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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://website-help-blog.com/?p=181</guid>
		<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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Maintenance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://website-help-blog.com/?p=179</guid>
		<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>Periodic Table of SEO</title>
		<link>http://website-help-blog.com/2011/08/periodic-table-of-seo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://website-help-blog.com/?p=166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a slick presentation of the different SEO factors, presented in a &#8216;periodic table&#8217; format, making it an easy read. Explaining SEO can be hard to the uninitiated sometimes, so this should help. I especially like they way the show the negative SEO values colored red and yellow at the bottom.

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		<title>Panda Update</title>
		<link>http://website-help-blog.com/2011/07/panda-update/</link>
		<comments>http://website-help-blog.com/2011/07/panda-update/#comments</comments>
		<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. 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 counter-measures to negate [...]]]></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>
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		<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 easy [...]]]></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>
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		<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 clearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Website Analytics</title>
		<link>http://website-help-blog.com/2011/05/website-analytics/</link>
		<comments>http://website-help-blog.com/2011/05/website-analytics/#comments</comments>
		<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 me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I’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.
First [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which Test Won?</title>
		<link>http://website-help-blog.com/2011/05/which-test-won/</link>
		<comments>http://website-help-blog.com/2011/05/which-test-won/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 14:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://website-help-blog.com/?p=125</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I do a lot of testing of webpages &#8211; pitting two versions of a page against each other in the attempt at raising its conversion rate (CR).  The idea is to find the winner, and then do the test again having a newer version of the page to increase the CR even more.
Anyways, there is [...]]]></description>
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