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	<description>Blogging about copywriting, web writing, b to b, b to c, web marketing &#038; SEO</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Get Links To Your Blog By Commenting On The Right Blogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ There are many strategies to get links to your blog or to get people to comment on your blog. one of the best is to comment on other blogs related to your subject.
I believe I&#8217;ve mentioned that your comments must contribute to the discussion and give some kind of valuable insight or the blogger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street Journal Article &#34;How To Create A Successful Web Site For Nothing&#34; Missing Vital Information</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WordsmithBob</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Wall Street Journal article on the front page of the Monday 8-11 Small Business section titled, &#8220;How To Create A Small Business Web Site For Nothing (Or Almost Nothing)&#8221; has some mistakes and missing information that could cost small business owners dearly in the future.
In other words, if a small business owner follows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Google Page Rank Important For Small Business Web sites?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WordsmithBob</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[search engine optimization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ The short answer? No. Google Page Rank gets bandied about quite a bit by people who really don&#8217;t know anything about SEO but want to pretend they do.
Google Page Rank is really all about trust. Google looks at a number of factors when anointing web sites with Page Rank but none of them have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adapting Your Business to the Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WordsmithBob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[business website]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[local business marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[offline marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[online marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[service business marketing]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[home business]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[residential window washing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Yesterday, I was a guest on WCCO Radio and I was stressing that almost any business could be adapted to the Internet. The example I gave was a residential window washing business.
You might wonder how a window washing business could be adapted to the web. Here&#8217;s how he did it.
The guy had a residential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roshini Rajkumar Interviews WordsmithBob on WCCO Radio Today&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WordsmithBob</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[free online publicity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Roshini Rajkumar, guest hosting on the Al Malmberg Show on WCCO Radio, interviewed me from 4:30am until 5am. Listen to the interview.
I&#8217;ve known Roshini for quite awhile and I&#8217;m actually a client of hers.
Her firm, Roshini MultiMedia leverages her years of experience in front of the camera in TV news to teach others how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Analytics - Have You Installed It Yet?</title>
		<link>http://wordsmithbob.com/blog/google-analytics-have-you-installed-it-yet</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WordsmithBob</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[do-it-yourself search engine optimization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Google Analytics is the best free analytics package out there for keeping track of what is happening on your web site. Why do you care what&#8217;s happening on your web site? Because if you don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s wrong, you can&#8217;t fix it.
Do you know how many people are visiting your web site? Do you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improving Search Engine Placement Through Regular Web Site Maintenance</title>
		<link>http://wordsmithbob.com/blog/improving-search-engine-placement-with-regular-web-site-maintenance</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WordsmithBob</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ When was the last time you had your web site checked for broken links? I know I can sound like a broken record sometimes but the search engines really don&#8217;t like badly maintained web sites.
Regular maintenance of your web site is an important part of search engine optimization and keeping your web site rising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Referrals - least expensive, lowest risk, highest potential return for getting new customers or clients</title>
		<link>http://wordsmithbob.com/blog/referrals-least-expensive-lowest-risk-highest-potential-return-for-getting-new-customers-or-clients</link>
		<comments>http://wordsmithbob.com/blog/referrals-least-expensive-lowest-risk-highest-potential-return-for-getting-new-customers-or-clients#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WordsmithBob</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Getting Everything YOu Can Out Of All YOu've Got]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ As you may know, I&#8217;m a big fan of Jay Abraham. So when I&#8217;m looking for a new marketing idea, I often turn to his &#8220;Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You&#8217;ve Got&#8221; book.
Today, I was reading up on referrals. If you really are focused on customer or client satisfaction, this is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Free Downloads to Collect Email Addresses</title>
		<link>http://wordsmithbob.com/blog/using-free-downloads-to-collect-email-addresses</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WordsmithBob</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ I&#8217;ve read some articles recently that claim that free downloads don&#8217;t work anymore to get email addresses from visitors. I&#8217;ve just seen proof positive that those people are wrong.
Again, I reference Roelofs Remodeling because it is such a fresh example. As part of his online marketing campaign, I created a series of ebooks for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>need Search Engine optimization? don&#8217;t get ripped off&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://wordsmithbob.com/blog/need-search-engine-optimization-dont-get-ripped-off</link>
		<comments>http://wordsmithbob.com/blog/need-search-engine-optimization-dont-get-ripped-off#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WordsmithBob</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ I don&#8217;t know about you but I get approached all the time by companies (mostly from somewhere in the Southwest) telling me they can get me first page listing on Google by search engine optimizing my website for me. Obviously, these morons haven&#8217;t even looked at my website or they&#8217;d know I DO search [...]]]></description>
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