making this post twenty minutes early I have recorded 5 click thru’s to the post. One being googlebot.

After spending years in SEO/SEM I have become familiar with the traditional methods of code cleanliness, link campaigns, directory inclusions, ads, etc. I have never seen a faster generation of traffic than making a tweet on Twitter. This is truly amazing as Google must be sitting on Twitter and scraping.

In my excitement about setting up streaming as posted on Come Adventuring I looked to UrlBrief to shorten the url to the radio broadcast. I also made a tweet about how excited I was with the urlbrief link. Not thinking anything of it I just went about normal business.

Now keep in mind that UrlBrief also records for you to see where clicks have come from which make it very cool. So just as a grins and giggles idea I went back an hour later. Just to see. I about dropped out of my chair to see that google bot had already visited the links via the urlbrief url, and twice.

Not there are two ways that google bot could have done that: one is through the natural indexing of Come Adventuring, or; through Twitter. I’m guessing Twitter because Come Adventuring is way too new. Although it has a PR of 1, seriously it just doesn’t happen like that. Even by coincidence.

So I have another test running just in case. The Come Adventuring link above is url brief encoded. I’m going to let it run for an hour on this blog which Google has ranked spanked. I’ll post the details.

 Then I’m going to make a tweet about it. Then post after an hour.

I’ve spent years doing SEO/SEM and have never seen a quicker response from a SE. I can certainly attribute it to Twitter because, frankly, I don’t market this blog.

So far in the past month I have had two database injections. I don’t know how they are getting in and since I am on a shared server I don’t have access to the raw apache logs to figure this out. Security being very important to me I had to do something on the server that would allow tracking or even setting up a complete firewall custom taliored for me.

I found Firewall Script that can be used specifically to safe gaurd my personal site with dis-regard to all the others. I have not downloaded it yet but from the features it looks to be exactly what I was looking for. Protection from sql injection, XSS attacks, even DDOS protection. Not that this blog would really ever need that I do run other sites that would really require it if the server can’t handle it.

I wanted to get this news out as soon as possible because several of us Wordpress and site owners are experiencing a rise in intrusion attempts. I’m gonna give it a try as soon as possible and I hope that this may help you as well.