<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!--RSS generated by Windows SharePoint Services V3 RSS Generator on 3/15/2010 3:51:14 PM--><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/Blogs/sharepointseo/_layouts/RssXslt.aspx?List=82080854-ac40-4405-8b2c-b55d45a197fb" version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>SharePoint SEO</title><link>http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/sharepointseo</link><description>RSS feed for the Posts list.</description><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:51:12 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>SharePoint SusQtech:Blog</generator><ttl>60</ttl><image><title>SharePoint SEO</title><url>http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/sharepointseo/_layouts/images/homepage.gif</url><link>http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/sharepointseo</link></image><item><title>SharePoint leading the Social Software in the Workplace Magic Quadrant </title><link>http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/2009/12/17/SharePointleadingtheSocialSoftwareintheWorkplaceMagicQuadrant.aspx</link><guid>/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/2009/12/17/SharePointleadingtheSocialSoftwareintheWorkplaceMagicQuadrant.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[It's not a big surprise to me that SharePoint is leading the Social Software in the Workplace Magic Quadrant.  This social network site (TheSUG.org) runs on the SharePoint platform, and as a result we had way more capabilities than we needed at launch time, and to this day.  This allows us to keep r ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sean Bordner</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:22:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/tags/Social Networking/default.aspx">Social Networking</category></item><item><title>Professional Social Networking - Online Communities</title><link>http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/2009/12/11/Professional-Social-Networking-Online-Communities.aspx</link><guid>/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/2009/12/11/Professional-Social-Networking-Online-Communities.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Washington, DC - I recently co-presented with Kiki L'Italien (from Delcor) on Public vs. Private social networking solutions.   The audience was fantastic, full of great real-world questions and certainly had a lot on their minds.  Our aim was to help sort out questions around “when should I use wha ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sean Bordner</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:33:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/tags/Social Networking/default.aspx">Social Networking</category></item><item><title>Consider adding Rich Snippets to your SEO war-chest for improved ranking and findability</title><link>http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/2009/05/18/Rich-Snippets-SharePoint-SEO.aspx</link><guid>/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/2009/05/18/Rich-Snippets-SharePoint-SEO.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Snippets are the little descriptions displayed about the link on search results pages.  For a long time now, snippets have been auto-generated by Google and you had little control over what the snippet would be – other than the fact that it’s mined from the page it’s referring to.  Enter Rich Snip ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sean Bordner</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 15:43:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/tags/Advanced SEO Techniques/default.aspx">Advanced SEO Techniques</category></item><item><title>Problems Indexing an External Web Site with the SharePoint Search Engine</title><link>http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/2009/05/16/Problems-Indexing-External-Web-Site-SharePoint-Search-Engine.aspx</link><guid>/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/2009/05/16/Problems-Indexing-External-Web-Site-SharePoint-Search-Engine.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[From time to time I have to troubleshoot SharePoint Search Engine issues dealing with it not properly indexing some external web site.  Just thought I’d share the steps I typically take in case you are trying to figure out what might be causing the problem.  I find it helpful to isolate where the pr ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sean Bordner</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 21:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/tags/Advanced SEO Techniques/default.aspx">Advanced SEO Techniques</category></item><item><title>How to Set Up SharePoint Search - Best Bets</title><link>http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/2009/05/12/HowtoSetUpSharePointSearch-BestBets.aspx</link><guid>/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/2009/05/12/HowtoSetUpSharePointSearch-BestBets.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Best bets are similar to the “Sponsored Links” seen on popular internet search engines today.  SharePoint allows you to establish and schedule search best bets.  Best bets are used to target specific pieces of content to end users searching for a specific keyword or phrase.  For example, if you ha ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sean Bordner</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 16:45:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to use the SharePoint Search Engine – Syntax 101</title><link>http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/2009/05/07/How-to-use-the-SharePoint-Search-Engine.aspx</link><guid>/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/2009/05/07/How-to-use-the-SharePoint-Search-Engine.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The easiest way to perform a search is to simply enter a word in the search box and click the search button.  The maximum length of a query cannot exceed 1024 characters.  By default, SharePoint search is case in-sensitive, which means you can type in upper case, lower case or a mix and still get th ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sean Bordner</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 18:57:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/tags/Advanced SEO Techniques/default.aspx">Advanced SEO Techniques</category><category domain="http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/tags/Novice SEO Techniques/default.aspx">Novice SEO Techniques</category></item><item><title> SharePoint SEO Tools</title><link>http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/2009/05/06/SharePoint-SEO-Tools.aspx</link><guid>/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/2009/05/06/SharePoint-SEO-Tools.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Here's a few SharePoint specific tools you can use to help your SEO effort.  If you know of others, please let me know and I'll add to this post.SharePoint SEO Tools:Title:  Imtech SharePoint SEO Slugs FeatureDescription:  Imtech SharePoint SEO Slugs is a SharePoint Feature which hooks up to the Cre ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sean Bordner</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 18:25:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/tags/Advanced SEO Techniques/default.aspx">Advanced SEO Techniques</category></item><item><title>Google Appliance with SharePoint?</title><link>http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/2009/05/03/Google-Appliance-with-SharePoint.aspx</link><guid>/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/2009/05/03/Google-Appliance-with-SharePoint.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[As a consultant, I encounter all kinds of questionable decisions which were made long before my invitation to the party.  Of course this is totally normal because if everything was working perfectly, I would not have been asked to help out.  But, sometimes I do come across things that actually seem  ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sean Bordner</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 17:13:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SharePoint Search Core Results Web Part</title><link>http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/2009/04/26/SharePoint-Search-Core-Results-Web-Part.aspx</link><guid>/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/2009/04/26/SharePoint-Search-Core-Results-Web-Part.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The Search Core Results web part is used for displaying the actual search results.  It is by default located on search result pages for obvious reasons.  This web part can be used for more than just displaying results to users who typed in a search word and hit search.  The Search Core Results web p ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sean Bordner</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Zero Footprint Document Viewer for SharePoint</title><link>http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/2009/04/26/Zero-Footprint-Document-Viewer-SharePoint.aspx</link><guid>/Blogs/sharepointseo/archive/2009/04/26/Zero-Footprint-Document-Viewer-SharePoint.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The ability to look at documents without leaving the browser can save a great deal of time.  I also see great potential for these capabilities as they relate to search results.  Imagine being able to quickly take a ‘peak’ at that document before you committed to loading it, if you even need to load  ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sean Bordner</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:06:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>