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		<title>Yahoo Store&#8211;Search Engine Optimization-Related Features</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search engine optimization is an important aspect for any Internet based business. SEO brings traffic to your Store and quality of your site converts it into customers. However, Yahoo! has broad traffic base. Some features can bring more visibility. Let us try to see which features can enhance the SEO effort for your dream store. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Search enfine optimization" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.indianic.com/search-engine-optimization-feature.html" target="_blank"><strong><a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engine-optimization" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with Search engine optimization">Search engine optimization</a></strong></a> is an important aspect for any Internet based business. SEO brings traffic to your Store and quality of your site converts it into customers. However, Yahoo! has broad traffic base. Some features can bring more visibility. Let us try to see which features can enhance the SEO effort for your dream store.</p>
<h3>Bread Crumb Trails</h3>
<p>This is most SEO friendly and user friendly feature for your Yahoo! store. This utility is basically a navigation system that shows visitors where they stay in the directory structure in relation to the rest of your store. This way, your visitors can get a visual path to know in which section or sub section they are currently shopping.</p>
<p>Generally Bread Crumb trails are depicted on the top of each page to provide your visitors a back track to the index page and all the web pages in between. It makes easy navigation so enhance the search engine exposure and it helps to improve customer conversion ratio.<span id="more-1667"></span></p>
<h3>Customer and SEO Friendly Site Maps</h3>
<p>Site map is an utmost important part of SEO of any website therefore you need this feature without any doubt. It gives easy navigation for <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> as well as your visitors. <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engine-spiders" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engine spiders">Search engine spiders</a> can crawl all your major pages of your Yahoo! store with an ease.</p>
<p>It exposes all your web pages to the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> and your products to your patrons. This RTML enhancement makes your site ahead in the competition of competitive keywords.</p>
<h3>ALT Tags on Product Images</h3>
<p>Giving alt tags to the product images is considered to be the best SEO practice. When you give alt tag to the image it ultimately becomes visible in <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> so you can get maximum benefits of search engine visibility for your products.</p>
<p>Your product can find by search engine as well as your customers in case your image can not be loaded your customers can see the text and know about your products. With this feature default alt tag for Yahoo! that says, ‘click to enlarge&#8217; will replace with description of your own that is search engine spider friendly. Hover over the image can get this tag displayed making your site more optimal.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/meta-tags" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with meta tags">Meta Tags</a> (Title, Keywords and Description)</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/meta-tags" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with meta tags">Meta tags</a> like title, keywords and description are essential parts of SEO of any web page. Having an RTML feature that automatically generates unique <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/meta-tags" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with meta tags">Meta tags</a> for your pages from your database file will just be great. Such features scans your name, caption, label and abstracts and make unique <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/meta-tags" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with meta tags">Meta tags</a>.</p>
<p>Unique <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/meta-tags" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with meta tags">Meta tags</a> always attract <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> because titles are catchy, keywords are unique and description is informative. <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/meta-tags" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with meta tags">Meta tags</a> enhance your SEO effort considerably and bring more customers to your pages.</p>
<h3>Convert all Links to Absolute URL (Base URL)</h3>
<p>It is a well-known fact that <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> don&#8217;t crawl dynamic URL if there is a dynamic link. When you generate dynamic pages it automatically generate dynamic URL and that we don&#8217;t want at any cost so we can do RTML changes and force the dynamic page to generate SEO friendly URL.</p>
<p>Such feature converts all dynamic pages of your Yahoo! store to absolute URLs that <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> can index easily. This is a simple remedy but critically important.</p>
<h3>Custom Error Pages that actually Helps!</h3>
<p>In stead of showing simple ‘404 Not Found&#8217; error message for the page, show Custom Error Page that contains some apology, your branding and links to other major pages of your Yahoo! store. This can bring a broad smile to your customers&#8217; faces. This feature generates Custom Error Pages to help your customers as well as crawlers too.</p>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> About the Author:<br />
Jessica Woodson is head of projects at IndiaNIC – a leading Yahoo Store Development company which presents quality and cost effective yahoo store development, yahoo store SEO, yahoo store manager services across the globe. For more inquiries please visit at </span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.indianic.com/search-engine-optimization-feature.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">http://www.indianic.com/search-engine-optimization-feature.html</span></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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	Tags:<a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/bread-crumb" title="bread crumb" rel="tag">bread crumb</a>,<a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/customer-conversion" title="customer conversion" rel="tag">customer conversion</a>,<a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engine-optimization" title="Search engine optimization" rel="tag">Search engine optimization</a>,<a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engine-spiders" title="search engine spiders" rel="tag">search engine spiders</a>,<a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engine-visibility" title="search engine visibility" rel="tag">search engine visibility</a>

