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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 Entrepreneur on Java and Web 2.0</description>
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		<title>Warning: XML SiteMap Generator Plugin for WordPress May Report Fewer URL&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arne Brachold&#8217;s popular XML Sitemap generator plugin for WordPress may report fewer URL than that exists on your website. This in turn means less URL&#8217;s which you are submitting to search engines for indexing. 
I found out that in my case 25% of the actual number of url&#8217;s (posts) were being reported. I haven&#8217;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 &#038; 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 &#038; 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&#8217;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: &#8220;My web traffic went from 5,000 hits (900 visits) last week to 21,000 hits yesterday&#8221;. 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&#8217;t be abused by using keywords like &#8220;Web Banner Design&#8221;, 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&#8217;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 &#038; 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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