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	<title>Rich's WebWorld</title>
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	<description>The world of web dev and SEO.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Big Changes at MSN Search</title>
		<link>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/64/big-changes-at-msn-search/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was receiving a good income from my diet site, Easy Diabetic Diets. It was actually outperforming another of my sites that was getting ten times the traffic. And it was coming from MSN because I have yet to get the high rankings I&#8217;m seeking on Google and Yahoo.
On October 2, that all changed. Most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Websites</title>
		<link>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/63/moving-websites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in the process of moving some of my websites to a new hosting company. This can be a scary process for critical sites. Will there be a smooth transition? Will your code work on the new server? Stuff like that.
I&#8217;ve already made a discovery. Some hosting companies will not let you move a site [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Riding the Rails with Ruby</title>
		<link>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/61/riding-the-rails-with-ruby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m taking a dramatic change in the way that I build web sites.  I&#8217;m learning Ruby on Rails.
This is a much different method than is typical for building web sites. First, only a few hosting companies offer Ruby. You can&#8217;t just throw up a new site just anyway. But, the number of hosting companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belching Cows Contributing to Global Warming</title>
		<link>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/60/belching-cows-contributing-to-global-warming/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/60/belching-cows-contributing-to-global-warming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		
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<category>global warming</category><category>greenhouse gas emissions</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Michael Abberton, a scientist at the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research believes changing the diet of dairy cattle can help reduce greenhouse gases that cause global warming. The problem is that cows belch 100 to 200 liters of methane a day. Methane is over 20 times more effective in trapping heat in the atmosphere [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solution to Disappearing Frog Populations</title>
		<link>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/59/solution-to-disappearing-frog-populations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/59/solution-to-disappearing-frog-populations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Biologist Steven Whitfield of Florida International University and his colleagues found a 75% drop in the total amount of amphibians over the past 35 years. It was thought that a vicious fungal infection — chytridiomycosis — had wiped out entire populations.
Many had taken this as a sure sign of global warming and a sign of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accused of Being Red-necked</title>
		<link>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/58/accused-of-being-red-necked/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/58/accused-of-being-red-necked/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a &#8220;friend&#8221; ?? accuse me of being red-necked like the guy he was watching on the Red Green show on TV last night.
I think he may have been referring to my experiment to see if my car would run on LP gas. The plan is to use my BBQ grill&#8217;s hose and tank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo Copies Google Checkout</title>
		<link>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/57/yahoo-copies-google-checkout/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/57/yahoo-copies-google-checkout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s Checkout ecommerce solution has not been the success they had hoped for. Even with sweeteners like free credit card processing, it is still struggling against PayPal in market share. But there are signs they are beginning to make progress.
The first of these was when eBay banned the use of Google Checkout. Sure, they own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Sitemaps for WordPress</title>
		<link>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/55/google-sitemaps-for-wordpress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/55/google-sitemaps-for-wordpress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Google sitemaps are a good way to make sure Google indexes all your pages. It also lets them know when you have made changes to your site.
In the past, creating sitemaps and uploading them has been cumbersome. You usually searched for a website that made them based on your domain. But then it was often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missing Page Titles</title>
		<link>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/54/missing-page-titles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/54/missing-page-titles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/?p=54</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I added a couple of pages to my site, Easy Diabetic Diets, a few days ago. When I checked Yahoo to see if the pages were listed, I discovered listings without any titles.
Page titles are extremely important for SEO purposes. Keywords placed there help search engines know the subject of the page and how to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spyware Removal Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/53/spyware-removal-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/53/spyware-removal-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Spyware can be a real problem for internet users, especially for the uneducated. You can become so innodated with popup ads, for example, that using your computer becomes a completely frustrating experience.
A friend has published a new site to help overcome this problem. It is called Remove Spyware. If you are interested in taking control [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sell Anything on the Internet</title>
		<link>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/52/sell-anything-on-the-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/52/sell-anything-on-the-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/?p=52</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An important thing about the internet is the ability to focus on a small market that is spread out over a large area. A retail outlet would require a sizeable market within a short drive from its location. The internet brings the world to your doorstep.
