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		<title>Special Report: SEO for 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special Report: SEO for 2012 is a guide to what&#8217;s going on in the SEO industry. It&#8217;s FREE! You will find info on: Mobile SEO Local SEO Google Algorithm Updates (Panda &#38; others) The Yahoo-Bing Backlink Situation New Linking Best Practices The New Reality of Website Content Google+ &#38; SEO]]></description>
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		<title>Tutorial: SEO Linking Guide 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have heard terms such as &#8220;linking,&#8221; &#8220;link building,&#8221; &#8220;linking campaigns&#8221; and similar expressions. This post is a question and answer style guide to linking for search engine optimization (SEO) purposes. I will add to this free tutorial periodically but there is certainly enough information for you to gain an understanding. What is a link? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You an Excuse-generator or Using SEO to Make Money?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 05:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to stop postponing your SEO! Excuses for not optimizing your company&#8217;s website are wide ranging but all pretty poor. While millions of businesses continue to waste money for non-optimized websites, they also use lame excuses for not using SEO. SEO is going mainstream but there are still a lot of people who don&#8217;t know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revenue Share: Why an SEO &#8211; Client Partnership is a Bad Idea</title>
		<link>http://www.purposive.com/what-you-should-know-about-seo-equity-stake-team-ups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.purposive.com/what-you-should-know-about-seo-equity-stake-team-ups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 04:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get a lot of calls from people who want to team up with me. Some of these inquiries are from strangers while others are from clients who I have done great work for and want to use my skills on a new venture. It is extremely rare that I agree to team up because I believe that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Domain Name Registration Years: How Many is Good for SEO?</title>
		<link>http://www.purposive.com/domain-name-registration-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domain Names]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an ongoing debate as to how many years a business should register its domain name. Here is a simple breakdown to use as a guide. 1 Year A one year domain registration is typical of bloggers, businesses, and private individuals in scenarios such as these: You don&#8217;t have a lot of money You want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Your IT Guy Away from Your Website</title>
		<link>http://www.purposive.com/an-it-guy-is-not-an-seo-guy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me start with the bottom line (making it the top line!): Your IT guy is not an SEO guy or a web guy. He&#8217;s an IT guy. So get him away from your website projects. Having consulted with a number of companies that rely on their IT guy to lead the way with their Internet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO &amp; Spelling Variations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 03:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One commonly overlooked area of SEO is the variations in spelling within a language and region. You must consider the variations in spelling across countries. For example, I&#8217;m Canadian and in Canada, Australia and the UK, we tend to add the letter &#8220;u&#8221; to many words such as behaviour, labour, and neighbour. Americans also spell &#8220;travelers&#8221; without a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Collateral Benefits of SEO</title>
		<link>http://www.purposive.com/the-collateral-benefits-of-seo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Companies that obsess over website rankings in search engine results pages are missing the big picture. Search engine optimization and Internet marketing is so much more than rankings. That said, while it&#8217;s short-sighted to simply look at search engine positions, being ranked on the first page and the associated tactics used to market websites can lead to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Signs That Your SEO is an Amateur</title>
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		<comments>http://www.purposive.com/10-signs-that-your-seo-is-an-amateur/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amateur SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is an article that is a long time coming. It&#8217;s incredible how many companies ask me for second opinions on other SEO companies&#8217; work. It&#8217;s a fact that every search engine optimizer has to start somewhere. I understand that. However, the unfortunate truth is that far too many companies and freelancers are using SEO as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The SEO Linking Checklist</title>
		<link>http://www.purposive.com/the-seo-linking-checklist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.purposive.com/the-seo-linking-checklist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Checklists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Part of SEO involves getting links to point from other websites into yours. Link building (or off-site SEO) is a tricky and delicate service. It&#8217;s also extremely time consuming and tedious if you do it properly (see the list below!). Many websites have been set up in various capacities (blogs, directories, article ezines, etc) with [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Where does the average business person learn about SEO techniques?</title>
		<link>http://www.purposive.com/where-do-business-people-learn-about-seo-techniques/</link>
		<comments>http://www.purposive.com/where-do-business-people-learn-about-seo-techniques/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amateur SEO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.purposive.com/?p=232</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I spend a lot of time providing consulting services to small businesses and educating potential clients about search engine optimization (and SEO techniques in general). I&#8217;m often surprised by the (poor) quality of information they have. Throughout my years of SEO consulting, one of the greatest mysteries to me has been where these individuals get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Many Pages on My Website Should I Optimize?</title>
		<link>http://www.purposive.com/how-many-webpages-should-i-optimize/</link>
		<comments>http://www.purposive.com/how-many-webpages-should-i-optimize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[SEO Basics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Each page on your website contains different content. What&#8217;s written on your homepage is different in content from what you might place on your products or services pages. This in turn, differs from what&#8217;s on your testimonials or contact us pages. You shouldn&#8217;t expect people to find your website by the &#8220;contact us&#8221; page. Almost [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Long Does it Take to Get into Google?</title>
		<link>http://www.purposive.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-get-into-google/</link>
		<comments>http://www.purposive.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-get-into-google/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though this is a pretty basic SEO question, getting listed in Google (and other search engines such as Yahoo and MSN/Live) varies based on several factors. Here are the most important points. Links Pointing into Your Website If there is a link on another website pointing into yours, the search engine spider will follow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Choose an SEO Trainer</title>
		<link>http://www.purposive.com/how-to-choose-an-seo-trainer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.purposive.com/how-to-choose-an-seo-trainer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO Training]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.purposive.com/?p=214</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you consider that search engine optimization is most likely the fastest growing area within the web design and website development industry, it&#8217;s actually surprising to find so few people who are qualified to teach it. In fact, almost no one in the industry does teach it. SEO is a very nebulous topic and grasping [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>10 Mistakes Businesses Make When Hiring an SEO Company</title>
		<link>http://www.purposive.com/10-mistakes-businesses-make-when-hiring-an-seo-company/</link>
		<comments>http://www.purposive.com/10-mistakes-businesses-make-when-hiring-an-seo-company/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amateur SEO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.purposive.com/?p=156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What do you expect from your website? That is the first question you should ask if you plan to build a company website, re-design your current one, or implement an Internet marketing strategy. Through my seemingly countless consultations with business owners and corporate marketing executives, I have concluded that far too many are mislead when [...]]]></description>
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