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	<title>Afro-Articles Internet Marketing Blog</title>
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	<description>Article &#038; Internet Marketing Blog - Publishing Directory, Marketing &#038; Free Content For Websites &#038; Ezines.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Using Google Alerts To Build BackLinks To Your Website</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/07/10/using-google-alerts-to-build-backlinks-to-your-website/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/07/10/using-google-alerts-to-build-backlinks-to-your-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[anchor text]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[backlinks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Building backlinks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[google alerts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Online Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[site promotion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[targeted traffic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[webmasters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: Titus Hoskins 
Building backlinks is an essential, yet tedious job for most webmasters. Here are a few tools and tips to make that job just
a little bit easier&#8230;
Google Alerts is a free program run by Google that allows you to keep track of any topic on the web. You select your &#8220;keywords&#8221; or &#8220;urls&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Generate Traffic Using Only Free Methods</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/05/30/how-to-generate-traffic-using-only-free-methods/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/05/30/how-to-generate-traffic-using-only-free-methods/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 15:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Promos]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Generate Traffic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Newsletters]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Online Communities]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Trading Links]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Website Traffic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Write Articles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Graeme Briggs
Putting up a company would of course require a lot of things, to get straight to the point, you need a capital. To make money requires money as well. But of course, with the versatility the internet offers, there are many ways you could find that could help optimize the potential of your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why should I care about Social Media Optimization (SMO)?</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/05/27/why-should-i-care-about-social-media-optimization-smo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/05/27/why-should-i-care-about-social-media-optimization-smo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 09:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Promos]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bookmarking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Digg]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Flickr]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MySpace]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Newsvine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Old Media]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Products]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Propeller]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SMO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Media Optimization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Media Sites]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Virb]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wiki]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[YouTube]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By: Brian Easter 
Social Media Optimization has become a successful marketing tool for one simple reason. It works. 
The gap between old media and new has gotten smaller and smaller with the majority of the prominent television and print media outlets finally embracing the Internet by launching sites of their own. 
The different Social Media [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Web Site is Built - So Where&#8217;s the Traffic and Business?</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/05/26/my-web-site-is-built-so-wheres-the-traffic-and-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/05/26/my-web-site-is-built-so-wheres-the-traffic-and-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 08:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Driving Traffic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Networking Sites]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Online Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Onlinr Traffic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social-Business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[successful business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[successful website]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Traffic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[website]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By John Clark (c) 2008  
Your website is built and sitting pretty. So where are all the people you hoped would come over to play? You need traffic for your site to be effective and to start generating leads. Now that you know that just having a website won&#8217;t necessarily drive business to you, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Basics of RSS &#124; RSS and Internet Marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/05/12/the-basics-of-rss-rss-and-internet-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/05/12/the-basics-of-rss-rss-and-internet-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 09:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[feeds]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Really Simple Syndication]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rich Site Summary]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[RSS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[rss feeds]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Basics of RSS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is RSS?
You probably have seen this three-letter acronym in the course of your internet surfing. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary; syndicating means republishing an article that comes from another source such as a website. A RSS feed is a means of publicizing updates about websites. It may or may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What You MUST Know About Text vs. HTML Emails</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/05/07/what-you-must-know-about-text-vs-html-emails/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/05/07/what-you-must-know-about-text-vs-html-emails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 08:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Autoresponder]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Email Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Formatting TEXT Emails]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[HTML email]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[HTML Email Messages]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[HTML spam]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Text Email Messages]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Bjorn Brands
HTML messages allow for text formatting, multiple columns, images, and brand recognition. They are growing in popularity and over 95% of customer email programs today will support HTML email. Unfortunately most spam is also formatted using HTML and thus differentiating between requested email and HTML spam messages can be difficult.
HTML emails are therefore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Optimize for Google: Part 1 of 3</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/04/22/how-to-optimize-for-google-part-1-of-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/04/22/how-to-optimize-for-google-part-1-of-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[javascript]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[keywords]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Meta Description Tag]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MSN]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[navigation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[on page website optimization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[search engine optimization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[search engine rankings]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[title tag]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Yahoo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: Scott Van Achte
In today&#8217;s online world search engine rankings can make your business succeed, and while rankings in Yahoo and MSN are very valuable, their combined market value is still less than that of Google. This makes achieving top rankings in Google that much more important.
In this three-part series on How to Optimize for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO and SEM; How to Dominate Google!</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/04/01/seo-and-sem-how-to-dominate-google/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/04/01/seo-and-sem-how-to-dominate-google/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SEO and SEM; How to Dominate Google!]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/04/01/seo-and-sem-how-to-dominate-google/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) are two of the most powerful and profitable things you can do for your online business. As Google celebrates its twelfth birthday there are Internet shoppers than ever, with more choices than ever. So let&#8217;s take a few minutes to see how you can beat the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Articles to Improve Your Site&#8217;s Ranking</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/03/13/using-articles-to-improve-your-sites-ranking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/03/13/using-articles-to-improve-your-sites-ranking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Authoring]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Article Directory]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Article Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Site Ranking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Yahoo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It should always be your goal to provide those people who read your website or blog with relevant content. After all, whether someone is reading your personal blog and looking for perspective on their own circumstances or searching your business&#8217; blog for a solution to a problem they are having, they will not stick around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 5 Ways To Benefit From Universal Search</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/03/10/top-5-ways-to-benefit-from-universal-search/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/03/10/top-5-ways-to-benefit-from-universal-search/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[databases]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google Images]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google Video]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MSN]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Universal Search]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Vertical engines]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Yahoo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: Jennifer Horowitz 
What is Universal Search and Why Should You Care?
Universal Search combines all the information within its Vertical engines/databases into one index to serve a single set of SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages).
An example of Vertical engines/databases are Google News, Google Video, Google Images etc.
