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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>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>
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		<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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		<title>SPAM Farms get the Plow from Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You ain&#8217;t gonna work on Maggie&#8217;s spam farm no more.” Fed up with sites that produce “shallow or low-quality content,” Google has finally released a new spam detection classifier to help prevent on-page spam content from ranking in the Google search results pages. And although the news was met with cheers and tears (given some...]]></description>
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		<title>Google Instant – What&#8217;s All The Hype About?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Q3 of 2010, Google’s main search site had passed the one-billion-per-week user mark. That number makes Google one of the most-used services – of any kind – in the world. It’s a significant achievement and one that had the Google Development Team talking about scalability and processing long, long ago. To commemorate this milestone,...]]></description>
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		<title>Planning An SEO Friendly Website From The Beginning – Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pike</dc:creator>
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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...]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo and Microsoft Finalize Search Advertising Agreement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pike</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.]]></description>
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		<title>New Google Ranking Factor is About Site Speed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></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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		<title>Site Speed – A New Search Engine Ranking Factor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest stories at PubCon 2009 was Google's new search engine algorithm factor, site speed.]]></description>
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		<title>Bing Removes Beta Label and Retires MSNbot 1.1</title>
		<link>http://www.sweetspotmarketing.com/news/bing-removes-beta-label-and-retires-msnbot-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bing.com search engine made some big steps this week in regards to their future.  On the November 4th Bing announced the new bot, named MSNbot 2.0b]]></description>
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