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		<title>All done with SEO?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All done with SEO? Nope, not ever. Good SEO is about a lot of things- you should make sure your website is well-designed to be easy to navigate (for humans and search engines), eliminate duplicate content, intelligently internally link, convince nice people to link to you, do smart keyword research, and make sure to actually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrivemedia.com/all-done-with-seo</link>
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		<title>Google Scraps GAP, Launches AdWords Certification Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Launches New Directory for Advertisers/Agencies Google is retiring the Google Advertising Professionals (GAP) program, and replacing it with the new Google AdWords Certification program. &#8220;We&#8217;ve had a lot of great feedback from agencies and today we’re announcing changes designed to offer them better training and more rigorous certification in AdWords proficiency, and to lower [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrivemedia.com/google-scraps-gap-launches-adwords-certification-program</link>
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		<title>Bill Gates: How To Change The World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Live Video How does Bill Gates inspire students to change the world? Tune in here to find out. Gates is kicking off a college tour today with a speech to students at UC Berkeley. He will talk about the big challenges facing the world today (poverty, health, energy, climate change) and what can be done [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrivemedia.com/bill-gates-how-to-change-the-world</link>
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		<title>The Next Big Thing in Social Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Make Sure Trends Make Sense For Your Business Before Following Them What&#8217;s the next big thing in social media? Is it Google Buzz? Is it Chat Roulette? Is it Foursquare? Is it Gowalla? Is it something you won&#8217;t hear about until tomorrow, next week, or next year? While it is certainly a good idea to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrivemedia.com/the-next-big-thing-in-social-media</link>
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		<title>Time Spent On Social Networks Up 60%</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Average global user devoting two more hours per month Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other such sites are &#8211; in general, anyway &#8211; doing quite well on a global basis, according to new stats from Nielsen. Nielsen revealed this afternoon that people all over the world are dedicating a lot more time to social networks. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrivemedia.com/nielsen-time-spent-on-social-networks-up-60</link>
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		<title>Facebook Unseats Google As Most-Visited Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Social network beat search engine in the U.S., according to Hitwise Although the &#8220;thud&#8221; wasn&#8217;t verified until this afternoon, it seems that an online giant fell a couple of days ago. According to new data from Hitwise, Facebook managed to beat Google in terms of visits between March 7th and March 13th, becoming the most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrivemedia.com/facebook-unseats-google-as-most-visited-site</link>
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		<title>How Important is Your Domain Name to Your Brand?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cover Your Brand&#8217;s Bases With Your Domain Name How important is your domain name to you brand? Most online businesses would probably consider it to be quite important, and with good reason. Sometimes before searching, customers may simply opt to go to the &#8220;yourbrandhere.com&#8221; URL simply because it makes sense. Now, sometimes that URL is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrivemedia.com/how-important-is-your-domain-name-to-your-brand</link>
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		<title>More Than Just a Redesign Going on with Facebook This Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook&#8217;s Big Week It&#8217;s been a pretty big week for Facebook. Not only is there a lot of talk about Facebook&#8217;s potential for becoming the top news source on the web, but the company celebrated its sixth birthday, is passing the 400 million user mark, and began rolling out some new design changes. In addition, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrivemedia.com/more-than-just-a-redesign-going-on-with-facebook-this-week</link>
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		<title>Has Google Begun Changing How it Indexes the Web?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last summer Google announced a new project called &#8220;Caffeine&#8221;, which was described as a re-write of Google&#8217;s web search architecture. Around that time, Matt Cutts discussed Caffeine with WebProNews, comparing it to the &#8220;Big Daddy Update&#8221; of 2005, which consisted of changes to the way Google crawls and indexes websites. It appears that more people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrivemedia.com/has-google-begun-changing-how-it-indexes-the-web</link>
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		<title>Succeeding In SEO Requires Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As search engines change you should too! As you know full well, the search industry is constantly changing, and that means SEOs and businesses must adapt. This is always made abundantly clear at the change of each year as the previous year is reflected upon, and predictions about trends in the upcoming year are discussed. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrivemedia.com/succeeding-in-seo-requires-change</link>
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