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		<title>Blog Post Excerpts Tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 01:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.D Paterson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blog posts are, obviously what your whole blog is all about. You could have the best SEO on the planet, a huge amount of blog traffic arriving every day, but, without good fresh content they’ll just head off somewhere else. But, adding fresh content can cause problems of its own.

In this article we’re going to look at what to do when your whole blog post appears on your home page and you haven’t got a clue why, or how to put it right.

There are a number of great sites and articles out there that teach you all manner of things...]]></description>
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		<title>Why a News Blog?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever stopped to wonder why some people decide to start a news blog? Just take a few moments, now, to think about the advantages of setting up one of these sites for yourself. Still stuck for reasons? Then this article will give you a few ideas on why you should start one today.

In this article we’re going to look at what a news blog is, we’ll take a look at how easy they are to setup, and then we’ll have a sneak peek at some of the benefits having one can bring you...]]></description>
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		<title>Elements of a Successful Business Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.D Paterson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are the elements of a successful business blog? Well, this largely comes down to what you’re actually trying to do with your business blog in the first place.

In this article we’re going to have a look at the types of business blogs out there, next we’ll look at what’s going to be the best one to choose for you and your business, finally we’ll look at whether you should be choosing style, or substance for your blog...]]></description>
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		<title>How to Drive Targeted Traffic with Social Bookmarking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can buy website traffic all over the internet nowadays, sometimes for only a few dollars. However, finding the kind of targeted traffic that produces sales for you is not so easy. Social bookmarking offers webmasters an opportunity to get visitors who are actually interested in what you're offering...]]></description>
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		<title>The Speed and Easy of a WordPress Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.alandpaterson.com/6296/root-blog/the-speed-and-easy-of-a-wordpress-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.D Paterson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I deleted around 367 posts, and WordPress didn’t even blink. The deleted posts came from RSS feeds and, at best, contained two lines of text and then had a link to the full article on a different website. That would have been good if I just wanted traffic to pass straight through my blog, but not much use if I wanted them to hang around for a bit. The only possible downside was those posts had been index, so, the next step is to get a plugin that will redirect visitor to nonexistent links back to my home page...]]></description>
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		<title>Discover the Best Tips for Getting Huge Traffic and Visitors to Your Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, many individuals write blogs. It is an incredible means of spreading details, concepts or maybe our feelings and thinking. You don’t have to be an outstanding writer, but you do need to know what you’re writing about. Having a quality looking blog is significant, so try installing some free website templates that will give your weblog an excellent look...]]></description>
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		<title>Great WordPress Plug-ins For Your Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of internet marketers assume that Wordpress is meant only for bloggers to use. Ok... Wordpress can be used in the same way as a static marketing sites, so it's not just for "blogs." Wordpress, as you may or may know, is what is called a Content Management System (CMS) which offers great flexibility with applications, etc...]]></description>
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		<title>The Alexa Rollercoaster</title>
		<link>http://www.alandpaterson.com/5862/root-blog/the-alexa-rollercoaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.D Paterson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The search traffic is one of the most interesting features because you can see just what the people who reach your site are searching on to get there. With that information at your disposal you can optimize your site with those search terms in mind. But it gets better...]]></description>
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		<title>The Akismet Blog Plugin – Our Unsung Protector</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.D Paterson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When setting up our blogs there is one thing we’re always told to do, and that’s to set up the Akismet plugin, but have you ever wondered just what it does?]]></description>
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		<title>The Zero Thinking Way Of Getting Blog Content</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.D Paterson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doing it this way means that you will have more content on your site, the content will be unique (mostly), if people are interested in your opinions they should keep coming back to see what sort of ‘rubbish’ you’re talking about now (or not ‘rubbish’, depending on whether they agree with you), and they won’t arrive at your blog and immediately click away to see what the article is all about.]]></description>
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