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	<title>SEO Egghead Inc. Blog</title>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Twitter vs. Capital One's Reputation. Twitter vs. "*"</title>
		<link>http://www.seoegghead.com/blog/seo/twitter-vs-capital-ones-reputation-twitter-vs-p812.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaimie Sirovich</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit, I underestimated the power of Twitter for awhile &#8212; but now that Twitter helped to organize a national uprising in Iran, I've reconsidered a bit.
I opened my Capital One statement this month and I noticed an APR hike from 10%->17%. When I called, there was no reason they could give me [...]


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		<title>3 Ways To Deal with Authorize.NET Downtime</title>
		<link>http://www.seoegghead.com/blog/seo/3-ways-to-deal-with-authorizenet-downtime-p806.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.seoegghead.com/blog/seo/3-ways-to-deal-with-authorizenet-downtime-p806.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaimie Sirovich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Other]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[authorize.net]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Authorize.NET dropped the ball again on July 3, 2009.  Authorize.NET was down from approximately 03:15 EST, and they're still not 100% up @ 15:51 EST.  That's pretty much 12 hours.
12 hours of downtime when you're dealing with money is really awful, and I won't even go into the details re: that.
Here's the thing. [...]


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		<title>Why Iran Will Eventually Lose to Technology; VPN, SSL Proxies, etc.</title>
		<link>http://www.seoegghead.com/blog/other/why-iran-will-eventually-lose-to-technology-vpn-ssl-proxies-etc-p803.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.seoegghead.com/blog/other/why-iran-will-eventually-lose-to-technology-vpn-ssl-proxies-etc-p803.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaimie Sirovich</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[iran]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iran election]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[In your typical game of cat and mouse, the cat only wins sometimes.  Unfortunately, for the cat &#8212; eventually he meets a pretty smart mouse.  And then he loses.
Debkafile, over here writes how the Iranian intelligence services began to turn technology on citizens using deep packet inspection. 

DEBKAfile's Iranian sources report that the [...]


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		<title>eBay Integration + Fixed Price + Variations is Next "Big Thing"</title>
		<link>http://www.seoegghead.com/blog/seo/ebay-integration-fixedprice-variations-is-next-big-thing-p769.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.seoegghead.com/blog/seo/ebay-integration-fixedprice-variations-is-next-big-thing-p769.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaimie Sirovich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Black Hat SEO]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Free Site Reviews]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seoegghead.com/blog/?p=769</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You've done it.  I've done it.  We've all done it.  PPC can be hazardous if it's not carefully watched.  Sure, you can hire a PPC management firm and dispense the buck and responsibility to a third party.
But that doesn't actually dispense with any of the liability &#8230; 

No.  That's just [...]


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		<title>Bankrupt WordPress? &#8230; "Why Not," Says European Union</title>
		<link>http://www.seoegghead.com/blog/seo/bankrupt-wordpress-why-not-p752.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.seoegghead.com/blog/seo/bankrupt-wordpress-why-not-p752.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 06:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaimie Sirovich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While the USA is plenty stupid and litigious sometimes, the EU has recently come up with one of the most destructive ideas ever:
In short, they're saying "Let's explicitly legislate that software developers are liable for security lapses."
Yes, possibly even for FOSS (open source software).  Now this might sound like a really good idea to [...]


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		<title>Howto: DD-WRT &#038; Novatel Cellular USB Modem</title>
		<link>http://www.seoegghead.com/blog/seo/howto-dd-wrt-novatel-cellular-usb-modem-p746.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.seoegghead.com/blog/seo/howto-dd-wrt-novatel-cellular-usb-modem-p746.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaimie Sirovich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A bit off-topic, but useful nonetheless.  One day cable went down.  Optimum online is usually great &#8212; but they totally dropped the ball that day.  We wanted to use our Novatel Ovation U720 cellular modem to power our network as a backup.  Lots of credit goes to Dragon, and this wiki. [...]


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		<title>When NOT To Use Canonical URL Links</title>
		<link>http://www.seoegghead.com/blog/seo/when-not-to-use-canonical-url-links-p708.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.seoegghead.com/blog/seo/when-not-to-use-canonical-url-links-p708.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaimie Sirovich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Duplicate Content]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Joost de Valk wrote a great WordPress plugin that I'm about to install.  From Joost de Valk:
http://yoast.com/twitter-analytics/?utm_source=twitter&#38;utm_medium=twitter&#38;utm_campaign=twitter
has a bunch of tracking parameters on it, and therefore is duplicate &#8230; so we may cite a canonical URL in &#60;head&#62; to fix this &#8212;

&#60;link rel="canonical" href="http://yoast.com/twitter/analytics/"/&#62;


In this case it is the only option to do so [...]


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		<title>3 Non-Obvious Things eCommerce Can Do When Rankings Implode</title>
		<link>http://www.seoegghead.com/blog/seo/3-non-obvious-things-ecommerce-can-do-when-rankings-implode-p676.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.seoegghead.com/blog/seo/3-non-obvious-things-ecommerce-can-do-when-rankings-implode-p676.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaimie Sirovich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[shopping feeds]]></category>

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

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Your friendly Captain-obvious-inspired search marketer might argue you shouldn't have done so when you depended on your organic rankings so much &#8212; but they're almost certainly vulnerable too.  Let's face it.  It's just plain difficult to get natural referral traffic when you're ultimately just another guy selling commodities.  OK, so don't be [...]


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