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		<title>20 Ways to Keep Search Engines from Listing Your Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Paulsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my years of optimizing websites for the search engines, I’ve often been called in to remedy business websites that have had disastrous results in the search engines. In each case a prior SEO service provider had employed abusive and/or neglectful strategies. 20 of these abuses and neglectful practices are listed below. The first thing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roles Found in Successful Businesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Paulsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While every business is unique, successful businesses are built with the support of the following roles. The optimist – On a daily basis this individual envisions and speaks of success and exhorts others to do the same. This individual’s optimism is so strong that it is contagious. Staff, prospects and vendors all have an opportunity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You a Facebook Junkie?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Paulsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The call goes something like this. &#8220;Elizabeth, this is Joe. I have a question for you. Are you a Facebook Junkie?&#8221; Silent pause. Private thought&#8230; junkie… addict…habit… Hmmm, I check Facebook several times a day. It has become a habit like washing my face and brushing my teeth. The answer&#8230; &#8220;Yes, I am!&#8221; &#8220;I’ve got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google AdWords to the Rescue</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Comar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this day and age the internet is quite the crowded place. With so many different outlets all vying for attention, marketing space, and customers; it’s a wonder how anyone is capable of successfully competing on the web. However, there is a product that makes it possible for anyone to compete on the web regardless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Love WordPress</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Cushing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress trademark “W” icon is found all over the web. If you haven’t noticed it yet, you will now that you are looking for it. Still it would be easy to underestimate the number of WordPress sites since only a fraction of their designs highlight the &#8220;W&#8221;. Would you have guessed that this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Whale of a Review &#8211; If You Value Reputation, You Will Want to Understand Online Reviews</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Cushing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What if the opinion of every customer you have ever had was instantly available for your review? Or, what if everyone, including new potential customers had access to these opinions? Essentially, they do. The increasing importance and proliferation of review sites has made reviews powerful tools for consumers. Reviews could be powerful for a business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Keep a Website Current so That it Sells</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Risa Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s important to keep a website up to date to keep it relevant to the search engines and website visitors. As search engines crawl websites, new content (new files, updated date and time stamps and revised file sizes) prompt the search engine robots to re-index the site&#8217;s web pages and this in turn can bolster the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why You’ll Want a Mobile Site if You Plan to Keep Up With the Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Comar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mobile sites are a powerful and relatively new tool for businesses. At CeSI we think they are a valuable tool and we are glad to see some of our clients beginning to adopt them. A typical consumer already has built up a certain amount of interest in your offerings before they ever contact your business. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advice from One of the Young Unemployed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 16:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Paulsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While every generation has suffered through this recession, my generation, 25-35 year olds, has been hit unexpectedly hard by this economy.  In 2007 and 2008, when the job market was quite good, I was in graduate school.  But by the time my friends and I had finished, the economy tanked and jobs in our market [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Sell Without Selling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 22:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Cushing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Selling a service is different from selling a product. Selling a service involves making more of a human connection and a commitment because what you are selling is more than an object. Selling a service, even when selling installation of a product, includes understanding the customer and selling the personality, knowledge, and skills of those [...]]]></description>
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