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		<title>Google Updates, A Year in Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some companies, hitting the one-billion-per-day visitor mark would be enough to sit back and watch the profits roll in. At Google however there’s one thing you can always count on: constant updates aimed at providing users with the best search results possible.
In 2011, Google experimented with thousands of tests to optimize their search and [...]


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		<title>Develop Useful Error Pages</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 17:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early days of the web, trying to navigate to a page that wasn&#8217;t there caused your web browser to have something of a minor stroke; it just stopped working, and you weren&#8217;t going anywhere.
Before long, web designers got smarter, and we started using the infamous &#8220;404 Page&#8221; to announce that the page you [...]


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		<title>Top 10 Tips to Regain Search Engine Rankings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 19:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of February, the engineers at Google made some major changes to the company’s search algorithm – the &#8220;secret formula&#8221; that controls what results you see for any search query, and the order of which it appears. Google keeps the exact algorithm confidential, but major factors have become apparent now that the dust [...]


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		<title>5 Tips to Make the Most of Black Friday / Cyber Monday</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaves are turning orange, the weather is bringing people out in scarves and jackets and that means holiday season is just around the corner! Holiday shopping yielded over $2.5 billion in online sales during the 5-day window including Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the year [...]


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		<title>Gain a Following with a Company Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecommerce]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>

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		<title>Top Ten Ways to Optimize Your Google Adwords Campaigns for Higher Conversions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Consorte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecommerce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When working with Adwords, quality is key.  While Google and other Pay-Per-Click (PPC) search engines don’t go into grand detail on what factors make up their quality score analysis, any good pay per click marketer knows that the higher your quality score – the less you’ll pay for clicks.  To make things even more interesting, [...]


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		<title>Reach Nearby Customers Through Google Local Search</title>
		<link>http://www.ecommercepartners.net/blog/reach-nearby-customers-through-google-local-search.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 22:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Asi Erenberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO/SEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google local search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local search]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is estimated that 20% of all searches have local intent, especially for restaurants, insurance, legal, retail, hotels and other types of companies within the service industry. Are you missing out


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		<title>Google Product Search: Untapped Traffic &amp; Qualified Customers</title>
		<link>http://www.ecommercepartners.net/blog/google-product-search-get-better-search-engine-placement.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Consorte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO/SEM]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It used to be that doing a simple search on Google for a particular product would return relevant content sites only.  You had to actually drill down and find the shopping results on your own.


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		<title>Despite Economic Downturn, Outlook for ECommerce in 2009 Still Bright</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Asi Erenberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although nothing is certain in today's economy, ecommerce remains a beacon of possibility and profit. Your customers don't have to leave home to buy your products, and it's often more cost-effective to host a virtual storefront than a brick-and-mortar one. Ecommerce sites are well positioned in this turbulent time. However, with the economy in flux and competition intensifying now is certainly not the time to become complacent.


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		<title>Beating Them At Their Own Game &#8211; Outranking the Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO/SEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips and Tricks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ever been frustrated by the competition?&#160; Let&#8217;s face it &#8211; they have huge advertising budgets and, well, you don&#8217;t.&#160; What if I told you that there was a way to use their search engine rank to get some more attention for your own ecommerce site&#8230;would you be interested?

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		<title>Studies Show the Importance of SEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO/SEM]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent study by the Pew Internet &#038; American Life Project, the number of Internet users who use search engines on a daily basis as been steadily rising over the past six years. 
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		<title>Tried and True SEO Techniques</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO/SEM]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The process of SEO is possible one of the most often misunderstood and troublesome techniques on the Internet and in no arena is it more important than in the area of niche marketing &#8211; especially when it comes to small and medium-sized businesses.&#160; The harsh truth of the matter is that regardless of how cutting [...]


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		<title>The Search Engine Road Map &#8211; The Importance of Good Directions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you telling your customers to get lost?  If you aren&#8217;t using common sense when putting together your website and website content, you may be. 
Think of it from your customer&#8217;s point of view for a minute:
John Q. Customer just had a great first date and wants to send this new girl some flowers, [...]


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		<title>How to think like a search engine &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.ecommercepartners.net/blog/how-to-think-like-a-search-engine-part-1.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ecommercepartners.net/blog/?p=187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a regular series of quick tips to alter your thinking with regard to search engines.Â  In fact, the goal is to learn to think like the search engines themselves, since being able to think like they operate will give you a decided advantage in the ever-present battle for the online [...]


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		<title>Welcome to the World Wide West &#8211; What color is your hat?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I miss the days depicted in those old westerns.
You know the ones I&#8217;m talking about &#8211; when the good guys had white hats and the villains were always topped in black.  Life may have been tough back then, but at least you always knew where you stand and you could spot your enemies from [...]


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		<title>The Three Deadly Sins of SEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1.  Keyword Abuse
What I mean by keyword abuse is that you have found a collection of keywords and attempt to use as many of them in one article.  This is most often illustrated by the use of a list of keywords in the article that don&#8217;t have any apparent relevance.
2.  Incorrect / [...]


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		<title>20 Questions to a Google Search Guru</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lihi lothan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Popular Mechanics has recently published an interesting 20 questions rare interview with Udi Manber, the VP of search quality for Google.
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&#8220;Do you [...]


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		<title>The SEO Rapper</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lihi lothan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[S to the E to the O &#8211; Listen Hommies (and by that i refer to the people who have a homepage&#8230;) &#8211; who said rap is only about gangs, money and foul language stuff?  



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		<title>Double-sized Christmas gift for Google!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Alvarez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a debate that lasted until Thursday last week, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission cleared Googleâ€™s proposed $3.1 billion takeover of DoubleClick, opening the door for the Internet giantâ€™s entry into the multibillion-dollar online display advertising market.
The FTC, which voted 4-1 to close its 8-month investigation, said the deal is â€œunlikely to substantially lessen competition.â€ [...]


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		<title>Gmail? Not if you like your privacy.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t until I received my Google Adwords Certification last week that I learned the ugly truth: Google reads your email to determine the Adwords ads to target within your Gmail account.
This is an excerpt from Lesson 1c: Ad Distribution in the Google Adwords Learning Center; and I quote&#8230;
The AdWords system analyzes the content of [...]


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