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		<title>rel NoFollow, Google, PageRank Sculpting &amp; SEO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote before about the rel nofollow monstrosity. It seems Google guys did finally realize something is terribly wrong with their invention. What Google anti-SPAM engineer Matt Cutts told us the other day is this:
Instead of preventing a &#8220;PageRank leak&#8221; (read: pathologically saving every drop of the inbound linking credit that a site gets) as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seolutions.net/blog/rel-nofollow-google-pagerank-sculpting-seo/</link>
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		<title>Alexa, web statistics, and your personal information</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alexa.com toolbar is a web traffic analysis program integrated into your browser. I always knew that services like Alexa keep track of what websites users visit, time they spend there, and similar general statistics. What I didn&#8217;t know until today is that they collect very personal information about you, and they also publish some of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seolutions.net/blog/alexa-web-statistics-and-your-personal-information/</link>
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		<title>Google Canonical URL Problems (and Link Disappearance from SERP-s)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FINAL UPDATE: this turned out to be a false alarm! do not panic!! self-referential canonical link is fine, and doesn&#8217;t cause problems. You can still read the post and comments below to see how I got confused. 

After solving a problem for a client, I looked into newest release of the WordPress plugin All-in-One-SEO-Pack, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seolutions.net/blog/google-canonical-url-problems-and-link-disappearance-from-serp-s/</link>
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		<title>SEO and &#8230; &#8216;And&#8217;!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So today I typed a very common word into the search engine &#8212; word and, and I wanted to see who ranks the first for such a common word, and to see why would someone be the first for the word and.
I was very pleasantly surprised as I discovered what seems to be a really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seolutions.net/blog/seo-and-and/</link>
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		<title>Dominican Republic Real Estate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Who wouldn&#8217;t want to go there for vacation!
The bigger dilemma is would you want to live there, and maybe have a house like this:


Would you give up all the urban life of the weather changing Chicago, and buy a Dominican Republic real estate? Would you really consider it so seriously, and would go through extensive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seolutions.net/blog/dominican-republic-real-estate/</link>
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		<title>Blog comment moderation &#8212; fighting comment spam bots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you get a comment that sounds meaningful when isolated, but when placed in context of your blog post doesn&#8217;t seem quite right or informative, do a search for exact phrase from that comment. Many automated bots post &#8216;meaningful&#8217; general comments. If the same comment is already indexed by search engine somewhere else, its a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seolutions.net/blog/blog-comment-moderation-fighting-comment-spam-bots/</link>
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		<title>Google Search Puzzles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google searches and the number of results they give on October 28, 2008.
chicago developer about 414,000
chicago web developer about 72,100,000
chicago web designer about 9,110,000
chicago designer about 439,000
Can you solve this puzzle? Why more specific queries give more results when they should give less?! Why are there more of civil engineers, than (all) engineers? Why are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seolutions.net/blog/google-search-puzzles/</link>
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		<title>How search engines calculate relevance of page content with query keywords</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This simplified model is a nice introduction: Vector Space Model.
More food for thought: similarity measures and original Google architecture.
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		<link>http://seolutions.net/blog/how-search-engines-calculate-relevance-of-page-content-with-query-keywords/</link>
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		<title>The Next Evolution of Social Media&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next step of social media will include real time video conferencing! That is a reasonable assumption, but it is not really the reason why I am writing this.
I read an interesting post today, with the same title.
Author of the article argues that the very design model of social media is responsible for a bad content [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seolutions.net/blog/the-next-evolution-of-social-media/</link>
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		<title>Litmus test for *Real* News Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here you will find answers to 2 questions:

How to select information sources worthy of your time and attention. After all, in the information overload we are facing today, who wants to spend time reading lies and misinformation? 
How to fight back media puppets (not corporations themselves)? 

My Litmus Test is this: I go to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seolutions.net/blog/litmus-test-for-real-news-media/</link>
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