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		<title>The Apple iPhone Will Fail</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 22:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Apple iPhone has been such an astounding success story that I think it is really funny to go back and read what analysts thought just five years ago.
Check out what this Bloomberg writer had to say.
I wonder if he still has a job?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Apple iPhone has been such an astounding success story that I think it is really funny to go back and read what analysts thought just five years ago.<br />
Check out what this <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&#038;sid=aRelVKWbMAv0">Bloomberg writer had to say</a>.</p>
<p>I wonder if he still has a job?</p>
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		<title>Private Label SEO Reseller Compared To Other Kinds Of Search Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search engine optimization is a relatively recent form of marketing on today’s Internet, but it is taking off very rapidly. All sorts of companies are using SEO as a way for them to improve their ability to attract prospective business from search engines, where millions of online users go to find whatever it is they need. Private label SEO is a specialized form of SEO that is useful for a business that wants to resell SEO but is not experienced ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Search engine optimization is a relatively recent form of marketing on today’s Internet, but it is taking off very rapidly. All sorts of companies are using SEO as a way for them to improve their ability to attract prospective business from search engines, where millions of online users go to find whatever it is they need. Private label SEO is a specialized form of SEO that is useful for a business that wants to resell SEO but is not experienced enough to create its own marketing services.</p>
<p>With <a href="http://hubshout.com">private label SEO resellers</a>, your business provides search marketing services for<br />
its own clients without having to create these services yourself. In a more traditional form of marketing, companies that are looking for marketing services have to turn to a firm that creates and then distributes their own unique marketing packages. On the other hand, when your company uses a private label SEO reseller strategy, you will get these marketing services from an outside business that specializes in search engine optimization services.</p>
<p>Private label SEO does not require you to be educated or knowledgeable about search engine marketing. In fact, many businesses that utilize private label SEO packages have never before experienced what it is like to resell these services. When you utilize private label SEO, your clients will never know that they are getting marketing services from an outside company. They will be under the impression that you are creating these services for them, meaning there will be less confusion about the services and where they come from. </p>
<p>It is very rare that a company gets an opportunity to bolster their own income while at the same time helping their customers succeed as well. Private label SEO reseller approaches afford online organizations this very opportunity. When you get involved with this form of marketing, you can watch your income go up without spending valuable time helping members of your company learn about search engine marketing. Start initiating communication with some <a href="http://hubshout.com/?p=Resources_Forums">SEO reseller firms</a> on the web that can provide you with private label marketing and help you get started providing these packages for your customers. Once you get past the initial set-up and get established with the rhythm of SEO reselling, you will begin enjoying greater profits and business income as well as a much higher level of customer satisfaction thanks to the great help you provide your clients with their own marketing pursuits on the world wide web.</p>
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		<title>How a professional web design website can take your business to the next level?</title>
		<link>http://www.pvmgarage.com/2012/03/how-a-professional-web-design-website-can-take-your-business-to-the-next-level/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The growing number of the developers living in USA is the best sign of how web services are popular nowadays. A lot of companies try to get their business outside the plain shops and get the direct access to wide opportunities and the great number of the new potential customers. That is why all of them need perfect sites that will meet the needs of the modern society and match the expectations of the future clients. The wisely created site ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The growing number of the developers living in USA is the best sign of how web services are popular nowadays. A lot of companies try to get their business outside the plain shops and get the direct access to wide opportunities and the great number of the new potential customers. That is why all of them need perfect sites that will meet the needs of the modern society and match the expectations of the future clients. The wisely created site can draw a lot of new people to your shop in the matter of days, and that is just what the sellers are thinking about when spending the significant amount of money on the development process of their site. That is the most valuable reason of a high range of <a href="http://www.iflexion.com/">USA web development</a>. Their first task is to get the site to work, in other words they help you to make the journey from the main idea to the specific site ready to be launched and start working. Yet before it all the internal links shall be checked and go under throughout testing so that the site will not have to be deactivated and renewed the very first days due to some unnoticed bug. After the site is in place and ready to greet the first customers it appears to be in the great need of the daily support.<br />
