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		<title>SEO Friendly Breadcrumb for WordPress</title>
		<link>http://articles.tutorboy.com/2011/11/04/seo-friendly-breadcrumb-wordpress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Midhun Devasia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last day I wrote about the SEO Friendly Breadcrumb Format, I have implemented those formats in my WordPress site. And ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last day I wrote about the <a title="SEO Friendly Breadcrumb Format" href="http://articles.tutorboy.com/2011/11/03/breadcrumb-format/" target="_blank">SEO Friendly Breadcrumb Format</a>, I have implemented those formats in my WordPress site. And here is the code which is written for WordPress.</p>
<h2>Add this PHP code at the end of functions.php file from the theme folder</h2>
<pre class="brush:php">&lt;?php

if ( ! function_exists( 'breadcrumbs' ) ) :
function breadcrumbs() {

	$delimiter = '&amp;rsaquo;';
	$home = 'Home';

	echo '&lt;div xmlns:v="http://rdf.data-vocabulary.org/#" class="breadcrumb"&gt;';

	global $post;
	echo '	&lt;span typeof="v:Breadcrumb"&gt;
 			&lt;a rel="v:url" property="v:title" href="'.get_bloginfo('url').'"&gt;'.$home.'&lt;/a&gt;
			&lt;/span&gt; '; 

	$cats = get_the_category();
	if ($cats) {
	  foreach($cats as $cat) {
	  	echo $delimiter . "&lt;span typeof=\"v:Breadcrumb\"&gt;
	    			&lt;a rel=\"v:url\" property=\"v:title\" href=\"".get_category_link($cat-&gt;term_id)."\" &gt;$cat-&gt;name&lt;/a&gt;
	    		&lt;/span&gt;";
	  }
	}

	$posttags = get_the_tags();
	if ($posttags) {
	  foreach($posttags as $tag) {
	  	echo $delimiter . "&lt;span typeof=\"v:Breadcrumb\"&gt;
	    			&lt;a rel=\"v:url\" property=\"v:title\" href=\"".get_tag_link($tag-&gt;term_id)."\" &gt;$tag-&gt;name&lt;/a&gt;
	    		&lt;/span&gt;";
	  }
	}

	echo '&lt;/div&gt;';

}
endif;

