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	<title>Linklove</title>
	<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info</link>
	<description>Search engine marketing blog by Peter van der Graaf</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Canonical tag creates new legal cloaking possibilities</title>
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		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/canonical-tag-creates-new-legal-cloaking-possibilities.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Algorithms</category>
	<category>Cloaking</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google, Yahoo and Live search have introduced a great new way to serve linkers different content than other visitors or search engines. Thanks to the rel=canonical tag the search engines are now supporting they will need to implement many new spam detection methods as well.
If you do not yet know about the tag please read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is blackhat SEO technical or social?</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/is-blackhat-seo-technical-or-social.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/is-blackhat-seo-technical-or-social.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Opinions</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search Engine Strategies Chicago ended with a discussion on blackhat vs whitehat SEO. For the ones among you that aren&#8217;t familiar with these terms: They refer to evil and good wizards. In search this could mean that a blackhat SEO crosses certain lines that a whitehat won&#8217;t.
But what are the lines to cross? Is it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you a real geek? This song is for the ultimate SEO freaks</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/are-you-a-real-geek-this-song-is-for-the-ultimate-seo-freaks.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/are-you-a-real-geek-this-song-is-for-the-ultimate-seo-freaks.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Links</category>
	<category>Breaking news</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you attending any search conference this month? Be sure to bring this song to all the parties! A group of female SEO groupies sings about their geeky fetish.


Why an SEO song?While hearing the 70s discohit D-I-S-C-O I misheard it as &#8220;We Like SEO&#8221; and immediately launched an initiative to record it as such. Yes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At last Google shows search volumes!!</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/at-last-google-shows-search-volumes.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/at-last-google-shows-search-volumes.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Algorithms</category>
	<category>Web analytics</category>
	<category>Breaking news</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t read many blogs lately so much to my surprise I opened up my Adwords account and saw the message:
You can now view keyword volume estimates in the Adwords keyword tool!
So far Google has never been &#8220;close to&#8221; open about search volumes. Google trends only shows charts without numbers and it has a threshold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making money with search: How conversion really works!</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/making-money-with-search-how-conversion-really-works.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/making-money-with-search-how-conversion-really-works.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Usability</category>
	<category>Search advertising</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t blogged for quite some time, but I was surprised the following information was still an eye-opener for so many people. So here an eye-opener on how conversion and search engine marketing really work. How do you use SEA and SEO to its full potential and how do you make money with SEM?!

