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	<description>George Chaney is dedicated to helping the small business owner succeed in big business!</description>
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		<title>How To Make Your Website Stand Out Among The Masses</title>
		<link>http://www.seokingblog.com/2012/02/03/how-to-make-your-website-stand-out-among-the-masses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Chaney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[get noticed online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[make your website standout]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for a few ways to get noticed and take a step ahead of the competition with your website?  It&#8217;s definitely worth the effort, and taking the leading edge as far as standing out from the masses is something that just so happens to be very doable too. Here are some surefire ways to make your website stand out amount the masses: More content.  The old standard remains as true as ever.  Content is king.  So many website owners spend 10 times the effort on super tweaking their web design for every single unit of time they apply to creating top quality content.  If you want to stand up and stand out against the masses, commit to writing a new in-depth, authoritative website article or blog article for every day of the week.  After a year, you&#8217;ll be heads and tails above most competition in the content department. Better content.  Although more content is important, it isn&#8217;t the end all be all.  There is a special place in the search engine&#8217;s heart for better content.  This means developing a plan to routinely add to your existing website content by updating it with new and relevant supporting material.  Change the details [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HTML5 &amp; CSS3:  A Quick Look At What These New Standards Mean For Your Next Website</title>
		<link>http://www.seokingblog.com/2012/02/01/html5-css3%c2%a0-a-quick-look-at-what-these-new-standards-mean-for-your-next-website/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seokingblog.com/2012/02/01/html5-css3%c2%a0-a-quick-look-at-what-these-new-standards-mean-for-your-next-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Chaney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[css3]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things are changing when it comes to the code that powers your websites.  In the whole scheme of things, it really wasn&#8217;t all that long ago that Adobe Flash was a must have for any website owner who wanted to show they were &#8220;with it&#8221; when it comes to their website.  Today, it seems like the trend is to run away from everything that was once mainstream. Fortunately, we have some new web design protocols in place that are really starting to catch on in a huge way.  HTML5 and CSS3 are here for good and they are certainly the future of web design. What Do These Modern Standards Mean For Your Next Website? Faster Performance.  Thanks to new features built into the HTML5 language, if used properly, web developers can significantly improve website performance and bandwidth usage.  Everyone likes a better performing website. Significantly Improved Compatibility.  HTML5 provides developers a way to share video universally.  It provides a way to do animations and other design elements that were once only limited to the world of Flash.  But best of all, it takes these components and puts them in every modern web browser (including mobile devices) in order to create [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Hosting Isn&#8217;t What It Used To Be</title>
		<link>http://www.seokingblog.com/2012/01/30/web-hosting-isnt-what-it-used-to-be/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seokingblog.com/2012/01/30/web-hosting-isnt-what-it-used-to-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Chaney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Hosting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s true&#8230;web hosting is not what it used to be.  Web hosting has changed quite a bit over the years.  It&#8217;s not one-size-fits-all, it&#8217;s not unlimited, and it&#8217;s not provided for free.  It&#8217;s not the same from one host to the next, it&#8217;s not something you get from your ISP, and it&#8217;s not the only way to host your email. So what is it then? Well, it&#8217;s extremely important for starters.  Your web hosting is the foundation of your website and can make or break your site&#8217;s performance.  It can make or break your website&#8217;s search engine rankings too if you&#8217;re not careful.  Web hosting is something you really need to get right. Here are some pointers: Avoid ending up on a shared server that indiscriminately places you on the same IP address of thousands of other websites.  Without naming names, one extremely popular web hosting service out there routinely places 10,000 plus websites on the same server.  Needless to say, this is not a good thing for performance &#8211; but it&#8217;s also very bad when it comes to SEO.  All it takes is one bad neighbor on that server, and by association your site can be effectively penalized via [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is Responsive Web Design And Why Does It Matter To You?</title>