There are a lot of things that can go wrong in the net, starting from the unexpected hacker attack and ending with the drastic drop of server which results the complete stop of all the site functions. In this case all we can do is to rely on the web developers why will fix the correct work of your page.<br />
The site hosts try to keep the close contact with the web developers. That is why a lot of specialists in this field are working in crowded states like New York (where they mostly offer their services to the local business companies), Los Angeles and Las Vegas, where the night clubs are mostly in need of the good web advertisement, Washington and Philadelphia with its historical sights offered through the sites of the touristic bureaus and of course such a natural paradise like Florida, where a lot of people spend their holidays. These states are however not the only ones to inhabit the web developers. Due to the wide spread of the freelance activity in USA, a lot of people tend to like in the central states like Missouri or Indianapolis and fulfil the tasks for their bosses in NY, taking the advantage of the Internet.</p>
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		<title>Six important questions to be asked before you start a new logo design project</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The identification mark or the emblem created to recognize a particular enterprise or an organization is called logo. It may be in form of signature, symbol, sign board, of flag. In all cases it requires an intensive and hardworking mechanism to create. After this the question arises that for what reason logos are used? Thus the best way to answer this question is to mark the words, to recognize, to inspire and to gain superiority. Logos are effective from a ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The identification mark or the emblem created to recognize a particular enterprise or an organization is called logo. It may be in form of signature, symbol, sign board, of flag. In all cases it requires an intensive and hardworking mechanism to create. After this the question arises that for what reason logos are used? Thus the best way to answer this question is to mark the words, to recognize, to inspire and to gain superiority. Logos are effective from a very long time, but are often referred by different names. If we look back in past history it can be seen that the rulers used to possess emblems to indicate their power and strength. The same think with a better version came into effect after the industrial revolution. Therefore it can be stated that logos have played a significant role in the display and promotion of various organizations. It should be mentioned that a logo should be more meaningful in its representation than compared to its look.<br />
<strong>Creation of logo</strong><br />
Creation of logo had often been a tough task as it requires a hard working personality with an effective and creative mind. The perfect logo can be created keeping in mind the graphic, color, and off course the meaning it wants to convey. Beside all these in modern days the symbols and the ideograms are also included which has made development in logo creation. Logo is something which is usually involved in copyright and thus the owner of the enterprise deserve the patent his logo. To be very clear that once a logo is formed no duplicate of it should be created. From the corporate point of view a logo should be created very simple, as it will help the customers to recognize the particular brand. Some examples of logos can be shown in the images below,<br />
<a href="http://www.pvmgarage.com/pvmenglishcontent4984/uploads/2012/02/pic1.jpg"><img src="http://www.pvmgarage.com/pvmenglishcontent4984/uploads/2012/02/pic1.jpg" alt="" title="pic1" width="736" height="315" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-4077" /></a><br />
The above are some of the best examples of logo designing of some of the well identified companies. From those it can be evaluated that the logo should be simple and meaningful in nature.<br />
<strong>Nature of logo</strong><br />
Basically there are five principles to be followed while constructing a perfect logo those are as –<br />
 <a href="http://www.pvmgarage.com/pvmenglishcontent4984/uploads/2012/02/pic2.jpg"><img src="http://www.pvmgarage.com/pvmenglishcontent4984/uploads/2012/02/pic2.jpg" alt="" title="pic2" width="643" height="301" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-4078" /></a></p>
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<li>The logo should be as simple as to be understood and identified. A simple and understandable logo can increase the demand of a particular product.</li>
<li>It should be of such a type that people can memorize it within a short period of time. It should stay simple by nature with an effective principle included in it.</li>
<li>An effective logo should not be created for a specific time being but it should be created for an endless period of time.</li>
<li>Various other principles are to be followed. It should be versatile in its size, color and graphical representation.</li>
<li>Along with all these a logo should be created keeping in mind the organization and its product. It should be appropriate and meaningful.</li>
</ul>
<p>A logo designer should be very technical and loyal in his profession. They should have the entire knowledge of the creation and also about the enterprise they designing for. Thus all among these some important questions are to be asked before taking a new logo designing project. These questions are mentioned below.<br />
<strong>i.</strong>	Getting all the relevant details about the company<br />
As it is one of the tough tasks to decide the name of an enterprise, similarly designing it logo is also a tough task. You need to evaluate all the details regarding the company such as, the product they are dealing with, name of the company, the motive behind the formation etc. And also a brief description about the competitor of the said company is essential.<br />