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		<title>Using Social Media as Part of an SEO Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Egret SEO</dc:creator>
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<p>Using social media in an SEO campaign will help you contact your desired audience, via <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> and social media sites, as well as optimize your social network discovery.</p>
<p>With social media increasing in popularity and being treated as a trusted source, it would be silly not to use social media sites to optimize your website and drive traffic to it.<span id="more-1665"></span></p>
<p><strong>How to implement a social media campaign</strong></p>
<p>Now this is certainly the most difficult part. First you need a plan, where you will need to identify your audience, your aims and the strategy. What makes social media sites so good to optimize is the fact that they are interactive – hence people can share, comment, vote and use links. Not only are you optimizing your social media page, but every time someone joins or participates, they are helping to increase your popularity with <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a>.</p>
<p>Remember the above as it&#8217;s vital to a working campaign.  Interaction is key to a social media campaign and so are the links. The more your links with attached keywords appear, whether it be on blogs, forums or social media sites, the more popular your site will become with <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/google" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a>, Yahoo or MSN.</p>
<p>When implementing social media into your SEO campaign, the first thing you must identify is your audience. What sites do they prefer? What do they like to share and how? Many professionals follow their customers online and look at how they behave, for instance, what sort of things that they share. This is usually done by specially created programs, which identify what customers search for and what keywords they use.</p>
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<p>The <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/seo-experts" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seo experts">SEO experts</a> are well trained. They know what <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/seo-optimization" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seo optimization">SEO optimization</a> method can help your website. They will analyze all aspects of your website. By analyzing your website, they know what aspect of the website needs improvement.</p>
<p>For example, if your site has poor link structure, they will help to cross link between the internal pages so that your website becomes more SEO friendly. They are <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/seo-experts" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seo experts">SEO experts</a> so they know what need to be done in order to get your website on the number one position in the search engine.<span id="more-1663"></span></p>
<p>They will perform all kinds of optimizations campaign for your website. When shopping for <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/seo-company" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seo company">SEO company</a>, you should ask them the type of optimization they perform. If the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/seo-company" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seo company">SEO company</a> only focus on link building, you should avoid them. In order to be successfully on the internet, you need to implement on site and off <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/site-optimization" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with site optimization">site optimization</a>.</p>
<p>On <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/site-optimization" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with site optimization">site optimization</a> involves writing optimizing content with keyword, and building good navigation. The <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/seo-company" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seo company">SEO company</a> will know which keyword will yield the best result for your website. They use their own keyword suggestion tool to find a suitable keyword.</p>
<p>The keyword suggestion tool they use are not the free ones that are available on the internet. With a premium keyword suggestion tool, they have access to more data concerning the keywords. In this way, they are able to find the right keyword for your website.</p>
<p>When hiring a <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/seo-company" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seo company">SEO company</a>, you should shop with multiple companies to compare the prices. You can find <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/seo-company" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seo company">SEO company</a> by searching for the keywords &#8220;<a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/seo-company" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seo company">SEO company</a>&#8220;.</p>
<p>If you want a region specific <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/seo-company" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seo company">SEO company</a>, you must include the name of the region in the search term. For example, you can enter the keyword &#8220;UK <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/seo-company" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seo company">SEO Company</a>&#8221; or &#8220;US <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/seo-company" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seo company">SEO Company</a>&#8221; in the search engine. The advantage of using a local <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/seo-company" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seo company">SEO company</a> is that they are more capable of optimizing the local website.</p>
<p>Every <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/seo-company" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seo company">SEO company</a> charges a different price. However, most of them won&#8217;t charge beyond the market price. If the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/seo-company" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seo company">SEO company</a> charges an incredibly low price, you should avoid them. SEO companies charges low price to attract customers. The <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/seo-services" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seo services">SEO services</a> provided by cheap SEO companies are lousy so it is a waste of money to sign up with them.</p>
<p>The price of the SEO package should be reasonable and not too expensive. You should sign up for a <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/seo-company" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seo company">SEO company</a> that charges a monthly fee.</p>
