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		<title>5 Ways to Lose Visitors</title>
		<link>http://homestead-design-seo.com/2011/08/31/5-ways-to-lose-visitors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sjhwd</dc:creator>
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		<title>Website Maintenance &#8211; Keep It In Good Shape</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 16:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sjhwd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homestead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intuit Websites by Homestead]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://homestead-design-seo.com/?p=325</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Spring is here! It&#8217;s a good time to get your Homestead-Intuit website in tip-top condition. When was the last time you took a good close look at your website? We make quick changes now and then, but don&#8217;t usually pay attention to the big picture. A website can always use a bit of maintenance because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=homestead-design-seo.com&amp;blog=4714321&amp;post=325&amp;subd=homesteadwebsitedesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Website navigation &#8211; Is yours friendly?</title>
		<link>http://homestead-design-seo.com/2011/04/21/website-navigation-is-yours-friendly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sjhwd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SiteBuilder Program]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is your Homestead site chasing visitors away? If your navigation isn&#8217;t simple and straightforward you could be losing customers. One stat claims that 1/2 of online sales are lost due to the result of  a navigation that is poorly designed. That&#8217;s a pretty big number! Your Home page is THE most important page of your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=homestead-design-seo.com&amp;blog=4714321&amp;post=311&amp;subd=homesteadwebsitedesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lots of Website Visitors &#8211; Few Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sjhwd</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[SiteBuilder Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Webmaster Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[converting visitors to customers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intuit Websites by Homestead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[optimizing Homestead website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO Building Blocks]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://homestead-design-seo.com/?p=300</guid>
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		<title>Tags can still be considered keyword stuffing</title>
		<link>http://homestead-design-seo.com/2011/03/06/tags-can-still-be-considered-keyword-stuffing/</link>
		<comments>http://homestead-design-seo.com/2011/03/06/tags-can-still-be-considered-keyword-stuffing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 01:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sjhwd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Keywords]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SiteBuilder Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keyword stuffing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://homestead-design-seo.com/?p=290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been watching with interest the number of SiteBuilder webmasters  who are  using tag clouds or so-called tag lists on their sites.  This started in blogs, you can choose to use a tag cloud that shows up in the sidebar on blogs. Each time you write a post you add tags and the tags then [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=homestead-design-seo.com&amp;blog=4714321&amp;post=290&amp;subd=homesteadwebsitedesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google shaking up search results</title>
		<link>http://homestead-design-seo.com/2011/02/03/google-shaking-up-search-results/</link>
		<comments>http://homestead-design-seo.com/2011/02/03/google-shaking-up-search-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 05:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sjhwd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Webmaster Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homestead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intuit Websites by Homestead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keyword density]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[search engine placement]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://homestead-design-seo.com/?p=258</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Besides the school-yard spitting match going on between Google and Bing (For more on the spitting match just do a search for Google and Bing click fraud &#8211; everyone has jumped on that posting bandwagon.), the latest news concerning Google is that they are about to shake up search results in an effort to reduce [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=homestead-design-seo.com&amp;blog=4714321&amp;post=258&amp;subd=homesteadwebsitedesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Search Engines Gone Astray</title>
		<link>http://homestead-design-seo.com/2011/01/02/search-engines-gone-astray/</link>
		<comments>http://homestead-design-seo.com/2011/01/02/search-engines-gone-astray/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 04:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sjhwd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web site optimization]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://homestead-design-seo.com/?p=234</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Simply having a website  does not guarantee that the world will beat a path to your door (I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve said that before, but it bears repeating!). There are hundreds of millions (billions perhaps) of websites, so competition is fierce to try and place prominently in search engine results. Face it, if you aren&#8217;t on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=homestead-design-seo.com&amp;blog=4714321&amp;post=234&amp;subd=homesteadwebsitedesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Be sure you get listed in that Directory</title>
		<link>http://homestead-design-seo.com/2010/04/28/be-sure-you-get-listed-in-that-directory/</link>
		<comments>http://homestead-design-seo.com/2010/04/28/be-sure-you-get-listed-in-that-directory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sjhwd</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Homestead users]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://homestead-design-seo.com/?p=211</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is your site being listed in directories or ending up in the trash? Directories all have specific criteria you must follow in order to get your site listed. Don't be one of those who fall through the cracks because you failed to read and follow directions ...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=homestead-design-seo.com&amp;blog=4714321&amp;post=211&amp;subd=homesteadwebsitedesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just Released &#8211; 2010 edition of SEO Building Blocks</title>
		<link>http://homestead-design-seo.com/2010/03/06/just-released-2010-edition-of-seo-building-blocks/</link>
		<comments>http://homestead-design-seo.com/2010/03/06/just-released-2010-edition-of-seo-building-blocks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sjhwd</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://homestead-design-seo.com/?p=181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SEO Building Blocks is a comprehensive guide to help Intuit - Homestead users learn search engine optimization and how to apply SEO to their SiteBuilder web sites. The building blocks of SEO presented in easy to understand terms...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=homestead-design-seo.com&amp;blog=4714321&amp;post=181&amp;subd=homesteadwebsitedesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How&#8217;s your integrity quotient?</title>
		<link>http://homestead-design-seo.com/2010/01/14/hows-your-integrity-quotient/</link>
		<comments>http://homestead-design-seo.com/2010/01/14/hows-your-integrity-quotient/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sjhwd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SiteBuilder Program]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://homestead-design-seo.com/?p=166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Don't settle for copycat information when it comes to optimizing your website. SEO Building Blocks ebook is the original book on SEO and offers users of the Intuit - Homestead website building software original, quality and insightful help with optimizing a website. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=homestead-design-seo.com&amp;blog=4714321&amp;post=166&amp;subd=homesteadwebsitedesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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