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When I talk about writing for Google, I’m not talking about how to achieve a high Page Rank score for your site on the whole. What I’m talking about is writing one article in such a way that makes it the most likely that people who are searching for the information contained therein will be able to find it. Here are my suggestions:

Don’t get cute with the title. Google seems to place an awful lot of emphasis on what you put in the <title> tag in your HTML headers. Ideally, the title should contain the words you think people will use in their queries.

Stick to the facts in the first few paragraphs in the article. I’m somewhat sure that Google doesn’t index entire documents, just the first X words or paragraphs. And even if they do index entire documents, it seems to me they place more importance on the first first paragraphs. The specifics of Google’s indexer aren’t worth worrying about; the point is, get to the point quickly.

If there are any likely search terms that you couldn’t squeeze into the title, try to use them in the opening few paragraphs.

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RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.

Originally posted by OziBen:

Just hack the .pl files to produce cleaner code. (nice board you have there at praise cafe) but like all ubb classics out of the box, the title is preceeded by a big lump of .js, one simple change to public-common.pl and the title tag come at the top of the code.