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	<title>Web Matters Christchurch Website Designers &#187; Search Engine Optimisation</title>
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		<title>How to get into Google in a hurry!</title>
		<link>http://www.webmatters.co.nz/2009/01/how-to-get-into-google-in-a-hurry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sullivan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been delighted and also quite amused to discover just how quickly one of my new website articles is indexed by Google.  I&#8217;m delighted because pages are showing up in the search results within hours and I get traffic from the searches within hours as well. The amusement stems from me trying to further [...]


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		<title>Simple Design Rules for your Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sullivan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What constitutes a good website design can be very subjective but there are some simple design rules that everyone instinctively recognises even if they are not conscious of them. 
Follow these rules and your website will impress your visitors and most importantly your design won’t get in the way of your message.

Utilisation of white space [...]


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		<title>Quick Tips to Increase your Online Visibility</title>
		<link>http://www.webmatters.co.nz/2008/10/quick-tips-to-increase-your-online-visibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A primary goal of any business website is to be highly visible online for your target market.  To achieve this you need to rank within the top ten in Google for your industry keyword search phrases  and have links on relevant websites (such as web portals or website directories).
To increase your online visibility you can:

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		<title>Cuil search engine, not so cool for me</title>
		<link>http://www.webmatters.co.nz/2008/07/cuil-search-engine-not-so-cool-for-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webmatters.co.nz/2008/07/cuil-search-engine-not-so-cool-for-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cuil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cuil is the latest search engine to take on Google (launched 28 July 08).  It&#8217;s a start-up with some ex-Google engineers as its founders. The name Cuil is pronounced &#8216;cool&#8217;. But it&#8217;s not so cool for Web Matters as the site is not in Cuil&#8217;s big index &#8211; and to request your website to [...]


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		<title>Website Grader, Free SEO Tool</title>
		<link>http://www.webmatters.co.nz/2008/03/website-grader-free-seo-tool/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webmatters.co.nz/2008/03/website-grader-free-seo-tool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I discovered the Website Grader site.  It&#8217;s a free tool to judge how SEO friendly your site is and gives you a total score based on quite a few different criteria.  As I&#8217;m usually working on other people&#8217;s websites (like the proverbial builder who never quite gets his own house in order), [...]


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		<title>PageRank Update &#8211; My Photo Blog gets a 4 PR</title>
		<link>http://www.webmatters.co.nz/2007/10/pagerank-update-my-photo-blog-gets-a-4-pr/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webmatters.co.nz/2007/10/pagerank-update-my-photo-blog-gets-a-4-pr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PageRank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PR]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week many blog owners have discovered they&#8217;ve lost precious PageRank for their blogs. For years now some industry commentators have been suggesting that PageRank is &#8216;dead&#8217;. I don&#8217;t go along with that at all, but I suspect that PageRank has evolved and been tweaked beyond what we can measure.
However, I&#8217;m pretty happy that my [...]


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		<title>Sticky Note Project Management</title>
		<link>http://www.webmatters.co.nz/2007/10/sticky-note-project-management/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webmatters.co.nz/2007/10/sticky-note-project-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I used this fairly basic but highly effective method of project management to work out how to get a rather large website live within a few weeks. It was a daunting prospect but once it was all on the wall it was suddenly manageable.
This is also a great way of flowcharting processes that you&#8217;re [...]


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		<title>MyLive Search &#8211; Can it find my most recent post?</title>
		<link>http://www.webmatters.co.nz/2007/10/mylive-search/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webmatters.co.nz/2007/10/mylive-search/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, yes it did &#8211; the test was with my Christchurch daily photo blog and a post published half an hour before the search. Click on the thumbnail to see the results (my photo blog is highlighted in yellow)

The only thing I was not too keen on, was that the Google url&#8217;s came up first [...]


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		<title>Search engine optimzation nz Update</title>
		<link>http://www.webmatters.co.nz/2007/09/search-engine-optimzation-nz-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webmatters.co.nz/2007/09/search-engine-optimzation-nz-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m now ranked at number 2 and number 3 for this &#8216;typo term!&#8217;. And yes, still get visits.&#160; Just goes to show that there is definitely opportunity in spelling mistakes. Oh and if you are in tourism, here&#8217;s a tip for you, zeland is apparently how many people spell zealand.&#160;

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		<title>Christchurch SEO Update</title>
		<link>http://www.webmatters.co.nz/2007/09/christchurch-seo-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webmatters.co.nz/2007/09/christchurch-seo-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, a few weeks back I posted about my goal to move up in the ranks for Christchurch SEO.  I&#8217;m now ranked at number 1 and number 2 for this phrase. Number one is my corporate site and number 2 is this blog. I&#8217;m pretty happy with that.

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