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		<title>3 Misunderstood SEO Best Practices</title>
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			<title>Ignacio Davalos says:</title>
			<link>http://www.huomah.com/Search-Engines/Learn-SEO/3-Misunderstood-SEO-Best-Practices.html#comment-2697</link>
			<description><![CDATA[110 % agree with the 70 chars affaire :lol: I check it on some SEO test and its true that Google only index 70 characters , the rest is history (doc :-* )]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ignacio Davalos</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 05:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Terry Van Horne says:</title>
			<link>http://www.huomah.com/Search-Engines/Learn-SEO/3-Misunderstood-SEO-Best-Practices.html#comment-2141</link>
			<description><![CDATA[@Jim Rudnik the h1 tag is actually not tied to a block of text it should be an overview title like overview of the whole doc... if ya look back in HTML specs to about version 2 there is actually a complete description of the function of this element. h1 and h2 are different then what you describe... you actually described the function of an in your article. Was around and teaching HTML that long ago ;-) @Albert... you have your opinion I have mine and HTML 5 isn't even a true version it is still an RFC AFAIK... BTW Matt Cutts has said on more than one occasion there is no ranking or other gain from "clean code". None... nada zilch...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Terry Van Horne</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>imma have to go ahead and disagree here</title>
			<link>http://www.huomah.com/Search-Engines/Learn-SEO/3-Misunderstood-SEO-Best-Practices.html#comment-2140</link>
			<description><![CDATA[build for users then optimize seo? negative ghost rider, the two go hand-in-hand. a fundamental value of being a standardista is using POSH markup. said markup should certainly get added microformats/microdata/poshformats goodness backed in, using (X)HTML. i always hear "content is king"; nope. well-marked up content is king. yo, title tag stuffing has been irrelevant longer than netscape; the same with keyword stuffing. i guess knowing the char cut off limit is helpful, but you really should never even be getting close to the max. Headings are crucial for SEO, off the top of my head, Matt Cutts has a nice .pdf that's about a year or two old, and he specifically covers that topic. as well as the plethora of other resources around that do as well. Read up on Headers in HTML5...they have a new format, which I actually prefer and find much easier too implement. c'mon, don't take this as an attack and get all namby pamby; thoughts? i've been wrong before. once.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>j. albert bowden II</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 04:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>My Own Thoughts on H1's...</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Pulled from a blog piece I did back in mid May this year -- "Using an outside of ivy tower usage in our mind, means that Google will disregard your header tags completely and discount same page after page…which is a total waste of time and effort. Instead, try to add your tags like your old college sociology professor would add them to his dissertation….always always relevant and always always explanatory!" Full blog piece found at this URL -- http://www.canuckseo.com/index.php/2010/05/diy-canadian-seo-chapter-4/ :-) Jim]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Jim Rudnick</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Terry Van Horne says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[@David yes for other Search Engiones but also because you never know when you may be able to use them for a purpose other than SEO. @Alan Thanks for the feedback and nice to see we agree! @Mike Yeah the 70 chars deal was another blog trying to change about 15 yrs. of combined Industry wisdomm. It was a membermaking this mistake that was the motivation for the article. @Srbija totally agree!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Terry Van Horne</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Srbija says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA["SEOs sometimes don't include those elements (having done that myself) so it could be a red flag for professional optimization." Exactly as I was thinking. It's not taking much time and it would not hurt if you add few keywords in keyword meta tag. I don't make some big analyze but 30 secs I can spare on that.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Srbija</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Focus on visitors</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Good article Terry. I've always said SEO should be about tweaking your site AFTER you've set it up to be as helpful to your visitors as possible. It should be the overlay, rather than the foundation imo. I've never heard the 70 characters mentioned before (I'd only heard 65). It's strange what some ppl will believe. As for headings, I believe Google said somewhere in one of their guidelines that one of the factors in determining the relevance of the page to a search phrase is whether the phrase appears in a h1 tag. But it would be devilishly difficult to test.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Mike Haydon</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>ah best practices </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Terry, Thanks for writing this up. I tell clients - the few seconds it takes to populate a Meta keyword tag is worth it just to be sure, because it's not all about Google. And for mega-sites, even to just automate populating this field only takes a short while for me to come up with the data fields that should be used, followed by some programming. Still worth it. 70 characters? Yeah - I make sure to keep my page titles however long short or beyond that point makes the most sense for a given page. So for example, if I've got a Title that runs 60 characters, then I want to include the brand name, I throw that in at the end, even if the brand name itself runs beyond the 70th character. That's both because it's going to be a factor in the relevance process of any brand related search, and second because it will show up in the browser's Title bar, reinforcing the brand name to the site visitor. I do believe that under normal circumstances there's no valid point in loading other keywords beyond the 70 point, but that's because of page focus dilution. The more you try to integrate into a Title, the more, in my opinion, you're confusing search engines in what the page focus is about. As for on-page headers, well heck. It's all about the user. Headers give visual cues. And h1,h2,h3 nesting is a powerful example of that. Readability, digestion of primary topic and sub-topics... And given that, I have to believe that they're still important in the algo, because they help reinforce that almighty page focus. Both on-page and cross-page (like having a sub-topic with an h2, that describes an individual subject and where you then link to that subject page from the paragraph just below that h2. Sure, it's just my opinion, no hard and fast testing here. But it makes total sense. And since it's more important to consider the usability factors, who cares? Anyone who says you can ignore on-page header usage is thus way off base.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Alan Bleiweiss</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>David says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Thanks very much for posting, I've been telling clients lately that meta keywords don't do anything - based on testing with Google, Yahoo and Bing. So are you saying we should add them anyway, just in case search engines don't like it when you leave them blank?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
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