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Last weekend, we got a serious case of a client’s website getting an iframe injection. iFrame injections started last year, when a Russian anti-virus company spread a virus that injects hidden frames inside websites to advertise their anti-virus software. Nowadays, iframe injections are being used by SEO companies to forward traffic and leak link juice from a high-PR website.

Just last year, major US websites like Wal-mart, USA today, etc. were hit by this virus.

Based on our research, iframe injections are caused by workstations infected by worms that injects these iframe source to index.php or index.html. Some tips to avoid this serious infection are:

• update ftp password every month or update it everytime you upload a file just to make sure;
• invest on a good anti-virus software and make sure its always updated;
• never save your passwords on your computer (ftp software, e-mail, instant messaging, browser).

Last night, I updated my pesentation about the New Trends in Search Optimization for the Social Networking and eBusiness Conference. It is now uploaded here for your viewing. The copy on the CD given actually has lesser slides than this one.

Also, you may now download the free Do-It-Yourself SEO ebook here.

There is an upcoming e-business and social networking conference where our company’s president will be speaking at. The details of the conference can be found here.

With this, we decided to change the look of our blog, to prepare and work on our company’s image. We’re still fixing some minor things - like the logo on top that doesn’t really work with the colors of this blog :). Some other things we did together with the design upgrade are:

• Upgrade to the latest wordpress
• Installed some SEO plug-ins (thanks to our SEO Unit Head, Annie, for notifying us that our blog didn’t have an XML sitemap)
• Installed Hello Dolly plug-in even though it doesn’t make sense. While typing this post, hello dolly is displaying “Golly. gee fellas”
• Updated the footer links with keywords that links to our landing pages

We hope that you’re enjoying the upgrade for our blog’s design. More great things to come

Update 4/28/2009:

Conference was successful, just found an AVP of it uploaded:

Due to a conflict with our schedule, we will not be able to join the University of the Cordilleras job fair. Please be informed that you can still submit your resumes to careers [at] myoptimind.com. To recap, we are hiring for the following positions:

Baguio:

• Writers
• Illustrators
• Animators
• Web Designers
• Web Programmers
• Internet Marketing Staff

Manila:

• Account Executive
• Illustrators
• Animators
• Web Designers
• Web Programmers

Please watch NBN (Channel 4) this coming Friday (March 27, 2009), 7pm. I will talk about my success story and give a few tips on how to be successful.

I forgot to ask for the name of the show, hehe.

Thanks for everyone who came to our Job Fair at the University of the Cordilleras last Friday, March 13, 2009. We are hoping to hire the first batch of our SEO team in Baguio very soon.

We’ll be at UC’s job fair on March 23, 2009. Hope to see you there!

Special thanks to Ms. Adina of the Guidance Counselling office of UC.

Whitehouse.gov has a new face. With the overflowing creative and technical resources we have, I hope our own President’s website can level up with it.

By the way, Gov.ph can’t actually be accessed using Gov.ph.. You should add www to the domain. This should be configured by the developers or web hosting provider by default.

Our website has increased Page Rank from 3 to 4! Yehey!