<p>Some <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/seo-company" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seo company">SEO company</a> accepts payment on result. Many SEO companies publish their phone numbers on their website. You can make a phone call to the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/seo-company" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seo company">SEO company</a> and discuss with them. You should let them know the URL of the website which you want to promote. After that, they will give you an estimate quote.</p>
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		<title>Tips for Getting Right Form of SEO Link Building</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Egret SEO</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any website that you find online and is successful have used SEO link building for that result. Search engines regard the links from other websites to yours as positive votes to your site and it establishes genuineness of your web content. However formation of effective and relevant links is not an easy task, as there [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Any website that you find online and is successful have used SEO link building for that result. <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">Search engines</a> regard the links from other websites to yours as positive votes to your site and it establishes genuineness of your web content. However formation of effective and relevant links is not an easy task, as there are many service providers that use <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/black-hat" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with black hat">black hat</a> <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/seo-techniques" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seo techniques">SEO techniques</a>, which is great risk factor for any website.</p>
<p>In White hat link building, the webmaster follows certain guidelines and rules formed by the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a>. All <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/major-search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with major search engines">major <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a></a> like Yahoo, <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/google" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a> and Bing can easily identify link building practices that are not white hat one.</p>
<p>You can get access to articles and references that provide guidelines regarding techniques of SEO link building to be followed, and those that need to be avoided. Even online encyclopedia like &#8216;Wikipedia&#8217; also contains useful information about white hat and <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/black-hat" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with black hat">black hat</a> <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/seo-techniques" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seo techniques">SEO techniques</a>.<span id="more-1662"></span></p>
<p>The websites that use unethical ways of link building have higher chances of getting blacklisted by the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a>, giving loss to your online business. Thus industry experts always lay stress on using white hat techniques. To name a few <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/back-links" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with back links">back links</a> from adult sites, link farms, gaming sites, too many links per day and those from banned websites can be categorized under <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/black-hat" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with black hat">black hat</a> SEO links.</p>
<p>Websites need to build up a strong domain trust with the clients. For this you can consider getting <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/back-links" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with back links">back links</a> from websites that have a good online reputation and is trusted one. Pay attention to which type of sites gives you links, and at any cost avoid getting it from bad reputation websites.</p>
<p>Another aspect to be taken care in link building is <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/anchor-text" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with anchor text">anchor text</a>. Make it look spontaneous and relevant as possible. Some sites use similar anchor texts with keywords of same type, thus results in <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> penalizing your link. Be cautious in not exceeding in <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/anchor-text" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with anchor text">anchor text</a> optimizing especially of catchy phrases.</p>
<p>The place where you position the links to your website carries importance and affects the visibility factor. When you place a link of your website&#8217;s product or service on a web page with quality content then, its value would definitely go up. So experts always recommend to place links inside site content. Avoid the footer links as they are not observed so often and is less effective too. <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/page-rank" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with Page Rank">Page rank</a> value of a web page where you place the link also matters, as these pages have higher hits and site traffic.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Want your website to be listed higher in the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engine-ranking" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engine ranking">search engine ranking</a> results? Unless your site is already sitting in the number one spot, I&#8217;m sure the answer is yes – who wouldn&#8217;t want that? But <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engine-optimization" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with Search engine optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a> (SEO) is a complicated process, and there is so much mis-information and bad advice floating around, it can be difficult to know which tactics work, and which ones are nonsense.</p>
<p>Here is a list of five SEO myths that not only don&#8217;t work, they can get your website banned by the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> if you use them!<span id="more-1660"></span></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;The more times I use a keyword on a web page, the better.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong> This myth can definitely get you in trouble with the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a>! Of course you should use a keyword in the content of your web page, but using it to many times on the same page can get you flagged for keyword spamming. Although there is no definitive rule on how much is too much, it&#8217;s generally thought that a keyword should have a density between 2% and 6%.</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Using the meta keyword tag will boost my rankings.&#8221; </strong></p>
