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	<title>John Conde &#187; SEO</title>
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		<title>Site Traffic Is Not A Ranking Factor For Search Engines</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many myths concerning how pages are ranked is that the volume of traffic a website receives affects the rankings of the pages within that website. On the surface this seems logical as a website that gets a &#8230; <a href="http://www.johnconde.net/blog/site-traffic-is-not-a-ranking-factor-for-search-engines/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Use PHP to Force the www on URLs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many good reasons to be consistent when using the &#8216;www&#8217; in URLs. This includes good usability (it may confuse some people when they see it there some of the time but not others) and SEO (some search engines &#8230; <a href="http://www.johnconde.net/blog/use-php-to-force-the-www-on-urls/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Meta Tags Are Dead. Get Over It.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; For the purpose of this blog post, when I say &#8220;Meta tags&#8221; I am referring to the Meta description and keyword tags only. &#160; Back in the day, when Alta Vista was king of search and Yahoo was primarily &#8230; <a href="http://www.johnconde.net/blog/meta-tags-are-dead-get-over-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Resigned From the SitePoint.com Forums</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Stuff]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over five years and 24,000 posts later I finally reached a point where I feel it is time for me to resign my position at the SitePoint.com Community Forums. The primary reason I resigned is I&#8217;ve reached that point in &#8230; <a href="http://www.johnconde.net/blog/why-i-resigned-from-the-sitepointcom-forums-5/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Domain Authority Does Not Affect Your Rankings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domain authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who have been living under a rock, domain authority is a popular concept that claims that a domain name that has lots of pages, gets lots of visitors, has lots of links, and is frequently indexed &#8230; <a href="http://www.johnconde.net/blog/domain-authority-does-not-affect-your-rankings/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Google Gets It Right With Paid Links</title>
		<link>http://www.johnconde.net/blog/google-gets-it-right-with-paid-links/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Conde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Cutts again asked webmasters to report paid links to Google in his blog. And, as usual, webmasters whined and complained about how Google is asking webmasters to be snitches and that they are arrogant for asking webmasters to do &#8230; <a href="http://www.johnconde.net/blog/google-gets-it-right-with-paid-links/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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