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	<description>How to Squidoo, SEO, and My Squidoo Odyssey</description>
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		<title>CSS, Graphics, and Lens Design: My Best Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think that to date, the Squidoo Museum is my best lens as far as presentation, although the Fancy Table of Contents lens comes close. I&#8217;d like to talk about how I put together the Squidoo Museum. It demonstrates everything I know about graphics, color, fonts, and CSS. First, I built the content. I knew [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/07/css-squidoo-lens-desig/</link>
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		<title>Advanced CSS Tricks and Tips: Borders and Backgrounds and Captions, Oh My!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally got around to updating my Advanced CSS lens, where I used to post crazy &#8220;lab experiments&#8221; in CSS. Now I&#8217;ve reorganized it and made it more dignified (slightly), and added all the tricks I tend to use most on my lenses: rounded corners, background-images for paragraphs, captions under aligned images, drop caps, dramatic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/06/advanced-css-tricks-and-tips/</link>
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		<title>How many Squidoo pages are indexed by Google, Yahoo, et alia?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Addendum &#8212; just because I&#8217;m curious &#8212; how many Squidoo pages have the different search engines got indexed? Google: about 1,340,000 from squidoo.com (This was in JANUARY. In June, it is about 398,000! Mayday! Mayday!) Yahoo: Pages (9,671,276) Bing: 446,000 results Altavista: found 9,660,000 results Lycos: 1,107,211 results Ask: 222,500 (? &#8212; I&#8217;m not sure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/06/how-many-squidoo-pages-are-indexed/</link>
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		<title>Updating Squidoo Lenses: Staying Fresh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After 60 (?) days, a lens loses lensrank because it&#8217;s not fresh. Also, Google rewards frequently updated content. These are two separate things, but they go together. What are your techniques for keeping lenses fresh? Here&#8217;s some of mine. Quick Fix &#8212; do one of the following While watching TV, I&#8217;ll sort my dashboard by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/06/updating-squidoo-lenses/</link>
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		<title>Squidoo Graphics: Colors, Themes, Black Box Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking. Try as I might, I&#8217;m a journeyman when it comes to Squidoo SEO: I have the basic techniques down, I know what I&#8217;m doing, but I&#8217;ve got the online equivalent of an undergraduate college degree rather than a PhD. Whereas I&#8217;ve been doing computer graphics and layout since 1980, HTML since 1993, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/06/squidoo-colors-graphics-tips/</link>
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		<title>Which Backlinks Count for SEO?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is  a huge question. Different tools find different backlinks. For example, checking my Free Web Graphics &#8212; How to Get Them (Legally!) lens on SquidUtils&#8217; Backlink Checker, I get this: This URL has 1000+ links from 6 domains. angelfire.com 1 annbrundigestudio.com 20 digg.com 1 mythphile.com 25 squidu.com 952 squidutils.com 1 (Once again demonstrating the  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/01/which-backlinks-count-for-seo/</link>
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		<title>Updates to Squidoo Modules List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been a few recent modules added to the Squidoo module browser. They&#8217;re listed under &#8220;new&#8221; at the bottom, but haven&#8217;t been filed under any category, so the only way to find them is to click &#8220;Browse all modules&#8221; and then search for them by name. They are: iTunes &#8211; earn commission, feature iTunes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/01/squidoo-modules-list/</link>
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		<title>Controversies &amp; Hoaxes Draw Web Traffic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Photos of Apollo Moon Landing Sites From Space lens has existed for a month, and looks to be a long-term second-tier lens with 50 visitors a week and a fair number of clicks. Those two factors will help this lens maintain its lensrank. Here&#8217;s the steps I took to make this effective lens. 1) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/01/controversies-hoaxes-web-traffic/</link>
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		<title>Quickly Check Your Webpage for Broken Links</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a handy tip! Squidoo lensmaster carriewhite asked in the SquidU forums for a feature to check for dead links on lenses, and thefluffanutta of SquidUtils said there&#8217;s a number of free online tools for that. I tried the W3 Link Checker as Fluff suggested, but its interface is a little intimidating and hard to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/01/check-for-broken-links/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;You Have No Right to Traffic&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just rereading Seth Godin&#8217;s The Nine Free Things Every Site (Or Lens!) Should Do, which is the link SquidU&#8217;s Answer Deck gives you if you click &#8220;How do I get more traffic?&#8221; As usual, Seth is simple and short, whereas my own 3-part Squidoo tips tutorial on how to build web traffic is [...]]]></description>
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