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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>FTC attempts to restrict online commerse</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/ftc-attempts-to-restrict-online-commerse/154</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal is reporting on the FTC&#8217;s recent decision to fine bloggers for not explicitly stating any compensation received for writing a blog. The FTC will now supposedly fine bloggers for writing reviews of products or services without specifying that they&#8217;ve been compensated for it. While the FTC has much bigger problems they [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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>Rails HTML Sanitize gem</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/rails-html-sanitize-gem/142</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently working on improving the search engine rankings of a site with lots of user generated content and noticed that users were creating 404s through bad links. The users were able to add links to other sites in their comments and such but sometimes the links were bad. Sometimes they were even local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do older domains really rank better?</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/do-older-domains-really-rank-better/139</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.brianmcquay.com/on-site-blog-versus-off-site-blog/136#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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>Quantitative evidence of my SEO effectiveness</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/quantitative-evidence-of-my-seo-effectiveness/127</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working with one client for several months now and they are extremely pleased with the results I&#8217;ve produced for them thus far. Here is a snapshot of the monthly analytics data for the site over the past year. You can get a larger view of the graph if you click on the image. [...]]]></description>
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