Investment per [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April fools linkbuilding?</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/april-fools-linkbuilding.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/april-fools-linkbuilding.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Links</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/april-fools-linkbuilding.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[April fools day is coming and I know about a lot of great hoaxes coming up. Are you preparing some great stuff to get publicity and mainly &#8220;links&#8221;?
The first of April poses a great opportunity to create a safe viral. Fairly safe because you can always revert to stating it was a joke. But what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Importance of avoiding duplicate content</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/importance-of-avoiding-duplicate-content.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/importance-of-avoiding-duplicate-content.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Algorithms</category>
	<category>Usability</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting indexed and ranking with slightly less unique content!
Many webmasters have contacted me recently with the same problem. It&#8217;s an old problem that is still very important in all search engines. Their websites weren&#8217;t indexed entirely or perticular pages couldn&#8217;t even rank for the most unique text phrases although these pages were indexed. In this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personalized search is gaining effect</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/personalized-search-is-gaining-effect.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/personalized-search-is-gaining-effect.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
	<category>Algorithms</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Untill now personalized search results where hard to unravel. The effect was minimal (in most cases) and we had only one identity to test with. But personalized search is gaining effect and for Google the results look promising enough to continue with further personalization. So what does this mean for search engine optimization? This article [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hiring link builders</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/hiring-link-builders.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/hiring-link-builders.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
	<category>Links</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As most of you probably know, link building is a time consuming activity and manually requesting links can be the most boring SEO activity. Although this requesting needs to be done to get a good link basis, most of the time it is just too expensive to do it yourself. So when do you hire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Server-side or client-side web analytics (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/server-side-or-client-side-web-analytics-part-2.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/server-side-or-client-side-web-analytics-part-2.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Web analytics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What most people don&#8217;t know is that client-side scripting doesn&#8217;t normally allow for any recording of data. Javascript can&#8217;t write data to a file and that is why it needs a way to transfer the data to a server-side script that records it to a database or log file. So web analytics is in absolute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Server-side or client-side web analytics (part 1)</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/server-side-or-client-side-web-analytics-part-1.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/server-side-or-client-side-web-analytics-part-1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Web analytics</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/server-side-or-client-side-web-analytics-part-1.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When implementing web analytics programs I sometimes get the question why I use a combination of PHP/ASP and Javascript. What they probably don&#8217;t know is that server-side and client-side scripting can detect different specifics of a visit. Both types have advantages and disadvantages, but you need certain tricks to combine both. This article explains the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turn traffic into relevant traffic</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/turn-traffic-into-relevant-traffic.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/turn-traffic-into-relevant-traffic.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
	<category>Usability</category>
	<category>Search advertising</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search engine marketing should be aimed at return-on-investment (ROI) and goals should be achieved with as little effort as possible. Because more and more industries are seeing the potential of search engines, it will become harder to rank for everything you want. This means getting relevant traffic will require a bigger investment and that in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting any site to link to you</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/getting-any-site-to-link-to-you.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/getting-any-site-to-link-to-you.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
	<category>Opinions</category>
	<category>Links</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a long discussion with a few fellow SEOs I think I made my point. They said: &#8220;You cannot get every site you&#8217;d like, to link to you. Most authorities and competitors won&#8217;t give their linklove.&#8221; and my opinion is: &#8220;You can get all the best authority links. Sometimes you just need an intermediate site.&#8221;
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t leave your fingerprints everywhere!</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/dont-leave-your-fingerprints-everywere.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/dont-leave-your-fingerprints-everywere.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Algorithms</category>
	<category>Links</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/dont-leave-your-fingerprints-everywere.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Google algorithm changes slightly every day. Most of their very small algorithm changes are implemented to look for new signs of SEO spam. Most of the times when a new spam tactic is detected, it is verified manually and its characteristics are then fed to the algorithm. Google spamcops can also roundup all your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Search Verticals with Google Universal</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/search-verticals-with-google-universal.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/search-verticals-with-google-universal.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 11:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
	<category>Algorithms</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/search-verticals-with-google-universal.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah! Google is giving easily spamable results more exposure in their search results. Untill now it wasn&#8217;t worth the hassle to optimize video, images, news, local or books. But thanks to Google Universal Search this content will start showing up in the normal results. How to optimize these types of content for search is still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blackhat: Using different identities</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/blackhat-using-different-identities.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/blackhat-using-different-identities.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
	<category>Hacking</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/blackhat-using-different-identities.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every blackhat tactic can and will be detected one day. As long as you keep under the radar everything is fine, but you&#8217;re bound to get caught at least once in your career. And when you do get caught, you need to make sure only one of your projects will be affected. Search engines like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google has crossed the line</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/google-has-crossed-the-line.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/google-has-crossed-the-line.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Opinions</category>
	<category>Algorithms</category>
	<category>Links</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/google-has-crossed-the-line.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So far Google was all about reading what normal users could read. If you made your website accessible to all visitors (including visually impaired), you had a perfect site for Google. Every guideline in the Webmaster guidelines has always been focussed on making a good website for users and forgetting about (spamming) search engines.But now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Search reputation management</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/search-reputation-management.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/search-reputation-management.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/search-reputation-management.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What can you do when search results on your name are full of negative comments? Potential customers are increasingly checking for online references before they trust a website, company or person. Your own website is the most important factor, but directly after that people use search engines to see what other sites say about you. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Up-to-date SEO knowledge</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/up-to-date-seo-knowledge.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/up-to-date-seo-knowledge.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Opinions</category>
	<category>Algorithms</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/up-to-date-seo-knowledge.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How up-to-date does your SEO knowledge need to be?I frequently talk to people that aren&#8217;t convinced that they need to keep their SEO knowledge up-to-date. &#8220;Old whitehat knowledge works just fine!&#8221; is what they say. And in some cases I think they have a point. Most SEOs don&#8217;t need to read all the SEO news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RAT link value checklist</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/rat-link-value-checklist.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/rat-link-value-checklist.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Glossary</category>
	<category>Links</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A valuable link has Relevant Authority Transfer or RAT. This means it should convey authority on a particular subject to the website it is linking to. When searching for the right links, you can assess the value of a link by using the following checklist.

