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	<title>Ken Shafer&#039;s Bloggity-Blog &#187; SEO</title>
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		<title>HTML5&#8242;s Semantic Markup and SEO</title>
		<link>http://shaferdesigns.com/seo/html5s-semantic-markup-and-seo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Shafer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe it to be common knowledge that search engines would want to place a lower emphasis on links or content located in a repeating nav bar or especially a footer.  Greater emphasis is, and probably should be, placed on the more unique content and links found in the &#8220;body&#8221; of the page. Currently with HTML4, mark-up coders are working &#8230; <a href="http://shaferdesigns.com/seo/html5s-semantic-markup-and-seo/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Matt Cutts On Links From Facebook and Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Shafer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting video post from Google&#8217;s Matt Cutts. Watch first and then let&#8217;s discuss. Video source: How do you rate links from sites like Twitter and Facebook? Original Article: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/01/answering-your-december-grab-bag.html?utm_source=feedburner&#38;utm_medium=feed&#38;utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/amDG+(Official+Google+Webmaster+Central+Blog) Points of interest: Links aren&#8217;t any different if they come from .gov or .edu. &#8220;It&#8217;s not like a link from an .edu autmatically carries more weight.&#8221; (1:58) Most links on Twitter &#8230; <a href="http://shaferdesigns.com/seo/matt-cutts-on-links-from-facebook-and-twitter/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mod_Rewrite for GoDaddy and WordPress</title>
		<link>http://shaferdesigns.com/coding/mod_rewrite-for-godaddy-and-wordpress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Shafer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[.htaccess]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mod_rewrite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2008 I posted an article about getting mod_rewrite working on a GoDaddy account. I thought it&#8217;d be a good time to update that information with another example. This time we&#8217;re going to be looking at making some changes on a GoDaddy account with a WordPress installation. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Options +FollowSymLinks Options -MultiViews RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^DirectoryName/(.*)/(.*)/(.*) pagename.php?paramB=$2&#38;paramC=$3paramA=$1 # BEGIN &#8230; <a href="http://shaferdesigns.com/coding/mod_rewrite-for-godaddy-and-wordpress/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Digging For Buried Traffic</title>
		<link>http://shaferdesigns.com/seo/digging-for-buried-traffic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Shafer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traffic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Using a Site Analytics tool? Got a Rank Tracker or some free time to manually check some rankings? Here&#8217;s a way you can find and predict how much traffic you might be missing out on. Aside from the fact that I just ended that sentence with a preposition which drives me nuts, let walk through the process, shall we? Super. &#8230; <a href="http://shaferdesigns.com/seo/digging-for-buried-traffic/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Search Engines Get Canonical</title>
		<link>http://shaferdesigns.com/seo/search-engines-get-canonical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Shafer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Engine News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yahoo!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Say goodbye to duplicate content, folks&#8230; Basically, all the search engines will let you suggest the preferred URL you&#8217;d like them to focus all the SEO juice on: To use Google&#8217;s example, all you put in the head tag is something like this: link rel=&#8221;canonical&#8221; href=&#8221;http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish&#8221; That&#8217;s all there is to it, folks. Here are the links to the new &#8230; <a href="http://shaferdesigns.com/seo/search-engines-get-canonical/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In-Depth PageRank Article</title>
		<link>http://shaferdesigns.com/seo/in-depth-pagerank-article/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Shafer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Engine News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PageRank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A co-worker just sent me this link. I read through the article and it&#8217;s pretty interesting if you place a lot of value on Page Rank. &#8220;The Google PageRank Algorithm&#8221; It pretty interesting since he also includes a PageRank Calculator. Check it out folks!]]></description>
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		<title>Google SERP Personalization in Full Effect!</title>
		<link>http://shaferdesigns.com/seo/google-serp-personalization-in-full-effect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Shafer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Engine News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I was doing a search for a response I posted on this blog to a Search Engine Watch article. When I was logged in to my Google account in Chrome, my article was #1. When I was not logged in and using Firefox, I was #8. Just another example of how using SERP ranking as a success metric is becoming &#8230; <a href="http://shaferdesigns.com/seo/google-serp-personalization-in-full-effect/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress update from yesterday</title>
		<link>http://shaferdesigns.com/seo/wordpress-update-from-yesterday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Shafer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WordPress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ok. I still haven&#8217;t gotten the sitemap up yet. I&#8217;m waiting for some template changes from one of the other guys. However, I did a little tweaking with the title tags. Here&#8217;s what I put in: &#60;?php if (is_home()) { ?&#62; &#60;title&#62;&#60;?php bloginfo(&#8216;name&#8217;); ?&#62; &#124; (Lot&#8217;s o&#8217; keywords here)&#60;/title&#62; &#60;? } else {?&#62; &#60;title&#62;&#60;?php wp_title(); ?&#62; &#124; &#60;?php bloginfo(&#8216;name&#8217;); ?&#62;&#60;/title&#62; &#8230; <a href="http://shaferdesigns.com/seo/wordpress-update-from-yesterday/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress Robots.txt</title>
		<link>http://shaferdesigns.com/seo/wordpress-robots-txt/</link>
		<comments>http://shaferdesigns.com/seo/wordpress-robots-txt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Shafer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robots.txt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since WordPress doesn&#8217;t provide a Robots.txt file with the standard implementation. I needed to find one. I looked around and the version over at www.askapache.com seems to be working well for a lot of people. I uploaded it yesterday..]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress SEO again today</title>
		<link>http://shaferdesigns.com/seo/wordpress-seo-again-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Shafer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WordPress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One more piece of the puzzle (i really should compile all of these into one post but it&#8217;s been done so well here)&#8230; Having &#8220;related links&#8221; at the end of an article is a good way to create interlinking to older content. It&#8217;s SEO goodness, people. And, of course, there&#8217;s a plug-in out there. I found one that&#8217;s absolutely super-duper. It&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://shaferdesigns.com/seo/wordpress-seo-again-today/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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