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		<title>Creating Wordpress Themes to Build Backlinks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Maggio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think that WordPress is one of the greatest CMS tools around. I&#8217;ve blogged a bit about how WordPress can be used not only to blog, but also to run an entire website. Part of the reason that WordPress and other open source CMSs have developed into such a powerful tool is the strength and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Organic Ranking the Most Important Metric?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Maggio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across a great &#8216;Whiteboard Friday&#8216; post by Rand over at SEOMOZ today. He&#8217;s does a great job of explaining both sides of the debate about whether measuring organic search rankings for individual keywords is important, or at least the most important seo metic.

So many SEO agencies and their clients alike focus attention on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a (Domain) Name?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Maggio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t get it. All to often too often, clients dream up big ideas about how to re-invent their business by radically redesigning their website. Whether it&#8217;s because they think their website is out of date or because the executives are bored with the current website, they rarely seem to ask themselves whether they will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will SEO for Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Maggio</dc:creator>
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It may be ironic, but you can&#8217;t write it off as a bad strategy. An SEO who begs for links can&#8217;t be a very good SEO, right? Well, I beg to differ. Doing SEO work in exchange for backlinks may be one of the most effective ways to build high-quality links.
Here&#8217;s why-
In general quality websites [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why SEO is Similar to the Stock Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Maggio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like to trade stocks and I like SEO. I think the reason that I like them both is because they are actually similar in many ways.]]></description>
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		<title>Link Building Strategy &#8211; Content Syndication</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Maggio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Organic Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[article syndication]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Content syndication in one my favorite methods of building links. The theory of content syndication is simple:
Research and write a good article about a topic related to your website. Add inks to your website in the article and give it away for free to people who want to post it on their website, as long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Link Building Strategy &#8211; Directory Submission</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Maggio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plain and simple, most link building activities are a pain in the ass. While there is some satisfaction when you&#8217;re successful, the process can be pretty repetitive. Submitting to directories is one link building technique that is especially lame. While I think there is some value in it, I don&#8217;t spend too much time doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White Hat Link Building</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Maggio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The single most important, time consuming and difficult part of optimizing a website for organic search is link building. In the SEO equation, the quality, number and relevance of links pointing to a website can have the biggest impact on that website&#8217;s ranking. Plain and simple, websites cannot rank for competitive search terms if they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to do Preliminary Keyword Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Maggio</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[seo 101]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keyword research is an extremely important part of SEO. Keyword research is also the first step in any SEO campaign. It is through keyword research that we will determine many things about out campaign and the challenges ahead. First, we&#8217;ll learn the exact keyword phrases that people tend to use to find a given type [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basic Google Functions</title>
		<link>http://www.rickmaggio.com/2008/07/basic-google-functions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Maggio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video outlines the basic functions that you can use in your SEO efforts. Very basic and something you need to know.
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