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		<title>Google Analytics maps are way off</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just browsing my Google Analytics data today when I noticed the map of Florida looked really weird. Growing up in Florida I knew this was obviously incorrect so I took a screenshot. And here is what Florida is supposed to look like. Take a look at the bottom past Miami near the Keys. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google is better than Bing for programming related searches</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been writing a lot about how great Bing is and made the switch to use Bing regularly but here I am in day 1 with using Bing full time and have run into problems. I am working on a Rails project doing some http requests and screen scraping. Basically, I&#8217;m extending the contacts gem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bing is beating Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve long been anti-Microsoft migrating first to Linux and then to Mac OSX. I&#8217;ve been using OpenOffice since the days it was first released (remember Star Office?). I used Mozilla long before Firefox every came out and even stopped supporting some older versions of IE with Onomojo. Needless to say, Microsoft would have to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Bing is faster to update than Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have numerous SEO clients and one thing that I&#8217;ve noticed in the past few months is a drastic improvement in Microsoft&#8217;s Bing search engine&#8217;s quickness to respond to on-site content changes. All my clients are performing extremely well on Microsoft&#8217;s Bing search engine first and then the others follow. Yahoo and Google seem on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advanced Web Ranking &#8211; my preferred keyword tracking application</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few years I&#8217;ve worked with a number of different keyword tracking applications. I found that the best reports to send my clients are generated by Advanced Web Ranking. It generates nice PDFs of the keyword progress over time which is an easy to understand visual for my SEO clients. The application allows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do older domains really rank better?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The short answer is yes. Older domains get ranked better than newer domains. Its minor though and if it changes hands along the way the effect is minimized. Search engines aren&#8217;t stupid and just having a long lived domain name isn&#8217;t likely to make much of an impact on rankings unless there is some relevant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which top level domain is better?</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/which-top-level-domain-is-better/138</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently got asked by a client which top level domain he should pick. His first .com choice was taken so his second pick was a .me domain. I&#8217;ve been asked this a few times so I felt I should clear up any confusion. The only top level domains that have an influence on rankings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which error code is better, 301 or 404?</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/which-error-code-is-better-301-or-404/137</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many sites go through redesigns and in the process URLs change. In particular, most sites we redesign we attempt to use pretty urls that contain keywords for the page. The keywords end up bold in search results if they are in the search terms. The thinking is that the bolding of the keywords increases your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On-site Blog versus Off-site Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/on-site-blog-versus-off-site-blog/136</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t think its necessary to go into the benefits of adding a blog to help market your site. Its widely accepted as an easy way to add new keyword rich pages and help out rankings. There are some questions about whether an off-site blog or an on-site blog is better for rankings. When I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Yahoo shouldn&#8217;t sell out to Microsoft</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 09:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading a lot of news lately about this Yahoo / Microsoft deal that fell through. Now the latest is that some big share holders are trying to force the deal to go through by replacing Yahoo&#8217;s board. It just goes to show how Wall Street misunderstands the situation. Stocks increased on the run [...]]]></description>
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