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	<title>Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog &#187; SEO</title>
	<link>http://blog.taragana.com</link>
	<description>News and views from a Software Architect and Web Entrepreneur on Java, PHP and Web 2.0 Technologies.</description>
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		<title>Top 10 WordPress SEO Plugins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the ever-increasing crowd of blogs it takes some SEO techniques to set out your blog from the rest of the pack. Fortunately, bloggers on WordPress blogs have easy access to SEO plugins that can streamline the search engine optimization process. Well, SEO is the key to generate traffic in your blog from search engines. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-wordpress-seo-plugins/</link>
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		<title>Long Tail Traffic Statistics &amp; Impact on Caching Strategy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Simple Thoughts Traffic

I am sure you have heard about long tail theory on web traffic. Just how important is it?
The pie-chart on your left shows the long tail traffic on Simple Thoughts blog. The colored segment represents the top 10 most popular articles on this blog and accounts for approximately 12% of traffic. The remaining [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/long-tail-traffic-statistics-impact-on-caching-strategy/</link>
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		<title>Google AdSense Changes Its Own Rule for ImDB?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don't get Google AdSense. Last year with great fanfare they announced making the text of the ad non-linkable while keeping the title and URL linkable. This lead to immediate loss of huge revenue by publishers worldwide. And yet they are glaringly violating their own rules for ImDB.

The Google AdSense ad on ImDB site has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-adsense-changes-its-own-rule-for-imdb/</link>
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		<title>My Big Mistake With Google AdSense Section Targeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was one of the early adopters of Google AdSense section targeting technology for getting more contextual ads. Almost as soon as it came out I implemented them to highlight the key content of the site (or so I thought) for AdSense. However I made a BIG mistake.

First let's look at the relevant documentation from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-big-mistake-with-google-adsense-section-targeting/</link>
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		<title>Why Zemanta, The Blogger&#8217;s Helper, Sucks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zemanta is a nice little WordPress plugin which allows you to discover tags and linkable items within your content as well as images to include. In short it could have a nice little blogger's elf, helping you to create richer content. However it fails in several ways, the most prominent of which is its aggresive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-zemanta-the-bloggers-helper-sucks/</link>
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		<title>Providing Free Upgrades for Translator Plugin Pro &amp; Translator Plugin Gold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have started providing free upgrades for (WordPress) Translator Plugin Pro (Version 5.2) &#038; (WordPress) Translator Plugin Gold (Version 1.2) to all our existing customers. 

Please let us know if you haven't received your upgrades within 24 hours.
Notes:
Translator Plugin Pro (for WordPress blogs) provides automatic machine translation of blogs in 13+1 languages (many more will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/providing-free-upgrades-for-translator-plugin-pro-translator-plugin-gold/</link>
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		<title>(WordPress) Translator Plugin Gold Version 1.2 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Translator Plugin Gold (for WordPress blogs) provides automatic machine translation of blogs in 32 languages (more will be added soon) - German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, Russian, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Latin American Spanish, Filipino, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Swedish, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-translator-plugin-gold-version-12-released/</link>
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		<title>(WordPress) Translator Plugin Pro Version 5.2 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Translator Plugin Pro (for WordPress blogs) provides automatic machine translation of blogs in 13+1 languages (many more will be added soon) - German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional and optionally Norwegian (note: we provide 32 languages with Translator Plugin Gold). We provide unlimited free updates and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-translator-plugin-pro-version-52-released/</link>
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		<title>Must Read: Google Robots.txt Parsing Weirdness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google search bot (Googlebot) parses robots.txt file to find excluded sections of the site like any good webbots. However unlike the other bots, Google bot behaves differently when you have a section for all bots (*) as well as a section specifically for Googlebot.

Let's say you have a section in robots.txt for all bots beginning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/must-read-google-robotstxt-parsing-weirdness/</link>
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		<title>Warning: XML SiteMap Generator Plugin for WordPress May Report Fewer URL&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arne Brachold's popular XML Sitemap generator plugin for WordPress may report fewer URL than that exists on your website. This in turn means less URL's which you are submitting to search engines for indexing. 

