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		<title>Optimize Your Web Page for Organic Local Search Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we have stated many times in this site creating a local search profile is important to being found in a local search. However, don&#8217;t forget that you can also (that&#8217;s in addition too) rank well in organic search for your website as well. This is a double bonus! We should note that this will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local Search Keywords On Your Website: 5 Questions for A Local SEO Pro</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Geasey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a great interview on using local search optimization for a Chicago non-profit. While we&#8217;re not the SEO experts they chatted with they provided great advice.
On behalf of local businesses in Chicago and elsewhere, I posed five questions about local search keywords on SCORE Chicago’s website to local SEO expert Miriam Ellis.  Our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11 Best Practices for URLs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Geasey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I could have sworn that someone has already a great post or forum thread on this topic, but I can’t seem to find it (no matter how advanced my operators). I’m sure Mr. Malicoat has it in his bookmarks, but since blog posts are one of my personal systems for public bookmarking, here goes.
Eleven Guidelines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Percent Of Long Search Queries Increasing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 23:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Geasey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Saturday, 9 of May , 2009 at 6:35 am
Google’s share of search keeps going up while Yahoo!s keeps going down. MSN Live’s is going back up again. These figures make me wonder when Yahoo! will no longer hold the No. 2 spot in search.
But the real story is here:

(Source) The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local Search and its Benefits to Your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 18:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Geasey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To a greater extent search engines and local services are being used by people in your hometown to find what they are looking for. A research has shown that somewhere in neighborhood 70% of households do some kinds  f search for a local product or service on a daily basis. That’s the reason, why every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Locals Only Using Analytics For Local Search Optimization</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 19:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Geasey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many businesses seek to target local searchers for their products and services, and careful review of a site’s analytics is one of the key weapons in a local business’s competitive arsenal. Here are a few tips on what metrics to look at and how to use some of them in optimizing your site to rank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Count Your Keyword Currency in a Bad Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Geasey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Use this great online tool to find your Keyword Currency before you write your next website or blog post.]]></description>
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		<title>The Split Keyword Phrase Works Like A Charm</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Geasey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Monday, 20 of April , 2009 at 8:41 am
Too many new search engine optimization consultants and Internet marketers get it in their minds that every instance of a keyword phrase must be exact. So when they write keyword-rich content it is often choppy prose and not very easy to read. [...]]]></description>
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