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		<title>Optimizing for the Long Tail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The long tail effect is what happens when your site starts ranking for a ton of keyword terms that you didn&#8217;t really focus on optimizing for. What&#8217;s cool about the long tail is that it can account for half or more of your traffic from the search engines. That&#8217;s right - 50% or more of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walkupright.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/16/long-tail-seo/</link>
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		<title>Balancing Functionality and SEO in Website Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish I had $3.75, so I could at least buy a gallon of gas, for every time we’ve met with a prospective client that just had a new website built, only to find it was nowhere to be found on the search engines.  The websites were generally well branded, had a good look [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walkupright.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/01/balance-design-seo/</link>
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		<title>Happy Earth Day</title>
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April 22nd is officially &#8220;Earth Day&#8221; and some even celebrate the entire week surrounding this date.  This is the time of year where we are inspired to &#8220;go green&#8221; and do what we can to make this big blue marble a better place to live for ourselves and generations to come. In honor of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walkupright.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/22/happy-earth-day/</link>
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		<title>How to Spot a Bad SEO Firm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting recently made an interesting post in his &#8220;Ramblings About SEO&#8221; blog titled &#8220;11 Ways to Recognize a Bad SEO Firm&#8221;. We liked it enough to share it with our readers as well. Here&#8217;s our summary of what he had to say, but you can also click the link above [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walkupright.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/16/how-to-spot-a-bad-seo-firm/</link>
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		<title>Are you linked to a bad neighborhood?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You probably already know that inbound links to your site are good, and a quality inbound link from a topic-related site can bring great quality traffic and even help your search engine rankings. What you might not have known though, is that linking out to other quality sites within your subject can also help your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walkupright.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/10/bad-neighborhood-link-checker-free-tool/</link>
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		<title>SEO Myth #3 - If I put my keywords in my meta tags, this helps my rankings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s surprising that people still believe that meta tags are how you get your site ranked. If you&#8217;re not in the business of SEO, though, this common misconception is widely accepted. However, all SEOs know that all the major search engines completely ignore the meta keywords tag. And if you find an SEO that doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walkupright.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/03/meta-keyword-tags-ignored-by-search-engines/</link>
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		<title>SEO Myth #2 - Buying multiple domains will help my ranking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a common misconception that buying up additional domain names and pointing them to your main domain will help your site rank better. I only wish it were that easy. If it were, I&#8217;d be at GoDaddy buying up every combination of SEO-search-engine-optimization-cincinnati.com, .org, .biz, .info&#8230; you get the picture.
There are occasions when you might [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walkupright.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/24/seo-myth-2-buying-multiple-domains-will-help-my-ranking/</link>
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		<title>Google Continues Search Dominance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[comScore released the February 2008 U.S. Search Rankings report this week.  Google almost doubled the number of searches of MSN &#38; Yahoo combined.  Google&#8217;s share of all U.S. searches was 59.2%, which was a slight increase of 0.7% over January 2008.  Yahoo&#8217;s share was 21.6% and MSN&#8217;s 9.6% in February. The number [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walkupright.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/20/google-continues-search-dominance/</link>
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		<title>SEO Myth #1 - Changing hosting will affect my rankings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The question often arises - &#8220;If I move my web site to a new host or a new server, will it affect my search engine rankings?&#8221; The short answer is no, as long as you do it right.
Clients move their web sites to a new host or a new server for a variety of reasons. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walkupright.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/14/seo-myth-1-changing-hosting-will-affect-my-rankings/</link>
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		<title>Are trade shows a waste of time?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the 1980&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s, trade shows were a very popular way for many of my clients to market their products and services.  But as online promotion continues to command  more and more of the marketing budget, it seems that clients&#8217; participation in trade shows has been drastically reduced.  And those clients [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walkupright.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/10/are-trade-shows-a-waste-of-time/</link>
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