I found out that in my case 25% of the actual number of url's (posts) were being reported. I haven't investigated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/warning-xml-sitemap-generator-plugin-for-wordpress-may-report-fewer-urls/</link>
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		<title>Translator Plugin Gold 1.1 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Translator Plugin Gold provides automatic machine translation of your WordPress blog in 32 languages - German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, Russian, Norwegian, Brazilian Portugue, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Latin American Spanish, Filipino, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Swedish, Welsh, Turkish and Latin. 
The new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-gold-11-released/</link>
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		<title>Translator Plugin Pro 5.1 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Translator Plugin Pro provides automatic machine translation of WordPress blogs in 13+1 languages - German,Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional and optionally Norwegian. 
The new features in version 5.1 are:
1. In the option page (under Advanced -> Miscellaneous section) it now provides SQL queries which you can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-pro-51-released/</link>
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		<title>Google Proxy Hacking - How Your Page Rank Can Be Stolen &amp; Pages Removed from SERP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently came across an instance of Google Proxy hacking with one of my clients, which removed his index page and other pages from SERP (Search Engine Ranking &#038; Positioning) and he lost the page ranks (went down to zero). We were asked to protect his site against Google Proxy hacking, a really dangerous technique [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-proxy-hacking-how-your-page-rank-can-be-stolen-pages-removed-from-serp/</link>
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		<title>Cool SEO Redirection Feature in WordPress 2.3.x</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I accidentally discovered a super-cool re-direction feature embedded in WordPress 2.3.x. Any blog may have multiple url pointing to the same blog. For example blog.taragana.com may also be accessed as www.blog.taragana.com. The proper practice, keeping SEO in mind, is to redirect all such URL to the canonical URL of the site. Now there is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/cool-seo-redirection-feature-in-wordpress-23x/</link>
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		<title>Is Link in Lieu of Payment From Education &amp; Non-Profit Sites Acceptable?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine Company X provides a service. X is nice enough to offer it for free to education and non-profit sites. However in exchange for the generosity ACME demands that education &#038; non-profit sites place a link on all of their pages to two of X's main products. Would you consider that a link scheme which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-link-in-lieu-of-payment-from-education-non-profit-sites-acceptable/</link>
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		<title>Translator Plugin Pro API User Tip: How To Show Custom Messages / Disclaimer on Translated Pages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jan Dembowski uses Translator Plugin Pro for his WordPress blog, which provided him with a good traffic boost: "My web traffic went from 5,000 hits (900 visits) last week to 21,000 hits yesterday". He made a cool &#038; informative sidebar element with Translator API to indicate to his viewers of translated pages (only) that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-pro-api-cool-tip-from-user/</link>
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		<title>Abusing Comment Name field for SEO.. No Sir</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I see comments where the name of the person is not really his name but a popular keyword which obviously links to his website. While I understand the need to have link-love for useful comments and even encourage it, the name field shouldn't be abused by using keywords like "Web Banner Design", for example. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/abusing-comment-name-field-for-seo-no-sir/</link>
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		<title>Help Me With Understanding My Site Stats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I noticed something funny with this site's statistics. On average people are spending 4 minute 8 seconds on the site. That has to be good, right? However the bounce rate is hovering at 70% according to Google Analytics. What does both these figures translate to?
Any suggestion in improving the bounce rate or increasing the average [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/help-me-with-understanding-my-site-stats/</link>
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		<title>Compete: Free Website Ranking &amp; Analytics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Compete is a relatively new player in website ranking and third party analytics, a space dominated so far by Alexa rankings and Google PageRank. Whereas Google PageRank is an approximate ranking for a single page, Compete rankings are, like Alexa, for the entire site and they offer it for free. In my initial analysis compete [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/compete-free-website-ranking-analytics/</link>
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		<title>How To Display Links Only In Translator Plugin Pro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress blogs provides automatic machine translation of your blog in 14 languages* - English, German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Swedish, Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional. It is fully customizable with PHP API &#38; tags. One of the frequent requests is how we can provide only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-display-links-only-in-translator-plugin-pro/</link>
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		<title>Cheapest Shortcut To Increase Blog Readership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For 75$ a blogspot blogger hopes to increase his blog readership. Guess where he is looking for help. Oh and I have an advice for him pro-bono.
Here is his project description on RentACoder:

