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	<title>Search Engine Musings</title>
	<link>http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog</link>
	<description>common sense from a Scottish SEO consultant</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Google Webmaster Tools problem</title>
		<link>http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/seo-blogs/google-webmaster-tools-problem.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[And the wider issue of communicating with the search giant
For most of the last month or so there has been a problem for some sites in accessing the useful tools that Google makes available for site administrators. This manifested itself as a failure to verify the &#8220;ownership&#8221; of the sites using either of the two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web site code optimisation</title>
		<link>http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/seo-blogs/web-site-code-optimisation.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/seo-blogs/web-site-code-optimisation.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bill</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO Blogs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Coding]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Does valid code matter?
You often see that question on SEO forums, and the wide diversity of replies shows how much confusion there is on this. It usually degenerates pretty quickly into an argument between those who fervently believe valid code helps search rankings and those who don&#8217;t. This misses the point completely.
My opinion, confirmed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web site optimisation v SEO</title>
		<link>http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/seo-blogs/web-site-optimisation-v-seo.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/seo-blogs/web-site-optimisation-v-seo.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bill</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO Blogs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Useability]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There seems to be a lot of confusion in the minds of many webmasters, both new and experienced, about what SEO actually is and what tasks it is useful to spend time on. You see forum questions asking &#8217;should I worry about code validity&#8217; (I&#8217;ll return to that one in another posting soon), &#8217;should I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New BBC homepage</title>
		<link>http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/seo-blogs/the-new-bbc-homepage.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bill</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Yahoo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you will by now have seen the new BBC home page with its movable and customisable sections which can be tailored to your preferences. Fiddleability rules!
When I first looked at the beta version I wasn&#8217;t convinced; it looked a bit &#8220;play-school&#8221; and some of the option weren&#8217;t too well thought out. But it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When getting hacked hits your rankings</title>
		<link>http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/seo-blogs/when-getting-hacked-hits-your-rankings.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/seo-blogs/when-getting-hacked-hits-your-rankings.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bill</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year I wrote about the rankings that this blog had enjoyed dropping substantially despite the main site holding on to its positions. Yesterday I discovered a possible cause. A correspondent on one of my other blogs notified me that his anti-virus program had alerted him to an attempted trojan link when he visited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does the world do when Google goes down?</title>
		<link>http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/seo-blogs/what-does-the-world-do-when-google-goes-down.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/seo-blogs/what-does-the-world-do-when-google-goes-down.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bill</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO Blogs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting; midday on Saturday (UK time) and Google is down. A tracert command runs fine on both the .co.uk and .com addresses but the wewbsite doesn&#8217;t respond. Not only that but sites that I know run Google Analytics are slow to load, presumably because the analytics calls aren&#8217;t responding.
My first thought was to look for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft and Yahoo - the implications</title>
		<link>http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/seo-blogs/microsoft-and-yahoo-the-implications.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bill</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So the much speculated bid has finally happened. Will they say yes? If they do what will the search industry look like in a years time.
Recent figures on search market share in the USA suggest that Yahoo may be losing ground and MSN/Live gaining, though there seems little suggestion of it in the UK. Indeed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just how temporary are blog rankings?</title>
		<link>http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/seo-blogs/just-how-temporary-are-blog-rankings.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/seo-blogs/just-how-temporary-are-blog-rankings.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bill</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO Blogs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I noticed a curious phenomena in my Google rankings this week. While my general rankings based on the main site are doing well and mostly improving, all the terms that were ranking via this blog have dropped out of sight. Now I haven&#8217;t been blogging as much recently due to other committments so now I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A question of balance</title>
		<link>http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/seo-blogs/a-question-of-balance.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/seo-blogs/a-question-of-balance.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Which SEO techniques are &#8216;dead&#8217; this week?
There seem to have been a plethora of articles in recent weeks about all the SEO techniques that allegedly don&#8217;t work anymore. Whether it&#8217;s reciprocal links (seems like that one&#8217;s been dying for years), free directory submissions, paid directory submissions, link bait, paid links, or whatever (funny how these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out of the Hellmouth - maybe</title>
		<link>http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/seo-blogs/out-of-the-hellmouth-maybe.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/seo-blogs/out-of-the-hellmouth-maybe.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Google announce the end of the supplemental index
In a curiously timed announcement, just when many people are turning to thoughts of Xmas rather than SEO, Google have said that from now on all search queries will access the full index for relevant results, effectively ending the problem of good quality pages being ignored because they&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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