<p>Wrong – the meta keyword tag is actually useless, and will not help your rankings one bit. There are other <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/meta-tags" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with meta tags">meta tags</a>, however, like Title and Description, that are definitely used by the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> in evaluating your web pages, but the keyword meta tag is not used at all for ranking web pages.</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Trading links or reciprocal links is a great way to build inbound links to my site.&#8221; </strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>The <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> look for naturally occurring links coming from quality sites, and their algorithms are quite good at telling the difference between natural links and reciprocal and 3-way linking schemes. Build your inbound links naturally using standard techniques, because reciprocal links are discounted by the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a>, and link &#8220;buying&#8221; can get you banned altogether.</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Submitting my site to hundreds of <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> is a good way to improve my rankings.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Not only is it unnecessary to submit your site to the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> (the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engine-spiders" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engine spiders">search engine spiders</a> will discover your site on their own), submitting a site does not mean it will be listed in the search results. There are hundreds of factors that <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> consider when determining how to rank a site, but submission is not one of them.</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;As the business owner, I&#8217;m the best person to choose the keywords I want to be listed for.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Although it may be appropriate for an owner to help select the list of &#8220;seed words&#8221; to use in SEO (seed words are the terms used to start the keyword research), you definitely want real-time data to tell you which keywords will perform the best for your business! For instance, you may think customers search for &#8220;ABC widgets&#8221;, but the data may show you that searchers actually typed in &#8220;blue widgets&#8221; or &#8220;big blue widgets&#8221; and never once typed in &#8220;ABC widgets&#8221;. Why would you waste time and effort optimizing for a term that nobody ever searches on?</p>
<p>We all want our business websites to show up in the top of the search results, but be careful – what you <strong>think</strong> you know might actually end up hurting you!</p>
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About the Author:<br />
Lauren Hobson, President of Five Sparrows, LLC, has more than 16 years of experience in small business technology writing, marketing, and web site design and development.  Five Sparrows provides professional website, marketing, and social networking services to small businesses and non-profits at affordable prices, giving clients access to customized services that meet both their needs and their budgets. More at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.fivesparrows.com/" target="_blank">www.fivesparrows.com</a>. Copyright 2010, Five Sparrows. All Rights Reserved.<br />
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		<title>Will Google&#8217;s New Search Options Affect Your SEO?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Egret SEO</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you haven&#8217;t noticed, Google recently unveiled a new design for its search results pages that gives users access to some new, interesting search options. The new design may not be immediately noticeable, but when you do a search from Google&#8216;s home page, you can now see a new, left-hand column on each results [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In case you haven&#8217;t noticed, <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/google" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a> recently unveiled a new design for its search results pages that gives users access to some new, interesting search options. The new design may not be immediately noticeable, but when you do a search from <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/google" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a>&#8216;s home page, you can now see a new, left-hand column on each results page.</p>
<p>At the top of the column are the different <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/google" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a> search &#8220;engines&#8221; (like images, videos, news, etc.). The next section in the column has a link called &#8220;Show search tools&#8221;, which expands to display a variety of new <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/google" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a> tools for people to use when looking for information.<span id="more-1659"></span></p>
<p>The new search tools let users view results by criteria such as &#8220;time&#8221; (latest results, past 24 hours, etc.), &#8220;location&#8221; (nearby results), &#8220;related searches&#8221;, &#8220;sites with images&#8221;, etc., which may ultimately have a significant affect on your business&#8217; search engine strategy. Why? Because with each new option a user selects, a different set of <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/google" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a> search results is displayed, based on the option that is selected.</p>
<p>So now that there are multiple new <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/google" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a> search options, does this mean that businesses must consider which <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/google" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a> search option(s) they wish to rank for, then optimize specifically for that option? Maybe.</p>
<p><strong>The Importance of Real-Time Search </strong></p>
<p>Real-time search was added to <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/google" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a> only a few months ago, and is the result of social sites like Facebook and Twitter becoming a major resource for users who wanted information that is minutes-old, not days, weeks, or months-old. Now that real-time search is even more accessible to users via the left-column options (e.g., blogs, news, discussions, &#8220;time&#8221; tools, etc.), social search has become even more important for businesses striving to rank well in <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/google" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a>.</p>