?&gt;</pre>
<p>The above code will generate the breadcrumb from the post categories and post tags values of the current post. The parent category will be show at the first then its child, and finally add if any tag presents.</p>
<h2>Add the following function call in your single.php file.</h2>
<pre class="brush:php">&lt;?php breadcrumbs(); ?&gt;</pre>
<p>Place this code above the <code>the_title()</code> function or below <code>the_content()</code> function calls.</p>
<h2>Add the following CSS in you Style.css</h2>
<pre class="brush:css">/* BreadCrumbs CSS*/
.breadcrumb {
	font-size: 11px;
}
.breadcrumb a {
	color: gray;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.breadcrumb a:hover {
	color: #178A00;
}</pre>
<p>So now your WordPress blog&#8217;s breadcrumb is Search Engine Optimized. You can see the results from your next post onward. Its so simple <img src='http://articles.tutorboy.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Also See : <a title="SEO Friendly Breadcrumb Format" href="http://articles.tutorboy.com/2011/11/03/breadcrumb-format/" target="_blank">SEO Friendly Breadcrumb Format</a></p>
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		<title>Most Useful WordPress Plugins</title>
		<link>http://articles.tutorboy.com/2010/08/07/most-useful-wordpress-plugins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 04:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Midhun Devasia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[WordPress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feeds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine. In  the directory you can find, download, rate, ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine. In  the directory you <a href="http://articles.tutorboy.com/wordpress/most-useful-wordpress-plugins.html"><img class="size-full wp-image-2086 alignright" title="wordpress-plugins" src="http://articles.tutorboy.com/content/uploads/2010/08/wordpress-plugins.jpg" alt="" width="280" height="137" /></a>can find, download, rate, and comment on all the best  plugins the WordPress community has to offer. But there you can see lots of plugins with equal rating, thus, I know you will get confused while selecting one of them for your purpose.  So I&#8217;ll share my experiences on WordPress Plugins, and listing out some of the commonly used Plugins &amp; Usage.</p>
<p><span id="more-2071"></span></p>
<h1>1. All in One SEO Pack</h1>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The WordPress itself is Optimize the contents for search engines. But while using <em>All in One SEO Pack</em> you will get much control over the <strong>SEO</strong>. In this you can change the meta-data, descriptions, titles and set the index/follow of each pages or views with in the <em>All in One SEO Pack</em> plugin settings page.</p>
<p><a class="wp-caption" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/">Download » All in One SEO Pack</a></p>
<h1>2. WP-PageNavi</h1>
<p style="text-align: justify;">By default there is no pagination support for the WordPress. So <em>WP-PageNavi</em> is one of the best plugin for WordPress Pagination.  Check the Screens for the settings page and its output.  You need to place php code inside the theme files. <a href="http://articles.tutorboy.com/wordpress/most-useful-wordpress-plugins.html"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2094" title="wp-pagnavi" src="http://articles.tutorboy.com/content/uploads/2010/08/wp-pagnavi.jpg" alt="" width="568" height="528" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://articles.tutorboy.com/wordpress/most-useful-wordpress-plugins.html"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2095" title="wp-pagnavi2" src="http://articles.tutorboy.com/content/uploads/2010/08/wp-pagnavi2.jpg" alt="" width="568" height="186" /></a><a class="wp-caption" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-pagenavi/">Download » WP-PageNavi</a></p>
<h1>3. WordPress Related Posts</h1>
<p style="text-align: justify;">WordPress Related Posts Plugin will generate a related posts via WordPress tags, and add the related posts to feed. Insert the <code>&lt;?php wp_related_posts(); ?&gt; code inside your theme file, where ever you want to show the related posts.</code></p>
<h1>4. Upcoming Posts Widget</h1>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It is better to let your readers know exactly what and when you will post something.<br />
Features 1. Help you to show cheduled posts or drafts. 2. Configure in the widget: the number of posts; show the excerpt; the time format; a specific category. 3. Make your own style by editing ucp.css and ucp_widget.php files.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://articles.tutorboy.com/wordpress/most-useful-wordpress-plugins.html"><img class="size-full wp-image-2097 aligncenter" title="wp-upcomming-post" src="http://articles.tutorboy.com/content/uploads/2010/08/wp-upcomming-post.jpg" alt="" width="568" height="186" /></a></p>
<p><a class="wp-caption" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/upcoming-posts/">Download » Upcoming Posts Widget</a></p>