Title:Increase the readership of my blog. http://[removed to protect]
Description:
Mission:  Increase the readership of my blog.  http://[removed to protect] Search engines, Technorati, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/cheapest-shortcut-to-increase-blog-readership/</link>
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		<title>Abusing RentACoder For Black Hat SEO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across an interesting project in RentACoder which is obviously taking advantage of RentACoder to do its dirty job - pushing its critic / competitor to page 2 of Google. The project specification is as belows:
THE SOLUTION:
  We NEED this persons website to be "pushed down" to page 2 on google when our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/abusing-rentacoder-for-black-hat-seo/</link>
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		<title>9 Blog Redesign Ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are few days away from redesigning this site. Here are few thoughts on what we want to achieve with this redesign effort. I think they will be useful to anyone looking for redesigning their blogs.

1. Faster page load times. We want low computational overhead for generating each pages. This requires eliminating unnecessary or marginally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/9-blog-redesign-ideas/</link>
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		<title>Nielson Ratings Scraps Web Page View Rankings To Accomodate AJAX</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nielson / NetRatings, a leading online measurement service, will scrap rankings based on page views and begin tracking how long visitors spend at the sites.

New technologies like AJAX, podcasting &#038; online videos make page views less meaningful. How much time someone spends on the site is more reflective of its popularity than simply page views.
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/nielson-ratings-scraps-web-page-view-rankings-to-accomodate-ajax/</link>
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		<title>Uglifying Simple Thoughts Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am making some more changes to the site. Bear with my uglification / beautification (you decide) efforts. This is the first step before we move to full CSS based site. I too am joining bandwagon, finally.

Every design needs to be changed with time. When I designed it several years ago, it served its purpose [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/uglifying-simple-thoughts-blog/</link>
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		<title>Time For Working Vacation &amp; Random Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After we complete an outsourcing effort for a F 500 and wrap up dispatching all the upgrades for Translator 5.0, we will collectively go for a period of "working vacation" lasting about 2 months or so. What is a "working vacation"?

My definition of "working vacation" is when we tie all the loose ends, upgrade infrastructure, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/time-for-working-vacation-random-thoughts-suggestions-please/</link>
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		<title>I Said No To Text-Link-Ads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I signed up for text-link-ads several months earlier, I meticulously read the terms and conditions. Nowhere was it mentioned that you couldn't use nofollow on your links. As such I had signed up with text-link-ads and have used nofollow from the very beginning. I used to make under 400$ monthly. Few days back I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/i-said-no-to-text-link-ads/</link>
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		<title>Mega Challenge for Google Search Engine - Text-Link-Ads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google and other major search engines (Yahoo, MSN Search etc.) which use back-links for importance calculation of a web page suffers from a fundamental flaw.

Back-links can be manipulated and even purchased. While Matt Cutts claim that they can be easily identified manually, I think it is a hard problem to solve algorithmically and hence to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/mega-challenge-for-google-search-engine-text-link-ads/</link>
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		<title>Translator Plugin Gold Languages Supported Matrix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the full matrix of translations supported by Angsuman's Translator Plugin Gold. 

Notes:

Green and Yellow indicates that the language combination is supported. 
Yellow indicates that only limited amount of text can be translated by Engine4.
Red indicates lack of translation support for that combination.
N/A indicates irrelevant / not applicable language combinations like English to English.
Use [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-gold-languages-supported-matrix/</link>
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		<title>Translator Plugin Pro Languages Supported Matrix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the full matrix of translations supported by Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro. 