I have a friend who has tumbleweeds for sale. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Site Indexed by Google</title>
		<link>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/49/site-indexed-by-google/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/49/site-indexed-by-google/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Google has finally indexed my entire Easy Diabetic Diets website. It is possible that this is a result of putting up a sitemap on Google.
I did change the schema for naming my content pages. Originally, I used &#8220;news-page.html?id=3&#8243; to identify the pages. However, when Google processed my sitemap, the number of pages found was much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Submitted Sitemaps</title>
		<link>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/50/submitted-sitemaps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/50/submitted-sitemaps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Submitting a sitemap of your website should be a good way to get all your pages indexed. At least, this is what Google and Yahoo are telling us.
I created sitemaps using one of those online sitemap generators. They don&#8217;t always do a great job. Sometimes they will leave out pages. Sometimes they will add in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Googlebot Arrived! Sorta</title>
		<link>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/47/googlebot-arrived-sorta/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/47/googlebot-arrived-sorta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to get Googlebot to visit my diabetic diets website. Finally, it happened. But the news wasn&#8217;t that good. When I check the site using &#8220;site:www.easydiabeticdiets.com&#8221; it only shows one new page.
Now if Google will just come back and index the rest of the site.
&#8211; Rich Pulham
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		<title>Googlebot, where are you?</title>
		<link>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/45/googlebot-where-are-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/45/googlebot-where-are-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Googlebot, Google&#8217;s robotic-like program that surf&#8217;s the web looking for web pages to index, is a lot like a puppy. Give it lots of goodies and it will return often for more. Ignore it and it will ignore you.
Having an older site like Easy Diabetic Diets has the advantage of overcoming Google&#8217;s Sandbox (as I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overcoming the Google Age Rank</title>
		<link>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/44/overcoming-the-google-age-rank/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/44/overcoming-the-google-age-rank/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I had purchsed a domain nearly two years ago but never really developed it. I had roughed in the look of it and put in some sample copy and pictures to get a feel for the design. And then I moved on to a more pressing project.
One day I discovered that my domain, EasyDiabeticDiets.com, had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heading down a new path</title>
		<link>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/43/heading-down-a-new-path/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/43/heading-down-a-new-path/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog is heading in a new direction. I&#8217;ve been spending much more time developing web sites and although I do search engine optimization full-time, I would prefer to discuss the broader subject of developing web sites because SEO has become a more tightly integrated process.
The whole area of SEO doesn&#8217;t seem to have the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A boring search engine holiday</title>
		<link>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/6/a-boring-search-engine-holiday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/6/a-boring-search-engine-holiday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems like the whole search engine world has come to a halt for the holidays. Nothing worth reading is making the news. Even some of the newsletters I receive have shut down until the new year.
Matt Cutts has gone on vacation to Nebraska to visit family.  He admonishes us to stop working so he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matt Cutts Does the Google Dance</title>
		<link>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/5/matt-cutts-does-the-google-dance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/5/matt-cutts-does-the-google-dance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a round table discussion at PubCon on November 16, Matt Cutts, software engineer for Google, was asked if there was a Google sandbox. He said, &#8220;There are some things in the algorithm that may be perceived as a sandbox that doesn&#8217;t apply to all industries.&#8221;
For me, that&#8217;s a politician&#8217;s answer. He was asked a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zend to Optimize PHP for Windows Servers</title>
		<link>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/37/zend-to-optimize-php-for-windows-servers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internetcontentdevelopers.com/blog/37/zend-to-optimize-php-for-windows-servers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There are 3.5 million PHP users. Most use open source servers such as Linux and Apache. PHP runs slower on Microsoft&#8217;s Information Severs because of an added layer of APIs. Microsoft has agreed to work with Zend to allow access to Windows APIs directly. This will allow PHP to run two or three times faster [...]]]></description>
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