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		<title>Website Copywriting for SEO and Sales Conversion Requires Compromise &#038; Complicity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 04:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WordsmithBob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search engine optimization is not a one way street although it feels like it sometimes. One of my clients recently rewrote the headlines and some of the copy I wrote because the requirements of SEO made some of it awkward.
I actually was okay with most of their changes. It will affect their placement but it [...]


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		<title>Online Marketing Costs Time or Money - Nothing is Free</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WordsmithBob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Online marketing is going to cost you time or money. Never believe anyone who tells you about free online marketing.
I talk to small business owners all the time who ask me if there are some kinds of free online marketing ploys they can use. And I always respond, &#8220;It&#8217;s going to cost you time [...]


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		<title>Beware Internet Marketing Gurus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WordsmithBob</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jay Abraham]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[SEO training]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[do-it-yourself search engine optimization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Internet marketing &#8220;gurus&#8221; are like ants on a sugar cube.There are hundreds of them swarming all over the Internet. And the vast majority of them are full of crap.
Now I&#8217;ll be the first to admit that there are some people out there who really know their stuff. But how do you tell whether you&#8217;re [...]


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		<title>SEO Software Comparison - WebCEO 7.7 Versus Web Position 4</title>
		<link>http://wordsmithbob.com/blog/seo-software-comparo-webceo-77-versus-web-position-4</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WordsmithBob</dc:creator>
		
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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>
		<comments>http://wordsmithbob.com/blog/is-google-page-rank-important-for-small-business-web-sites#comments</comments>
		<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>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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