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		<title>SEO Software Comparison - WebCEO 7.7 Versus Web Position 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ SEO software comparisons probably aren&#8217;t what you expect on this blog but I think it&#8217;s appropriate. Anyway, I&#8217;ve written an article on my web site comparing the two SEO software packages.
I actually use them both for search engine optimization. However, I use them for different things because each is stellar at some SEO requirements [...]


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		<title>Is Google Page Rank Important For Small Business Web sites?</title>
		<link>http://wordsmithbob.com/blog/is-google-page-rank-important-for-small-business-web-sites</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WordsmithBob</dc:creator>
		
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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 [...]


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		<title>Adapting Your Business to the Internet</title>
		<link>http://wordsmithbob.com/blog/adapting-your-business-to-the-internet</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WordsmithBob</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[local 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 [...]


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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>
		<comments>http://wordsmithbob.com/blog/improving-search-engine-placement-with-regular-web-site-maintenance#comments</comments>
		<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 [...]


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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 [...]


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		<title>Chief Marketer Report says Marketers &#8220;Missing the SEO Mark&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://wordsmithbob.com/blog/chief-marketer-report-says-marketers-missing-the-mark</link>
		<comments>http://wordsmithbob.com/blog/chief-marketer-report-says-marketers-missing-the-mark#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WordsmithBob</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Dick Powell from Sales Force XP forwarded me an article from Chief Marketer Report about &#8220;Five Ways To Make SEO Work For You.&#8221; While the article was mildly interesting, what really got me going me was the article&#8217;s opening comment:
How much attention do you pay to search engine optimization? Many marketers give it short [...]


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