R = RelevanceSearch engines like Google are all about relevance to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Analytics without javascript!</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/google-analytics-without-javascript.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/google-analytics-without-javascript.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
	<category>Web analytics</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/google-analytics-without-javascript.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it is possible to send data to Google Analytics without executing javascript! In this tutorial I will try to explain how this can be done and I will give some good examples. Server side analytics enables you to measure data like rss, image or pdf visits.

Analytics without javascript?When you look at the analytics javascript [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filters in Google Analytics</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/filters-in-google-analytics.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/filters-in-google-analytics.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
	<category>Web analytics</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/filters-in-google-analytics.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Analytics is a fairly complete webanalytics program, but it has some flaws. As I showed in my article on Google Analytics tweaks, you can overcome many of these flaws with the use of tweaks. In this article I will show what you can do with custom filters and extra profiles on the same website.

What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google shows backlinks!</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/google-show-backlinks.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/google-show-backlinks.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Links</category>
	<category>Breaking news</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah! At last Google shows most or all backlinks to sites I control. Webmaster central (a.k.a. Google Sitemaps) gives a relatively good impression of the links to your website. This is what most SEO&#8217;s should have been waiting for.
Read Matt Cutts his blog:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-provides-backlink-tool-for-site-owners/
Quickly add all your (legal) sites that you want to be associated to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long Tail misconceived</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/long-tail-misconceived.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/long-tail-misconceived.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Glossary</category>
	<category>Opinions</category>
	<category>Search advertising</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding the right search terms to target with your website isn&#8217;t just about finding the most popular queries. &#8220;The Long Tail&#8221; in search is all about finding large amounts of search terms with little or no competition. The importance of the long tail is known to many search engine marketeers, but what do they really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Searcher behaviour</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/searcher-behaviour.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/searcher-behaviour.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
	<category>Opinions</category>
	<category>Usability</category>
	<category>Search advertising</category>
	<category>Web analytics</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/searcher-behaviour.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The behaviour of people using search engines and vertical search is different for every target audience. As a search engine marketer you should always know the target audience and how they search. In this article I will share some of my experience on the subject of &#8220;searcher behaviour&#8221;.

How people use search engines is mainly based [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.vdgraaf.info/searcher-behaviour.html/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
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		<title>Hey you! Where have you been?</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/hey-you-where-have-you-been.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/hey-you-where-have-you-been.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
	<category>Web analytics</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/hey-you-where-have-you-been.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No this is not just a question for someone you haven&#8217;t seen for a long time. This tutorial tells you how to see what other websites your visitors have visited. This can be especially usefull when you see which competitors websites someone has visited. You can use this information to emphasise on your unique selling [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.vdgraaf.info/hey-you-where-have-you-been.html/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
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		<title>Google Analytics tweaks</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/google-analytics-tweaks.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/google-analytics-tweaks.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
	<category>Web analytics</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/google-analytics-tweaks.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Analytics is the best free web analytics software. It has just a few flaws and some of them are easily fixed. In this article I will show you a few tweaks to get better reports from Google Analytics.

AdWords keyword tracking
One of the biggest flaws in Google Analytics is probably in the reports on AdWords [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.vdgraaf.info/google-analytics-tweaks.html/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
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		<title>SEA requires SEO</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/sea-requires-seo.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/sea-requires-seo.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
	<category>Algorithms</category>
	<category>Usability</category>
	<category>Search advertising</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a good development in SEA. Landing page relevance is becoming more and more important for your ads! This means you can save more then half your advertising budget or get double the clicks, just by knowing both SEO and SEA. In this article I will give some information to influence the Quality score in Google.

