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		<title>Penalty for bad links</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just the other day, my HRdb site dropped several positions on google when searching for its title. The latest update and visit from the googlebot picked up one bad link as revealed in my google webmaster tools.  Given that essentially nothing else changed, I have to assume that bad links cause a definite and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some good and bad news on the SEO front&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ My Herbal Remedies Database site is now getting about 3 hits a day! This surge in traffic (from 9 as reported in my last post) is partly due to an increase in recent visitors but also from me misreading my Google Analytics numbers&#8230;
Moving past that embarrassing gaff, this blog has slipped a spot on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO experiment update&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Organic visitors have started to pick up. Although obviously still minute, this is an encouraging sign. Almost all visitors have come from google with only one exception coming from Answers.com. MSN still doesn&#8217;t rank any of the site in the first 5 pages of results, while Yahoo is now showing the front page at #13.
Google [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO experiment &#8211; MSN live and Yahoo!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing i forgot to mention in the previous post was that despite being crawled by the bots from MSN and Yahoo, i was unable to find herbal remedies db using their search&#8230;
In light of all this i&#8217;l be posting shortly about the so called Google sandbox or age factor in ranking&#8230;
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		<title>SEO experiment &#8211; the googlebot returns</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so the first visit from the googlebot occurred on the 5th of June and it indexed the only 2 pages that were up at the time&#8230;
Only 10 days later, it returned and re-indexed the herbal remedies site.
According to google&#8217;s webmaster tools, this time it indexed 7 pages on the site (out of a total [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO experiment &#8211; update&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.capriciousmind.com/seo-experiment-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So as i mentioned in my last post, my herbal remedies site has already been visited by the googlebot. This made me realize that Google Analytics had not been reporting the activity of its own or any other bots or crawlers. A quick web search revealed that indeed, Google Analytics does not support the tracking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO experiment &#8211; search engine submission</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having completed the herbal remedies site to a suitable degree, i went ahead and submitted the site to the following four search engines:

http://www.google.com/addurl/
http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx
http://submit.search.yahoo.com/ (after some time spent trying to retrieve my old login details not used for many years)
http://www.alexa.com/site/help/webmasters#crawl_site

Upn submitting to google I decided to check out their webmaster tools. To my surprise, it told [...]]]></description>
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