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		<title>Wikipedia&#8217;s Continued Importance in SEO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephan Spencer, in his essay, The Art of SEO for Wikipedia and 16 Tips, makes the excellent point that Google has given tremendous authority and link popularity to Wikipedia. As a result, Wikipedia entries come up again and again at the top of the first page of a Google engine search. Knowing how to write [...]]]></description>
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		<title>useful Tools for SEO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently got penalized for too many blog comments linking back to a site, and got totally de-listed from google. Don&#8217;t let it happen to you. How do i plan to fix it? lots of new content, directory / one way legit website links with &#8216;bland&#8217; anchor text keywords &#8211; ie, &#8220;my website&#8221;, &#8220;visit our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO Audit : Morrison &amp; Nicholson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.morrisonandnicholson.com Domaintools.com SEO Score: 59% Google PR: 4 Backlinks: Google: 3, Yahoo : 156 Ranks (in google); #1 for &#8220;Ohio Law Blog&#8221; #2 for &#8220;Ohio Legal Blog&#8221; #14 for &#8220;Ohio Lawyers&#8221; (Nice!) #23 for &#8220;Dayton Lawyer&#8221; #7 for &#8220;Dayton Attorneys&#8221; Not in top 30 for; Ohio lawyer Dayton lawyers Dayton attorney Ohio attorney Ohio attorneys [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Content Delivery Networks and Load Time Optimization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contributed by Eric Bryant, SEO specialist, Gnosis Arts One of the ways to help decrease website load time and improve website performance is by the use of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). A CDN is a service that hosts certain web elements and objects, such as images, video or audio, and serves up those images to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress Software Gives SEO Advantage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2008, i started a few tests on multiple websites to confirm my suspicion that WordPress websites are more SEO friendly, or given more weight by Google. My first test was to convert a static website, already optimized for SEO and used a CSS template to a WP CMS site. This was for an existing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Designers also Marketers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kathy Sierra says we’re all marketers:  “In this new open-source/cluetrain world, I am a marketer. And so are you. If you’re interested in creating passionate users, or keeping your job, or breathing life into a startup, or getting others to contribute to your open source project, or getting your significant other to agree to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using WordPress as a CMS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Step 1. After installing WordPress (WP), there are some plugins I would install before I go any further. I always use the following; XML Sitemaps : Automatically updates your XML sitemap when you add a post or page, and notifies search engines. Top Level Categories : Removed the &#8220;category&#8221; slug from your blog. I go into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware of Free Themes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Free themes &#8211; where would we be without them? Employing more designers, but that&#8217;s not the point. The evolution of free themes, WordPress themes in particular, has been a godsend for many bloggers &#8211; myself included. With the hundreds of free themes available, some bloggers have created blogs around displaying free themes. This is great [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designedforseo.com/blog-design/beware-of-free-themes/</link>
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		<title>Launching a New E-commerce Site: a Checklist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve got a new e-commerce site. Congrats! But you still have a long road ahead of you. Hopefully, you already have a plan for marketing your website. If you don&#8217;t, here&#8217;s a good jumping off point; Create and upload XML sitemap and notify major search engines. Set up google analytics account at google.com/analytics/. Set up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chosing an Appropriate Color Palette for a Legal Website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Choosing colors for your website that reflect your personality without sacrificing your professional image.]]></description>
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