<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- generator="wordpress/2.1.2" -->
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>SEO Skeptic</title>
	<link>http://www.seoskeptic.com</link>
	<description>Fact, fiction and foolishness in the world of search engine optimization</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2</generator>
	<language>en</language>
			<item>
		<title>Pirate SEO Advice</title>
		<link>http://www.seoskeptic.com/pirate-seo-advice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seoskeptic.com/pirate-seo-advice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Rankings]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seoskeptic.com/pirate-seo-advice/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In honour of International Talk Like a Pirate Day (19 Sept), today's SEO Skeptic post is brought to you by Cap'n Long John K'yword, a veteran of pillage, terror and search engine optimization on the high seas.  The Cap'n is here to briefly offer some practical pirate solutions to a few common SEO problems, with [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.seoskeptic.com/pirate-seo-advice/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Tweets That Annoy Me</title>
		<link>http://www.seoskeptic.com/tweets-that-annoy-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seoskeptic.com/tweets-that-annoy-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seoskeptic.com/tweets-that-annoy-me/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This slightly cranky post is geared toward people that have a Twitter account that they use chiefly for business or professional purposes.  I personally think that the type of tweets enumerated below are bad form even for the most closely connected friends, but if you don't care about - or even have - an online [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.seoskeptic.com/tweets-that-annoy-me/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Yahoo Search Pad, Google Blog Search Changes: Yawn</title>
		<link>http://www.seoskeptic.com/yahoo-search-pad-google-blog-search-changes-yawn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seoskeptic.com/yahoo-search-pad-google-blog-search-changes-yawn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Innovations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Yahoo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seoskeptic.com/yahoo-search-pad-google-blog-search-changes-yawn/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For my sins, I'm a chocoholic, so I'm often cruisin' the candy aisles.  And when I'm there I almost always see a new, derivative candy bar that I know is doomed to failure in a few months.  Did the world really need or want a Smarties Bar, or a Terry's Raspberry Orange (though I kind [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.seoskeptic.com/yahoo-search-pad-google-blog-search-changes-yawn/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Top 20 SEO DOs and DON'Ts</title>
		<link>http://www.seoskeptic.com/top-20-seo-dos-and-donts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seoskeptic.com/top-20-seo-dos-and-donts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO Tactics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seoskeptic.com/top-20-seo-dos-and-donts/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Top 20 SEO DOs:

Make changes that benefit users.  Focus on the user and all else (including rankings) will follow.
Create and maintain sensible and consistent navigation paths.
Be continually aware that each and every page on your site is a potential customer entry point.  Think laterally.
Label each and every page clearly; describing its content in words your [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.seoskeptic.com/top-20-seo-dos-and-donts/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Ranking and Authority Issues for Twitter Search</title>
		<link>http://www.seoskeptic.com/ranking-and-authority-issues-for-twitter-search/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seoskeptic.com/ranking-and-authority-issues-for-twitter-search/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seoskeptic.com/ranking-and-authority-issues-for-twitter-search-seo-skeptic/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ben Parr's Mashable Post that Google may launch a microblogging (Twitter) search service has ignited a storm of speculation in the SEO and SMO communities.  Perhaps most interesting object of speculation is how Google will calculate authority in order to rank tweets in search results.
Jordan Kasteler has written a thoughtful post on this issue in [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.seoskeptic.com/ranking-and-authority-issues-for-twitter-search/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>PageRank Sculpting: Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish</title>
		<link>http://www.seoskeptic.com/pagerank-sculpting-good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seoskeptic.com/pagerank-sculpting-good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Linking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seoskeptic.com/pagerank-sculpting-good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An SEO Skeptic gold star to Aaron Wall for his post today regarding PageRank scultping, Expert SEO Testing: Usually Worthless.  Since the recent "announcements" that Google is now basically disregarding efforts at controlling internal linking using the nofollow attribute - "PR sculpting" - there's been a whole lot of hand-wringing in the SEO community about [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.seoskeptic.com/pagerank-sculpting-good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Search Engine Complicity in Chinese Censorship</title>
		<link>http://www.seoskeptic.com/search-engine-complicity-in-chinese-censorship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seoskeptic.com/search-engine-complicity-in-chinese-censorship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seoskeptic.com/search-engine-complicity-in-chinese-censorship/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the brutal suppression of public protest in support of democracy in China's Tiananmen Square.  The protests, which had begun on 14 April 1989, ended on 4 June when tanks from the People's Liberation Army cleared demonstrators from the square.  While the exact number of deaths that resulted from this [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.seoskeptic.com/search-engine-complicity-in-chinese-censorship/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Build Content and They Will Come &#8230; Really?</title>
		<link>http://www.seoskeptic.com/build-content-and-they-will-come-really/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seoskeptic.com/build-content-and-they-will-come-really/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Content]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seoskeptic.com/build-content-and-they-will-come-really/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A brief rant here, in the "if I hear this one more time I'm going to scream" category, occasioned by a Matt Cutts Twitter comment via Kevin Newcomb on Search Engine Watch.
As Cutts himself Twittered this morning: "Hey, did you hear our latest inside tip? Make relevant content. ;)"
]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.seoskeptic.com/build-content-and-they-will-come-really/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Paid Link Reporting and the Fall of the Machine</title>
		<link>http://www.seoskeptic.com/paid-link-reporting-and-the-fall-of-the-machine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seoskeptic.com/paid-link-reporting-and-the-fall-of-the-machine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 14:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Linking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seoskeptic.com/paid-link-reporting-and-the-fall-of-the-machine/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Google introduced paid link reporting via Webmaster Tools in 2007, in marked the second time human informants were solicited to help the search engine.  The first - less contentious - invitation a year earlier was the spam report, by which conscientious website owners (or their minions) could report such things as sneaky JavaScript redirects, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.seoskeptic.com/paid-link-reporting-and-the-fall-of-the-machine/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>SEO Perspectives on the 2009 Webware 100 Awards</title>
		<link>http://www.seoskeptic.com/seo-perspectives-on-the-2009-webware-100-awards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seoskeptic.com/seo-perspectives-on-the-2009-webware-100-awards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 17:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Innovations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seoskeptic.com/seo-perspectives-on-the-2009-webware-100-awards/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just came across posts by both Ask and Live Search bragging how they were 2009 Webware 100 winners.  I decided to take a peak to verify what I guessed, that all the major search engines were on the list.  Here are the award winners in the "Search &#38; Reference Category":
]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.seoskeptic.com/seo-perspectives-on-the-2009-webware-100-awards/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