<h1>5. Google XML Sitemaps</h1>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it&#8217;s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. You can generate the sitemap xml from the plugin&#8217;s settings page.</p>
<p><a href="http://articles.tutorboy.com/wordpress/most-useful-wordpress-plugins.html"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2099" title="wp-sitemap-settings 2" src="http://articles.tutorboy.com/content/uploads/2010/08/wp-sitemap-settings-2.jpg" alt="" width="568" height="300" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-2100" href="http://articles.tutorboy.com/wordpress/most-useful-wordpress-plugins.html/attachment/wp-sitemap-settings"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2100" title="wp-sitemap-settings" src="http://articles.tutorboy.com/content/uploads/2010/08/wp-sitemap-settings.jpg" alt="" width="568" height="300" /></a></p>
<p><a class="wp-caption" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/">Download » Google XML Sitemaps</a></p>
<h1>6. WPtouch iPhone Theme</h1>
<p style="text-align: justify;">WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone  application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and  effects, when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Opera Mini,  Palm Pre and BlackBerry Storm mobile devices. The admin panel allows you to customize many aspects of its appearance,  and deliver a fast, user-friendly and stylish version of your site to  iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Palm Pre and BlackBerry Storm visitors,  without modifying <em>a single bit of code</em> (or affecting) your regular desktop theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch/screenshots/"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2102" title="wp-touchtheme" src="http://articles.tutorboy.com/content/uploads/2010/08/wp-touchtheme.jpg" alt="" width="568" height="300" /></a><a class="wp-caption" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch/">Download » WPtouch iPhone Theme</a></p>
<h1>7. Sociable</h1>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on  your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different  social bookmarking sites!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-2103" href="http://articles.tutorboy.com/wordpress/most-useful-wordpress-plugins.html/attachment/wp-sociable-2"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2103" title="wp-sociable 2" src="http://articles.tutorboy.com/content/uploads/2010/08/wp-sociable-2.jpg" alt="" width="568" height="204" /></a><a href="http://articles.tutorboy.com/wordpress/most-useful-wordpress-plugins.html"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2104" title="wp-sociable" src="http://articles.tutorboy.com/content/uploads/2010/08/wp-sociable.jpg" alt="" width="568" height="204" /></a><a rel="attachment wp-att-2104" href="http://articles.tutorboy.com/wordpress/most-useful-wordpress-plugins.html/attachment/wp-sociable"></a><a href="http://articles.tutorboy.com/wordpress/most-useful-wordpress-plugins.html"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2106" title="wp-sociable 3" src="http://articles.tutorboy.com/content/uploads/2010/08/wp-sociable-3.jpg" alt="" width="568" height="400" /></a></p>
<p><a class="wp-caption" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable/">Download » Sociable</a></p>
<h1>8. FeedBurner Widget</h1>
<p>FeedBurner Widget is very simple sidebar widget plugin to easy customize and display your FeedBurner subscribers stats button.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://articles.tutorboy.com/wordpress/most-useful-wordpress-plugins.html"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2107" title="wp-feed" src="http://articles.tutorboy.com/content/uploads/2010/08/wp-feed.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="365" /></a><a rel="attachment wp-att-2108" href="http://articles.tutorboy.com/wordpress/most-useful-wordpress-plugins.html/attachment/wp-feed2"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2108" title="wp-feed2" src="http://articles.tutorboy.com/content/uploads/2010/08/wp-feed2.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="790" /></a></p>
<p><a class="wp-caption" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedburner-widget/">Download » FeedBurner Widget</a></p>
<h1>9. Count Per Day</h1>
<p>It counts 1 visit per IP per day. So any reload of the page don&#8217;t increment the counter.  Features: Count reads and visitors,  shows reads per page, shows visitors today, yesterday, last week, last months and other statistics on dashboard, shows country of your visitors<a href="http://articles.tutorboy.com/wordpress/most-useful-wordpress-plugins.html"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2109" title="wp-Count Per Day" src="http://articles.tutorboy.com/content/uploads/2010/08/wp-Count-Per-Day.jpg" alt="" width="575" height="600" /></a></p>
<p><a class="wp-caption" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/count-per-day/">Download » Count Per Day</a></p>
