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	<description>From the Page 1 Solutions Search Engine Marketing Department</description>
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		<title>Essential Components of on-page SEO</title>
		<link>http://seodepartment.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/essential-components-of-on-page-seo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>debbyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of our newer optimizers recently asked me if there were certain steps that were critical to on-page optimization. I felt it was a good idea to have a checklist that lists the critical elements that we optimizers should keep in mind while working on a site. Title — Each page on the site should have a unique Title containing the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seodepartment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1012591&amp;post=59&amp;subd=seodepartment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Key to success in Local search</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>debbyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having moved to a new State recently, I have been relying on  Local search to find various services. This got me thinking about the impact Local Search has on a client&#8217;s business and therefore how important it is when optimizing a site to understand how customers use Local search . Local search comprises of  what is known [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seodepartment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1012591&amp;post=58&amp;subd=seodepartment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Importance of a good Domain name</title>
		<link>http://seodepartment.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/importance-of-a-good-domain-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>debbyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s easy to think of a domain name as being one of the least important issues that impact your online business, however nothing could be farther from the truth. Having a good Domain name is extremely important to the online presence of a business. To ensure that your business draws the maximum number of visitors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seodepartment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1012591&amp;post=57&amp;subd=seodepartment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rewriting content improves ranking?</title>
		<link>http://seodepartment.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/rewriting-content-improves-ranking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ticklemejen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have pages that are doing well but some that are struggling, you think to yourself &#8220;What can I do to improve this page?&#8221; &#8220;Should I rewrite the content to make it fresh?&#8221; In this case, rewriting content will not boost the page&#8217;s rankings, same goes for streaming an RSS feed onto a page [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seodepartment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1012591&amp;post=56&amp;subd=seodepartment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Duplicate Content</title>
		<link>http://seodepartment.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/duplicate-content/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 05:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ticklemejen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all hear that duplicate content is bad, bad in terms of everything &#8211; from academics to SEO! Search engines despise duplicate content. Why? The reasoning behind this statement is that search engines want to provide users with dynamic results available on the web. That is not going to happen with duplicate content &#8211; users [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seodepartment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1012591&amp;post=55&amp;subd=seodepartment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Combating Malicious and Slanderous Attacks with SEO</title>
		<link>http://seodepartment.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/combating-malicious-and-slanderous-attacks-with-seo/</link>
		<comments>http://seodepartment.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/combating-malicious-and-slanderous-attacks-with-seo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 20:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Malicious Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slander]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes a business or person can be the victim of a slanderous attack in blog entries, blog comments, or articles. This slander could be from a competitor. There are way to combat this with SEO techniques.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seodepartment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1012591&amp;post=51&amp;subd=seodepartment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Showing up on the First Page!</title>
		<link>http://seodepartment.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/the-importance-of-showing-up-on-the-first-page/</link>
		<comments>http://seodepartment.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/the-importance-of-showing-up-on-the-first-page/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 16:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>debbyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study about the click behavior of web searchers shows that searchers click specialized content within general search results more than they do within the results of specialized searches. Within the last year, all the major search engines have begun returning blended results for some searches. For these searches, specialized search result types such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seodepartment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1012591&amp;post=50&amp;subd=seodepartment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nifty New Visual Search Engine &#8211; SearchMe</title>
		<link>http://seodepartment.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/nifty-new-visual-search-engine-searchme/</link>
		<comments>http://seodepartment.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/nifty-new-visual-search-engine-searchme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ticklemejen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://seodepartment.wordpress.com/?p=49</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe MacIntosh was onto something when they created the iPhone to easily glide through albums or images but there is a new visual search engine in town that is taking similar concepts and using it towards search engines, SearchMe. SearchMe allows users to visually search the web rather than by text like Google, Yahoo, AskJeeves [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seodepartment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1012591&amp;post=49&amp;subd=seodepartment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media- SMM and SMO</title>
		<link>http://seodepartment.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/social-media-smm-and-smo/</link>
		<comments>http://seodepartment.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/social-media-smm-and-smo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>debbyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social Media Marketing is the latest buzz in the Search Engine Marketing industry, everyone wants to know all there is to know and everyone is keen to jump onto this bandwagon. So what is Social Media?                                                                                                   According to Wikipedia, social media includes &#8220;the online tools and platforms that people use to share opinions, insights, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seodepartment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1012591&amp;post=48&amp;subd=seodepartment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Title Tags in SEO</title>
		<link>http://seodepartment.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/title-tags-in-seo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title Tags are commonly known as the title of the page and is displayed in the top bar of the search engine and as the header in search engine results. Some good information is in the article All About Title Tags. But the title tag can also be used on links and images. Alt Tags [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seodepartment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1012591&amp;post=47&amp;subd=seodepartment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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