		<link>http://www.seokingblog.com/2012/01/28/what-is-responsive-web-design-and-why-does-it-matter-to-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seokingblog.com/2012/01/28/what-is-responsive-web-design-and-why-does-it-matter-to-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Chaney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[responsive web design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Responsive web design is getting a whole lot of buzz lately.  And all for good reason&#8230;this design philosophy is making the web a better place for cross platform users who are increasing in numbers every single day. So what exactly is responsive web design and why does it matter to you? Responsive web design is design that responds to the browser or device that it is being viewed on. Responsive web design is a design method that creates websites that adjust automatically for the device that a website&#8217;s visitors are using to view the site.  Simply put, using this technique means that a designer can create just one single site design that automatically adapts and adjusts itself to work with a huge variety of screen resolutions and web browsers. A lot of the technique behind responsive web design involves the use of percentages in the CSS code instead of exact pixel dimensions.  What this means is images, text, and other elements of the site scale themselves to fit the screen of the device they&#8217;re being viewed on.  This is a fairly basic description, and responsive design does a lot more, but this should hopefully serve as an easy to understand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Clean &amp; Simple Design Has Been The Trend For 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.seokingblog.com/2012/01/26/why-clean-simple-design-has-been-the-trend-fpr-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Chaney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clean and simple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clutter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distractions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not too long ago, designing a good website was apparently all about how many bells, whistles, do-dads, and other completely unnecessary features you could pack in to the design.  Thank goodness this has changed! Clean and simple web design has been the trend of the year, and here is why: People are too busy for clutter and distraction.  What is your level of tolerance when you land on a site that is filled with junk, too many flashing graphics, sound that starts when you land on the page, or perhaps way too much advertising?  It&#8217;s probably safe to say that we&#8217;re all becoming a little bit more skeptical of all this stuff and much quicker with the &#8220;back-button&#8221; trigger.  We all have better things to do that wade through distraction to find something on a website. Mobile devices demand it.  Mobile devices are very robust these days when it comes to processing power (and internet connectivity speeds), but the trend of simple, clean websites makes all the difference in the minds of smartphone or tablet device users.  The screen space is limited and any amount of clutter or un-needed distraction can make the website virtually unusable for mobile visitors. People [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why This Economy Is The Perfect Time To Build Your Web Business</title>
		<link>http://www.seokingblog.com/2012/01/24/why-this-economy-is-the-perfect-time-to-build-your-web-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seokingblog.com/2012/01/24/why-this-economy-is-the-perfect-time-to-build-your-web-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Chaney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Starting A Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[best time to start a business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of naysayers out there right now &#8211; and always, for that matter &#8211; that are saying that in this economy there is no hope.  They say it&#8217;s a horrible time to start a business; a horrible time to build and grow a web business.  High taxes, low stability, and just a general feeling of uncertainty. Well, they&#8217;re right on that last part&#8230;there are more restrictions and barriers to business these days&#8230;and hopefully these will go by the wayside sooner than later.  But even so, they&#8217;re still no excuse not to commit to building your web business.  In fact, they are actually pretty good reasons to plow ahead and grow your online streams of income.  Why so? First of all, the competition is at a minimum because so many of the would-be competitors are falling in the web of the naysayers.  They&#8217;re falling for all of the negativity, all of the &#8220;it cannot be dones,&#8221; and generally just succumbing to the popular sentiment of a bad economy before even starting progress on growing their web businesses. Anything is possible, and for those willing to work hard, a self-supporting web business is a very real and a very possible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call To Action: It&#8217;s Essential and Here&#8217;s Why!</title>
		<link>http://www.seokingblog.com/2011/05/27/call-to-action-it%e2%80%99s-essential-and-here%e2%80%99s-why%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seokingblog.com/2011/05/27/call-to-action-it%e2%80%99s-essential-and-here%e2%80%99s-why%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 18:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Chaney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Customer Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[call to action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is your call to action?  Creating website content without a call to action is like opening a retail store without any employees.  Customers come in, but you have no way of helping them find what they’re after and no way to guide them to the checkout counter.  A call to action is essential on the web…whether for sales oriented copy or any other web content as well. What is a call to action? Well, it can be many different things and take many different forms.  But essentially, all calls to action boil down to the same thing—asking the visitor to take a next action.  It could be outright asking for the sale&#8230;for example, “Click here to buy this product now.”  That’s a fairly obvious call to action, but a very common and important one at that. Another call to action might come in the form of getting your visitors to fill out a form to provide more information.  For example, “Enter your email address here to receive our very best deals of the week.”  Or maybe the info capture instead offers to sign them up to receive complete additional information by providing their basic contact info (this is sometimes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which Is Better&#8230;Template Based Design Or Web Design From Scratch?</title>