<h1>10. NextGEN Gallery</h1>
<p>NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.</p>
<p><strong>Features</strong><br />
* Templates : You can add custom templates for your theme.<br />
* Media RSS feed : Add the Cooliris Effect to your gallery<br />
* Role settings : Each gallery has a author<br />
* AJAX based thumbnail generator : No more server limitation during the batch process<br />
* Copy/Move : Copy or move images between galleries etc&#8230;etc.</p>
<p><a class="wp-caption" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/">Download » NextGEN Gallery</a></p>
<p>Enjoy Blogging <img src='http://articles.tutorboy.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Sitemap guidelines</title>
		<link>http://articles.tutorboy.com/2009/07/19/sitemap-guidelines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Midhun Devasia</dc:creator>
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A single Sitemap file cannot list more than 50,000 URLs and must be no ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Sitemap index file must be <strong>UTF-8 encoded</strong>.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>A single Sitemap file cannot list more than <strong>50,000 URLs</strong> and must be no larger than <strong>10MB</strong> (10,485,760 bytes) when uncompressed.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>If you want to include more URLs or If you do provide multiple Sitemaps use a “Sitemap index” file ( as <span style="color: #000080;">http://www.yourdomain.com/<strong>sitemap_index.xml</strong></span>). A Sitemap index file can list up to <strong>50,000 Sitemaps</strong>.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Do not include <strong>session IDs</strong> in URLs.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Do not include direct <strong>image URLs</strong> in Sitemaps</p></blockquote>
<p>
<span id="more-27"></span></p>
<h4>The XML format of a Sitemap index file is very similar to the XML format of a Sitemap file. The Sitemap index file must:</h4>
<p><strong>&lt;sitemapindex&gt;</strong> &#8211; the parent tag surrounds the file.<br />
<strong>&lt;sitemap&gt;</strong> &#8211; the parent tag for each Sitemap listed in the file (a child of &lt;sitemapindex&gt;)<br />
<strong>&lt;loc&gt;</strong> &#8211; the location of the sitemap (a child of &lt;sitemap&gt;)<br />
<strong>&lt;lastmod&gt;</strong> &#8211; the last modified date of the sitemap (optional)</p>
<h2>The Sample XML Sitemap Index</h2>
<pre class="brush:xml">&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
   &lt;sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"&gt;
   &lt;sitemap&gt;
      &lt;loc&gt;http://www.example.com/sitemap1.xml.gz&lt;/loc&gt;
      &lt;lastmod&gt;2004-10-01T18:23:17+00:00&lt;/lastmod&gt;
   &lt;/sitemap&gt;
   &lt;sitemap&gt;
      &lt;loc&gt;http://www.example.com/sitemap2.xml.gz&lt;/loc&gt;
      &lt;lastmod&gt;2005-01-01&lt;/lastmod&gt;
   &lt;/sitemap&gt;
   &lt;/sitemapindex&gt;</pre>
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		<title>Creating and Submitting  a sitemap (or site map) of your site.</title>
		<link>http://articles.tutorboy.com/2009/07/19/creating-and-submitting-a-sitemap-or-site-map-of-your-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Midhun Devasia</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The term Sitemap/site map is meant to help users or crawlers find the informations about your site.Simply ! in other words it <strong>lists all the pages of your sites</strong>. Most search engines will only follow a finite number of links from a page, so if the number of links is very large, the site map may be required so that search engines and visitors can access all content on the site.</p>
<p>There are mainly two types of sitemaps<br />
<strong></strong></p>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li><strong>HTML sitemaps</strong> :-  listing all the pages of  your site <strong>often by section</strong>. Check the example URL for more clear picture for how can arrange things in simple way.(eg: <a style="color: #000080;" title="http://www.apple.com/sitemap/" href="http://www.apple.com/sitemap/" target="_blank">http://www.apple.com/sitemap/)</a></li>
<li><strong>XML Sitemaps</strong> :-  usually called Sitemaps, with a capital “S”. Mainly for give informations about your            pages to the <strong>crawlers or search engines</strong>.</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
<p>The second type(XML Sitemaps) we&#8217;ll be discussing in this article.</p>
<h2>Step 1:-</h2>
<p>Create a XML file named &#8220;<strong>sitemap.xml</strong>&#8221; and copy paste the following lines</p>
<pre class="brush:xml">&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
&lt;urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"&gt;
&lt;url&gt;&lt;loc&gt;/*your site pages*/&lt;/loc&gt;&lt;/url&gt;
&lt;/urlset&gt;</pre>
<p><span id="more-22"></span></p>
<h2>Step 2:-</h2>
<p>Edit the line no:3 onwards as shown below. List all pages of your site in the  tags.</p>
