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		<title>Start Following Companies On LinkedIN</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 15:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Spot Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the quest to become more social, LinkedIn has made several recent updates. One of the changes that might of slipped thru your radar is the &#8220;follow&#8221; feature.
Similar to FaceBook&#8217;s fan pages, LinkedIn has taken the initiative with the launch of Company Follow. The feature allows users to connect with a company as a means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Google AdWords Certification</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Spot Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google announced this morning the AdWords Certified Partner Program, a new certification level that marketing and advertising agencies can achieve. This will allow advertisers to ensure their Search Engine Marketing (SEM) agency is at the top of its class. The new certification will require agencies to take more advanced exams than originally offered in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Reveals Promoted Tweets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Spot Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter revealed today their new platform to monetized their hugely popular site. Called Promoted Tweets, the platform will place advertiser ads as tweets above search results relating to an advertiser&#8217;s product or service.  As it stands now, only a few select partners will have their ads shown on Twitter.  If users do not engage with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Starts Sending Email Reports To Page Administrators</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Spot Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without warning Facebook has started to email reports to page administrators. The reports provide high level data such as the amount of new fans, posts, comments, and visitors in the last week.
Sweet Spot Marketing got several emails this week from the pages we administer, and looking across the social network landscape, we can see that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planning An SEO Friendly Website From The Beginning &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Spot Marketing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization (SEO)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How To SEO A Website Part 2
In part one we discussed why it’s important to include SEO from the beginning of a web site design project. In part two we will highlight some early web design elements that can help your SEO campaign from the very beginning be “truly optimized”.
By now, most companies have approach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planning An SEO Friendly Website From The Beginning &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.sweetspotmarketing.com/news/planning-an-seo-friendly-website-from-the-beginning-part-1-of-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Spot Marketing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization (SEO)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think you are "buying SEO" from a web designer for an extra ~$500 dollars, or trying to save money by managing you web design and SEO efforts separately PLEASE KEEP READING!!]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Alexa Rank</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Spot Marketing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization (SEO)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alexa.com is a website which provides information on traffic levels for websites. The Alexa rank is measured according to the amount of users who&#8217;ve visited a website with the Alexa toolbar installed.
More simply, Alexa is a ranking system which is based on the level of traffic each website receives from the number of people who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever Your Advertising Budget, You Can Find Success With PPC</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Spot Marketing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pay Per Click (PPC)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the benefits of PPC advertising is that it can be custom shaped for any budget. When we put together traffic estimates they can be construed as how much an advertiser must spend. Not true. A traffic estimate is merely the value of the total inventory available on relevant keywords. An advertiser can choose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo and Microsoft Finalize Search Advertising Agreement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Spot Marketing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday (Dec 4, 2009) afternoon Yahoo and Microsoft (Bing)  announced they have come to an agreement on a deal that would allow Microsoft (Bing) and Yahoo to partner in providing Search Engine Advertising.   The partnership will now be reviewed by anti trust regulators with the US Dept of Justice.
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		<title>New Google Ranking Factor is About Site Speed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Spot Marketing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization (SEO)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Should how fast your site loads be a search engine ranking factor... Google thinks so!]]></description>
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