 <a href="http://www.pvmgarage.com/pvmenglishcontent4984/uploads/2012/02/pic3.jpg"><img src="http://www.pvmgarage.com/pvmenglishcontent4984/uploads/2012/02/pic3.jpg" alt="" title="pic3" width="604" height="377" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-4079" /></a><br />
<strong>ii.</strong>	Competitors  and age of the business<br />
The rivals and the competitors are the close enemies of a particular company, thus you need to ask your client about the competitors and depending upon that you need to create an exceptional design.  Beside this the other thing that should strike in your mind is about the time period or the age of the said organization, as it will help you to know about the popularity of the organization and thus keeping in mind you could create a meaningful logo.</p>
<p><strong>iii.</strong>	The message that the logo needs to say or the best symbol you prefer<br />
Before starting to project a logo you should ask your client about the message he/she wants to deliver by means of logo or what promotion they wants to make. As it has been a nature of logo that it should be meaningful. Along with this you should also get a suggestion about the symbol or graphical representation from your client. This will make your work easier and very high in quality.</p>
<p><strong>iv.</strong>	Deadline or the time period of delivery<br />
Time is considered to be the most valuable thing. So the next you should ask your client about the deadline or the time period for the delivery of logo. Thus if he/she provides you a deadline, you need to complete your work within that. It will help you to work faster and efficiently. Always try to listen about the deadline from your client as if it is short period you need to rush and complete your project. Thus deadline is one of the important questions to be asked.</p>
<p><strong>v.</strong>	Budget<br />
Money is one of the important factors for both the client and the logo designer. A company always has a budget related to its any of the work. Thus you need to ask your client about the budget.<br />
<a href="http://www.pvmgarage.com/pvmenglishcontent4984/uploads/2012/02/pic4.jpg"><img src="http://www.pvmgarage.com/pvmenglishcontent4984/uploads/2012/02/pic4.jpg" alt="" title="pic4" width="517" height="229" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-4080" /></a><br />
You should better know that how much of fund your client wants to invest in the creation of logo. Depending upon this you should perform your work.</p>
<p><strong>vi.</strong>	Exact design of the logo and presentation<br />
The next and foremost question that should appear in your mind is about the entire design and its presentation. Often some of the enterprise doesn’t even know how to display their name in the logo. So you need to discuss these in details with your client about the exact design and how will the logo look like.</p>
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		<title>How (and Why!) to Craft an Online Reputation Management Plan</title>
		<link>http://www.pvmgarage.com/2012/02/how-and-why-to-craft-an-online-reputation-management-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Your company invests in marketing, business development, and sales—but what about internet reputation management? As a professional, it’s your job to ensure that your company’s brand image is working toward your company’s goals. Leaving your organization’s reputation up to whatever Google’s algorithm chooses to publicize is simply unacceptable. Reputation management services are indispensable for any company that wants to thrive.
	And what about your individual goals? You work hard to create a good name for yourself by doing the right thing ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>	Your company invests in marketing, business development, and sales—but what about internet <a href="http://www.thereputationmanagementco.com/">reputation management</a>? As a professional, it’s your job to ensure that your company’s brand image is working toward your company’s goals. Leaving your organization’s reputation up to whatever Google’s algorithm chooses to publicize is simply unacceptable. Reputation management services are indispensable for any company that wants to thrive.</p>
<p>	And what about your individual goals? You work hard to create a good name for yourself by doing the right thing and exercising personal integrity. You dress nicely and take care of yourself so you can create a positive impression on the people you encounter in your daily life. But all that counts for nothing on the internet; your entire life is distilled to whatever happens to be on Google’s front page. And, unfortunately, Google’s front page is not always flattering, honest, or fair.</p>
<p>	Internet image is simply a new sphere you must be cognizant of and attend to. Luckily, by enlisting the <a href="http://www.thereputationmanagementco.com/">reputation management services</a> of the right companies or consultants, you can stay on the right track and achieve the optimal reputation that will help you move forward in life.</p>
<p>	How do reputation management companies use their expertise to help you improve your business or your life? The first step is an analysis phase. Will your reputation management campaign address specific issues, such as a particular website or a discrete article? Or is it simply a preventative effort meant to build up your defenses against future attacks and strengthen the image you have in mind? Exactly what goals are you trying to accomplish through your reputation management efforts? The answers to these questions determine the direction that your reputation campaign will take. Different goals take different approaches to accomplish.</p>
<p>	After the analysis phase comes a planning phase, in which the reputation management consultants chart out the methodology they will use to address your reputation issues. Search engines can take dozens of different aspects of a website into account when determining its placement on their results page. The planning phase involves coming to an understanding of how exactly to leverage these different factors in order to craft an effective campaign.</p>