		<link>http://www.seokingblog.com/2011/04/23/which-is-better%e2%80%a6template-based-design-or-web-design-from-scratch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seokingblog.com/2011/04/23/which-is-better%e2%80%a6template-based-design-or-web-design-from-scratch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Chaney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[template designs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Template web design vs. web design from scratch…is there really a debate on which one is better?  It’s only natural that custom web design from scratch is the winner—when done by a true design pro and within your available budget, that is. Design From Scratch Is More Expensive Sometimes, doing a complete from scratch web design can be prohibitively expensive on a micro startup kind of budget.  There’s little doubt about this.  Custom websites, built from the ground up from scratch, are very time-consuming and very demanding of professional expertise and knowledge resources.  While true from-scratch designs can be affordable for smaller sites, when you get into large dynamic websites, there is just a lot of code and a lot of time and brainpower that must go into putting it all together block by block. Compromise Somewhere In The Middle Fortunately, there are efficiencies that your web development professional can take.  For example, using a pro-grade framework CMS (content management system) or open-source software like WordPress can save a bundle on back-end development. In other words, it’s possible to walk the line right down the middle between “template” and “from scratch” by using pre-built software for the behind the scenes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Backbone Of An Online Store</title>
		<link>http://www.seokingblog.com/2011/04/13/the-backbone-of-an-online-store/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seokingblog.com/2011/04/13/the-backbone-of-an-online-store/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Chaney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[eCommerce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Store]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What does it take to get your e-commerce website off the ground and running?  Besides an excellent product and great promotional skills, that is?  Let’s take a look at that backbone of an online store and what it takes to hit the ground running on the web… Step One:  The Domain &#38; Hosting. You’re going to obviously need a domain name and a web hosting company in order to put your product in front of the world on the web.  You probably already know this, but it’s worth mentioning just in case.   These are fundamentals to any website—e-commerce or otherwise. Step Two:  The Website Itself. There’s more to any good e-commerce store than just the products it sells alone.  Those are important, of course, but that’s the next step.  First things first, you’ll need an excellent website design and supporting pages—pages that tell your visitors about you, what makes you different (your USP), how to contact you, and so on.  There is a lot that goes into a good web design, and again, this is a very vital part of every website—e-commerce or not. Step Three:  The E-Commerce Software. This is where the magic happens.  Okay, sorry for the cliché, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 Instant Ways To Improve Yourself While Building Traffic For Your Site</title>
		<link>http://www.seokingblog.com/2011/03/25/2-instant-ways-to-improve-yourself-while-building-traffic-for-your-site/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seokingblog.com/2011/03/25/2-instant-ways-to-improve-yourself-while-building-traffic-for-your-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Chaney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Customer Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[improve website traffic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As small business owners and active entrepreneurs, we’re always trying to learn and better ourselves.  Or at least we should be trying to do so—to let this area of focus start to slide so often equates to bigger problems down the road.  You’ve got to continue to improve your business sense, your knowledge of what’s new and innovative, and your desire to try new things for your ventures. When it comes to the web, one of the things we’re always trying to do is to grow our traffic—specifically, the kind of high quality visitor traffic that converts and is measurable when it comes to the good old bottom line.  With this in mind… Here are 2 instant ways to improve yourself while building traffic for your site: One:  Learn to write for the web. The Concept: This method of improving yourself while building traffic to your website is far and above one of the best places you can possibly invest your self-improvement time.  Writing for the web is not that difficult.  It might seem intimidating to the untrained eye, but really it’s all about conversation and sharing your area of expertise with your customers. Put It Into Practice: Think of [...]]]></description>
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