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		<title>Customizing and Styling Google Forms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Mikulec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using Google Forms is a great and simple way for anyone to publish an online form. While Google Forms are very powerful, the presentation isn&#8217;t very desirable and in it&#8217;s raw form can be a poor reflection on your company or brand. This post explains how to create a Google Form and how to customize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to optimize a post or article for search engines (SEO)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Mikulec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google and search engine’s evaluate each piece of information and text in your post and then collectivity gives it an overall score for each keyword/keyphrase. Each of these attributes or techniques in this article may be singularly minimal in effect, but collectivity they are critical for Google to determine the keyword relevancy for each post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hyphens in your domain name. Is-this-bad.com?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Mikulec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's recommended to choose a domain name without hyphens but Google doesn't penalize you for using hyphens in your URL, however 3 or more hyphens in your domain name may raise a red flag as a spammy site.]]></description>
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		<title>Optimize your images for SEO and improve your overall site ranking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Mikulec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When adding photos to your website, something that is often overlooked, but is easy to do is to add ALT and TITLE attributes to your images. What is it? TITLE and ALT attributes are used for visitors with disabilities and to provide additional image information. The TITLE attribute displays on mouseover, and the ALT attribute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have a local business? Be found and stand out with Localized SEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 06:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Mikulec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a local business, localized leads are high value, very targeted and converts! Localized SEO is mainly when a user types business/keyword and location. After attending a meetup on SEO hosted by Steve Wiideman, I wanted to share some of the techniques discussed about localizing your  SEO efforts. 1) Optimize your site Some simple tips [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got a great domain name you want to register? Forget it, it&#8217;s already registered.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 05:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Mikulec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting a good domain name is nearly impossible, so you have to get creative. It&#8217;s also important to consider Search Engine Optimization (SEO), because having a keyword in your domain tells Google and other search engines that your site must be highly relavant to that keyword. Here&#8217;s a useful tool for brainstorming about your new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Freemium&#8221; Making money online by making it free</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Mikulec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all used free online services or applications and have likely thought &#8220;how is that a sustainable business model?&#8221;. Some are purely for marketing and exposure, and others, like Zynga&#8217;s free FarmVille application for Facebook, allows users to fast-track the game by selling virtual currency. Some services, like Twitter, develop customers or an audience and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Above the Fold&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Mikulec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wondered what parts of your site can&#8217;t be seen without scrolling? Google&#8217;s Browser Size shows you what portion of users can see a given spot on the screen. This is not screen resolution but the area available to the browser &#8211; as gathered from www.google.com users. browsersize.googlelabs.com/]]></description>
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		<title>Email for your company &#8211; Google has a great and free solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Mikulec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We configure and setup a lot of websites and email solutions for our clients. Because of spam, viruses and client’s with limited IT resources, we’ve nearly gone exclusively to recommending Google’s Gmail service for email. Now that doesn’t mean our client’s give up their company’s URL for a Gmail address, but with Gmail you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online aggregators – A major threat to traditional media companies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Mikulec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The newest threat to traditional media companies: Online aggregators who profit from their content and lure their audiences away. Here’s how to beat them at their own game Traditional media companies face fast-growing challenges from small, often one person online content aggregators, who can channel content from hundreds of sources and draw ever-increasing audiences away. [...]]]></description>
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