Week 4 Lab

Task 1:

1. Click To Complete Answer: No Answer Needed

Task 2:

1. What is the name of the company the domain was registered with? Answer: Namecheap Inc

2. What phone number is listed for the registration company? (do not include country code or special characters/spaces) Answer: 6613102107

3. What is the first nameserver listed for the site? Answer: DNS1.REGISTRAR-SERVERS.COM

4. What is listed for the name of the registrant? Answer: redacted for privacy

5. What country is listed for the registrant? Answer: Panama

Task 3:

1. What is the first name of the blog’s author? Answer: Steve

2. What city and country was the author writing from? Answer: Gwangju, South Korea

3. [Research] What is the name (in English) of the temple inside the National Park the author frequently visits? Answer: Jeungsimsa Temple

Task 4:

1. What was RepublicOfKoffee.com’s IP address as of October 2016? Answer: 173.248.188.152

2. Based on the other domains hosted on the same IP address, what kind of hosting service can we safely assume our target uses? Answer: shared

3. How many times has the IP address changed in the history of the domain? Answer: 4

Task 5:

1. What is the second nameserver listed for the domain? Answer: NS2.HEAT.NET

2. What IP address was the domain listed on as of December 2011? Answer: 72.52.192.240

3. Based on domains that share the same IP, what kind of hosting service is the domain owner using? Answer: shared

4. On what date did was the site first captured by the internet archive? (MM/DD/YY format) Answer: 06/01/97

5. What is the first sentence of the first body paragraph from the final capture of 2001? Answer: After years of great online gaming, it’s time to say good-bye.

6. Using your search engine skills, what was the name of the company that was responsible for the original version of the site? Answer: SegaSoft

7. What does the first header on the site on the last capture of 2010 say? Answer: Heat.net – Heating and Cooling

Task 6:

1. How many internal links are in the text of the article? Answer: 5

2. How many external links are in the text of the article? Answer: 1

3. Website in the article’s only external link ( that isn’t an ad) Answer: purchase.org

4. Try to find the Google Analytics code linked to the site Answer: UA-251372-24

5. Is the the Google Analytics code in use on another website? Yay or nay Answer: nay

6. Does the link to this website have any obvious affiliate codes embedded with it? Yay or Answer: Nay

Task 7:

1. Use the tools in Task 4 to confirm the link between the two sites. Try hard to figure it out without the hint. Answer: Liquid Web, L.L.C

Task 8:

Is the site a scam? It is worth considering how much time and effort that goes into setting up a PBN. A PBN ideally has a minimum of 50 pages of unique, natural-sounding and on-topic articles. That’s a lot of time and effort that went into getting a fast, short-term bump in the rankings, rather than into other aspects of the business, or even something as simple and affordable as pay-per-click marketing.

On the other hand, you might be surprised to learn just how common it is for websites to hire SEO agencies. Some of these agencies, whether they admit it or not, have hundreds of PBNs and a staff of writers (usually offshore) pumping out content designed solely for the consumption of the search algorithms.

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Task 9:

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