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	<link>http://www.timgriffin.com</link>
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		<title>Optimising load time for visitors and robots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past week, many SEO blogs have reported that Google is now using page load time as a factor in their rankings algorithm. I wanted to follow up and explain specifically how to optimise for visitors and robots, because there is a distinct difference between the two. Optimising for robots When search robots crawl [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timgriffin.com/optimising-load-time-for-search-engines/</link>
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		<title>Review: Balsamiq Mockups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a client project in the works for an intranet where one of the primary goals is to improve the current user interface to increase productivity and lower training costs. It&#8217;s a manufacturing jeweller that is looking to expand its business significantly over the next five years and they need a platform that can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timgriffin.com/wireframe-software-review/</link>
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		<title>Avoiding propagation issues when migrating web sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever migrated a domain to a new server and you&#8217;ve received errors in your browser about not being able to resolve the domain (&#8220;DNS not found&#8221;) then you&#8217;ve experienced a propagation issue. What is happening is that your ISP hasn&#8217;t been told about the new record you&#8217;ve created or it&#8217;s using cached information [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timgriffin.com/propagation-issues-with-site-migration/</link>
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		<title>Review: Advanced Web Ranking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first of a series of posts where I&#8217;ll be explaining what free and paid SEO tools I use on a regular basis. Advanced Web Ranking is a client based application I typically use on a weekly basis to store and record search engine rankings for my own sites and client web sites. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timgriffin.com/advanced-web-ranking-review/</link>
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		<title>Snagit for Mac: Screenshots for OS X</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was pleased to have gotten an e-mail today from TechSmith announcing have finally released a Mac OS X version of Snagit! Macbooks are so popular amongst web developers and search marketers, yet up until today I haven&#8217;t found anything like Snagit for Windows for web site audits, which I use in documents and e-mails [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timgriffin.com/snagit-mac-os-x/</link>
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		<title>Tracking Google index performance with XML sitemaps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently updated a script that generates sitemap XMLs for a web site I run. It&#8217;s a local review business ditectory with hundreds of thousands of pages, but with only around 150k in the Google index. Like any database driven site, those hundreds of thousands of pages can be boiled down to a few distinct [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timgriffin.com/google-index-performance-sitemaps-xml/</link>
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		<title>301 redirects in a large site migration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I migrated one of my sites which has around 150k pages in the Google index and thought I&#8217;d share a relatively quick and easy way to check the migration went smoothly. Migrating to a new platform or server is always a risky time for any site that relies on organic traffic. There&#8217;s a big [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timgriffin.com/301-redirects-large-site-migration/</link>
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		<title>Google Analytics &amp; AdWords: 301s not passing gclid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A good webmaster will implement 301 or 302 redirects to legacy URLs but it often results in paid search traffic being mis-categorised. Whilst your destination URLs will still end up at the expected page, it often be tagged as organic traffic. Specifically, when you link AdWords and Analytics, Google will append a gclid to destination [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timgriffin.com/301s-not-passing-gclid/</link>
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