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	<title>Forum Doc &#187; SEO</title>
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	<description>Practical Advice for Running an Online Forum</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>
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		<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>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>
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				<category><![CDATA[Security and Spam]]></category>
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		<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A SEO book that is NOT out of date!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http://www.forumdr.com/an-seo-book-that-is-not-out-of-date/730/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http://www.forumdr.com/an-seo-book-that-is-not-out-of-date/730/#comments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>
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				<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>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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		<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>

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		<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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		<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>
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				<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>

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		<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>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>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>
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		<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>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>Getting the search engines to index all of your threads</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/getting-the-search-engines-to-index-all-of-your-threads/140/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/getting-the-search-engines-to-index-all-of-your-threads/140/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[101 Tips and Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forum Promotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[link building]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recall reading somewhere that something like 20% of the searches in Google are for phrases that have never been searched for before. It is one thing to target and SEO a forum (or any website) for one or a few popular keywords, it is another to get your site in a position to capture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dates of Google PR updates</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/dates-of-google-pr-updates/128/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/dates-of-google-pr-updates/128/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:40:07 +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=128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google periodically exports the internal PR data that they update internally on a daily basis to the Google Toolbar for us to look at. The most recent dates of the export were approximately: 7 November 2011 5 August 2011 18 July 2011 27 June 2011 20 Jan 2011 3 Apr 2010 31 Dec 2009 30 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the Google Dance?</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/what-is-the-google-dance/105/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/what-is-the-google-dance/105/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo myths]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=105</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Google Dance goes back to the good old days of search engine optimization. Google used to update PageRank (PR) and the search engine rankings (SERPs) on a monthly basis. It was a big event as the updates would roll out. The SEO Forums would always be awash with long threads as webmasters announced their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linkvana as a forum thread link building tool</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/linkvana-as-a-forum-thread-link-building-tool/87/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/linkvana-as-a-forum-thread-link-building-tool/87/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backlinks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[link building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[serps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[threads]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=87</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Building links (getting backlinks) is one of the more important ways to get a site indexed and ranked in the search engines. Directory and social bookmark submission is one of the ways to get some lower value links. I use Linkvana for another component to my link building strategy, probably the most important. Whenever, I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>How important is a good Alexa ranking?</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/how-important-is-a-good-alexa-ranking/77/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/how-important-is-a-good-alexa-ranking/77/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alexa]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=77</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Basically an Alexa ranking is not important. Having a high or low Alexa ranking does not help a site one bit, unless you want to use it to impress people who are impressed by this sort of thing, but do not understand it. Alexa have a toolbar that can be installed in web browsers. Alexa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Submitting to link directories and social bookmarking sites</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/submitting-to-link-directories-and-social-bookmarking-sites/54/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/submitting-to-link-directories-and-social-bookmarking-sites/54/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[101 Tips and Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[link building]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=54</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Link building is time consuming and can often feel unrewarding for the effort that is put in. It  is still an important way to improve traffic to your forum and to help with the link popularity that is so important in a web site&#8217;s ranking in the search engines (ie building backlinks). There are many ways [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New to SEO (search engine optimization)? Learn it all here.</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/new-to-seo-search-engine-optimization-learn-it-all-here/29/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumdr.com/new-to-seo-search-engine-optimization-learn-it-all-here/29/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[link building]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumdr.com/?p=29</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an old saying that we are all familiar with, that goes something like a little bit of knowledge is dangerous. This certainly goes for SEO, or search engine optimization. You only need to look around the  Search Engine Optimization forums at the half truths that get misunderstood and discussed by the newbies on [...]]]></description>
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