What this means is when you go to www.google.com, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Website Working For You?</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/03/10/is-your-website-working-for-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/03/10/is-your-website-working-for-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writes Alicia Forest
If you&#8217;ve got a business online, then it&#8217;s likely you have some sort of web presence. Perhaps it&#8217;s a one-page &#8217;sign up for my list&#8217; kind of site, or a full-blown brochure site with a menu of choices, or maybe your site is in the form of a blog. Regardless of what kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Fast and Simple Ways to Dominate Google Rankings!</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/02/28/3-fast-and-simple-ways-to-dominate-google-rankings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/02/28/3-fast-and-simple-ways-to-dominate-google-rankings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: Michael Small  
&#8220;Most old-school tricks don&#8217;t work today and many can get your pages banned. This is great news for you. Over the next few minutes I&#8217;ll show you how to make Google absolutely LOVE your web pages and help you jump to the top!&#8221;
&#8220;Try to use specific keyword phrases whenever possible. Let&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Search Engine Optimization, Google, And The Reptilian Code</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/02/20/search-engine-optimization-google-and-the-reptilian-code/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/02/20/search-engine-optimization-google-and-the-reptilian-code/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: Jerry Bader. 
Search engine optimization dominates the thinking and to a large degree the marketing efforts of many small and medium-sized companies, but have you ever noticed that many of the largest and most profitable companies in the world ignore many SEO techniques. 
Of course these companies have large advertising and marketing budgets that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Web-Branding Blueprint</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/02/11/a-web-branding-blueprint/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/02/11/a-web-branding-blueprint/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: Jerry Bader
Change is inevitable; as an economy matures, ages, and ultimately evolves into something new, adjustments must be made to our business development, marketing and branding. Failure to adapt to new realities results in potentially unwanted dramatic consequences.
We are all aware of how modern economies have grown from agricultural, to industrial, and on to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Website Content - That Gets Results!</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/02/04/writing-website-content-that-gets-results/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/02/04/writing-website-content-that-gets-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Authoring]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[E-Biz]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Benefits of High-Value Web Content
This kind of content has value for the reader, obviously. But it also benefits the author / publisher. Here are the top five benefits of creating high-value website content for your small business website:

It keeps people on your website longer.
It makes people more inclined to trust you.
It encourages readers to recommend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Beginner&#8217;s Guide to Pay Per Click Marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/01/26/a-beginners-guide-to-pay-per-click-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/01/26/a-beginners-guide-to-pay-per-click-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: Kalena Jordan
Pay Per Click (PPC) search engine marketing refers to a specific type of advertising where you pay a search engine every time a potential customer clicks on your ad. These ads appear on search engine results pages and sometimes on sites within a search engine&#8217;s network of partners.
How do Pay Per Click Ads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Rules of Marketing - Internet Marketing Tools For 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/01/16/the-new-rules-of-marketing-internet-marketing-tools-for-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/01/16/the-new-rules-of-marketing-internet-marketing-tools-for-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Write(s): Sam Law and Julian Stone
Online businesses are coming to the realization that in an organic environment like the Internet, organic marketing is required; paying for traditional or static marketing only gets you so far before it becomes ineffective. The consumer now controls your marketing.
Old marketing methods are failing because users are beginning to wise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Key Content Strategies to Increase Online Visibility</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/01/15/10-key-content-strategies-to-increase-online-visibility/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/01/15/10-key-content-strategies-to-increase-online-visibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Write(s): Lani and Allen Voivod
Now more than ever, if you want to be a successful business owner, you need a successful business website. Which means you have to make nice with the search engines. And the long-standing rule of search engine friendliness is to create inbound links &#8212; links from other sites pointing to your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is SEO (Search Engine Optimization)?</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/01/02/what-is-seo-search-engine-optimization/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2008/01/02/what-is-seo-search-engine-optimization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes Donovan Baldwin:
Anyone involved in any sort of Internet marketing sees the term, &#8220;search engine optimization&#8221;, or SEO, everywhere these days. Everybody throws it around as if they were experts on the subject. It crops up again and again in forums and advertising alike. People provide their &#8220;SEO services&#8221; for fees ranging from a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google launches open APIs for social networks</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/10/31/google-launches-open-apis-for-social-networks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/10/31/google-launches-open-apis-for-social-networks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes Elinor Mills 
Borrowing a page from Sun&#8217;s Java playbook, Google is announcing a way for programmers to build social applications for multiple Web sites at once. 
Google&#8217;s version of this &#8220;write once run anywhere&#8221; concept is called OpenSocial, a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) that will enable developers to create applications for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Search Marketing Industry Shake-up Imminent</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/08/12/search-marketing-industry-shake-up-imminent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/08/12/search-marketing-industry-shake-up-imminent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes Jim Hedger
As sure as the sun shines behind the clouds on a rainy day, a major shake-up in the search marketing industry is coming soon. The signals are being sent and received through-out the various sectors of search and online marketing. Change in any marketplace, when it does come, is often swift, brutal and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tables Still Have a Place in Web Page Layout</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/08/03/tables-still-have-a-place-in-web-page-layout/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/08/03/tables-still-have-a-place-in-web-page-layout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: Kevin Yank
At tonight&#8217;s meeting of the Melbourne Web Standards Group, Andrew Krespanis and I have been assigned to argue for the statement &#8220;Tables Still Have a Place in Web Page Layout.&#8221; Here&#8217;s a sneak peek at what we plan to say! Please bear in mind: we may not actually agree with everything that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Build a Professional Website with Site Build It!</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/07/31/build-a-professional-website-with-site-build-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/07/31/build-a-professional-website-with-site-build-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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Technorati Tags:Site Build It &#124; Build Professional Website &#124; Website Design &#124; Web Design &#124; Ecommerce Website Design &#124; Web Development &#124; Web Hosting
Copyright &#169; 2009 Afro-Articles Internet Marketing Blog. This Feed can only be displayed in a Feed Aggregator or website subject to the following Terms. Learn More. In case of copyright infringement  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matt Cutts Pokes Fun at Keyword Stuffer</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/07/29/matt-cutts-pokes-fun-at-keyword-stuffer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/07/29/matt-cutts-pokes-fun-at-keyword-stuffer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Crying about Google ignoring your keyword stuffed web pages just gives Matt Cutts and the rest of the SEO world something to gleefully mock. 