<p>	After planning comes implementation. At this point, the expert’s reputation management services involve creating optimized content and promoting positive existing content, thus effectively removing the damaging websites from sight. Reputation management bases itself on the proven assumption that people are more likely to see information located on the front page of a search engine than, say, information buried on the fifth page.</p>
<p>	What steps have you taken to ensure that your reputation (or the reputation of your business) remains untarnished in the long run? You are on the right track by reading articles like this one—becoming educated is always the first step to achieving a positive change of this type. And as <a href="http://www.thereputationmanagementco.com/about/online-reputation-management/">internet reputation</a> becomes a more and more important consideration, those who are on the cutting edge will be rewarded.</p>
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		<title>Speed Design From Code Year</title>
		<link>http://www.pvmgarage.com/2012/01/speed-design-from-code-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found out about Code Year a couple days ago. It is a website launched by a Y-combinator company called CodeAcademy. They grabbed quite a lot of attention by signing up 200,000 users in just two days. Recently, I stumbled onto this post by the landing page designer about how he designed the CodeYear landing page. I think the key takeaways here are to focus on simplicity and what you want the visitor to do. Enjoy!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I found out about <a href="http://www.codeyear.com">Code Year</a> a couple days ago. It is a website launched by a Y-combinator company called CodeAcademy. They grabbed quite a lot of attention by signing up 200,000 users in just two days. Recently, I stumbled onto this<a href="http://sachagreif.com/how-i-designed-codeyear-com-in-1-hour/"> post by the landing page designer</a> about how he designed the CodeYear landing page. I think the key takeaways here are to focus on simplicity and what you want the visitor to do. Enjoy!</p>
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		<title>Some Of The Earliest Color Photos</title>
		<link>http://www.pvmgarage.com/2011/12/some-of-the-earliest-color-photos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Denver Post has a gallery up of some of the earliest color photos taken during the early 40s. I thought some of the images were pretty cool. Here is the link.
Here are my favorites:





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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Denver Post has a gallery up of some of the earliest color photos taken during the early 40s. I thought some of the images were pretty cool. Here is the <a href="http://extras.denverpost.com/archive/captured.asp">link</a>.</p>
<p>Here are my favorites:<br />
<a href="http://www.pvmgarage.com/pvmenglishcontent4984/uploads/2011/12/women-working-40s-rosie.jpg"><img src="http://www.pvmgarage.com/pvmenglishcontent4984/uploads/2011/12/women-working-40s-rosie.jpg" alt="" title="women-working-40s-rosie" width="650" height="495" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3891" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.pvmgarage.com/pvmenglishcontent4984/uploads/2011/12/wrestlingbear.jpg"><img src="http://www.pvmgarage.com/pvmenglishcontent4984/uploads/2011/12/wrestlingbear.jpg" alt="" title="wrestlingbear" width="650" height="450" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3892" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.pvmgarage.com/pvmenglishcontent4984/uploads/2011/12/carbon-black-worker.jpg"><img src="http://www.pvmgarage.com/pvmenglishcontent4984/uploads/2011/12/carbon-black-worker.jpg" alt="" title="carbon-black-worker" width="650" height="857" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3887" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.pvmgarage.com/pvmenglishcontent4984/uploads/2011/12/cowboy-dog.jpg"><img src="http://www.pvmgarage.com/pvmenglishcontent4984/uploads/2011/12/cowboy-dog.jpg" alt="" title="cowboy-dog" width="650" height="846" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3888" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.pvmgarage.com/pvmenglishcontent4984/uploads/2011/12/welder-in-the-40s.jpg"><img src="http://www.pvmgarage.com/pvmenglishcontent4984/uploads/2011/12/welder-in-the-40s.jpg" alt="" title="welder-in-the-40s" width="650" height="861" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3890" /></a></p>
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		<title>Profile of an Artist &#8211; Crazy Mary</title>
		<link>http://www.pvmgarage.com/2011/09/profile-of-an-artist-crazy-mary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, I have been vacationing in Holden Beach, NC. One of the more interesting things that I did here was pay a visit to Crazy Mary. She is a local &#8220;artist&#8221; who collects junk from around the area, and assembles it into, well, crazy stuff. Here is a video:

You can check out her gallery too.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This week, I have been vacationing in Holden Beach, NC. One of the more interesting things that I did here was pay a visit to Crazy Mary. She is a local &#8220;artist&#8221; who collects junk from around the area, and assembles it into, well, crazy stuff. Here is a video:</p>
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<p>You can check out her <a href="http://marysgonewild.com/gallery.htm">gallery</a> too.</p>
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		<title>15 Ways to Improve Website Crawling</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want maximum search engine traffic you need to make sure all your content is indexed by the search engines. Follow these tips below and you will not only improve your site, but you will also improve indexing and traffic gains over the long-term.
