Bad Neighborhood Blog

Just to let you guys know, it looks like the IP address that Bad Neighborhood runs on has been added to Project Honeypot (IP data can be viewed heremebeli). I had thought that you actually had to spam someone after hitting a honeypot in order to get added to the blacklist, but a friend of […]

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Despite the loss of all historical data, the site is back and fully functional, aside from one tool. The Keyword Suggestion Tool based on AOL Leaked Data is currently offline. I will have to re-crunch the data from the original files, and am not sure yet how long that will take. I apologize for the […]

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A minor compatibility issue with a MySQL statement in the Login LockDown Security Plugin has been fixed. The old version, 1.0, was using a MySQL function that did not become available until MySQL 4.1.1, whereas WordPress only requires MySQL 4.0. Only those who were getting a MySQL error after activating the plugin would need to […]

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I am happy to announce the release of Login LockDown, a new plugin for WordPress, designed to help increase security and reduce the chance of someone hacking into your WordPress installation.

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There was an issue with attempting to scan certain urls causing the scanner to fail. I thought I had fixed it, but found out it was still happening with requests to scan SSL (HTTPS) sites. I modified the way the urls are passed through the AJAX calls and everything appears to be working again. Please […]

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Due to some misconceptions that I have come across having to do with the Bad Neighborhood Detector tool, I need to clear up a couple of things. Let me say first and foremost that the tool is designed to help webmasters in determining whether or not they might want to link out to a particular […]

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The Google Multi-Datacenter rank checker was offline for about the past 10 days due to a couple of issues, one of which was the structure of the table I am using to store the search history. As a workaround I made a blank copy of the table and archived all of the old data. Within […]

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My latest gizmo, Yahoo! Multiple Keyword Position/Rank Checker, is now live on Bad Neighborhood. Enter up to 5 different keywords in the textarea (1 keyword/keyphrase per line), and the domain you want to check for in the text box underneath that. It will scan Yahoo! until it finds your domain, or the end of the […]

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The site redesign is now complete. New tools will soon be added. Additional info as to how the current tools work will be added here as posts, and linked to from each of them as needed.

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