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iTunes Conversion

Our cunning wheeze of offering some help to iPod and iTunes users has played out in rather an odd way.

Ironically enough they are amongst our most popular pages but we get next to no traffic from them into the rest of the site so now is the time to try some experiments as we have nothing to loose! We'll keep you posted.

In the meantime there is clearly a reasonable level of flux underway on Google affecting some of our individual piece keywords rather than the composer pages - could be Google catching up with some of the improvements we've been making to the product pages but it is not clear and we need to run some checks.

A quick check on the old cache product pages shows that cache updates have stopped around page 90 in the pages from listing on Google which coincidentally is the number of pages being shown on some data centers. Perhaps we should be doing piece of the week instead!

It's time to update Composer of the week and we're also going to take the opportunity of adding links to the right column images and perhaps some alt text for good measure.

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