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		<title>Optimising for Page Load Time</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2010/03/21/optimising-for-page-load-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indexation levels (the number of pages Google crawled and kept in their index) are directly correlated to improvements in speed/load time of a website&#8217;s pages. Google allocate a certain amount of spider crawl resources to a site therefore by optimizing for speed, you can improve your odds of getting all those pages crawled and into the index. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>URL Consolidation the New PageRank Sculpting</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2009/07/12/url-consolidation-the-new-pagerank-sculpting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since Google dropped a bombshell on webmasters attempting to sculpt pagerank (control link juice flow using the nofollow attribute),  SEOs have been trying to figure out ways to achieve the same results via other means.  Some of the percieved successful methods to sculpt pagerank include: Hiding/Redirecting links in Javascript (Potentially excludes up to 4% of search [...]]]></description>
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		<title>QDF: Query Desreves Freshness</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2009/03/24/qdf-query-desreves-freshness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[SERP Analysis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[QDF is a term used to describe the thought process behind Google&#8217;s results for certain search queries&#8217; &#8221;deserving&#8221; of fresh and regularly updated content. QDF is Google&#8217;s way of ensuring that its users get the most up to date results for certain search queries such as a breaking news event, a major new product launch a topic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outbound Links, Nofollows &amp; Link Juice Dilution</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2009/03/06/outbound-links-nofollows-link-juice-dilution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Link Building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO Best Practices]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the SEO arguments out there is the detrimental effect of outbound links on &#8220;link juice&#8221; and PageRank dilution. While not completely inaccurate this is somewhat of a myth that requires further explaination. Outbound links are links pointing from your website to external sites. Over time, as your website becomes more popular (more and more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LinkBaiting Process &#8211; The Guardian Example</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2009/02/19/linkbaiting-process-the-guardian-example/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2009/02/19/linkbaiting-process-the-guardian-example/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Link Baiting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Link Building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Link baiting is a powerful strategy to build one way links from relevant sites and improve a site&#8217;s overall popularity.  How do you go about baiting links?  Here are a few steps to follow in order to conduct a powerful linkbait campaign. Arrange a brainstorm session that includes various people from your organisation including marketing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Webmaster Tools &#8211; Setup and Data Usage</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2009/01/17/google-webmaster-tools-setup-and-data-usage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gadgets & Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO Tips]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Webmaster Tools is a free service provided by Google which allows webmasters to have an insider&#8217;s view on how Google views a website.   Google Webmaster Tools also provides webmasters with a commnication channel with Google to provide them with info such as reporting spam in the Google index, reporting paid links (eg by competitiors ) and most crucially,  submitting a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO Checklist for the New Year</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2009/01/02/seo-checklist-for-the-new-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2009/01/02/seo-checklist-for-the-new-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO Best Practices]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lets get the new year started on the right SEO footing.  I&#8217;ve summarised below a laundry list of critical SEO items to check for the new year.     Meta Data Check all your site&#8217;s meta data and ensure that it conforms to SEO best practices incuding length (60 characters for title, 150 characters for description), keyword [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Valuable Pages on Your Website Using Google</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/06/12/finding-valuable-pages-on-your-website-using-google/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/06/12/finding-valuable-pages-on-your-website-using-google/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wondered what search engines see as the best perfoming pages on your website?  This post shows you how to find out what google sees as the most important pages on your site.  Why is it important to find the most valuable pages on your site?  Very simply put,  to help you  optimise your internal &#8220;link juice&#8220;. For the most important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Analytics Tips</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/03/26/google-analytics-tips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Measuring Success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO Tips]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Analytics is by far the most robust free site side analytics program out there.  Now owned by Google, Google Analytics started out its life as a small analytics company called Urchin. Google Analytics is used by millions of sites (hobby as well as ecommerce) to measure the amount and quality of traffic to a website.  Moreover, if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subdomains &#8211; A Best Practice Guide</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/01/18/subdomains-best-practice-guide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/01/18/subdomains-best-practice-guide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been much debate about whether ot not the strategy of creating subdomains to improve natural search ranking works or not. Well, I&#8217;m writing here to tell you that it does, but only if you do it right. First of all, let me explain to you what a subdomain is.  Its basically what it says, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avoiding Keyword Cannibalisation</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/01/08/avoiding-keyword-cannibalisation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/01/08/avoiding-keyword-cannibalisation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO Tips]]></category>
<category>Keyword Cannibalization</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keyword Cannibalisation is the term used for the common SEO mistake of having several of your website&#8217;s pages targeting the same keyword.  This confuses the search engines as to which page to serve back to users.  This also confuses other sites owners that want to link to your site thereby leading different sites to link to different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dead SEO Strategies</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/01/03/dead-seo-strategies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/01/03/dead-seo-strategies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good article was published by Brett Borders on his Copy Brighter blog listing 7 SEO techniques that no longer work.  here&#8217;s the summary with links to related posts on this blog: Reciprocal links. Read: A Reciprocal Link Building Strategy that Works The &#8220;site: *** -sljktf&#8221; command (to show the supplemental index results). Read: Google’s Supplemental Results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choosing an SEO Company</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/12/05/choosing-an-seo-company/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/12/05/choosing-an-seo-company/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are so many SEO companies out there, each with their strengths and weaknesses, some with very experienced staff who know exactly what it takes to achieve high rankings, and others with no clue what so ever and worse yet, no full time staff but instead, part-timers or freelancers working in cheap labour counties such as India and [...]]]></description>
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