Note: Naughty tricks aimed at gaming the search engines usually backfire as search companies catch on and make adjustments. There&#8217;s always someone willing to try something like keyword stuffing. Has that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Directory Submitter&#8217; Review &#8212; Software Gets You Tons Of Quality 1 Way Links</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/07/02/directory-submitter-review-software-gets-you-tons-of-quality-1-way-links/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/07/02/directory-submitter-review-software-gets-you-tons-of-quality-1-way-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You may or may not know that Website Directory Submission is a very popular and easy way to get quality, one way links to your website.
These kinds of links are exactly what the search engines are looking for. The websites with more quality, one way links typically rank the highest, period.
With that said, there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Optimization&#8217;s impact at your Web site</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/06/28/social-media-optimizations-impact-at-your-web-site/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/06/28/social-media-optimizations-impact-at-your-web-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Social Media Optimization&#8217;s impact at your Web site
Writes: Boris Mordkovich
Over the last year or so, &#34;social media&#34; has quickly become the next &#34;big&#34; thing online. A plethora of social communities with names like Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, Wikipedia and YouTube have popped up to connect people who share common interests.
As impressive as all that may sound, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Hosting &#8212; IPowerWeb Announces Biggest Sale EVER!</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/06/27/web-hosting-ipowerweb-announces-biggest-sale-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/06/27/web-hosting-ipowerweb-announces-biggest-sale-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
To celebrate the Fourth of July, IPowerWeb has announced its biggest sale EVER! 
IPowerWeb&#8217;s normally-priced $7.95/month Pro Plan hosting package will be discounted to the extremely low price of $4.95/month. That&#8217;s almost a 40% discount!
This discount is available for their 12-month and 24-month plans. Hosting accounts will renew at regular rates. 
This sale won&#8217;t last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insider information about Google&#8217;s ranking algorithm</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/06/19/insider-information-about-googles-ranking-algorithm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/06/19/insider-information-about-googles-ranking-algorithm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times has recently published an  article about Amit Singhal. Amit Singhal is in charge of Google&#8217;s ranking algorithm. The interview reveals some interesting facts about Google&#8217;s ranking algorithm.
Google knows that its algorithm is not perfect 

&#34;Tweaking and quality control involve a balancing act. &#8216;You make a change, and it affects some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conversion Rate Optimization Vs. SEO</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/06/16/conversion-rate-optimization-vs-seo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/06/16/conversion-rate-optimization-vs-seo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Frederick Townes
Within the e-commerce sphere, the &#8220;mind games&#8221; between site owners and search engine designers have focused on search engine optimization (SEO). After all, you can&#8217;t make a sale if visitors aren&#8217;t reaching your site. However, as the web marketplace grows exponentially more competitive, attention among webmasters and site owners has turned to conversion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FREE Marketing &#038; Publishing Gifts From &#8212; InkwellEditorial.com</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/06/12/free-marketing-publishing-gifts-from-inkwelleditorialcom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/06/12/free-marketing-publishing-gifts-from-inkwelleditorialcom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Run by Yuwanda Black, InkwellEditorial.com is a Business portal for and about the creative and editorial industries. At InkwellEditorial.com, you will find first-hand info about success stories, the business of freelancing, freelance jobs, career advice &#8212; and much more!
Ms. Black, a ten year publishing &#038; marketing veteran, has kindly provided us with two high quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Curtains For Google Adsense Arbitragers</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/06/06/its-curtains-for-google-adsense-arbitragers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/06/06/its-curtains-for-google-adsense-arbitragers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes &#8212; Ba Kiwanuka
Playing the Arbitrage game &#8212; &#8220;There&#8217;s a strong correlation between Google Adwords and Google Adsense which so happens to be the basis of the whole Adsense arbitrage technique. Wily marketers realized that if they could bid on cheap Adwords and send a lot of traffic from there to MFAs (Made-For-Adsense sites), which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Launches &#8220;Universal Search&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/29/google-launches-universal-search/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/29/google-launches-universal-search/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 10:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s search algorithm now has an integrated interface, integrating all relevant results from Google Blog Search, Google News, Google Maps, Google Images, Local Search, etc. into one results page.
You can now find &#8220;all&#8221; relevant content in one place, instead of moving in between sub-services.
How does this affect Search Engine Marketing?
Due to the universal inclusion of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Produces Successful Web Advertising?</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/25/what-produces-successful-web-advertising/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/25/what-produces-successful-web-advertising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 07:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are six questions to ponder:
1. How will your product or service change your customer?
2. Is what you have to say different?
3. Do you know how to tell your story?
4. Can you say it boldly?
5. Who is your target audience?
6. Can you take the heat?
Are You Doing All You Can To Attract Business? &#8212; There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protect Yourself Against AdSense Click Fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/21/protect-yourself-against-adsense-click-fraud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/21/protect-yourself-against-adsense-click-fraud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 09:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you use Google AdSense on your web site, then you need to be aware of this&#8230;
Did you know you could easily lose all your Google AdSense income without notice and through no fault of your own?
Well, that&#8217;s what&#8217;s already been happening to innocent marketers online&#8230;
Imagine how your business would be affected if you lost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding the Challenges of the Link Building Game</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/21/understanding-the-challenges-of-the-link-building-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/21/understanding-the-challenges-of-the-link-building-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 08:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Many webmasters who have been following the discussions about Google&#8217;s dislike of paid links have been confused about what constitutes bad links and good links, in the eyes of the search engine companies.
There are two kinds of links that you can pay to have made for you: rented or paid links, and permanent links.
With Rented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google announces new and enhanced &#8216;Google Analytics&#8217; Service</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/18/google-announces-new-and-enhanced-google-analytics-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/18/google-announces-new-and-enhanced-google-analytics-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 10:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Google has announced the release of a new version of the Google Analytics reporting interface. This latest enhancement to this popular tool boasts several improvements, including better controls and data reporting and sharing.
To access this new version (FREE) login at http://www.google.com/analytics.
There is a NEW interface, but you will still be able to access your old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Way to Jumpstart a Link Building Campaign</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/14/the-best-way-to-jumpstart-a-link-building-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/14/the-best-way-to-jumpstart-a-link-building-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 02:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Collyn Floyd, online emarketing and PR specialist with TheKarcherGroup.com, spoke with WebProNews about the best way to jumpstart a link building campaign. She also explained why social media campaigns aren’t always the best marketing route. Visit WebProNews.com to view this and other exclusive interviews from the SEW
Live conference in Columbus.


