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		<title>Backlinks vs. Page Content</title>
		<link>http://website-help-blog.com/2011/11/backlinks-vs-page-content/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So which is better SEO for your website; getting more backlinks, or improving your page content?  This is an issue I&#8217;ve been dealing with for some time now, and I think the evidence clearly shows that it is your page content that is most important.  Google is increasingly downgrading the worth of backlinks, and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dashes vs. Underscores</title>
		<link>http://website-help-blog.com/2011/11/dashes-vs-underscores/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I still see lots of URLs having underscores, so thought I&#8217;d discuss that a little.  Who cares, right?  Well, Google cares, for one.  If you use an underscore in your URL like this: www.mysite.com/my_best_post.html &#8211; then what Google will do is join the words together when it gets indexed &#8220;mybestpost&#8221;.  On the other hand when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panda Update</title>
		<link>http://website-help-blog.com/2011/07/panda-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Maintenance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://website-help-blog.com/?p=153</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve said for years now that the goal of Google is to put SEO people out of business, and that may have been a little harsh. blog routing code What might be more accurate is to say Google is redefining what it means to SEO a website.  As SEO tactics were adopted, Google would implement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Your Site Navigation</title>
		<link>http://website-help-blog.com/2011/06/the-importance-of-your-site-navigation/</link>
		<comments>http://website-help-blog.com/2011/06/the-importance-of-your-site-navigation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://website-help-blog.com/?p=152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You can use your site navigation to &#8220;help&#8221; Google assign SEO values to your pages. The concept is an old one, but I don&#8217;t think is understood by many people. So let me break this down a little as to how it works. Obviously the first purpose of the site navigation is to make it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reciprocal Linking</title>
		<link>http://website-help-blog.com/2011/06/reciprocal-linking/</link>
		<comments>http://website-help-blog.com/2011/06/reciprocal-linking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://website-help-blog.com/?p=147</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is reciprocal linking bad? This is the practice where you place a link on your site, in exchange for someone else doing the same back to you from theirs.  I think the answer to this question depends on your site, how well known it is already.  Because if you have a new website with few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you really need backlinks?</title>
		<link>http://website-help-blog.com/2011/06/do-you-really-need-backlinks/</link>
		<comments>http://website-help-blog.com/2011/06/do-you-really-need-backlinks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://website-help-blog.com/?p=139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve worked SEO for some years now, and remember fondly (not) how I would put my websites into various directories, lists, blogs and phone books.  Spent quite a bit of time doing it, and today find that it means next to nothing. So I saw the image below recently on Wikipedia, under Page Rank, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Website Analytics</title>
		<link>http://website-help-blog.com/2011/05/website-analytics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 21:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://website-help-blog.com/?p=133</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So which website statistics are most important to look at when evaluating the performance of your website? The easy answer is to say the traffic levels &#8211; and you would be dead wrong. A high traffic website can still fail if it is not converting the traffic into sales or leads. So for someone like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Number One!</title>
		<link>http://website-help-blog.com/2011/05/im-number-one/</link>
		<comments>http://website-help-blog.com/2011/05/im-number-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 20:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://website-help-blog.com/?p=128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I shake my head over some of the promises being made to website owners regarding SEO.  I get lots of spam emails myself , where some SEO company based out of India is promising to make me &#8220;number 1 in the search engines!&#8221;  So let me address this a little bit, put it into perspective. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Directory List</title>
		<link>http://website-help-blog.com/2010/06/directory-list/</link>
		<comments>http://website-help-blog.com/2010/06/directory-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://website-help-blog.com/?p=121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When creating a new website, the next important step is for you to get the word out that the website exists &#8211; to market the thing.  And for SEO purposes you need to get yourself some inbound links to your website (links coming from other websites back to yours).  So one of the basic SEO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sitemaps for Your Website</title>
		<link>http://website-help-blog.com/2009/10/sitemaps-for-your-website/</link>
		<comments>http://website-help-blog.com/2009/10/sitemaps-for-your-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Maintenance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://website-help-blog.com/?p=115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sitemaps are very important for larger websites. If you own a website that has many webpages, say over 50, then it becomes increasingly important to have a site map. If you create a new webpage, you don&#8217;t submit it to the search engines &#8211; you just need to add it to your sitemap. There are [...]]]></description>
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