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		<title>StatPress for WordPress Review</title>
		<link>http://raygen.info/blog/2010/03/13/statpress-for-wordpress-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raygen79</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I will review the StatPress plug-in for WordPress. StatPress is a site analytics plug-in for WordPress that will give you a ton of statistical information about your web site. StatPress includes information such as: 1. Visitors 2. What Web Browser they are using. 3. What Operating System they are using. 4. What search terms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Indexed and Ranked in the Ask.com Search Engine</title>
		<link>http://raygen.info/blog/2010/03/09/get-indexed-and-ranked-in-the-ask-com-search-engine/</link>
		<comments>http://raygen.info/blog/2010/03/09/get-indexed-and-ranked-in-the-ask-com-search-engine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raygen79</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask.com is one of the 4 major search engines with the others being the almighty Google, Microsoft&#8217;s new Bing, and the venerable Yahoo search engine. Even though Ask.com only has a small percentage of the search engines overall search share, it will be beneficial for your site to be listed and optimized for Ask. Ask.com [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Meta Tags Still Important?</title>
		<link>http://raygen.info/blog/2010/03/07/are-meta-tags-still-important/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raygen79</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://raygen.info/blog/?p=805</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I find this is a common question among many blog owners and webmasters alike. Are Meta tags still important today? In the early days of SEO many shady search engine optimization folks used meta tags and keyword stuffing with invisible text to get their sites to rank higher in the SERPS. This method does not work very well today, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO Tips for Bing</title>
		<link>http://raygen.info/blog/2010/02/27/seo-tips-for-bing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raygen79</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://raygen.info/blog/?p=744</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have not heard, Microsoft Bing and Yahoo Search are set soon to merge search engine efforts. Microsoft Bing will soon provide the search results in the Yahoo Search engine. This deal between Microsoft and Yahoo has both companies hoping it will help them better compete with Google&#8217;s dominance in the search engine arena. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ixquick search engine offers increased privacy</title>
		<link>http://raygen.info/blog/2010/01/07/ixquick-search-engine-offers-increased-privacy/</link>
		<comments>http://raygen.info/blog/2010/01/07/ixquick-search-engine-offers-increased-privacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raygen79</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://raygen.info/blog/?p=626</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ixquick is slowly becoming a very popular search engine on the internet. Ixquick is a meta search engine that pulls its results from various sources, However it differs in its data retention polices that some privacy advocates have cried foul on from Google, Yahoo, Bing, and the other search engines. According to Ixquick&#8217;s web site. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to get your site listed in Yahoo Search</title>
		<link>http://raygen.info/blog/2009/12/26/how-to-get-your-site-listed-in-yahoo-search/</link>
		<comments>http://raygen.info/blog/2009/12/26/how-to-get-your-site-listed-in-yahoo-search/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raygen79</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://raygen.info/blog/?p=601</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo Search is one of the major search engines on the internet. It along with the likes of Ask, Bing, and Google are the big ones. If you want your web site or blog to get maximum exposure, then it is important that you get listed in Yahoo Search. However, sometimes Yahoo can be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google &#8211; Why It Will Remain King of Search</title>
		<link>http://raygen.info/blog/2009/11/26/google-why-it-will-remain-king-of-search/</link>
		<comments>http://raygen.info/blog/2009/11/26/google-why-it-will-remain-king-of-search/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raygen79</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://raygen.info/blog/?p=444</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier, I wrote an article News Corp to block Google and other search engines. In that article, there is a video which aired on Sky News via YouTube in which Rupert Murdoch talks about removing his News Corp content from Google search, and going to a subscription based model for his news content.  We also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Optimize a Robots.txt File for Your Site or Blog</title>
		<link>http://raygen.info/blog/2009/11/25/how-to-optimize-a-robots-txt-file-for-your-site-or-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://raygen.info/blog/2009/11/25/how-to-optimize-a-robots-txt-file-for-your-site-or-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raygen79</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://raygen.info/blog/?p=391</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A robots.txt file is a plain text file that sits in the root directory of your web site. It should not be stored under any sub-directory, as web crawlers look for the robots.txt file to be in the root directory. Why is a robots.txt file so important? It is so important because it allows you [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>DMOZ &#8211; Is it Really That Important?</title>
		<link>http://raygen.info/blog/2009/11/10/dmoz-is-it-really-that-important/</link>
		<comments>http://raygen.info/blog/2009/11/10/dmoz-is-it-really-that-important/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raygen79</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, another post about DMOZ. I have noticed so many people seems to get so upset at DMOZ. It seems many people believe that not having a dmoz listing is the end of the world. i am here to tell you that is not the case at all. A dmoz listing is not as important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Microsoft Bing Sucks!</title>
		<link>http://raygen.info/blog/2009/11/03/why-microsoft-bing-sucks/</link>
		<comments>http://raygen.info/blog/2009/11/03/why-microsoft-bing-sucks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raygen79</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must ask myself, what in the world is going on with Microsoft Bing in the last few days. I know a few weeks ago, i posted a blog entry titled &#8220;How to get your site indexed by Microsoft Bing&#8221; , but since that post it seems as if Bing has just fallen apart. I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reciprocal Linking Good or Bad?</title>
		<link>http://raygen.info/blog/2009/10/22/reciprocal-linking-good-or-bad/</link>
		<comments>http://raygen.info/blog/2009/10/22/reciprocal-linking-good-or-bad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raygen79</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://raygen.info/blog/?p=220</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today in the internet world, you will see various internet forums, web pages, blogs, and other articles talking about reciprocal linking. Often times, these sources state that reciprocal linking is evil, and is of the devil. They talk about how these links will hurt your search engine ranking, hurt your site, and heaven forbid hurt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Ask.com Is A Joke</title>
		<link>http://raygen.info/blog/2009/10/17/why-ask-com-is-a-joke/</link>
		<comments>http://raygen.info/blog/2009/10/17/why-ask-com-is-a-joke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raygen79</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://raygen.info/blog/?p=207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As many of you will know, Ask.com is one of the major search engines on the internet. In comparison with Google, Yahoo, and to an extent Bing, Ask.com is the smaller of the four players. Ask doesn&#8217;t have the user base of the other three search engines mentioned. In my opinion, this is in part [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>How To Get Your Site Indexed By Microsoft Bing</title>
		<link>http://raygen.info/blog/2009/10/10/how-to-get-your-site-indexed-by-microsoft-bing/</link>
		<comments>http://raygen.info/blog/2009/10/10/how-to-get-your-site-indexed-by-microsoft-bing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raygen79</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the time of this posting, there is an ongoing thread at the Bing Webmaster Community forums titled &#8220;Why does Bing not index my site&#8221;. That thread is many pages long, and has a lot of different reasons why Bing has or has not indexed a particular page or site. I have noticed some of  [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Microsoft New Bing &amp; Ping Service Leaves Out Windows Live Users</title>
		<link>http://raygen.info/blog/2009/09/06/microsoft-new-bing-ping-service-leaves-out-windows-live-users/</link>
		<comments>http://raygen.info/blog/2009/09/06/microsoft-new-bing-ping-service-leaves-out-windows-live-users/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raygen79</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Microsoft&#8217;s Bing community blog, Microsoft announced the new Bing &#38; Ping feature they will be rolling out soon. The new Bing &#38; Ping feature will allow users to share intresting things they have found with services such as Facebook and Twitter with a few clicks. This means users can share information with their friends [...]]]></description>
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