1. Create a breadcrumb trail &#8211; Not only are these great for improving usability, but they also add structure to your site and help search engines find deep content.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you want maximum search engine traffic you need to make sure all your content is indexed by the search engines. Follow these tips below and you will not only improve your site, but you will also improve indexing and traffic gains over the long-term.</p>
<p>1. Create a breadcrumb trail &#8211; Not only are these great for improving usability, but they also add structure to your site and help search engines find deep content.</p>
<p>2. Add 3-5 related posts at the end of individual posts &#8211; This is possibly the best way to make sure all your content is found. Usually related posts are grouped via tags.</p>
<p>3. Create manual deeplinks to old posts in any new post &#8211; Deeplinking using descriptive anchor text not only improves indexing, but can increase your search engine rankings for the keywords used.</p>
<p>4. Create roudnup posts of your best content &#8211; Sometimes the best way to keep old content fresh is to create a roundup post of your old posts. This helps search engines and new visitors find new things to read.</p>
<p>5. Post your content to social sites &#8211; Always post your content to sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and have social sharing buttons on your site.</p>
<p>6. Add popular posts in the sidebar that change monthly &#8211; This is a good way to tell search engines which content on your site is most important and can give those posts more authority in the rankings.</p>
<p>7. Make sure your category links are prominent &#8211; Always have direct links to your category pages in a prominent location on every page.</p>
<p>8. Use a consistent navigation on all pages &#8211; Good site structure is the foundation of making your site more search engine friendly. If users can&#8217;t easily navigate, search engine spiders won&#8217;t be able to either.</p>
<p>9. Create an html and xml sitemap &#8211; This is easy to do and a very good way to help search engines find all your pages. Submit your xml sitemap via Google Webmaster Tools.</p>
<p>10. Link to your sitemap and other important pages in your footer &#8211; Linking to your HTML sitemap not only helps visitors navigate if lost, but it helps search engines understand your site hierarchy.</p>
<p>11. Add content on a regular basis &#8211; Fresh content means fresh indexing. Search engines always want new content so if they see your site has great content on a regular basis, they will want to crawl it more often.</p>
<p>12. Validate your website&#8217;s code &#8211; Again, a search engine friendly site must start with good coding. Validate your site&#8217;s code and always follow the latest web standards.</p>
<p>13. Redirect any broken links &#8211; Broken links are bad for business. With them, you are often wasting linkjuice, losing visitors and hurting your rankings. 301 redirect any broken links to their new locations.</p>
<p>14. Check Google Webmaster Tools for crawl errors &#8211; This tool is your best friend. Look here for any crawling issues that could seriously be affecting your website.</p>
<p>15. Get backlinks to your home page and sub pages &#8211; An easy way to get your site fully indexed is to get some natural backlinks from sites that are already being crawled often. Don&#8217;t just look for links to your home page, look for links to sub pages as well.</p>
<p>Make these changes and your website will be a search engine spider&#8217;s best friend!</p>
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		<title>Facebook and Virtual Birthday Cake</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a friend who is internet savvy and has adopted the habit of tracking down birthday cake images from google image search and posting it on his friends&#8217; Facebook walls. I tried it myself, and it is enterprisingly easy to find just about anybody&#8217;s name on a cake photo. Today is actually my birthday. Here&#8217;s my cake!

This one is a pretty cool cake, but it&#8217;s hard to see my name on it.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a friend who is internet savvy and has adopted the habit of tracking down birthday cake images from google image search and posting it on his friends&#8217; Facebook walls. I tried it myself, and it is enterprisingly easy to find just about anybody&#8217;s name on a cake photo. Today is actually my birthday. Here&#8217;s my cake!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pvmgarage.com/pvmenglishcontent4984/uploads/2011/08/maxbirthdaycake1.jpg"><img src="http://www.pvmgarage.com/pvmenglishcontent4984/uploads/2011/08/maxbirthdaycake1.jpg" alt="" title="maxbirthdaycake1" width="650" height="703" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3666" /></a></p>
<p>This one is a pretty cool cake, but it&#8217;s hard to see my name on it.<br />
<a href="http://www.pvmgarage.com/pvmenglishcontent4984/uploads/2011/08/maxbirthdaycake3.jpg"><img src="http://www.pvmgarage.com/pvmenglishcontent4984/uploads/2011/08/maxbirthdaycake3.jpg" alt="" title="maxbirthdaycake3" width="550" height="424" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3668" /></a></p>
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