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	<title>Internet Marketing Consulting &#187; The  SEO Experiment</title>
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		<title>Major Calgary SEO Success</title>
		<link>http://www.mmwebmarketer.com/2009/08/06/major-calgary-seo-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read on another Internet consultant&#8217;s website that we have to be able to practice what we preach to verify that we are capable of providing quality service to our clients. I fully agree with this statement which is why I have been running the Calgary search engine optimization experiment since  March 2009.
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		<title>Google Likes WordPress</title>
		<link>http://www.mmwebmarketer.com/2009/07/14/google-likes-wordpress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I switched my website (www.mmwebmarketing.com) over from being a  simple static HTML based site to a WordPress &#8211; CMS ( Client Managed System) because a friend of mine told me that Google liked blogs better than your regular website.  He mentioned that Google will index your site more often if it is built on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calgary search engine optimization experiment</title>
		<link>http://www.mmwebmarketer.com/2009/05/04/calgary-search-engine-optimization-experiment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 22:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been another 16 weeks since I began tracking the results of  my search optimization experiment. I mostly have been letting the project cook awhile and I have not been making a lot of  major changes to the home page. Basically the efforts made in the first few weeks have sustained their early success [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO Results after 8 weeks</title>
		<link>http://www.mmwebmarketer.com/2009/03/09/seo-results-after-8-weeks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a short note. After eight weeks my site is showing on page 4 of Google for the keywords &#8221; Calgary Internet marketing&#8221; and &#8220;Internet marketing Calgary&#8221; . This is up from page 8 when I started. Proves that a few simple changes when you understand what  you can do to improve your postion.
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		<title>Calgary Internet Marketing on Google</title>
		<link>http://www.mmwebmarketer.com/2009/02/24/calgary-internet-marketing-on-google/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mmwebmarketer.com/2009/02/24/calgary-internet-marketing-on-google/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The  SEO Experiment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Five weeks have passed since I optimized my website &#8211; www.mmwebmarketing.com &#8211; and began writing about it in this blog. Within 2 weeks of making changes to some of my content, my meta tags, some page titles and the menu, I began to see the impact. Ironically, as is often the case with Google, my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Weeks After Optimization</title>
		<link>http://www.mmwebmarketer.com/2009/02/10/4-weeks-after-optimization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The  SEO Experiment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Approximately 4 weeks ago I began making changes to my site based upon the research I had done on competitor websites at that time.  I made changes to a number of aspects of almost every page, notably the titles of the pages and in the meta tags.  I also altered the actual names of files [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Step Two &#8211; Keyword Research and the Competition</title>
		<link>http://www.mmwebmarketer.com/2009/01/11/step-two-keyword-research-and-the-competition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mmwebmarketer.com/2009/01/11/step-two-keyword-research-and-the-competition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The  SEO Experiment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I spent a few hours online today doing some keyword research to find what words  people are using to locate the type of information or services that I am offering on my website, www.mmwebmarketing.com. I believe that getting traffic isn&#8217;t the key to having a successful online presence. It&#8217;s easy to generate traffic and many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Step One- Tracking the Results</title>
		<link>http://www.mmwebmarketer.com/2008/12/30/step-one-tracking-the-results/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mmwebmarketer.com/2008/12/30/step-one-tracking-the-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The  SEO Experiment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The most important aspect of evaluating an SEO project is the ability to track your results. While this is obvious to professionals and many non-professionals, many business owners rely on their IT people to take care of it. Problem is, what happens if your IT person goes out of business or moves on? This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An SEO Experiment Is In The Works</title>
		<link>http://www.mmwebmarketer.com/2008/12/17/an-experiment-is-in-the-works/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mmwebmarketer.com/2008/12/17/an-experiment-is-in-the-works/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The  SEO Experiment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mmwebmarketer.com/?p=19</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have determined that many people claim to be experts at things they often know very little about. It is a trend now,  to become a Life Coach, a Marketing Coach or a professional Search Engine Optimizer after simply raising a couple of kids to public school age, taking some sales courses  or reading a [...]]]></description>
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