Submit Your Articles To &#8212; AfroArticles.com [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Marketing Today - By Dr. Ralph F. Wilson</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/11/web-marketing-today-by-dr-ralph-f-wilson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/11/web-marketing-today-by-dr-ralph-f-wilson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 19:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Web Marketing Today is publication by Dr. Ralph Wilson &#8212; Dr. Wilson is widely recognized as one of the top international authorities in the area of Internet marketing. 
Business Week called his popular WilsonWeb.com website: &#8220;bar none the best e-commerce resource out there.&#8221; Business 2.0 profiled him as one of the savvy dot-com survivors. 
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competitive SEO Evaluations: Individual Keyword Phrase Analysis</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/10/competitive-seo-evaluations-individual-keyword-phrase-analysis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/10/competitive-seo-evaluations-individual-keyword-phrase-analysis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 04:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: Fernando Chavez 
It is common for Web sites to rank very well for certain keywords but not very well for others. This makes sense since the competitive landscape changes from one keyword phrase to the next. There may be 300,000 search results for keyword A and 1,000,000 search results for keyword B. Presumably, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you want Google&#8217;s new branding on your site?</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/07/do-you-want-googles-new-branding-on-your-site/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/07/do-you-want-googles-new-branding-on-your-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 20:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By: William Charlwood
What do you think of the new-style AdSense ads where the Google logo is more prominent?
Personally I don&#8217;t like them.
I don&#8217;t care if they are apparently good for click through rates (I need more evidence).
What I do care about is that they show Google stamping their brand more and more heavily across the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Get People to Open Your E-Mails: Subject Lines, Pt. 2</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/03/how-to-get-people-to-open-your-e-mails-subject-lines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/03/how-to-get-people-to-open-your-e-mails-subject-lines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 13:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lydia Sugarman
Is there a secret technique to get people to open your emails? Yes, kind of. Common sense. 


  Descriptive. Tell &#8212; don&#8217;t sell them on &#8212; what is the subject of your   email. If your e-mail is a newsletter, use the name and issue in your subject line, every time. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Semantic Indexing and your Search Engine Rankings &#8212; Search Engine News</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/01/semantic-indexing-and-your-search-engine-rankings-search-engine-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/01/semantic-indexing-and-your-search-engine-rankings-search-engine-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 16:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[1. The influence of semantic indexing on your search engine rankings 
Semantic indexing is getting more and more important to search engines. What exactly is semantic indexing and how does it influence your search engine rankings?
What is semantic indexing?

Semantic indexing means that search engines try to associate certain terms with concepts when indexing web pages. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Article Keyword Density – A Worry of the Past?</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/01/article-keyword-density-a-worry-of-the-past/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/05/01/article-keyword-density-a-worry-of-the-past/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 15:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past a Webmaster could stuff all kinds of keywords in their web pages and the SE&#8217;s would be tricked into thinking that page was about those keywords. Well, things have changed and this technique is no longer effective. The same goes for the keywords in your articles. 
So what is this LSI thing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our New Marketing Newsletter</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/04/26/new-marketing-newsletter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/04/26/new-marketing-newsletter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What is this newsletter about?
Afro Articles - Article &#038; Internet Marketing Directory is offering a free Internet Marketing E-Newsletter designed to help authors/marketers improve their Internet marketing strategies and results.
You will receive relevant marketing information that we dig up from the Internet Marketing World, informative marketing articles plus many other marketing related info.
This newsletter is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Landing Page Optimization - Marketing Experiments Conversion Formula and Course</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/04/18/landing-page-optimization-marketing-experiments-conversion-formula-and-course/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/04/18/landing-page-optimization-marketing-experiments-conversion-formula-and-course/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MEC(Marketing Experiments Conversion) Labs has identified five essential elements to website conversion, which are brought together in the MEC Conversion Formula.
In their seven session on-demand course their experts will share the MEC Conversion Formula that they have developed over the past five years conducting tests with partners such as The New York Times, Reuters, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Reasons Google&#8217;s Paid Link Snitch Plan Sucks</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/04/18/7-reasons-googles-paid-link-snitch-plan-sucks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/04/18/7-reasons-googles-paid-link-snitch-plan-sucks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Rich Ord 
Matt Cutts blogged that Google would like you, the average search engine user, to report on sites you feel are displaying links for cash. This created a firestorm of negative responses from the SEO, webmaster, and free speech crowd. Below, I put together what I feel are the top 7 reasons Google&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iProspect Social Networking User Behavior Study &#8212; (April 2007)</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/04/10/iprospect-social-networking-user-behavior-study-april-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/04/10/iprospect-social-networking-user-behavior-study-april-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In January 2007, iProspect partnered with independent research firm JupiterResearch to develop a series of survey questions focused on how the U.S. online population utilizes several of the most popular social networking websites (or social search engines).
For purposes of this study iProspect defines a &#8220;social networking website&#8221; as one that allows Internet users have the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What The Google&#8217;s Algorithm Is Looking For When Determining Site Rankings</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/04/08/what-the-googles-algorithm-is-looking-for-when-determining-site-rankings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/04/08/what-the-googles-algorithm-is-looking-for-when-determining-site-rankings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2007 09:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Jason Lee Miller of WebProNews: &#8220;Fishkin and SEOMoz have been refining this list since 2005, whittling it down from over 200 important factors.&#8221;
This year&#8217;s guide received input, through voting and commenting, of search aficionados from Danny Sullivan to Jill Whalen to Eric Ward, all names you should recognize if you&#8217;ve been following this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Drive Traffic &#8220;Away&#8221; From Your Website</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/04/07/how-to-drive-traffic-away-from-your-website/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/04/07/how-to-drive-traffic-away-from-your-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2007 11:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Give Web-visitors Too Many Options and Choices
2. Give Web Visitors Too Much Information To Process
3. Give Web Visitors Too Much Non-relevant Content
4. Give Web Visitors Too Many Irritating Distractions
5. Give Web Visitors Too Many Red Flags
6. Give Web Visitors Too Many Decisions To Make
7. Give Web Visitors Too Many Stumbling Blocks
8. Give Web Visitors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Use A &#8220;Server-Side 301 Redirect&#8221; To Get Credit For All Your Inbound Links</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/03/30/how-to-use-a-server-side-301-redirect-to-get-credit-for-all-your-inbound-links/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/03/30/how-to-use-a-server-side-301-redirect-to-get-credit-for-all-your-inbound-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Many search engines rank web pages based on the number and &#8220;authority&#8221; of &#8220;inbound links&#8221; pointing to the web page in question.
