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		<title>Avoiding Penalties with Web Stores</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ran into a question posted by another webmaster wondering why two of his web stores were banned by Google. These websites were running fine for at least one year. And another two of his stores remain indexed. Looking over his websites left me guessing as to the exact reason why Google removed them from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scoopy.us/odds-n-ends/avoiding-penalties-with-web-stores</link>
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		<title>Is Google Infected With Malware ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who&#8217;s Watching the Watchdogs?
Has google.com become infected with malware itself? The same huge corporation that has taken it upon itself to preside over all matters to cleanse the internet of this trash. The same power that decides which websites are safe to view and which sites are not.

This certainly appears to be the case after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scoopy.us/odds-n-ends/is-googlecom-infected-with-malware</link>
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		<title>Google Is Reported To Be An Attack Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The review process is broke and we want our websites back.
Seems Google is no better than the hackers who go from website to website adding their iframes to your pages in order perform their dirty deeds.
I was contacted last week to clean one such site that fell victim to one of these iframe injection attacks. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scoopy.us/odds-n-ends/google-is-reported-to-be-an-attack-site</link>
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		<title>We Interrupt Your Normal Browsing to Change the Google Favicon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The old saying goes, &#8220;if it ain&#8217;t broke, don&#8217;t fix it.&#8221; That is the quickest way to break something.
One week ago, Google seems to have done just that &#8212; again &#8212; with their latest change to their favicon. Something that went unchanged for 8.5 years with their classic &#8220;big G&#8221; icon.
Last Friday some people had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scoopy.us/odds-n-ends/we-interrupt-your-normal-browsing-to-change-the-google-favicon</link>
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		<title>My New Site Logo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everybody seems to be asking for vector graphics now and Photoshop does have its limits. So I got myself a copy of Illustrator and began pushing all its buttons and familiarizing myself with its tools and capabilities.
After two weeks of messing around, I was finally getting the hang of this amazing software. I had been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scoopy.us/my-websites/my-new-site-logo</link>
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		<title>My Static to WordPress Conversion Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently acquired another website to add to my collection. The overall appearance wasn&#8217;t too bad, but it still looked kind of &#8220;spammy&#8221; to me. I figured a good face lift was in order.
The site was basically setup as an ecommerce website to sell products to smokers interested in quitting. My goal was to convert [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scoopy.us/my-websites/my-static-to-wordpress-conversion-project</link>
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		<title>Save Time With PHP Include</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Favorite Webmaster’s Trick
Whether you have one website or several dozens&#8230; their is one very handy piece of code that can save you tons of work when its time to update your site. Using the PHP include function will allow you to update design or content changes with one quick edit. No need to have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scoopy.us/odds-n-ends/save-time-with-php-include</link>
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		<title>The Float Stops Here!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you ever use the float property&#8230; sometimes things just won&#8217;t align properly on your web pages. And no matter how hard you try to fix it with &#60;br&#62; tags and forced spaces&#8230; the problem still exists.
We ran into this very problem on this website as evident by the image posted above. Most of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scoopy.us/odds-n-ends/the-float-stops-here</link>
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		<title>Britain is Repossessing the U.S.A.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Message from John Cleese
To the citizens of the  United States of America:
In light  of your failure to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and  thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your  independence, effective immediately.
Her Sovereign Majesty Queen  Elizabeth II will resume [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scoopy.us/humor/britain-is-repossessing-the-usa</link>
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		<title>Dam Those Forum Link Spammers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you run any kind of forum you probably will need to deal with this problem sooner or later. And sometimes this problem is not easily noticeable in an active forum such as the one I am responsible for with our free fansite hosting community.
The problem we faced were spammers signing up &#8212; not to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scoopy.us/odds-n-ends/dam-those-forum-link-spammers</link>
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