Google [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The optimum keyword density</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/the-optimum-keyword-density.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/the-optimum-keyword-density.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Opinions</category>
	<category>Algorithms</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/the-optimum-keyword-density.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some years ago search engine optimization was mainly about using the right keyword densities in the text of your website. Nowadays it seems to have lost much of its importance. But isn&#8217;t it important anymore? In this article I will give my opinion and maybe we can get a discussion going on what you think.

What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nofollow is a leaky condom</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/nofollow-is-a-leaky-condom.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/nofollow-is-a-leaky-condom.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Opinions</category>
	<category>Links</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/nofollow-is-a-leaky-condom.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A nofollow attribute within the code of your website tells search engines not to follow certain links. This way you indicate that you have links on your website, which you don&#8217;t want your website to be associated with. Is this a safe way to have contextual intercourse? In this article I will try to explain the nofollow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 things you didn&#8217;t know about Peter van der Graaf</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-peter-van-der-graaf.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-peter-van-der-graaf.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Opinions</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-peter-van-der-graaf.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the series: 5 things you didn&#8217;t know &#8230;. I got tagged by Joost de Valk.
So here are five things:

You probably don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ve been in SEO for ten years now and I used to try everything that was forbidden by search engines and online legislation.
In those days none of the illegal practices could be detected by [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.vdgraaf.info/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-peter-van-der-graaf.html/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
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		<title>Algorithmic VS Manual SE spam detection</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/algorithmic-vs-manual-se-spam-detection.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/algorithmic-vs-manual-se-spam-detection.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Algorithms</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/algorithmic-vs-manual-se-spam-detection.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Search engines try to program all spam detection methods into their algorithm (spam: as in very unrelevant results), but there are many exceptions where they use people to verify if a website is really breaking the rules of the webmaster guidelines (Google quality guidelines).
When does a search engine use manual spam detection?

Required resources
The algorithms of [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.vdgraaf.info/algorithmic-vs-manual-se-spam-detection.html/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
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		<title>Cross site scripting with Googlebot</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/cross-site-scripting-with-googlebot.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/cross-site-scripting-with-googlebot.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2006 10:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
	<category>Hacking</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/cross-site-scripting-with-googlebot.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are several forums with a password protected area that only allow searchbots to enter it without logging in. If you want to place a comment or do something else on such a forum you can have the searchbot do it for you.
How can you get Googlebot to hack for you?

POST to GET
Most forums accept commands from both POST [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.vdgraaf.info/cross-site-scripting-with-googlebot.html/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
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		<title>Link building software</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/link-building-software.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/link-building-software.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
	<category>Links</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/link-building-software.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are several software packages that help you find link posibilities and request the links. I only use link building software to administrate everything my linkbuilding team does. Link building software is useful when you do a lot of manual link requests. Here&#8217;s how we use it.

Seeking link possibilities
The easiest way to find relative websites that could link [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to implement cloaking</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/how-to-implement-cloaking.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/how-to-implement-cloaking.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2006 08:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
	<category>Cloaking</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/how-to-implement-cloaking.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cloaking is showing search engines other content then human visitors. To use cloaking effectively you need to detect whether your visitor is a searchbot.
In this post I will try to explain&#8230;
the process of implementing a cloaking script.

User agent or IP-based detection?
I will always recommend IP-based search engine detection. It is too easy for search engines [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.vdgraaf.info/how-to-implement-cloaking.html/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
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		<title>Hacking for SEO?</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/hacking-for-seo.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/hacking-for-seo.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2006 10:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
	<category>Hacking</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/hacking-for-seo.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hacking stuff for SEO purposes can be fun and easy, but it&#8217;s something I&#8217;m against! Nevertheless I&#8217;m going to give an example of blog hackability. You should use this information to protect yourself, but you can use it for other purposes.
How to hack your comment into Wordpress

Alot of functions in blogs are based on variables passed [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.vdgraaf.info/hacking-for-seo.html/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
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		<title>When should I use cloaking?</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/when-should-i-use-cloaking.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/when-should-i-use-cloaking.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
	<category>Cloaking</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/when-should-i-use-cloaking.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many good and bad ways to use cloaking. Google says there are ways where they approve on its use and they even say a good way to identify the Googlebot is by doing an IP lookup and checking if it is in the googlebot.com domain.
When should you cloak?


