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	<title>David Leonhardt's SEO and Social Media Marketing</title>
	
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		<title>Ethical SEO across the search engines</title>
		<link>http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/2009/10/28/ethical-seo-across-the-search-engines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leonhardt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/?p=410</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
You’ll never guess what I found when I recently searched for “ethical SEO” at one of the major search engines. 
The organic listings, of course, are open to tampering to match the algorithms, so even an unethical spammy SEO company could rank well for “ethical SEO” with enough effort.  What caught me by surprise was what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look who follows NoFollow links!</title>
		<link>http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/2009/08/31/look-who-follows-nofollow-links/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/2009/08/31/look-who-follows-nofollow-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leonhardt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Yahoo]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[linking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[nofollow]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/?p=403</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, I speculated on how the search engines treat NoFollow links.  For those who might be a little green, NoFollow links are not totally ignored by the search engines.  For those who really, really green, NoFollow links are believed to be totally ignored by the search engines (because they have the rel=&#8221;nofollow&#8221; attribute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want a link on a throw-away domain?</title>
		<link>http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/2009/06/24/want-a-link-on-a-throw-away-domain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/2009/06/24/want-a-link-on-a-throw-away-domain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leonhardt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO scams]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[domain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[linking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/?p=398</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back, I wrote about why to ignore three-way link requests.  Many of the reasons I listed had to do with the quality of the site linking back to you.  But what if it&#8217;s a PR3 home page.  Sounds like a juicy link to score, doesn&#8217;t it?  Well, maybe not.  I don&#8217;t want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who owns your Twitter account?</title>
		<link>http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/2009/05/27/who-owns-your-twitter-account/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/2009/05/27/who-owns-your-twitter-account/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 02:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leonhardt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Digg]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[FaceBook]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/?p=392</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So here is a legal conundrum.  You’ve been active on a number of social media websites, such as Twitter, FaceBook or Digg.  You have amassed a number of friends and followers and built a certain amount of credibility.  You leave your job – take a better position elsewhere, move to another city, get laid off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>El Marcadorado updated</title>
		<link>http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/2009/05/15/el-marcadorado-updated/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/2009/05/15/el-marcadorado-updated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 17:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leonhardt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Spanish]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bookmarking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[website updates]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[el marcadorado]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[espanol]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/?p=387</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  
We have just made a major update to El Marcadorado for those of you  who have Spanish-language blogs and websites you want publicized.  El Marcadorado is the Spanish-language version of TheBookmarketer &#8230;a simple script that you add to your pages to encourage your visitors to social bookmark them.  In fact, we are pretty sure this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO Strategies for Financial Websites</title>
		<link>http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/2009/05/07/seo-for-financial-websites/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/2009/05/07/seo-for-financial-websites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 14:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leonhardt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bookmarking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[local seo]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[website conversion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[financial seo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/?p=381</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few SEO tips specific to financial websites. 
First, understand that people are very sensitive and possessive about their money.  Your website has to ooze credibility if you want to convert traffic to customers.  You probably know this already, but keep it in mind when you hire an SEO consultant.  He or she needs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bugs Bunny Guide to Linkbuilding</title>
		<link>http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/2009/04/16/the-bugs-bunny-guide-to-linkbuilding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/2009/04/16/the-bugs-bunny-guide-to-linkbuilding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leonhardt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/?p=374</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever been hard at work, doing what you do, and suddenly got struck by the immortal question – “What would Bugs Bunny do?” Me too. All the time. Well, if you are doing link-building, you are in luck, because here is what Bugs Bunny would do:
“What&#8217;s up, Doc?”
Bugs Bunny always introduces himself in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethical SEO or SEO Spam</title>
		<link>http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/2009/04/07/ethical-seo-or-seo-spam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/2009/04/07/ethical-seo-or-seo-spam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leonhardt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO scams]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bookmarking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[reputation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/?p=367</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You cannot always believe what you read, and in SEO you have to be very careful.  Take for instance the good folks at OutsourcingforSEO.com .  They repeatedly spam Zoomit Canada with non-Canadian submissions.  I have deleted several dozen accounts, but they keep creating new ones.  They don&#8217;t seem to get the message or they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cow Tipping SEO</title>
		<link>http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/2009/04/07/cow-tipping-seo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/2009/04/07/cow-tipping-seo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leonhardt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/?p=359</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, well, about that title…I’ll explain shortly how that relates to a raging SEO debate, which I will also get to later.  But first, a quiz.  How many of the following coding elements would you have known if you had not seen them here:

The “abbr” tag
The “acronym” tag
The “address” tag
The “base” tag
The “bdo” tag

Exactly.  These are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO Strategies for government websites</title>
		<link>http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/2009/03/27/seo-strategies-for-government-websites/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/2009/03/27/seo-strategies-for-government-websites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leonhardt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SEO scams]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[rankings]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/?p=353</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In times like these, when companies are cutting costs, not many are hiring SEO services.  But governments aren&#8217;t cutting back (quite the contrary, but that&#8217;s a rant for another time).  I am just putting to bed a major SEO audit of a government website, so I thought I would share with you some of my observations.
 “What?” [...]]]></description>
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