In Google&#8217;s PageRank System, for example, a link from page A to page B is a vote, by page A, for page B.
Beacuse of rampant abuse by &#8220;Link Spammers,&#8221; Google&#8217;s PageRank Algorithm is in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Update &#8212; On Spam Reporting</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/03/29/google-update-on-spam-reporting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/03/29/google-update-on-spam-reporting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Google Search Quality Team has updated it&#8217;s SPAM reporting FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) at the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog.
In an effort to weed out web sites that violate Google&#8217;s Webmaster Guidelines, Google states:
&#8220;We are proud of our users who alert us to potential abuses for the sake of the whole internet community. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Web Accessibility?</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/03/28/what-is-web-accessibility/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/03/28/what-is-web-accessibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By &#8212; Nelson Chung 
What is web accessibility? With Wiki&#8217;s being so popular these days, why don&#8217;t we consult one? Wikipedia defines web accessibility as &#8220;the practice of making pages on the Internet accessible to all users, especially those with disabilities.&#8221; That sounds pretty accurate to me. With the ever-growing web, it is becoming increasingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest From Internet Marketing News Watch</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/03/28/latest-from-internet-marketing-news-watch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/03/28/latest-from-internet-marketing-news-watch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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&#8216;20 Ways To Convert Visitors Into Subscribers&#8217; - Earl William&#8217;s Latest Article
&#8216;Online Article Marketing Brings Customers To You&#8217; - &#8216;Your Membership&#8217;
&#8216;Audio and Video Blogging Secrets&#8217; Webinar on March 29
Michael Cheney&#8217;s Video: How traffic can change your life 
Content Composer Video: The #2 spot on Google with 115,000,000 competing pages
&#8216;Simple Money Machines&#8217; Pre-Launch Teleseminar with Perry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Labs Releases More Tools For Bloggers &#124; Website Owners</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/03/28/google-labs-releases-more-tools-for-bloggers-website-owners/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/03/28/google-labs-releases-more-tools-for-bloggers-website-owners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/03/28/google-labs-releases-more-tools-for-bloggers-website-owners/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By using the Google Ajax Search API bloggers can now add the following services to their sites:

Google Map Search
Video Bar
Video Search
News Bar (Horizontal and Vertical)
Blog Bar (Horizontal and Vertical)
Book Bar

With this service you can add content from a variety Google services namely: Blog Search, News Search, Video and many others.
The whole idea behind Google&#8217;s latest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to work around Google spam filters - Part V</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/03/27/how-to-work-around-google-spam-filters-part-v/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/03/27/how-to-work-around-google-spam-filters-part-v/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Google tries to keep its search results as clean as possible. For that reason, they have a variety of spam filters in their ranking algorithm that try to remove low quality web sites.
If your web site gets caught by one of these filters, it will be very difficult to get high Google rankings. In this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Email is not dead &#8212; AutoResponders are still vital in Email Marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/03/18/email-is-not-dead-autoresponders-are-still-vital-in-email-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/03/18/email-is-not-dead-autoresponders-are-still-vital-in-email-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 06:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Marketing Portal Updates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a marketer you are always looking for a way by which to squeeze in more sales. Follow up with potential customers through email is still a viable tool &#8212; despite the Cyber-Crime Pandemic &#8212; abuse of email by spammers, phishers, scammers&#8230;.the full array of malcontents roaming the internet.
Social engineering attacks in the form of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Changes Privacy Practices</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/03/15/google-changes-privacy-practices/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/03/15/google-changes-privacy-practices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Changes Privacy Practices, Matt Cutts And The Next Generation Of Search, Michael Crook Apologizes &#8212; Click Here To View Video
Copyright &#169; 2009 Afro-Articles Internet Marketing Blog. This Feed can only be displayed in a Feed Aggregator or website subject to the following Terms. Learn More. In case of copyright infringement  -   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to work around Google spam filters - Part IV</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/03/13/how-to-work-around-google-spam-filters-part-iv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/03/13/how-to-work-around-google-spam-filters-part-iv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Google tries to keep its search results as clean as possible. For that reason, they have a variety of spam filters in their ranking algorithm that try to remove low quality web sites.
If your web site gets caught by one of these filters, it will be very difficult to get high Google rankings. In this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daylight Savings Time - Action Required!</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/03/12/daylight-savings-time-action-required/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/03/12/daylight-savings-time-action-required/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General Updates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Daylight Savings Time was pushed forward three weeks ahead of the &#8220;normal switching&#8221; time &#8212; meaning you must patch your computer in order for it to display the correct time. This might not be critical for most systems, but is definitely so for computer systems that process information in real-time.
Daniel Pentecost, Director of Enterprise Services - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 50 Most Important People on the Web</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/03/06/the-50-most-important-people-on-the-web/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/03/06/the-50-most-important-people-on-the-web/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s who&#8217;s shaping what you read, watch, hear, write, buy, sell, befriend, flame, and otherwise do online.
Writes: Christopher Null &#8212; PC World
Despite what Time magazine would have you believe, you are not the most powerful or influential person on the Web. At PC World we love online personals, social networks, and videos of people falling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developing for IE 7</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/02/27/developing-for-ie-7/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/02/27/developing-for-ie-7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Web-Dev-Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By: Andrea Butterworth of BraveNet.com
Hey guys! Last month I talked a bit about IE conditional comments and now I&#8217;m going to expand on that a bit further as they can be very useful. Conditional comments only work in Internet Explorer on Windows and can therefore be used to give special instructions to IE browsers.