<p>Social search is all about visibility, meaning you need to have a presence on the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/social-networking-sites" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with social networking sites">social networking sites</a> and get people talking about and / or sharing your content. You need to get people involved with you in order to be relevant in real-time search, and real-time search has already been shown to be a real-big factor in getting to the top of <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/google" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a> rankings.</p>
<p><strong>Where Do You Want to Rank Today? </strong></p>
<p>If you want to increase quality traffic from <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/google" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a>, it makes sense to optimize your pages for coverage in the search option categories that matter most to your business. For instance, if you operate a storefront in your town, you may want to show up in the local search (and &#8220;nearby&#8221;) results. Or, if you&#8217;re offering a time-sensitive discount or have tied a promotion to an event, then you may want to be included in the &#8220;time&#8221; results for past 24 hours or past week.</p>
<p><strong>Know Your Audience! </strong></p>
<p>The key to ranking well in <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/google" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a> – regardless of the search option category being used – is to find the right <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/keyword-phrases" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with keyword phrases">keyword phrases</a> to use in optimizing your site. Do some actual research, don&#8217;t just guess! If you don&#8217;t know how to research and find <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/relevant-keywords" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with relevant keywords">relevant keywords</a>, then hire a professional to help you. You must know what people are actually typing into that search box, or your efforts will do little to drive targeted traffic to your site or deliver new customers and leads. The more you know about the keywords your <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/target" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with target">target</a> market uses to find products and services like yours, the more you will know exactly where you need to focus your efforts in <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/google" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Hurry Up and Wait </strong></p>
<p>Although <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/google" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a>&#8216;s new search tools are a fairly new development, experts are already weighing in with their opinions on how (or if) these new search options will have an impact on a business&#8217; SEO strategy. The early consensus seems to be that yes, the new options will have an effect to some degree, but it&#8217;s probably too soon to know to what extent.</p>
<p>In the meantime, the best strategy is to keep your site updated with fresh, relevant content, create a strong presence on the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/social-networking-sites" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with social networking sites">social networking sites</a>, build new inbound links, select targeted <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/keyword-phrases" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with keyword phrases">keyword phrases</a>, and optimize your site using standard, white-hat practices that will help your web site be read and indexed by the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engine-spiders" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engine spiders">search engine spiders</a>. Then sit back and watch the results unfold over the next several months to see if the new <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/google" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a> search options indeed affect your SEO.</p>
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Lauren Hobson, President of Five Sparrows, LLC, has more than 16 years of experience in small business technology writing, marketing, and web site design and development.  Five Sparrows provides professional website, marketing, and social networking services to small businesses and non-profits at affordable prices, giving clients access to customized services that meet both their needs and their budgets. More at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.fivesparrows.com/" target="_blank">www.fivesparrows.com</a>. Copyright 2010, Five Sparrows. All Rights Reserved.<br />
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		<title>Tips on Using WordPress SEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GuestBlogger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WordPress is one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) online. Bloggers, small businesses and even some publishers use it. WordPress is an SEO friendly CMS and by using plugins, we can even customize it to be more effective in organic rankings. Here are some ideas to rev up your WordPress search engine rankings: [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WordPress is one of the most popular <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/content-management-systems" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with content management systems">Content Management Systems</a> (CMS) online. Bloggers, small businesses and even some publishers use it. WordPress is an SEO friendly CMS and by using plugins, we can even customize it to be more effective in organic rankings. Here are some ideas to rev up your WordPress <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engine-rankings" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engine rankings">search engine rankings</a>:</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t inadvertently block the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a>. Sounds simple, but people do it all the time. Go to your admin panel, click on <strong>Options&gt;Privacy</strong> and just make sure that your settings read &#8220;I would like my blog to be visible to everyone.&#8221;</p>
<p>Make sure that user comments are enabled. Aside from the fact that they engage your readers and give you useful feedback, they also rack up SEO points as fresh content, giving <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> another reason to keep coming back to your blog. Also, remember to encourage the readers to leave comments. User generated content is king in terms of SEO.<span id="more-1658"></span></p>
