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		<title>Google Places Thinks Jack In The Box Is A Vegan Restaurant</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I run the search &#8216;vegan restaurant, x city, california&#8217; not infrequently to see if any noteworthy new ones have turned up. Well, today I encountered Google&#8217;s opinion on the 2nd most relevant vegan restaurant in Novato, California, and as you can see from my screenshot&#8230;it&#8217;s Jack in the Box. Really, it&#8217;s kind of the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview With Google Places Help Forum Top Contributors: Blumenthal And Zhekov</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent months, Google has empowered a growing number of their Places Help Forum&#8217;s active participants with Top Contributor status, resulting in a substantial increase in the number of questions receiving truly helpful answers. This is very welcome improvement in the eyes of both local business owners and Local SEOs. Long-time Top Contributor, Mike Blumenthal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Local Paid Inclusion Is A Bad Idea</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like every other Local SEO in the country, I&#8217;ve spent the afternoon glued to the Bruce Clay/Local Paid Inclusion story. In case you missed it, Search Engine Watch published a post breaking the story of the launch of a very short-lived website at LocalPaidInclusion.com. Here is a Way-Back Machine capture of the site. This story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Spin An Article And Why You Shouldn’t</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Copywriting Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I was repeatedly solicited by a relatively visible Internet Marketing firm that was trying to hook me up with some type of program. I declined the offer, but an acquaintance ending up hiring this firm to undertake an SEO campaign for him. Later, I got an inside look at one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Second Article About Best Buy In 3 Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Inside the Igloo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember these guys? The guys who ran your town&#8217;s computer store in 1980? The above graphic is pulled from my original post on this topic: Best Buy Brings On Crashing Wave Of Nostalgia. In that piece, I compared my fondly-remembered formative experiences in the computer stores of three decades ago to the headache [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Solas Web Design Can Do For You In 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will 2012 be the year you take your business online or make important efforts to increase the visibility of your company on the web? Partner with Solas Web Design to get the job done right! 2011 has had more than its share of reporting on economic ills, but over the past year, our firm has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adding multiple business locations to HotFrog.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick tip for Local SEOs and local business owners today! If your business has more than one physical location, you&#8217;ll be adding each location separately to most local business directories. Some, like Google Places, allow you to create a main account and then build out your different listings within that main account. HotFrog.com doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting A Negative Review Removed From Google Places – Your Chances</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in October, I wrote a piece at Search Engine Guide covering the issue of the Google Place Page of Max&#8217;s Deli in Birmingham, AL being spammed with several pages full of negative reviews. These reviews clearly violated Google&#8217;s Review Quality Guidelines in that they had nothing to do with the food or business and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unctuous Praise Comment Spam On The Rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[SEO for small businesses]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Has your publication noticed a recent rise in comments of approximately 1-4 lines in length filled with over-the-top but totally unspecific praise? Here at the SEOigloo Blog and over at Search Engine Guide, I have noted a rise in these over the past two months. Every day, I am spending time deleting comments that read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Places Contact Form As Harlequin Romance Novel</title>
		<link>http://www.solaswebdesign.net/wordpress/?p=1087</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well&#8230;sort of. Please, check out my latest piece at Search Engine Guide: Google Local Gallops Away From Feudalism, Offers Fixes. Friends like Mike Blumenthal and Linda Buquet have written some great takes on this momentous announcement of a new contact form for fixes in Google Places, and the above is my own two cents on [...]]]></description>
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