The scenario [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Title Tag Tips That Can Increase Your Ranking</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/02/22/3-title-tag-tips-that-can-increase-your-ranking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/02/22/3-title-tag-tips-that-can-increase-your-ranking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: Matthew Elshaw
Title tags are one of the oldest and most effective aspects of on-page search engine optimization. Your title tag is displayed as the main clickable link in search engine results and as such, has a considerable impact on how many people visit your website, as well as its ranking within search results.
The good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>15 Google spam filters and how to avoid them - Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/02/22/15-google-spam-filters-and-how-to-avoid-them-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/02/22/15-google-spam-filters-and-how-to-avoid-them-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Google tries to keep its search results as clean as possible. For that reason, they have a variety of spam filters in their ranking algorithm that try to remove low quality web sites.
If your web site gets caught by one of these filters, it will be very difficult to get high Google rankings. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Webmaster Central &#8212; Improvements</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/02/22/google-webmaster-central-improvements/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/02/22/google-webmaster-central-improvements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Google has improved its Webmaster Tool Offerings significantly, and every webmaster should visit http://www.google.com/webmasters/ &#8212; which a comprehensive one-stop shop for a lot of information about your site and how Google crawls it. In case of access problems, Google provides you with tools and vital statistics with which to diagnose crawling issues.

The Site status wizard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>15 Google spam filters and how to avoid them - Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/02/14/15-google-spam-filters-and-how-to-avoid-them-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/02/14/15-google-spam-filters-and-how-to-avoid-them-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Google tries to keep its search results as clean as possible. For that reason, they have a variety of spam filters in their ranking algorithm that try to remove low quality web sites.
If your web site gets caught by one of these filters, it will be very difficult to get high Google rankings. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Bookmarking &#038; Tagging Can Help Your Website</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/02/11/social-bookmarking-tagging-can-help-your-website/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/02/11/social-bookmarking-tagging-can-help-your-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Marketers and advertisers can benefit by using the numerous &#8220;Social Search (Social Networking)&#8221; websites now mushrooming all over the Internet &#8212; to leverage their products and services.
The First type of social search websites to emerge were those for shared bookmarks. The premise of this idea is to store all favorite links(websites) in one place, accessible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites &#8212; 2nd Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/02/11/the-design-of-sites-patterns-for-creating-winning-web-sites-2nd-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/02/11/the-design-of-sites-patterns-for-creating-winning-web-sites-2nd-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 08:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Book Review &#8212; By Lee Underwood
- Author: Douglas K. van Duyne, James A. Landay, Jason I. Hong
- Total Pages: 1,024
- Publisher: Prentice Hall
- Copyright: 2007
- ISBN: 0131345559
There are many books available that teach Web site layout techniques. I don&#8217;t mean the ones that show you how to properly code HTML or CSS. I&#8217;m talking about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Explorer 7 Tips For Webmasters</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/01/31/internet-explorer-7-tips-for-webmasters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/01/31/internet-explorer-7-tips-for-webmasters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Andrea Butterworth of BraveNet.com
In this Andrea discusses Microsoft&#8217;s release of Internet Explorer 7, and takes a look at some of the fixes, new features, as well as some tips on transitioning your web site to work as intended in both IE6 and IE7.
Internet Explorer 7 - what&#8217;s the deal?
As most of you probably know&#8230;IE7 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of Google bombs?</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/01/31/the-end-of-google-bombs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/01/31/the-end-of-google-bombs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Google bombs have become a problem for Google. The official Google webmaster blog recently had a statement about Google bombs and how Google deals with them.
What are Google bombs?
Google bombs are Internet pranks. Google heavily relies on the number and the type of links that point to a web site. If many web sites link [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Google read your CSS files?</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/01/27/does-google-read-your-css-files/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/01/27/does-google-read-your-css-files/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Many webmasters have reported that Google&#8217;s spider has started to index their external CSS files. What are CSS files, why does Google index them and how can this affect your rankings on Google and other search engines?
What are CSS files?
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) files allow webmasters to specify the layout of a web site without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which Character Encoding Should You Choose For Your Website?</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/01/27/which-character-encoding-should-you-choose-for-your-website/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/01/27/which-character-encoding-should-you-choose-for-your-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2007 07:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who use WYSIWYG editors without bothering to &#8220;go underneath&#8221; to examine the actual HTML of your web-pages, character encoding is rarely an issue &#8212; usually you will go with the default encoding assigned by your editor.
For Microsoft FrontPage users it&#8217;s usually &#8220;Windows-1252&#8243; encoding. Other encoding schemes include the popular &#8220;UTF-8&#8243; and the &#8220;ISO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Updates AdSense Policies - To Thwart Competitors</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/01/26/google-updates-adsense-policies-to-thwart-competitors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/01/26/google-updates-adsense-policies-to-thwart-competitors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[New Policy on &#8212; Competitive Ads and Services
In order to prevent user confusion, we do not permit Google ads or search boxes to be published on websites that also contain other ads or services formatted to use the same layout and colors as the Google ads or search boxes on that site. Although you may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is PPC Advertising Nothing But A Big Rip Off Scheme?</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/01/26/is-ppc-advertising-nothing-but-a-big-rip-off-scheme/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/01/26/is-ppc-advertising-nothing-but-a-big-rip-off-scheme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes Mel Strocen
The herd mentality never fails to amaze me. When the pay-per-click concept was first pioneered in 1997-98 by GoTo.com (now Yahoo! Search Marketing), it was years before the model was widely accepted. GoTo virtually created the market for pay-for-performance search single-handedly and redefined how businesses market online while other search engines sat on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PayPal (an ebay company) is set to tighten security for its users</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/01/20/paypal-an-ebay-company-is-set-to-tighten-security-for-its-users/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/01/20/paypal-an-ebay-company-is-set-to-tighten-security-for-its-users/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Online fraud, especially through bogus emails by devious scammers is rampant. These scammers otherwise known as &#8220;Phishers,&#8221; attempt to fraudulently acquire your passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as trustworthy persons or businesses in electronic communications &#8212; notably email and instant messages.
