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		<title>See if your website is optimized for high search engine rankings</title>
		<link>http://www.designedbykrista.com/blog/2010/06/02/how-does-your-site-rate-for-seo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search engine optimization (SEO) is a key part of any successful website because most internet users will find your site via a search engine. It&#8217;s a good idea to check your site to see if there are any areas you could easily improve in order to maximize your search engine rankings.
There are two tools I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use longer hyperlink text for better web usability</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 14:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web usability expert Jared Spool recommends that you make your hyperlinks 7 &#8211; 12 words long for optimum usability. Now, I would have thought links that long would be too hard for users to scan easily, but his research has shown that users are more likely to find what they want on your site if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using long tail keywords to get more traffic on your website</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 23:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kehlers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the heck is a long tail keyword &#8230; and why should you care, right? Internet users, like you and me, type a word or phrase into a search engine, like Google or Yahoo!, and these are generally referred to as keywords. A &#8220;long tail&#8221; keyword indicates that the searcher typed in a phrase &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting what you pay for in web design</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kehlers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following quote is often attributed to John Ruskin, but that is currently in dispute. However, it&#8217;s tough to dispute the meaning of these words &#8211; a more elegant way of saying that you get what you pay for. What does this mean for web design? It means that saving money is about trade-offs, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Conferences for Web Designers</title>
		<link>http://www.designedbykrista.com/blog/2010/02/04/2010-conferences-for-web-designers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kehlers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conferences are great for networking and keeping up to speed on technology. Don&#8217;t you find, though, that it&#8217;s hard to actually take a step back from the designing and coding to go learn about designing and coding?   I made it my goal this year to break away and get to a conference, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is a search engine?</title>
		<link>http://www.designedbykrista.com/blog/2009/01/09/what-is-a-search-engine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kehlers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A search engine, on the internet, is just a computer program that retrieves web pages based on keywords typed in by the user. The most popular search engines are Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. The hot topic today is &#8220;Search Engine Optimization,&#8221; in which you try to structure your website to be the first web page [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Search Engine Optimization Tool</title>
		<link>http://www.designedbykrista.com/blog/2008/12/05/free-search-engine-optimization-tool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kehlers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keyword Questions Tool
I&#8217;ve just heard about this useful free tool for finding &#8220;long tail keywords&#8221; that pertain to your website. As you know, keywords are terms that your potential site visitors will type into a search engine to find sites like yours. A long tail keyword is actually a phrase that contains keywords. For example, [...]]]></description>
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