Notes:

Green, Gold and Yellow indicates that the language combination is supported. 
Gold indicates support by Engine5 only. This supports proper translation but is sensitive to over usage.
Yellow indicates that only limited amount of text can be translated by Engine4.
Red indicates lack of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-pro-languages-supported-matrix/</link>
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		<title>Pro Blogging: Angsuman&#8217;s Translator Plugin Gold for WordPress Blogs Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am very happy to announce the much awaited release of Angsuman's Translator Plugin Gold for WordPress blogs. Translator Pro Gold allows translation to 32 languages with 5 translation engines and comes with load balancing capabilities targeted for popular and high volume blogs.
Note: If your blog language is not English then you should refer to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/angsumans-translator-plugin-gold-for-wordpress-blogs-released/</link>
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		<title>Angsuman&#8217;s Translator Plugin Pro 5.0 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am very happy to announce the release of Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro version 5.0. The key features in version 5.0 are:
1. New intelligent caching engine - The fully re-designed caching engine intelligently handles site changes for maximum availability of translation services and to reduce, server, network and translation engine loads.
2. Multiple engine failover support [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/angsumans-translator-plugin-pro-50-released/</link>
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		<title>Translator Plugin Pro / Gold 5.0: Multiple Engine Failover Support</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro 5.0 (&#038; Gold) provides automatic multiple engine failover support. What does it mean to you as a WordPress blogger?

First let's understand how Translator Plugin translates your blog. We rely on multiple external translation engines like Google and Babelfish to do the actual translation. We provide multiple functionalities on top of their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-pro-50-multiple-engine-failover-support/</link>
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		<title>SEO Goldmine: Translator Plugin Pro 5.0 Supports Automatic Translation of WordPress Blogs in 14 Languages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro 5.0 allows automatic machine translation of WordPress blogs (2.0.x, 2.1.x, 2.2.x, 2.3.x and above) to maximum of 14 languages (32 languages for Translator Gold). Any blog written in English can be automatically and in real-time translated to Spanish, Japanese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Russian, German, French, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Portuguese, Korean, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/seo-goldmine-translator-plugin-pro-50-supports-automatic-translation-of-wordpress-blogs-in-13-1-languages/</link>
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		<title>Angsuman&#8217;s Translator Plugin Pro / Gold: Statistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro &#038; Gold collects and display useful statistics on the functionality of the plugin as well as the intelligent caching engine. 
The statistics is available from Translator Plugin Pro Options panel in Basic tab and in Advanced -> Cache Management tab. It is also available for display on your web pages as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/angsumans-translator-plugin-pro-gold-statistics/</link>
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		<title>Angsuman&#8217;s Translator Plugin Pro / Gold: Application Program Interface</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overview
Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro comes with extensive array of options accessible from the plugin management console. We also provide additional customizability and access to the inner data structures through simple php based API (Application Program Interface). This allows you to fine-tune your display. 

Note: Use the tags / functions in your template files (of your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/angsumans-translator-plugin-pro-gold-application-program-interface/</link>
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		<title>Translator Plugin Pro Fully Supported On WordPress 2.x, 2.1.x, 2.2.x &amp; 2.3.x (development)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro is fully supported on all the latest versions of WordPress viz. WordPress 2.0.x, 2.1.x, 2.2.x Release versions as well as WordPress 2.3 development version. We will continue to support Translator Plugin on all the latest versions of WordPress.

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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-pro-fully-supported-on-wordpress-22-23-development/</link>
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		<title>Translator Plugin: Web Download Capability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the main challenges with Translator plugin is not related to the plugin itself but with the delivery mechanism. We rely on email to deliver the plugin to our customers. Unfortunately sometimes the plugin fails to reach or gets delayed because of emails filters or some routing issues. These are beyond our control and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-web-download-capability/</link>
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		<title>When You Don&#8217;t Receive Your Translator Plugin&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In very rare cases I have had complaints when our clients haven't received their plugin within one business day. In all of them the problem was because my email containing the plugin was being flagged as spam by their email filters. So if you haven't received your plugin in time please take the following steps:
1. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/when-you-dont-receive-your-translator-plugin-in-time/</link>
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		<title>Translator Plugin Pro 5.0 Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Translator Plugin Pro 5.0 has been fully tested and ready for release. The final step before the release is completing the documentation. Translator 5.0 is focussed on providing enterprise grade robustness and automatic recovery capability in case of failures. The product has been re-designed and tons of new features have been added. Some of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-pro-50-update/</link>
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