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		<title>Google Search Plus Your World &#8211; Reactions &amp; Business Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web marketers and those with online businesses everywhere just got a huge boost from Google. A kind of back door has just been opened into Google search results; although, it’s safe to say that Google didn’t intend to do such a thing, and those without plans to run an active Google+ account may not see...]]></description>
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		<title>Too Many Ads “Above the Fold” May Result in Google Penalty</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the first rule of real estate? Location, location, location. As true and unchanging as that statement may be in real estate, it’s about to change for website advertising placement. This is a good thing. Read on. When it comes to web ads, the prime real estate, so to speak, is at the top...]]></description>
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		<title>Pinterest, Discover the Power of Pinning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pinterest, created by Paul Sciarra, Evan Sharp, and Ben Silbermann and launched March 2010, bills itself as an “online pinboard,” where connected users can discover images of things to “pin” to their theme-based pin boards and share their new findings with friends and followers. Think of Pinterest as an online French memo board if you...]]></description>
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		<title>Adding Content to Your Site Part 2: Top 7 Ways to Add More Content</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, armed with knowledge about content freshness and quality – as stated in Part 1 of this series – we can now tackle the next issue: Where can I add website content? To answer this, let’s assume that you already have a website built and that it’s presently full of content about your products or...]]></description>
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		<title>Adding Content to Your WebSite Part 1: Freshness and Quality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Believe it or not, there is an important SEO lesson to be learned from department store window dressing. Really. Now that the holiday shopping season in coming to a close, the example may be more relevant at this point than during any other time of the year. If you’re lucky enough to have spent the...]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet Spot Marketing Launches Mobile Site Just in Time for New Googlebot-Mobile</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 15th Google made it official: It’s time to get a mobile version of your site built. There’s a new version of the Google crawler in town and its name is “Smartphone Googlebot-Mobile.” Note: To clear up any confusion, it should be stated that Google has employed a feature phone user-agent in its mobile...]]></description>
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		<title>Google Picks up a Patent on Behavioral Quality Signals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sweetspotmarketing.com/news/?p=1037</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Human behavior is an interesting subject. Ask a behavioral psychologist or an FBI profiler what they can tell you about the people they routinely observe and you’ll get an answer that sounds something like “People are walking, talking volumes of information. The more they talk and act, the more we know about their behavior and...]]></description>
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		<title>10 Reasons Why PPC Advertising Beats Yellow Pages Every Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Eliseuson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the purposes of this article, the term “yellow pages” is meant to refer to any non-specific telephone directory of businesses that was commonly printed on yellow paper (of which there were many) and their present online assets. There was once a time when the yellow pages reigned supreme. This was probably 20 years ago...]]></description>
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		<title>Google Rolls out New Ad Placement At the Bottom of Search Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Eliseuson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sweetspotmarketing.com/news/?p=972</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Location, location, location. After many months of test marketing, Google has decided that AdWords, their main advertising and revenue product, would benefit from placing ads in a new location on the search engine results page: at the bottom, just below the organic search results. Up until this recent change, AdWords ads were always featured at...]]></description>
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		<title>Google Goes Live with Fresh Algorithm Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Algorithm]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sweetspotmarketing.com/news/?p=945</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again, the developers at Google have opened their toolboxes and made a few fixes to the world’s most reliable search engine. The changes to the Google ranking algorithm were made live yesterday morning. Did you hear it? When the news broke, there was an almost-perceptible hush as silence descended on cubicles in offices across...]]></description>
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