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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>
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		<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>Twitter being used by Google and Bing</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/twitter-being-used-by-google-and-bing/424/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both Google and Bing this week (23 October, 2009) announced that they have agreements with Twitter to include Twitter updates in their SERPs. Bing have launched their Twitter search (only accessible by those in the USA at the moment). Google&#8217;s announcement is that they will soon have theirs. The importance of this to forum owners, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Your Forum Target a Specific Geographic Region?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
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		<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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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forum Promotion]]></category>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
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		<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>How I pretend search engines rank sites</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/how-i-think-search-engines-rank-sites/186/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
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		<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>What is the Google Dance?</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/what-is-the-google-dance/105/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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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		<title>View search results from different geographic regions</title>
		<link>http://www.forumdr.com/view-search-results-from-different-geographic-regions/6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[101 Tips and Ideas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google geotargets its search results. This means that search results vary from country to country and even from city to city. They do this so they can better serve the searcher (and remember the search engine is there to best serve the searcher and not serve the webmaster with free rankings). The problem for the [...]]]></description>
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