Cloaking javascript and CSS
Cloaking to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Domains for linklove (taking over the domain)</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/domains-for-linklove-taking-over-the-domain.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/domains-for-linklove-taking-over-the-domain.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
	<category>Domains</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/domains-for-linklove-taking-over-the-domain.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this how-to series of posts I will try to explain the best way to obtaining a bunch of linklove by buying an existing domain name. You need to be aware of all the things search engines are able to detect, but the only hard part is getting a good domain at a reasonable price.
What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Domains for linklove (buying domains)</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/domains-for-linklove-buying-domains.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/domains-for-linklove-buying-domains.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2006 08:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
	<category>Domains</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/domains-for-linklove-buying-domains.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this how-to series of posts I will try to explain the best way to obtaining a bunch of linklove by buying an existing domain name. You need to be aware of all the things search engines are able to detect, but the only hard part is getting a good domain at a reasonable price.
How do you find and buy [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.vdgraaf.info/domains-for-linklove-buying-domains.html/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
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		<title>Domains for linklove (SEO and domains)</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/domains-for-linklove-seo-and-domains.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/domains-for-linklove-seo-and-domains.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
	<category>Domains</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/domains-for-linklove-seo-and-domains.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this how-to series of posts I will try to explain the best way to obtaining a bunch of linklove by buying an existing domain name. You need to be aware of all the things search engines are able to detect, but the only hard part is getting a good domain at a reasonable price.
What makes a good [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.vdgraaf.info/domains-for-linklove-seo-and-domains.html/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
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		<title>Examples of viral marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/examples-of-viral-marketing.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/examples-of-viral-marketing.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
	<category>Links</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/examples-of-viral-marketing.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Viral marketing requires alot of creativity. You can always copy good ideas that have been used in other industries and apply them to your business. As long as it is something new to your audience it doesn´t matter if the idea isn´t unique.
In this article I will give a few examples and tips that may inspire [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.vdgraaf.info/examples-of-viral-marketing.html/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
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		<item>
		<title>How dangerous is viral marketing?</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/how-dangerous-is-viral-marketing.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/how-dangerous-is-viral-marketing.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Opinions</category>
	<category>Links</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/how-dangerous-is-viral-marketing.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Viral marketing is a buzz word by itself. Every marketing client has heard the word and wants their piece of it. Even marketeers that never tried to infuence the masses are venturing into the unknown.
In viral or buzz marketing you try to motivate people to talk about you. But is this form of PR a safe way [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.vdgraaf.info/how-dangerous-is-viral-marketing.html/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
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		<title>The barber or the professor?</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/the-barber-or-the-professor.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/the-barber-or-the-professor.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2006 20:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
	<category>Opinions</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/the-barber-or-the-professor.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a discussion on the blog of Aaron Wall I was asked &#8220;Who would you rather have promoting you? A barber or a professor?&#8221; The answer seems simple, anyone would say &#8220;The professor!&#8221;, but is that the right answer?
The question was realy a metafor for &#8220;Would you rather have a lot of links or some [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.vdgraaf.info/the-barber-or-the-professor.html/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
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		<title>Best Landing Page Layout</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/best-landing-page-layout.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/best-landing-page-layout.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tutorials</category>
	<category>Usability</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/best-landing-page-layout.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Landing pages are webpages that visitors are most likely to enter your website at referred from specific search results. The layout and text of a landing page determine what the visitor will do next. If layout and text are good the visitor will have his first question answered and finds a path to the answer to his second question. If you&#8217;re lucky he will [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.vdgraaf.info/best-landing-page-layout.html/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
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		<title>Linklove</title>
		<link>http://www.vdgraaf.info/linklove.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vdgraaf.info/linklove.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter van der Graaf</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Glossary</category>
	<category>Links</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vdgraaf.info/linklove.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Linklove is the best word to descibe how anyone should link to other websites. You can give and recieve this type of love and you should appreciate it as such. Be careful who you give linklove to, because you could have you heart broken. To recieve love, you have to give it.
&#8220;All you need is love&#8221; by the Beatles [...]]]></description>
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