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		<title>Google&#8217;s Panda Algorithm Update</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/googles-panda-algoritm-update/1347/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/googles-panda-algoritm-update/1347/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 09:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Panda update from Google that affected the search engine rankings of a lot of sites has caused a lot of angst among some webmasters as they watch their rankings fall. Everyone is looking for answers. Not a lot of forums appear to have been affected. There has been a lot of discussion at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Google’s PR is important for a forum</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/why-google%e2%80%99s-pr-is-important-for-a-forum/1283/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/why-google%e2%80%99s-pr-is-important-for-a-forum/1283/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pr]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=1283</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have already posted about what Google’s PR or PageRank is. Many of the SEO Kiddies live for the day when Google “update” the PR every 3-4 months (when in reality they update it every day internally). Many of the SEO Kiddies and the SEO experts have dismissed PR as no longer being important in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why does Google use DMOZ?</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/why-does-google-use-dmoz/1265/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/why-does-google-use-dmoz/1265/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dmoz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web directories]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=1265</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Firstly no one except Google has any idea of what a listing in the web directory DMOZ has on the ranking of websites in the search engine results. Many people like to believe that a web site listed in DMOZ is at an advantage over a site that is not listed. Others like to claim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What signals do self-promotional links tell the search engines?</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/what-signals-do-self-promotional-links-tell-the-search-engines/1090/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/what-signals-do-self-promotional-links-tell-the-search-engines/1090/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backlinks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[link building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snake oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web directories]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=1090</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We all know the importance of building links to web sites to improve traffic and improve search engine rankings. For forums, building links to individual threads is a great way to take advantage of the long tail part of the search spectrum. There are many ways to get links to a site. The best types [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is DMOZ? Understanding DMOZ</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/understanding-dmoz/1055/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/understanding-dmoz/1055/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dmoz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web directories]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=1055</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[DMOZ or the ODP (Open Directory Project) is a web directory that so many want to get their websites (or in our case, our forums) listed in to build a backlink to their sites from a site that the search engines may consider an authority site. We could get into the silly allegations about corruption, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are links from .edu &amp; .gov sites worth more?</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/are-links-from-edu-gov-sites-worth-more/1011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/are-links-from-edu-gov-sites-worth-more/1011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backlinks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo myths]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=1011</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The simple answer is NO. There are many SEO myths out there and this is one of them. There is a popular belief that backlinks from .gov and .edu sites carry more weight than other top level domains. Google have made it clear that they do not (see this interview; and this video &#8211; around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Optimize the welcome message for the visitor and the search engine</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/optimise-the-welcome-message-for-the-visitor-and-the-search-engine/990/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/optimise-the-welcome-message-for-the-visitor-and-the-search-engine/990/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[serps]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=990</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is always a good idea to optimize a site primarily for a few main keywords that you are targeted for a search engine ranking, but at the same time implement strategies to get all your threads indexed so you can bring traffic to a forum through long tail searches. There are a number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who wants what from web directories</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/who-wants-what-from-web-directories/943/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/who-wants-what-from-web-directories/943/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dmoz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web directories]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=943</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is the web directory industry out of control? (many commentators think it has been for a while). Just look at all the new directories being announced by the SEO Kiddies at webmaster forums like Digitalpoint and on sites like Directory Critic. For example, every man and his dog is buying expired domains with Google PR [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bounce Rates and Forums</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/bounce-rates-and-forums/921/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/bounce-rates-and-forums/921/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[101 Tips and Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metrics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=921</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The bounce rate is one metric that can be used to analyze what is happening on your forum. It is defined as the percentage of visits to a single page on your site and they leave your site from that page without clicking on another link – they only see one page and leave. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mozRank and mozTrust</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/mozrank-and-moztrust/871/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/mozrank-and-moztrust/871/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metrics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pr]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=871</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google’s Page Rank is updated on a daily basis internally and a snapshot is exported to the Google Toolbar for us to see on a somewhat irregular scale (see the dates). What we get in the toolbar is a historical representation. It is not the true PR that is used by Google in the rankings. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do forum signature links help a sites ranking?</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/forum-signature-links/846/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/forum-signature-links/846/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Security and Spam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backlinks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[link building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nofollow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo myths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=846</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Listening to the SEO kiddies on some SEO forums, you can&#8217;t help but notice how they heavily promote posting in forums to link drop signatures and profile spam as a way to help build backlinks to a web site to improve its rankings. This kind of advice has significantly increased the fluff posting, nonsense posts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A SEO book that is NOT out of date!</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/an-seo-book-that-is-not-out-of-date/730/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/an-seo-book-that-is-not-out-of-date/730/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whatever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what I reading]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=730</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have never been a big fan of books on SEO (search engine optimization) as there can be a very long time lag between when a book is written by the author, the editors do all their work on it and the book gets printed and goes on sale. In an industry like SEO, things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The robots.txt file</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/the-robots-txt-file/681/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/the-robots-txt-file/681/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robots.txt]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=681</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The robots.txt is a file that can be used to restrict access to your site or parts of your site by preventing access from the search engine robots as they crawl the web. Most of the time this is used to prevent duplicate content (eg for a forum you do not want your printthread.php indexed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is an &#8220;Authority Site&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/what-is-an-authority-site/636/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/what-is-an-authority-site/636/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backlinks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An &#8216;Authority site&#8216; is a site that seems to get an extra ranking boost from the search engines. Somehow, in their analysis of the site and its backlinks profile, the search engine algorithm recognizes a site as being an &#8216;Authority&#8217;. Getting backlinks from sites that are seen by the search engines as an authority are [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Watch out for these SEO Scams</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/watch-out-for-these-seos/511/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/watch-out-for-these-seos/511/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snake oil]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=511</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you decide to engage a SEO&#8217;er (Search Engine Optimizer) to help with the SEO on your forum, how do you tell which ones to stay away from; which are the ones running a scam?; which are the ones that are pretending to be an SEO (ie a SEO Kiddie), but do not really know [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>How not to get a site listed in DMOZ</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/how-not-to-get-a-site-listed-in-dmoz/393/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/how-not-to-get-a-site-listed-in-dmoz/393/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dmoz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web directories]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=393</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have already covered How to get a forum listed in DMOZ, now this is how to go about not getting a site listed: 1. Do not submit a site under construction or a forum with not many members and activity. It will be rejected. 2. Do not submit it more than once. Submitting more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bing&#8217;s Page Score</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/bings-page-score/384/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/bings-page-score/384/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metrics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=384</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone is familiar with Google&#8217;s PageRank or PR score for a website based on Google&#8217;s analysis of links to a page. Not many are familiar with Bing&#8217;s (formally MSN Search and Live Search), Page Score. You can see your score for your pages and domain in Bing&#8217;s Webmaster Tools. Is this Microsoft&#8217;s answer to Google&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Your Forum Target a Specific Geographic Region?</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/does-your-forum-target-a-specific-geographic-region/354/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/does-your-forum-target-a-specific-geographic-region/354/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geotarget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[serps]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=354</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If it does, you want it to show up in the search engines for that country. All the search engines use geotargeting and the search results are different from country to country (and even from city to city) (more on geotargeted search results). They do this as they want to deliver the most relevant SERPS [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Submitting a forum to search engines</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/submitting-a-forum-to-search-engines/344/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/submitting-a-forum-to-search-engines/344/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo myths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snake oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yahoo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=344</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Do not waste your time on this. The need to submit a site to a search engine, such as Google, Yahoo or Bing using their add url page went out of fashion last century and has not made a difference to a site, either positive or negative since then. Search engines find sites by crawling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forum Directory List</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/forum-directory-list/300/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/forum-directory-list/300/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[101 Tips and Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forum Promotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backlinks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web directories]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=300</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Building backlinks are an important part of forum promotion for traffic and search engine ranking. Submitting to key web directories is important and submitting to a wider range of directories will also help a site somewhat. It is also probably important to submit your forum to the niche forum directories. Here is a list of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engaging with the search engines</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/engaging-with-the-search-engines/284/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/engaging-with-the-search-engines/284/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yahoo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=284</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Embrace the search engines; add your sites in their webmaster area; and submit your sitemaps to help them crawl you: Google: Add your site to Webmaster Tools and submit a sitemap.xml Participate in the Google Webmaster Help Group Read the Google Webmaster Blog Yahoo!: Add your site to Yahoo Site Explorer and submit your feed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Link Juice?