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		<title>Tip: Check Your Google Snippets!</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/11/tip-check-your-google-snippets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basic SEO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Google lists your page, it lists a &#8220;snippet&#8221; &#8212; a small excerpt of your content. This snippet will be one of two things: Your META description tag. On Squidoo, this is the first 255 characters of the lens introduction. OR: an excerpt from your page showing the first instance (usually) of the keyword the Google user [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Three notes on Rel=&#8221;me&#8221;, Rel=&#8221;author&#8221; (They work!)</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/10/relme-relauthor-squidoo-google-profile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 21:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDIT: DRAT. I spoke too soon. Google has changed how rel=&#8221;author&#8221; works, and try as I might, I can no longer get it to recognize authorship with Squidoo pages. Or at least, Google&#8217;s snippet validator isn&#8217;t recognizing it. &#8212;&#8211; &#160; Three notes on rel=&#8221;me&#8221; and rel=&#8221;author,&#8221; which I talked about last month. It WORKS with [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Subdomains: That Is the Question</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/09/hubpages-squidoo-subdomains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Hubpages&#8217; June 2011 experiment in subdomains as an attempt to get out from under Panda, Squidoo is in the beta testing stage of something similar. Hubpages&#8217; subdomain experiment picked up a lot of buzz when it landed in the Wall Street Journal, and I was one of many who was excited by the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Tier One Challenge: Week One Report</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/10/tier-1-challenge-report-1/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/10/tier-1-challenge-report-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Experiments and Challenges]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Status Report: Lensrank 3,497 on Oct 18, up from 84,121 on Oct 10 Weekly traffic: 137, up from 27. (Prior to about Oct 6, it was usually around LR 100K with 10-15 visits a week). Summary: slow and steady progress. It doesn&#8217;t have enough traffic or clickouts to get above tier 2 yet, and it&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Search Results Sexy: Get More Clicks</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/10/make-search-results-sexy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basic SEO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my my Squidoo Search Optimization tutorial, I mention making search results sexy, including a Google Results Optimizer tool to help you do it. Here&#8217;s an example. Note that this is the secondary keyword phrase it&#8217;s optimized for; it&#8217;s at spot #2 for its primary keyword phrase. Sorry about the squinchy screencap, but it mimics [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Basic Squidoo SEO Techniques &#8211; A Checklist</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/07/basic-squidoo-seo-techniques-a-checklist/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/07/basic-squidoo-seo-techniques-a-checklist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started using SEO for Squidoo lenses systematically, I latched onto Webconf&#8217;s 15 Minute SEO checklist. It was the first recommended resource I included on my Squidoo SEO lens in &#8217;07. Webconfs&#8217; SEO checklist is oversimplified, of course. It was also written 4 years ago, which is eons in web terms; most search engines [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>How many Squidoo pages are indexed by Google, Yahoo, et alia?</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/06/how-many-squidoo-pages-are-indexed/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/06/how-many-squidoo-pages-are-indexed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basic SEO]]></category>
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		<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 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Add Tasty Bait to Search Engine Results!</title>
		<link>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2009/11/add-tasty-bait-to-search-engine-results/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2009/11/add-tasty-bait-to-search-engine-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basic SEO]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lensrank]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=409</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People find things on the web by searching. SEO helps you get your page in front of people searching for it. SEO is like throwing fishing hooks into a sea full of hungry fish. The more SEO you know, the better you&#8217;ll be able to ensure your hook gets seen by lots of fish. But [&#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>
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		<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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