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		<title>Your Blog Posts Are Really Short! Isn&#8217;t That Bad for SEO?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vered DeLeeuw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It probably is. But when I write here, I say what I have to say, then wrap it up. So if I have a lot to say, and the blog post is around 500 words, fabulous. But if I said everything that I had to say on a topic and I see that I wrote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Love Search Traffic</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vered DeLeeuw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a social media consultant, I manage all kinds of social media activities for my clients. But even though I think social media marketing is a great way to get exposure to new prospects and to deepen the loyalty of existing customers, I have to admit that there&#8217;s nothing like search engine traffic. The individuals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oops! SEO Can Seriously Backfire</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vered DeLeeuw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be very careful with your SEO efforts and very choosy when it comes to the SEO company you hire (if you choose to hire one). A client of mine, unsatisfied with its Google rankings, hired an SEO company. The client&#8217;s website was result #11 &#8211; page 2 &#8211; on Google for their main keyword. Understandably, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want More backlinks? Post a Linkbait</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 12:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vered DeLeeuw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love what these guys did here: It&#8217;s a classic linkbait, and it worked &#8211; I immediately wrote a blog post about it for one of my clients, and linked back to that page. So, what is a linkbait? A linkbait is content that makes people want to link to it. It can be something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO Is Not A Dirty Word</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vered DeLeeuw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally, I come across a fellow blogger who announces in apparent disdain, "I don't do SEO." As if SEO, or search engine optimization, is somehow a bad thing to do, proof that you're not a true writer, because real writers are artists, they create, and you can't be a true artist if you engage in something as technical as SEO.
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		<title>Social Media and SEO</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmediamarketingexpert.net/2010/02/social-media-and-seo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vered DeLeeuw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While social media is mostly about getting your brand out there and having conversations with prospects and customers, it also helps with search engine optimization. Search engines, and especially Google, place a lot of value on backlinks. Regardless of how great your on-page optimization is, you need backlinks to convince G that your site is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I Don&#8217;t Do SEO&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmediamarketingexpert.net/2010/01/i-dont-do-seo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vered DeLeeuw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember reading with great interest an interview with Leo Babauta of Zen Habits, posted a couple of months ago on ProBlogger, where he basically says to not bother with SEO and that instead we should strive to create useful content that people would want to bookmark on social media and link to. Another interesting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO: Even Big Name Brands are Optimizing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vered DeLeeuw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I happened to come across the Disney website games page the other day and noticed that the title tag has been optimized to include the following keywords: Games &#124; Online Games &#124; Games for Kids &#124; Disney I thought it was interesting that a brand name such as Disney optimizes their site for general search [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Web Copy That Works</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmediamarketingexpert.net/2009/09/writing-web-copy-that-works/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vered DeLeeuw</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[wriitng for the web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a great writer. I am, however, a very good online writer. There&#8217;s a difference: my writing will most likely never make you weep. But my writing will entertain you, inform you, offer you interesting ideas and solutions, and make you stay for a while rather than quickly click away. Writing for the Internet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Official: Google Ignores the Keywords Meta Tag</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmediamarketingexpert.net/2009/09/google-ignores-keyword-meta-tag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vered DeLeeuw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But this is hardly breaking news. Most SEO experts have been in agreement for a long time now that the keywords meta tag doesn&#8217;t really have much significance when it comes to on-page SEO, especially when it comes to Google. Today, Google has made it official. The Google blog announced that &#8220;Google does not use [...]]]></description>
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