</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/what-is-link-juice/272/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/what-is-link-juice/272/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backlinks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[link building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pr]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=272</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Getting backlinks to a site is an important part of the search engine optimization (SEO) process and helping a site get all its pages indexed in the search engines and ranking well in them. Link Juice is the term used for how much benefit a link passes on, as not all links are equal. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Article Directory Submission</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/article-directory-submission/264/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/article-directory-submission/264/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forum Promotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backlinks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[link building]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=264</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Submitting articles to article directories is another one of the link building strategies that can be used to build links for a forum. There are 100’s of article directories available and most are not worth it, as the search engines tend not to index a lot of the articles, so they pass no backlink benefit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Submitting to Web Directories</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/submitting-to-web-directories/232/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/submitting-to-web-directories/232/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forum Promotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backlinks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dmoz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[link building]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=232</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Submitting to directories is one way of building backlinks to a site that are needed to rank well in the search engines. Is submitting to web directories worth it? Not a day goes by in which many people in SEO forums express an opinion on if it is worth it or not (also, not a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of the Long Tail search phrases</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/the-importance-of-the-long-tail-search-phrases/228/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/the-importance-of-the-long-tail-search-phrases/228/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forum Promotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[serps]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=228</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The so called Long Tail is an important concept in understanding the keyword phrases that can bring in traffic to a website. The Long Tail is probably more important to forum&#8217;s traffic than a regular website. Here is a video clip from Rand Fishkin from SEOMoz that explains this concept and its importance: In this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sitelinks in Google&#8217;s Search Results</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/sitelinks-in-google-search-results/220/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/sitelinks-in-google-search-results/220/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=220</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2006, Google introduced sitelinks in the SERPs (see the extra links in the Apple Computer example above). These are additional links under the main search results that point to deeper pages in the site. The sitelinks are something that are generated algorithmically and automatically. They are something that a webmaster cannot do to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is PageRank?</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/what-is-pagerank/199/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/what-is-pagerank/199/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backlinks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[basics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metrics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pr]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=199</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[PageRank (PR) is the term that is trademarked and an algorithm patented by Google. PageRank is the link analysis algorithm named after one of the founders of Google, Larry Page. The algorithm assigns a numerical value to each page on the web based on the number of links to that page. The algorithm was originally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I pretend search engines rank sites</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/how-i-think-search-engines-rank-sites/186/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/how-i-think-search-engines-rank-sites/186/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=186</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I like to think of the ranking of a site in search engines to be a conceptual formula. This is not how search engines actually rank a site or page, but pretending it does it this way helps understand what needs to be done: Ranking = relevance x importance +/- quality A number of factors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The SEO Kiddies</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/the-seo-kiddies/171/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/the-seo-kiddies/171/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whatever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo myths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snake oil]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you hang out at SEO forums long enough you get to recognize the SEO Kiddies. They are the ones that: 1. Always want to know when the next Google PR update is and expect their sites ranking to change when it does (they don’t get it that Google update PR internally on a daily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Link exchanges are not worth it</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/link-exchanges-are-not-worth-it/145/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/link-exchanges-are-not-worth-it/145/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=145</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We all know the importance of link building to get a site indexed in the search engines; to have the search engines crawl deep into a site (especially a forum) to index most of the site; and to have the site rank well in the search engines. One way of building links is to exchange [...]]]></description>
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