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	<title>Chicago Search Engine Optimization (SEO) &#38; Internet Marketing &#187; General SEO Strategy</title>
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	<description>Mert Sahinoglu, a Chicago based SEO consultant talks about Search Engine Optimization issues</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>When Netpost.com becomes EricWard.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 19:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mert</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General SEO Strategy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love Eric Ward. Coolest link builder out there. I have read every article by him. Any guy who gets to email a Yahoo founder in his student account about opening  the Web Promotion section of Yahoo Directory is a Godfather of Internet marketing in my book. Having said that, and knowing his busy [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I love Eric Ward. Coolest link builder out there. I have read every article by him. Any guy who gets to email a Yahoo founder in his student account about opening  the Web Promotion section of Yahoo Directory is a Godfather of Internet marketing in my book. Having said that, and knowing his busy [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Attention all SEMPO members!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I know you are all proud to be a member of SEMPO. You show your pride by putting a logo link to the SEMPO.com homepage. If people consider themselves Search Engine Marketing Proffesionals; why do 99% of you link to the home page rather than the company member page (example of the 1%) with a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I know you are all proud to be a member of SEMPO. You show your pride by putting a logo link to the SEMPO.com homepage. If people consider themselves Search Engine Marketing Proffesionals; why do 99% of you link to the home page rather than the company member page (example of the 1%) with a [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>SEO Proper linking from a Yahoo Ambassador logo.</title>
		<link>http://www.metroseo.com/2008/02/08/seo-proper-linking-from-a-yahoo-ambassador-logo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mert</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General SEO Strategy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a Chicago SEO consultant, I actually pay attention to detail to the local market websites. Here is the tale of two Chicago Yahoo ambassador companies. They put a link to their Yahoo ambassador pages; but the pages they link to are completely different. One is the right page and one is the wrong page [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As a Chicago SEO consultant, I actually pay attention to detail to the local market websites. Here is the tale of two Chicago Yahoo ambassador companies. They put a link to their Yahoo ambassador pages; but the pages they link to are completely different. One is the right page and one is the wrong page [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Top 10 link bait interviews until present</title>
		<link>http://www.metroseo.com/2007/11/20/top-10-link-bait-interviews-of-until-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metroseo.com/2007/11/20/top-10-link-bait-interviews-of-until-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mert</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General SEO Strategy]]></category>

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Well I compiled a list of 10 greatest interviews with the greatest link baiters that I have had the privilege to read. I have put the dates beside them to tell people the timeless value these interviews carry. The list is chronological and does not reflect a judgement on their quality.
1. Barry Schwartz interview with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Well I compiled a list of 10 greatest interviews with the greatest link baiters that I have had the privilege to read. I have put the dates beside them to tell people the timeless value these interviews carry. The list is chronological and does not reflect a judgement on their quality.
1. Barry Schwartz interview with [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Power of internal linking</title>
		<link>http://www.metroseo.com/2007/08/16/power-of-internal-linking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mert</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General SEO Strategy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a humorful way, I had written about how to make a wikipedia article #1 in Google for its title as a keyword. Well I decided to test it a few months ago. Wikipedia has a boring article called real estate with minimal external links pointing to it. By the way I refuse to give [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In a humorful way, I had written about how to make a wikipedia article #1 in Google for its title as a keyword. Well I decided to test it a few months ago. Wikipedia has a boring article called real estate with minimal external links pointing to it. By the way I refuse to give [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8220;Real&#8221; directories vs &#8220;Seo&#8221; directories.</title>
		<link>http://www.metroseo.com/2007/06/21/real-directories-vs-seo-directories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mert</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Directories]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[I had a chance to pick the brains of the great Greg Boser on the issue of directories and decided to write an article on directories based around the discussion.  The quotation marked words used are mainly Greg&#8217;s definitions to best define the topics and directories. Of course I expanded on the subject a [...]]]></description>
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