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		<title>Redirecting www to non-www Using .htaccess</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2009/04/redirecting-www-to-non-www-using-htaccess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Apache Web server supports URL rewriting with the mod_rewrite engine. Placing custom rules in an .htaccess file lets you do all sorts of useful things to keep your URLs tidy. One really handy thing you can do for search engines and visitors is redirecting traffic from www to non-www version of your domain (and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PageRank No Longer a Useful Performance Indicator</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2009/04/pagerank-no-longer-a-useful-performance-indicator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whatever Google is up to with PageRank lately, it&#8217;s quickly losing my interest. PageRank was never meant to be a reliable measure of search engine performance, but it was usually &#8220;in the neighborhood&#8221;. After the last few PageRank updates, I&#8217;ve found myself relying almost completely on other tools due to the extreme gaps I continue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google No Longer Suggests Relevant Links</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2008/10/google-no-longer-suggests-relevant-links/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Directories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s Webmaster Guidelines no longer suggests having relevant sites link to yours. They also removed their suggestion of submitting your site to relevant directories. This was brought up in Google Groups recently, and subsequently on the big Webmaster forums Digital-Point and Sitepoint. However based on the logic of these threads, which get pretty heated over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Google Wrong to Hate Paid Links?</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2008/10/is-google-wrong-to-hate-paid-links/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google is against paid links.  They have made this clear by asking Webmasters to report sites that sell links, repeateadly blogging about how paid links are bad, and by evidently selecting sites to torture in their search algorithm for participating in link sales. Obviously a lot of people are upset about this &#8211; publishers want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Google Prefer Keyword-Rich URLs?</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2008/08/does-google-prefer-keyword-rich-urls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gabrielharper.com/blog/?p=63</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago I didn&#8217;t know what a search engine friendly URL was. Now I practice human readable &#8220;search engine friendly URLs&#8221; whenever possible. When I stumbled upon the concept and started moving away from dynamic URLs to friendly, keyword rich URLs I noticed a direct and immediate positive impact on how much I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is vBSEO Worth The Price?</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2008/04/is-vbseo-worth-the-price/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m taking the plunge with vBSEO on Fury-Tech Forums. $149 for vBSEO is almost twice as expensive as a leased vBulletin license, so like many vBulletin owners I&#8217;m tentative to say the least. To make things worse, they want $117 to remove vBSEO branding from your forum. On the bright side of things, I should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rand Fishkin Discredits Directories</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2007/07/rand-fishkin-discredits-directories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz.org makes several points in this new video diminishing the value of Web directories. I believe Rand made some good points about general link quality that directory owners need to think about whether they like it or not. However his video is an example to me of how little he understands directories. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Simple SEO Strategies</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2007/02/10-simple-seo-strategies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 03:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search engine optimization is a complicated subject, and it takes time and hard work to gain an intuitive understanding of SEO. Even the strongest intuition can&#8217;t predict all of the eccentricities of search engine algorithms, though, and there are some simple SEO strategies that a Webmaster of any skill level can implement. These are ten [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 Website Promotion Tips</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2006/12/13-website-promotion-tips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gabrielharper.com/blog/?p=68</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, you’ve got this great web site. The whole world needs to know about it, but right now your only traffic is from localhost. You’ve got all this great content, nice and tidy HTML, super SEO’d links, the whole nine yards. So where is the onslaught of traffic you expected? Why doesn’t anybody care? Well, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Content Means Good Grammar</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2006/11/good-content-means-good-grammar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2006 13:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gabrielharper.com/blog/?p=67</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel inspired to post this blog as a reminder to all those Webmasters who think they can get away with neglecting not only useful and relevant content, but allowing obvious spelling and grammatical errors in some very important places.

Content development and authoring is vital for nearly any Web site. Many Web sites thrive on [...]]]></description>
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