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		<title>A Squidoo Timeline: Looking Back at the Past Year</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/07/a-squidoo-timeline-looking-back-at-past-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2013 06:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my attempt to round up a year&#8217;s worth of changes on Squidoo, with particular focus on which Squidoo changes and which Google algorithm updates may have caused traffic gains or losses. As usual, I&#8217;m using Hubpages as a reference, because it&#8217;s a comparable site, although its traffic trajectory has been quite different. (Hubpages [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Squidoo vs. Panda Death Match: Are We Having Fun Yet?</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/06/the-great-squidoo-vs-panda-death-match-are-we-having-fun-yet/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/06/the-great-squidoo-vs-panda-death-match-are-we-having-fun-yet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; So, we all knew that Squidoo had to do some major damage control to rescue itself, since Google&#8217;s downranked it for&#8230; well, we&#8217;re all making educated guesses, but Google&#8217;s webmaster guidelines provide us with a list of likely culprits (links are to the specific part of Google guidelines detailing each big no-no): Spam, thin, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Squidoo NoFollows Links to Strangle Spam</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/03/squidoo-nofollows-links-to-strangle-spam/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/03/squidoo-nofollows-links-to-strangle-spam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Squidoo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, spammers pooping in Squidoo&#8217;s sandbox have caused inconvenience for the rest of us. Squidoo has now followed Wikipedia&#8217;s example and nofollowed all outbound links. My opinion: it stings, but on the whole it&#8217;s a reasonable move. There are some drawbacks to nofollowing all outbound links. But those drawbacks are outweighed by the benefit: this [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Squidoo After Google Panda 25: How&#8217;s It Looking?</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/03/squidoo-traffic-panda-25/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/03/squidoo-traffic-panda-25/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2469</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The data is still coming in from Panda 25, launched March 15. We really need to wait a longer time to have a representative sample size, but here&#8217;s the early returns from Quantcast: From now on there will not be discreet dates on which Panda is updated; Panda is now &#8220;Panda Everflux,&#8221; continually reevaluating sites [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ouch! Squidoo Traffic Went Kablooie on Nov 17</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/11/ouch-squidoo-traffic-went-kablooie-on-nov-17/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/11/ouch-squidoo-traffic-went-kablooie-on-nov-17/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2272</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What happened on November 17, 2012 to cause a major sitewide traffic drop on Squidoo? The jury's still out. Here's a couple of theories, plus sidewide traffic graphs to show just how great the carnage is.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why Traffic Stats Are Screwed Up: Google&#8217;s &#8220;Not Provided&#8221; Search Data</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/09/why-traffic-stats-are-screwed-up-googles-not-provided-search-data/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/09/why-traffic-stats-are-screwed-up-googles-not-provided-search-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2217</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why is so much Google traffic showing up in traffic stats as referral traffic? And why am I getting so much "Direct" traffic?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Oh, Hubpages (or: How to Make Google Shun You)</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/09/oh-hubpages-or-how-to-make-google-shun-you/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/09/oh-hubpages-or-how-to-make-google-shun-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Never Do This]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2195</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hubpages finds two different ways to reduce Google traffic to its website!]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>New Hub vs. New Lens: an Experiment</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/09/new-hub-vs-new-lens-an-experiment/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/09/new-hub-vs-new-lens-an-experiment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Experiments and Challenges]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How fast can new content on Hubpages and Squidoo start getting significant traffic and earning income? Which platform is best for publishing on trending, buzzworthy news and events?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Duplicate Content Penalty vs. Spun Content Penalty: Look at This!</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/08/duplicate-content-penalty-vs-spun-content-penalty-look-at-this/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/08/duplicate-content-penalty-vs-spun-content-penalty-look-at-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2012 03:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Do search engines really penalize duplicate and spun content, or are these just scare tactics?]]></description>
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		<title>Hubpages vs. Squidoo Traffic: August 2012</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/08/hubpages-vs-squidoo-traffic-august-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/08/hubpages-vs-squidoo-traffic-august-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 02:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Squidoo's traffic just took off, and Hubpages' didn't. Why? ]]></description>
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