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	<title>James A. Martin</title>
	
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		<title>Google Freshness Algorithm Counts Even More Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James A. Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On its Official Google Blog, Google recently announced &#8220;a significant improvement&#8221; to its ranking algorithm that will affect about 35 percent of all searches. The goal is to make search results as fresh as possible. The algorithm update will show more high-quality pages &#8220;that might only be minutes old,&#8221; according to the Google blog. Because of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging Tip — Be Topical and Personal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James A. Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an experiment, I launched a personal blog, A Southerner in San Francisco, in mid August. Until early this week, the blog had only two &#8216;members,&#8217; or subscribers&#8211;one of whom was my sister. And then, by the end of the week, the blog had 104 subscribers and page views were way up. What happened? I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware of Twitter Malware</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James A. Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I could blame it on Klout, but really, it&#8217;s my own damn fault. A few days ago, I was using HootSuite, an excellent social media monitoring and updating tool, to check my Twitter streams. I look at the Mentions stream frequently, to see if anyone has done an @mention of me; in my case, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Manage Your Online Reputation with SEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James A. Martin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jamesamartin.com/?p=249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the recent Search Engine Strategies conference in San Francisco, I attended an excellent session, &#8220;Protecting Your Brand Online,&#8221; presented by Andy Beal. Andy is the CEO of Trackur, a social media monitoring service. His session was full of tips on how to make sure your company (or you as an individual) comes out looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My new personal blog “A Southerner in San Francisco”</title>
		<link>http://www.jamesamartin.com/uncategorized/a-southerner-in-san-francisco</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James A. Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a blogging consultant and writer, I&#8217;m always coming up with blog posts for my clients. And I&#8217;ve had my own blogs for years, starting with Traveler 2.0, a mobile technology blog for travelers. So I thought it was time to create a personal blog about my life as a Southerner living in San Francisco. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social media tip – improve your Klout score by tweeting at a conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James A. Martin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jamesamartin.com/?p=245</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to give your Klout score a little lift? Go to a conference or trade show&#8211;especially if it&#8217;s related to social media or technology. While there, listen carefully for &#8216;tweetable&#8217; moments when a presenter offers a good data point, a funny quote, and so on. While you&#8217;re there at the session, send that choice bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social media tip – how to improve your Klout score (or at least maintain it) when you’re on vacation</title>
		<link>http://www.jamesamartin.com/social-media/how-to-improve-your-klout-score</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 04:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James A. Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Small Business Computing recently published my article, &#8217;5 Things Small Businesses Should Know About Klout.&#8217; Here&#8217;s a tip I hadn&#8217;t thought to include in the article about improving (or at least maintaining) your Klout score. If you go on vacation for a week or so, your Klout score may dip due to your inactivity. To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video &amp; images appear most often in Google Universal Search results, study says</title>
		<link>http://www.jamesamartin.com/seo/google-universal-search-results-video-searchmetrics</link>
		<comments>http://www.jamesamartin.com/seo/google-universal-search-results-video-searchmetrics#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 01:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James A. Martin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jamesamartin.com/?p=236</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Videos are the most frequently found type of content in Google Universal Search results, according to a new study by Searchmetrics. The survey found that images came in a distant second, followed by map results, news, books, and shopping, as reported by Search Engine Land. The takeaway: To increase your odds of being discovered in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO How-to Series – How (and why) to optimize for image search</title>
		<link>http://www.jamesamartin.com/seo/seo-how-to-optimize-image-search</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James A. Martin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jamesamartin.com/?p=229</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More people are performing image searches on Google and Bing these days. And yet, many businesses&#8211;including large corporations&#8211;haven&#8217;t fully optimized their images with relevant keywords. They&#8217;re missing out on a great opportunity to bring people to their websites. Here&#8217;s an example of why you should consider image SEO. A well-known brand has a third-generation hardware [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO How-to Series – How to optimize title tags</title>
		<link>http://www.jamesamartin.com/seo/seo-how-to-optimize-title-tags</link>
		<comments>http://www.jamesamartin.com/seo/seo-how-to-optimize-title-tags#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 01:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James A. Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Search engine optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jamesamartin.com/?p=189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I talk to a lot of small business owners in my work. Inevitably, they ask me to check our their web site and give them SEO feedback. And almost every time, I notice the same missed opportunity. In fact, I&#8217;ve noticed the same thing on some corporate web sites. Here&#8217;s the problem: The web site&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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