Of late, Phishers have intensified their campaign, especially via email, thus eroding online [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Sets The Record Straight On: &#8220;Adding Images Near AdSense Ads&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/01/02/google-sets-the-record-straight-on-adding-images-near-adsense-ads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2007/01/02/google-sets-the-record-straight-on-adding-images-near-adsense-ads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 13:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A Google AdSense Policy Clarification
Placing images besides Google AdSense ads for the express purpose of attracting website &#8220;user clicks&#8221; is a no-no according to Google.
Adding images adjacent to Ads has been known to increase click through rate (CTR) &#8212; but when images are used to confuse website users &#8212; to click on ads, it becomes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All you need to know about search engine optimization in 2006</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/27/all-you-need-to-know-about-search-engine-optimization-in-2006/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/27/all-you-need-to-know-about-search-engine-optimization-in-2006/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The year 2006 has been full of news about Google and the way it ranks web sites.
If you need information about Google&#8217;s ranking algorithm and if you want to know how to get high rankings on Google, then Axandra&#8217;s Newsletter Archive offers valuable information for you.
If you want to know more about official Google statements about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Impressions - A Sloppy Site Provokes Doubt!</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/26/first-impressions-a-sloppy-site-provokes-doubt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/26/first-impressions-a-sloppy-site-provokes-doubt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 09:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you happen to be the owner of a well-established brand-name site such as Amazon.com, the issue of trust is a non-issue. However if you are one of the faceless millions of netpreneurs scattered across the globe you are precisely that&#8230;Faceless! You are working from a position of weakness in that you don&#8217;t have brand-name [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Search Engine Optimization: The Benefits of SEO in Online Retail</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/24/search-engine-optimization-the-benefits-of-seo-in-online-retail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/24/search-engine-optimization-the-benefits-of-seo-in-online-retail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2006 06:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Online retail is not a venture for the faint of heart, to be sure. Finding success in the realm of eCommerce requires patience, diligence, and a willingness to be flexible and constantly experiment with new methods and techniques to improve rankings and conversion rates.
Alan Dick and Brian Mark are successful e-tailers who know a thing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Near Death of DMOZ a.k.a Open Directory Project (ODP)</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/21/the-near-death-of-dmoz-aka-open-directory-project-odp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/21/the-near-death-of-dmoz-aka-open-directory-project-odp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DMOZ otherwise known as Open Directory almost &#8220;died&#8221; during the last two months. A six-week unscheduled outage and a history of consumer dissatisfaction, lagging editorial energy and layoffs at AOL intimated a possible demise of the Open Directory Project.
DMOZ, in my opinion, has been a den of BIAS, perpetrated by the so called volunteer &#8220;Human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Website Optimizer: Free Multivariate Testing</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/21/google-website-optimizer-free-multivariate-testing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/21/google-website-optimizer-free-multivariate-testing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Google has unveiled the &#8220;Google Website Optimizer&#8221; which allows you to experiment with various aspects of your web pages &#8212; for example it minimizes the guesswork in landing page testing.
A &#8220;sticky&#8221; landing page that attracts clicks, retains traffic and results in conversions, is crucial for successful internet marketing. Designing a landing page that gives a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LunarPages Hosting Now Offers FREE Coffee Cup Software!</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/19/lunarpages-hosting-now-offers-free-coffee-cup-software/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/19/lunarpages-hosting-now-offers-free-coffee-cup-software/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, Lunarpages Web Hosting teamed up with one of the most renowned and highly regarded software companies, CoffeeCup!
LunarPages&#8217; 12 and 24 month hosting plans now include $700 of AWESOME software by CoffeeCup &#8212; FREE! (that is 20+ programs).
CoffeeCup has been around for almost a decade &#8212; pumping out top of the line software [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Premium Webmaster Tips and Tools</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/18/premium-webmaster-tips-and-tools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/18/premium-webmaster-tips-and-tools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 04:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Netmechanic.com has been a top provider of Web site maintenance and promotion tools, as well as server monitoring services since 1996 &#8212; a strong industry presence for a period spanning one decade. Recently acquired by Keynote, the Keynote NetMechanic suite of products is one of the most powerful set of Web Tools available today.
I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easy-To-Use Article Directory &#124; News and Article Content Management Software</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/15/easy-to-use-article-directory-news-and-article-content-management-software/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/15/easy-to-use-article-directory-news-and-article-content-management-software/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Article Directory Pro is a powerful web site news and article content management system.Specially designed for the busy marketer, it was created to speed up your activity of adding news, articles, press releases and any other type of content to your web site as easy and convenient as possible.
Aside from its ease to use and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Your Articles Get Rejected</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/14/why-your-articles-get-rejected/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/14/why-your-articles-get-rejected/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: Liane Bate
I have been writing original articles for my online business for the past ten months or so, and for various reasons a few of them have been rejected by some article directories. I know it can be a bit of a downer when you get an email saying that your article has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Matt Cutts talks about search engine optimization traps</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/12/googles-matt-cutts-talks-about-search-engine-optimization-traps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/12/googles-matt-cutts-talks-about-search-engine-optimization-traps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The head of Google&#8217;s anti-spam team Matt Cutts publicly reviewed some web sites at the 2006 PubCon in Las Vegas. Some statements in these public reviews might help you to improve your rankings on Google and Yahoo.
Duplicate content can create problems
One of the web sites that Matt Cutts analyzed had a problem with duplicate content. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jennifer Kyrnin&#8217;s predictions for Web design in 2007</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/12/jennifer-kyrnins-predictions-for-web-design-in-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/12/jennifer-kyrnins-predictions-for-web-design-in-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Most Web pages will not be XHTML compliant or valid.
Table lovers will continue to fight against CSS layouts.
Older browser versions will still be widely used.
Many designers will only want free Web editors.
CSS 3 won&#8217;t be released.
Customers will still be afraid of cookies.
Most Web pages won&#8217;t be accessible.
Cheap DNS will remain popular.
