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		<title>How to Secure Your WordPress Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 12:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vered DeLeeuw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you go through having your blog hacked, you learn a thing or two about how to protect it in the first place. While nothing is foolproof, there are several things you can do to protect your blog from hackers. 1. Choose your passwords wisely. Your WordPress admin password and your FTP password, the one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Hacked? Here’s What To Do</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vered DeLeeuw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My blog was recently hacked. I'm actually surprised it didn't happen sooner - I've been blogging for four years now, and unfortunately this is something that happens quite often. I learned about the problem when I tried to access my blog, and instead reached an alarming red screen where I was informed by Google that my blog is distributing malware and has been delisted from Google's listings. 

A near-heart-attack experience, for sure. But I survived, my blogs have survived, and here's what to do if it happens to you.]]></description>
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		<title>Pinterest</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmediamarketingexpert.net/2012/04/pinterest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vered DeLeeuw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started paying attention to Pinterest (pinterest.com) when my healthy recipes blog started getting traffic &#8211; a lot of traffic &#8211; from the social bookmarking site. Pinterest, whose name combines &#8220;pin&#8221; and &#8220;interest,&#8221; allows users to share images of things they like and create digital scrapbooks. The &#8220;things&#8221; that people like and share vary, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Promotions Can Backfire</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmediamarketingexpert.net/2012/04/social-media-promotions-can-backfire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vered DeLeeuw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a client that was really into running promotions. We offered coupons, did contests and giveaways, offered discounts, all in an effort to get more Facebook fans. We used the popular &#8211; and controversial &#8211; fan-gating method, to allow only fans access to our promotions, which encouraged people interested in the promotions to like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Careful What You Wish For</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmediamarketingexpert.net/2012/03/viral-social-media-campaign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vered DeLeeuw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[going viral]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody wants &#8220;viral&#8221; these days. &#8220;Can you create a social media campaign that would go viral?&#8221; is a question I get asked almost on a daily basis. We invest in our social media marketing campaigns, and we want them to work. The interesting part is, that you never know for sure what would go viral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patience</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmediamarketingexpert.net/2012/03/patience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vered DeLeeuw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[search engine rankings]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.socialmediamarketingexpert.net/?p=662</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not easy to put so much work into a blog and various social media accounts, then wait patiently. But you have to. Even if you do everything right &#8211; optimize your blog for search engines, promote it via Facebook and Twitter and commenting on other blogs, even if the content you create is truly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Facebook Pages Bring Some Interesting Changes – and Challenges</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmediamarketingexpert.net/2012/02/new-facebook-pages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vered DeLeeuw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook is rolling out a new design for Facebook Pages. It will become mandatory starting March 30, but they allow brands to start implementing it now. I have implemented the new interface on my own Facebook fan page and for a few of my clients. Aside from the changes in the page design, which make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media for B2B Companies</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmediamarketingexpert.net/2012/02/b2b-social-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vered DeLeeuw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[B2B]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social media seems so natural now for B2C companies. If your target market is consumers, Facebook especially is an ideal platform to communicate with them, and build brand awareness and loyalty with frequent promotions. Contests, sweepstakes, special discounts for fans, coupons- consumers love those (who doesn&#8217;t like free gifts?) and social networking sites are the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When The Comments You Receive Are All Wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmediamarketingexpert.net/2012/02/social-media-comments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vered DeLeeuw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You start a discussion, maybe by posting a blog post or by saying something on Twitter. You have an agenda, of course &#8211; you want to convey a message, and you expect your readers/fans/followers to &#8220;get it.&#8221; But they don&#8217;t. As you read their comments, you realize that they have missed your point entirely, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Tips for Efficient Social Media Marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmediamarketingexpert.net/2012/01/tips-for-efficient-social-media-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.socialmediamarketingexpert.net/2012/01/tips-for-efficient-social-media-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vered DeLeeuw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social media is fun &#8211; and this is good, but it is also bad. While I consider myself very lucky to be a social media consultant, doing something I love, I am also very aware of the fact that once I log onto a social networking site, I can get lost in there and stay [...]]]></description>
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