One of the reasons why Apache is such a popular web server is because it’s almost infinitely expandable and flexible. There are some incredibly powerful things you can do with Apache’s config settings, and .htaccess is the most common way to modify those settings.
First a little background. .htaccess is the name of the file. Yes, [...]

An SSH attack on our OS X server (XServe) caused widespread login problems, but had a simple fix…

Bad bots are affecting web analytics that are based on Javascript tagging. Learn about two ways to combat these user-mimicking spiders. Knowing they’re crawling your site is the first step in limiting their damage.

If distributed attacks on web analytics become common place, those of us doing SEO are in for a world of hurt… After all, how can you prove your worth if your statistics can’t be relied on? But, while painful, botnet analytics hacking really isn’t the end of SEO - let me explain…
Insuring that pages are [...]

It’s a myth that spiders don’t execute Javascript. SearchMe and Alexa’s spiders are two well-behaved spiders that do execute Javascript.