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<p>Check for proper XHTML. WordPress produces valid code, but poorly-written plugins or themes can crop up code errors. Sometimes user-created coding errors also occur, in the blog posts themselves or through custom themes. Check your site for errors.</p>
<p>Use images. Images will not only give your site some added interest for visitors, they give you a chance to put in &#8220;alt&#8221; and &#8220;title&#8221; attributes and filenames that can be keyword-rich. Images will also give your blog added visibility for image <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a>.</p>
<p>Ping-O-Matic and RSS. WordPress automatically pings Ping-O-Matic, notifying it that your site has new content, which invites bots to your blog. A large list of RSS Ping sites can be found here.</p>
<p>Timestamping. Readers and <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> both love new, fresh content. Space your posts out somewhat by using the timestamp feature, and WordPress will publish the blog post on the date and time you specify. We suggest daily posts.</p>
<p>Sitemaps. Make sure that you implement the &#8220;<a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/google" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a> XML Sitemap&#8221; plugin and submit the sitemap to <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/google" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a>, Yahoo and Bing. This is essential for a rapid crawl by <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> as well as monitoring your site stats using Webmaster Tools.</p>
<p>All-in-One SEO Pack. Make sure that you implement this plugin and customize it. This allows you to assign customized page titles and descriptions to all pages and posts on your WordPress site. It&#8217;s an essential tool.</p>
<p>Backup. Always backup your files and database.</p>
<p>Cache. Install WP Super Cache since this will improve the speed and performance of your WordPress site. The faster your site loads, the better.</p>
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		<title>Do you know what Black Hat SEO is?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Egret SEO</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Optimizing your website is a must if you want to achieve high search engine rankings. There are various methods that can be used to optimize your website and web pages. All of the search engines have rules and guidelines about SEO and they have adapted the algorithms that they use to rank websites in such [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Optimizing your website is a must if you want to achieve high <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engine-rankings" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engine rankings">search engine rankings</a>. There are various methods that can be used to optimize your website and web pages. All of the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> have rules and guidelines about SEO and they have adapted the algorithms that they use to rank websites in such a way that websites using unethical techniques are penalized.</p>
<p>In the industry <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/seo-techniques" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seo techniques">SEO techniques</a> are generally referred to as white hat SEO or <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/black-hat" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with black hat">black hat</a> SEO. White hat SEO refers to search engine recommended techniques and <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/black-hat" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with black hat">black hat</a> SEO refers to unethical practises that could result in the banning of a website by the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a>.</p>
<p>White hat SEO aims to ensure that the content that a search engine indexes and subsequently ranks is the same content a user will see. <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/black-hat" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with black hat">Black hat</a> SEO attempts to improve <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engine-rankings" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engine rankings">search engine rankings</a> by deceiving the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> at the cost of Internet users.<span id="more-1657"></span></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/black-hat" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with black hat">Black Hat</a> <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/seo-techniques" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seo techniques">SEO Techniques</a>:</strong></p>
<p><strong>1. Cloaking</strong></p>
<p>This technique describes the hiding of text. This can be done through text colored similar to the background or positioned off screen. Keywords are hidden using this method to improve <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engine-rankings" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engine rankings">search engine rankings</a>.</p>
<p><strong>2. Doorway or Gateway Pages</strong></p>
<p>This technique gives a different page depending on whether the page is requested by a human visitor or a search engine. Keyword stuffed pages are provided for <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> and normal pages for visitors. The problem with this method is that the user clicks on a link to a page that has nothing to do with the search phrase. Popular search phrases are targeted to gain visitors to websites that have nothing in common with the search phrase.</p>
<p><strong>3. Hidden Content</strong></p>
<p>This technique refers to hiding content within the code of the site and stuffing it with keywords. The &#8220;comment&#8221; and &#8220;no script&#8221; tags are normally used for this technique. Users will find themselves clicking on a link to a website that does not relate to the search phrase used.</p>
<p><strong>4. <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/meta-descriptions" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with meta descriptions">Meta Descriptions</a></strong></p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/meta-description" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with meta description">meta description</a> should be used to describe the content of your page and not to be stuffed with keywords. Remember the golden rule that content and websites should be written and designed for users not <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a>. Due to the continuous misuse of <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/meta-descriptions" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with meta descriptions">meta descriptions</a> the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> do not allocate a lot of value to it anymore.</p>
<p><strong>5. Meta Keywords</strong></p>
