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		<title>Yes Virginia, Marketing Budgets Are Dead.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is something affiliate marketers have known forever but is finally starting to get attention at the major marketing firms and fortune 500 companies. Having a fixed Marketing Budget is just plain short sighted. Period.
I love the example Jonathan Shapiro gives in his &#8220;Death of the marketing budget&#8221; article on iMediaConnection.com. He asks:
&#8220;What if I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.appliedseo.com/yes-virginia-marketing-budgets-are-dead/</link>
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		<title>How NOT to do Reputation Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me preface this article with a quick note. I really, really want to use names and a specific example here (and I have a great one) but unfortunately doing that would reinforce the problems being created by my example on some innocent client. I do not want to contribute to the issue, just shine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.appliedseo.com/how-not-to-do-reputation-management/</link>
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		<title>Join Me at WordCamp Miami this Sunday</title>
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It be there and will be presenting on WordPress SEO. I know its a hot topic and plenty of folks have been asking a ton of  questions. Let me know if you are coming and if you have any specific topics you want me to cover, ask here and I&#8217;ll make sure they get into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.appliedseo.com/join-me-at-wordcamp-miami-this-sunday/</link>
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		<title>A Couple of Big Announcements</title>
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First, I would like to let everyone know I have taken a new position. I am now working for MediaWhiz Holdings as the new SEO Manager for their MediaWhiz Search division. MediaWhiz is the higher ranking of two Inc. 500 companies I have worked for, the first (you know who you are) topped out at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.appliedseo.com/couple-of-big-announcements/</link>
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		<title>Coming to Terms with Ranking Fluctuations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s the Holy Grail of search marketing to be the #1 listing for your Primary Keyword or Phrase. But it’s not that simple. There are a number of ranking issues with the major search engines that make the elusive #1 position even more elusive than you might imagine. Forget SEO for a moment and think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.appliedseo.com/coming-to-terms-with-ranking-fluctuations/</link>
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		<title>Which SEO Tools to Use and Why</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone recently asked me for my thoughts on SEO tools. Which ones did I use and why? I thought this would be an interesting topic for this site so here goes. SEO tools can be broken down into three basic types in my mind.

SEO Tools for Research
SEO Tools for Production
SEO Tools for Analysis

While there are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.appliedseo.com/which-seo-tools-to-use-and-why/</link>
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		<title>South Florida WordPress Meetup Tonight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight is the SF WordPress Users Inagural Meetup and I hope you are coming if you are in the area.
I had a few people from the community ask if I would be interested in running a Meetup Group for Wordpress. I have been helping to run the South Florida SEO Meetup for over a year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.appliedseo.com/south-florida-wordpress-meetup-tonight/</link>
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		<title>Were Back and About to Change &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well its been an interesting month or so. The site here has been notably absent and I unfortunatly did not have the time to set things right until now. We have switch hosting companies, now prowdly hosted at www.dreamhost.com. There are still a few bug to fix. The WP-DB-Backup plugin I had been using gave [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.appliedseo.com/were-back-and-about-to-change/</link>
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		<title>At SES San Jose all Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am out in beautiful San Jose all week hiding from the Hurricane that is hitting South Florida this week. It just so happens that SES San Jose 2008 is on and I covering the event for SearchEngineJournal.com If you are at the show and want to meet, drop me a message here or direct [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.appliedseo.com/at-ses-san-jose-all-week/</link>
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		<title>Playing with Wordle.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a Twitter by Lee Odden about an interesting graphic created when you put all the AdAge Power 150 blogs in to Wordle.net. I had to go play with it some myself. I was quite impressed that when I created a Wordle image of my Del.icio.us tags it was a really nice representation of my [...]]]></description>
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