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		<title>Why Doesn&#8217;t Google Search the Mind?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Steimle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read The Google Story and am currently reading In the Plex, both of which are biographical pieces covering the history of Google, its founders Brin and Page, its employees, business relationships, and so forth. As I&#8217;ve read these books I&#8217;ve been able to get some insight into Google&#8217;s core business model, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to become a $100K/year SEO professional in 30 days.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Steimle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m writing this. I don&#8217;t need more competition. Maybe I hate to see wasted potential. As I see more and more people losing jobs and waiting around for someone to drop one in their laps, I can&#8217;t help wonder why more people don&#8217;t go out and create their own jobs. Maybe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An SEO + Facebook Username Experiment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Steimle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get by with a little help from my friends&#8230;I get high (rankings, that is) with a little help from my friends. So&#8230;I&#8217;m in the midst of a little experiment. You see, I&#8217;ve got this new business launching local business directories, and one of the categories is self storage directories, of which we currently have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blendtec &#8211; You Need an SEO Overhaul</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Steimle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An open letter to the marketing team at Blendtec: Dear Blendtec, your website needs a search engine optimization overhaul, and my SEO firm is the one to do it. I won&#8217;t dwell too much on why you need SEO, other than to point out that your site will show up higher in rankings in Google, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who are Utah&#8217;s Top 5 SEO Professionals?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Steimle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That is, who are Utah&#8217;s top 5 SEO professionals as rated by their peers? This is merely an informal survey, but if you&#8217;re an SEO professional here in the state of Utah, then who are the other five SEO professionals (other than yourself) who you think are on top of the game or are next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Penalty</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Steimle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, donloper.com has been penalized by Google, but I&#8217;m not sure why. Up until June 16th, 2009 the site would get between 130-300 visitors per day, depending on the day of the week and how frequently I was posting. On June 17th the traffic dropped to 99 visitors, 73 visitors on June 18th, 25 on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What People Are Reading on This Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Steimle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like any web marketer I love stats, and that extends to the analytics stats for this blog. I love seeing how many people are reading which posts. Below are the posts that have received the most pageviews over the past 30 days on this blog. Ironically, some of what gets me the most traffic is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Niche Directories &#8211; My Four Hour Work Week Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Steimle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on niche directories since 1999. Geez, you&#8217;d think I&#8217;d have more to show for it after almost 10 years, but I&#8217;m a bit slow. I guess if I were a politician or corrupt CEO of an ailing public company asking for bailout dollars I&#8217;d tell you that &#8220;I&#8217;ve been refining my business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Obama as Link Bait</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Steimle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is link baiting, you ask? It&#8217;s when you develop content on your website that is intended to get other people to link to it, therefore boosting the number of inbound links pointing at your website, which will boost your website&#8217;s rankings in the search engines. Generally the best link baiting comes naturally. I wouldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11 jobs that pay $80K a year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Steimle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNN and Careerbuilder just published an article on ten jobs that pay around $80,000 per year, such as attorneys, economists, associate actuaries, marketing managers, pharmacists, and veterinarians. The trouble with all of these jobs is that with rare exceptions they require a four-year college degree or more than that. But there is an 11th job [...]]]></description>
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