<pre class="brush:xml">&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
&lt;urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"&gt;
&lt;url&gt;&lt;loc&gt;http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html &lt;/loc&gt;&lt;/url&gt;
&lt;url&gt;&lt;loc&gt;http://www.yourdomain.com/page1.html &lt;/loc&gt;&lt;/url&gt;
&lt;url&gt;&lt;loc&gt;http://www.yourdomain.com/page2.html &lt;/loc&gt;&lt;/url&gt;
&lt;url&gt;&lt;loc&gt;http://www.yourdomain.com/etc.html &lt;/loc&gt;&lt;/url&gt;
&lt;/urlset&gt;</pre>
<h2>Step:3 *optional</h2>
<p>The  optional tags are  &#8220;<strong>&lt;lastmod&gt;, &lt;changefreq&gt;, &lt;priority&gt;</strong>&#8220;.<br />
<strong>&lt;lastmod&gt;</strong> &#8211; The date of last modification of the file in<span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> YYYY-MM-DD</strong></span> format.<br />
<strong>&lt;changefreq&gt;</strong> &#8211; How frequently the page is likely to change, valid values are:</p>
<ol>
<li>always</li>
<li>hourly</li>
<li>daily</li>
<li>weekly</li>
<li>monthly</li>
<li>yearly</li>
<li>never</li>
</ol>
<blockquote><p>The value &#8220;<strong>always</strong>&#8221; should be used to describe documents that change each time they are accessed. The value &#8220;<strong>never</strong>&#8221; should be used to describe archived URLs.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>&lt;priority&gt;</strong> &#8211; The priority of this URL relative to other URLs on your site. Valid values range from 0.0 to 1.0.  The default priority of a page is 0.5.<br />
With the optional tags the xml looks like:</p>
<pre class="brush:xml">&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
&lt;urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"&gt;
&lt;url&gt;&lt;loc&gt;http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html &lt;/loc&gt;
&lt;lastmod&gt;2009-12-10&lt;/lastmod&gt;
&lt;changefreq&gt;always&lt;/changefreq&gt;
&lt;priority&gt;1.0&lt;/priority&gt;
&lt;/url&gt;
&lt;url&gt;&lt;loc&gt;http://www.yourdomain.com/page1.html &lt;/loc&gt;&lt;/url&gt;
&lt;url&gt;&lt;loc&gt;http://www.yourdomain.com/page2.html &lt;/loc&gt;
 &lt;lastmod&gt;2009-05-29&lt;/lastmod&gt;
&lt;changefreq&gt;daily&lt;/changefreq&gt;
&lt;/url&gt;
&lt;url&gt;&lt;loc&gt;http://www.yourdomain.com/etc.html&lt;/loc&gt;&lt;/url&gt;
&lt;/urlset&gt;</pre>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Wowo </strong></span>!! How simply you created a sitemap. Next the final and most important step ie: <strong>submitting the  Sitemaps files</strong></p>
<h2>Step :- 4</h2>
<p>You can submit your Sitemaps file(s) in many ways.<br />
<a title="Sitemaps guideline" href="http://articles.tutorboy.com/seo/sitemap-guidelines.html"><em> for more information about the sitemaps file see the Sitemap-guidelines article too</em></a></p>
<h3>First methond is Autodiscovery via <strong>robots.txt</strong>:</h3>
<p>Add the Sitemap file to your <strong>robots.txt</strong> files.</p>
<pre class="brush:php">User-agent: *
Disallow:
Sitemap: http://www.youdomain.com/sitemap.xml</pre>
<h3>Or the second method is Pings:</h3>
<p>Several search engines have introduced a standardised support for Sitemap Pings. To submit your sitemap to a search engine (ping) use the following format:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>http:// &lt;search-engine-url &gt;/ping?sitemap=http://www.youdomain.com/sitemap.xml</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>You will get a confirmation message from the  search-engine-url if the submittion is valid.</p>
<h2>Example:</h2>
<p><strong>Google.com</strong><br />
<a style="color: #000080;" title="Google.com" href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http://www.tutorboy.com/sitemap.xml" target="_blank"> http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http://www.tutorboy.com/sitemap.xml</a><br />
<strong>Yahoo.com</strong><br />
<a style="color: #000080;" title="Yahoo.com" href="http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http://www.tutorboy.com/sitemap.xml" target="_blank"> http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http://www.tutorboy.com/sitemap.xml</a><br />
<strong>Ask.com</strong><br />
<a style="color: #000080;" title="Ask.com" href="http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.tutorboy.com/sitemap.xml" target="_blank">http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.tutorboy.com/sitemap.xml</a><br />
<strong>Moreover.com</strong><br />
<a style="color: #000080;" title="Moreover.com" href="http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=http://www.tutorboy.com/sitemap.xml" target="_blank">http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=http://www.tutorboy.com/sitemap.xml</a><br />
<strong>Bing.com(MSN)</strong><br />
<a style="color: #000080;" title="Bing.com (msn)" href="http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://www.tutorboy.com/sitemap.xml" target="_blank">http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://www.tutorboy.com/sitemap.xml</a></p>
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