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	<title>Greekgeek&#039;s Online Odyssey &#187; seo-blunders</title>
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		<title>Hubpages &#8211; A Grab Bag of Tips and Observations</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2014/08/hubpages-a-grab-bag-of-observations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2014 19:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I became active on Hubpages again in 2011 and churned out a little over a hundred hubs in two years. I have been next to useless on that site for the past year. So take anything I say about Hubpages with a grain of salt. That said, I may have learned a few useful things. Places [&#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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		<category><![CDATA[official squidoo stuff]]></category>
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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>Backlink Seekers Target Squidoo For Pagerank</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/05/backlink-seekers-target-squidoo-for-pagerank/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/05/backlink-seekers-target-squidoo-for-pagerank/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 18:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basic SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linkbuilding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo-blunders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pagerank is a measurement Google came up with in the late 1990s to help it decided how highly to rank webpages, based on which webpages linked to that page (backlinks) and which pages it linked to. Nowadays, Pagerank is only one of 200+ factors that Google uses to decide how high up to list a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Cross-Links About to Get Google-Punched?</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/04/are-cross-links-between-sites-about-to-get-google-punched/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/04/are-cross-links-between-sites-about-to-get-google-punched/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thinky Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linkbuilding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uh oh. Remember how I noticed the murmurs about content farm penalties back in January 2011, and got scoffed at for suggesting Google was going to be unrolling domain-based rather than single-page-based penalties? Weeeell, I don&#8217;t like the sound of this. Something in seoMOZ&#8217;s whiteboard Friday vid this week caught my eye: Here&#8217;s the part [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Bing Still Uses the Meta Keywords Tag!</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/10/bing-still-uses-the-meta-keywords-tag/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/10/bing-still-uses-the-meta-keywords-tag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basic SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keywords]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo-blunders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Uh, oh! Bing still uses the META keywords tag! META tags. Gotta love &#8216;em. They are pesky bits of HTML code hidden on (some) webpages to give information about each page. Ten years ago, search engines consulted META tags to help them learn what search phrases each page was relevant for. Then people started manipulating META [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Digg the SEO Vampire: It Drinks Your Backlinks Dry</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/10/digg-seo-vampire/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/10/digg-seo-vampire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basic SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinky Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo-blunders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social-media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=705</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just in time for Hallowe&#8217;en, I have an SEO horror story that&#8217;s happening right now. You may even be a victim! You think submitting your page to Digg will help SEO, right? Or at least, it can&#8217;t hurt, can it? Ha. Ahaha. Ahahaha. In September &#8217;09, Digg announced that links would be NoFollow until they [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Antwerp Sound of Music&#8221; viral video and SEO</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2009/11/viral-video-and-seo/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2009/11/viral-video-and-seo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basic SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo-blunders]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I  just made a new lens on a popular funny YouTube video, the &#8220;Antwerp Train Station Sound of Music&#8221; prank. If you haven&#8217;t seen the video, you need to&#8211; it&#8217;ll make you smile. VERY effective. So far it&#8217;s gotten nearly 13 million hits, and that&#8217;s not counting all the duplicate copies floating around on YouTube [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Search Engine Results Look Sexy, Part II</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2009/04/sexy-search-engine-results/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2009/04/sexy-search-engine-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basic SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo-blunders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[serps]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=263</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In SEO Blunders: Very Un-sexy Search Results, I showed off my first Stupid SEO Trick! I’d decided not to worry too much about optimizing this blog, since I don&#8217;t want to shell out the money for a second webhost and domain name (a URL is the best spot for keyword optimization after page title).  However, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO Blunders: Very Un-sexy Search Results</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2009/04/seo-blunders1/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2009/04/seo-blunders1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Never Do This]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo-blunders]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember how I talked about &#8220;making your search results look sexy&#8221; in my lens on Squidoo and SEO? I noted that the two-line blurb that shows up in Google search results is your big chance to &#8220;sell&#8221; your page to the searching public: A juicy, &#8220;I want to read more!&#8221; excerpt is what you want [&#8230;]]]></description>
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