Archive for February, 2009

Monitor site-hacking with Google Alerts

by Ades on February 4, 2009 in Google, Trackers with 6 Comments

Google Alerts is great in keeping track of keywords. But it can also be used to monitor your websites if anyone has hacked them (hopefully it won’t be the case), if it does happen Google would send you a notification. Google team blogged about it on their blog saying:

… Try a site: search on your site to see if anything unfamiliar shows up in Google’s results for your site. You can add words to the query that are unlikely to appear in your content, such as commercial terms or adult language. If the query [site:example.com viagra] isn’t supposed to return any pages on your site and it does, that could be a problem. You can even automate these searches with Google Alerts.

Source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/01/open-redir…

Top Commenters: January 2009

by Ades on February 3, 2009 in Free Linkback with 22 Comments

Give it up to the first batch of top commenters for the new year 2009: Cheap Phone Calls, SEO Tips South Africa, Web Hosting, Marketing Man, Minnesota Attorney, SEO Services, Web Designing, Custom Web Design, vitaminsister and Dewaji SEO Test. Thanks guys for being part of adesblog community and for your insightful inputs.

Online Tool: Checking if your ISP manipulates your torrent traffic

by Ades on February 1, 2009 in torrent, Trackers with 13 Comments

P2P file sharing traffic can constitute up to 75% of all the broadband bandwidth depending on the country. This of course increases the cost of operation for the ISPs, since it means traffic congestion and slow internet for them which leads to unsatisfied customers.

To solve this problem they either buy more traffic, or they limit the p2p traffic. Businesses being businesses – maximize profit, minimize cost – some of them go for the second option, that is to limit the torrent traffic of their customers.

How to check if your ISP limits your torrent traffic?

This tool called Glasnost can check if your ISP is manipulating your torrent traffic. It takes 7 minutes to make a full analysis of your ISP.

Test on my ISP (Streamyx) returned a negative result for the main port 6885, even though Streamyx is in the Bad ISPs list that are known to throttle the torrent traffic.

Maybe I have not reached the limit yet? Glastnost’s note could be the explanation:

Note: that some ISPs do not throttle all BitTorrent traffic but only if this traffic exceeds a certain threshold. Thus, passing our tests does not necessary mean that there is no throttling occurring on your link.

That’s probably correct since I am not a heavy p2p user.

Website: http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest-mlab.php