Pages with dark text and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avoiding Website Assumptions that Mask Your Blind Spots</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/10/avoiding-website-assumptions-that-mask-your-blind-spots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/10/avoiding-website-assumptions-that-mask-your-blind-spots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2006 07:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: Todd Follansbee
Every day I work with people who manage their own or others&#8217; small to medium business websites. Most make fundamental mistakes that leave money on the table. While owners and webmasters often pay lip service to modern web marketing practices, too often their sites tell a different story. If you really want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FireBug 1.0 - An Indispensable FireFox Extension For Web Developers</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/08/firebug-10-an-indispensable-firefox-extension-for-web-developers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/08/firebug-10-an-indispensable-firefox-extension-for-web-developers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 22:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Firebug 1.0, the single most indispensable Firefox extension for web developers has been released.
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
Firebug is always just a keystroke away, but it never gets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Create Great HTML Emails with CSS</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/07/how-to-create-great-html-emails-with-css/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/07/how-to-create-great-html-emails-with-css/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: Christian MacAuley
HTML emails are widely used for all kinds of professional correspondence. Beyond email newsletters they&#8217;re used for all sorts of application-generated messages, such as receipts and confirmations. Styled messages have lots of appeal for marketers, designers and consumers &#8212; but for coders, it&#8217;s a real headache to create them properly.
Creating an HTML email [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Signs That Your SEO Is a Quack</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/02/10-signs-that-your-seo-is-a-quack/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/12/02/10-signs-that-your-seo-is-a-quack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2006 11:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: Jill Whalen
There are so many SEO/SEM firms cropping up that talk a good game but don&#8217;t deliver results. This is in part because there&#8217;s so much information that is freely available about search engine optimization. On the surface, SEO sounds easy &#8212; and it really is &#8212; once you&#8217;ve had a number of sites [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to find the very best Keywords for promoting your Web Site</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/11/30/how-to-find-the-very-best-keywords-for-promoting-your-web-site/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/11/30/how-to-find-the-very-best-keywords-for-promoting-your-web-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Using the right keywords is the cornerstone of successful search engine optimization.
Finding the right keywords is an important step that you should take seriously if you want to be successful with your web site.
What can happen if you target the wrong keywords? 
You will lose a lot of time and you will lose a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you blocking IP addresses of Search Engine Spiders in your .htaccess File &#8230;.inadvertently?</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/11/27/are-you-blocking-ip-addresses-of-search-engine-spiders-in-your-htaccess-file-inadvertently/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/11/27/are-you-blocking-ip-addresses-of-search-engine-spiders-in-your-htaccess-file-inadvertently/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[How often do you check your Server Error Logs?
A prudent webmaster needs to keep track of the various IP addresses belonging to &#8212; at least &#8212; the major search engines: Google, Yahoo and MSN.
You might be blocking vital search engine spiders from indexing your site and hence denying you the traffic that you deserve.
The best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Latest In Search Marketing [11-21-2006]</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/11/22/the-latest-in-search-marketing-11-21-2006/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WebProNews&#8217; Mike McDonald and Chris Richardson interviewed many search industry luminaries last week at PubCon Las Vegas. Just click the video image and you will be taken to videos.webpronews.com to view the video you select. You can leave your opinions there as well!
Matt Cutts Discusses Linkbait, Google, the Future
Click To Play - Whether it’s white [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google, Yahoo and Microsoft team up for Sitemaps protocol</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/11/21/google-yahoo-and-microsoft-team-up-for-sitemaps-protocol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft agreed to support the Sitemap 0.9 protocol. How can this new standard help you to improve the ranking of your web site in search engines?
What are sitemaps and what is the Sitemaps protocol?
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn How to Use and Style HTML Definition Lists</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/11/21/learn-how-to-use-and-style-html-definition-lists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes Jennifer Kyrnin
When people think of lists they usually think of either bulletted (unordered) or numbered (ordered) lists. These are great tools for Web designers, but there is another type of list that is often overlooked: the definition list.
A definition list is so-called because it is a list of terms with their associated definitions. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Combating BookMark Site Spam - Scuttle BookMarking Script</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/11/21/combating-bookmark-site-spam-scuttle-bookmarking-script/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/11/21/combating-bookmark-site-spam-scuttle-bookmarking-script/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few weeks a spammer utilizing an automated spambot has been posting bookmarks at the rate of 800 a day, in our bookmarking sub-domain: mybookmarks.afroarticles.com &#8212; mostly bookmarks leading to Finance and Debt Management sites. Our bookmark utility utilizes a script by scuttle - a web-based social bookmarking system that allows multiple users [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Conduct SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Keyword Research</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/11/20/how-to-conduct-seo-search-engine-optimization-keyword-research/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/11/20/how-to-conduct-seo-search-engine-optimization-keyword-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you&#8217;re launching a new site or just want to better optimize an existing site, your SEO efforts begin with proper keywords research. If done correctly, keyword research lays the foundation for a site that is fundamentally strong in the search engines. You&#8217;ll receive more qualified traffic and in turn convert more visitors into sales. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Explorer 7 Hacks</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/11/15/internet-explorer-7-hacks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Article - Courtesy Alex Walker - Editor, The SitePoint Design View
Tredosoft have two options available for the IE tester. For those not quite ready to overwrite their old IE6 install, they offer &#8216;Standalone IE7&#8216; - a small app that juggles the registery to allow both IE&#8217;s to co-exist on the same system.
For those who have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Link Baiting and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/11/14/link-baiting-and-search-engine-optimization-seo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of quality inbound links pointing to your website from other &#8220;quality&#8221; sites is a major metric used by search engines to determine the importance of your website, hence your website&#8217;s ranking in Search Results.
In a nutshell: The greater the number of &#8220;quality links&#8221; pointing to your website, the more respectable your site looks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Visitor Counts - The First Sin of Web Analytics</title>
		<link>http://www.afroarticles.com/blog/wordpress/2006/11/14/simple-visitor-counts-the-first-sin-of-web-analytics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Web analytics is the measurement of the behavior of visitors to a website. In a commercial context, it especially refers to the measurement of which aspects of the website work towards the business objectives; for example, which landing pages encourage people to make a purchase.
Far too often, the purpose of Web analytics is to produce [...]]]></description>
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