<p>Meta keywords should be a short list of words describing the main content of a web page. Due to continuous misuse the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> do not allocate value to meta keywords anymore making life more difficult for the normal <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/website-owner" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with website owner">website owner</a>.</p>
<p><strong>6. Link Farming</strong></p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> penalize website with links from adult, gambling and banned sites. Link farms provide a free for all and anyone can link to everyone else. Unscrupulous service providers offer customers thousands of links to their websites in a short period of time through the use of link farms. This practise can result in penalties and low rankings.</p>
<p><strong>7. Article Spinning</strong></p>
<p>This technique refers to software that are used to re-write an existing article into hundreds of new articles. Re-written articles are submitted to article directories and blogs in order to build links to a website. The quality of the articles that are produced is very poor and most of the articles are not readable. The impact of this technique is the spamming of article directories with poor quality articles that are not original resulting in a negative experience for Internet users. Due to the major abuse of this technique <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/article-marketing" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with Article Marketing">article marketing</a> is not as effective as it once was.</p>
<p>Every <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/website-owner" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with website owner">website owner</a> has a choice when deciding on their <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.specialprayer.webs.com" target="_blank">SEO strategy</a>. White hat <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.specialprayer.webs.com" target="_blank">SEO</a> techniques works well and have long term sustainable results. <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/black-hat" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with black hat">Black hat</a> techniques can get your website ranked high quickly but will result in the banning of your website in the long term. Your website is a reflection of who you are and the decisions that you make will have an impact on your online reputation.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 03:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Egret SEO</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is vital that you plan and monitor your SEO strategy effectively, but where do you start? In this article we will be looking at the steps that you have to take in order to promote your website through the use of SEO. The steps that we will be discussing are important and none of these steps should be missed. If you follow all of the steps below you will be able to implement an effective SEO strategy.</p>
<p><strong>1. Choosing the right keywords:</strong></p>
<p>Keywords are the foundation of your SEO and you have to choose them carefully. Making mistakes when choosing your keywords can be costly and time consuming. The keywords that you choose should describe your business, product or service. It should be frequently used by people on <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/google" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a> or the other <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> and the online competition for these keywords should not be too high (not too many websites should already be competing for the keywords).</p>
<p><strong>2. Optimizing your site&#8217;s contents:</strong></p>
<p>It is very important that you design a good-looking, user and search engine friendly website that promotes your products or services. Firstly your website should be informative with user-orientated content that will keep customers spending money on your site. For your SEO you should use your chosen keywords effectively in each element of your page&#8217;s HTML code. This will allow <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/google" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with google">Google</a> and the rest of the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> to understand that your pages are topically related to your keywords and to start ranking your pages for your keywords.</p>
<p><strong>3. Finding good quality links:</strong></p>
<p>In order to be ranked highly by the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a> you need to get a lot of links pointing to your site from other websites. Good links comes from similar and topically related websites. These websites should be respected, well established and trusted by the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a>. The visible part of the link to your website (<a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/anchor-text" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with anchor text">anchor text</a>) should contain your keywords. One of the quickest ways to find good quality links is to analyse your top competitors and to see where they are getting their links from.</p>
<p><strong>4. Building a network of quality links:</strong></p>
<p>You need a wide network of links before your website will rank well on the <a href="http://www.egretseo.com/tag/search-engines" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with search engines">search engines</a>. It is important to build links from a variety of quality sources and there are various methods available to build links. Websites with good quality and popular content that is updated regularly do not need to do much in order to get links. Some sites buy or exchange links with highly ranked websites or offer discounts or free services for a link. Blog comments on high ranking blogs (with similar content than your site) is an effective link building method and is widely used. Make use of social media sites like Twitter and also bookmarking sites to build one way links to your site. You will need to build links for as long as your website is active if you want to rank high and retain your rankings over time.</p>
<p><strong>5. Monitoring keyword rankings:</strong></p>
<p>In order to see if your SEO strategy has paid off you need to monitor the positions of your website keywords on the search result pages. You will be able to identify the activities that works the best for you and also rectify mistakes very quickly.</p>
<p>Well planned, implemented and monitored SEO strategies will result in high website rankings over time. Two of the most important pillars of SEO is <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.specialprayer.webs.com">keyword research and link building</a>. Rather spend more time on choosing the correct keywords and also implement a daily link building schedule where you build a minimum of 10 links a day. The results will speak for itself.</p>
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