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	<title>JIC Design Blog: SEO, Web Development and Technology</title>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A common question we hear about is, &#8220;Should we buy links?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Link Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When SEO was in its infancy, on-page factors such as keyword density and meta tags were the end all and be all of ranking. However, once search engines overcame that hurdle they focused on incoming links, well at least Google did and everybody else soon followed. Now all it took was buying links from any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Classic SEO dead?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just read a great article detailing how classic SEO is dead. Personally I agree and disagree with the statement. Classic SEO, involving on-page factors, crawling, as well as link campaigns are still highly relevant in search rankings, however they are not the end all and be all anymore. Search engines have integrated image search, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>.ca Domain Names Will be Private</title>
		<link>http://www.jicdesign.com/blog/domains/ca-domain-names-will-be-private.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 14:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Domains]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have come across some interesting news concerning the registration of Canadiandomain names (.ca). The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) will be implementing privacy changes to the dot-ca (.ca) WHOIS, effective June 10, 2008. Fot those who are not familiar with the WHOIS service, it&#8217;s a public tool that allows users to search information about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning Smiles  - A Great Charity</title>
		<link>http://www.jicdesign.com/blog/projects/learning-smiles-a-great-charity.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Projects]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Good Evening,
JIC Design is a proud believer in helping those in need from all parts of the world, and it all begins with great people working for great charities. We have had the honour to sponsor one of those wonderful charities, Learning Smiles, and were able to have a quick interview with founder Rob Gilmour. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dashes Better Than Underscores For New Websites</title>
		<link>http://www.jicdesign.com/blog/website-design/dashes-better-than-underscores-for-new-websites.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.jicdesign.com/blog/website-design/dashes-better-than-underscores-for-new-websites.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At WordCamp 2007 Matt Cutts confirmed that dashes would be the best choice instead of no spaces or underscores. He mentined that Google was now looking into it. He recommends sites that already have underscores to leave them, as do I because that would be a 301 redirect nightmare, and for new sites to use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reciprocal Linking Can Get You Banned From Google</title>
		<link>http://www.jicdesign.com/blog/website-design/reciprocal-linking-can-get-you-banned-from-google.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.jicdesign.com/blog/website-design/reciprocal-linking-can-get-you-banned-from-google.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Link Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well for years now, actually since the Big Daddy update, webmasters and SEOs have been pondering and discussing amongst themselves and the community whether Google has been penalizing or discounting links to a site because it is a reciprocal link. There is no need to wait any longer though&#8230;according to the new Google Webmaster Guidelines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long Tail For SEO</title>
		<link>http://www.jicdesign.com/blog/search-engine-optimization/long-tail-for-seo.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting article I came across was Aaron&#8217;s blog post, &#8220;How to Estimate the Length &#038; Value of the Long Tail for Your Target Market&#8217;s Keywords&#8220;. It was an interesting read about How do you determine how much value there is in the head of a keyword space compared to the tail of the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Above The Fold in Email Marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.jicdesign.com/blog/email-marketing/above-the-fold-in-email-marketing.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Email Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Email Marketing is the new buzz word within the online marketing companies. Email is the means to reach numerous subscribers with multiple great messages and promotions. A common overlooked aspect of email optimization is the Preview Window. The preview window refers to the portion of your Outlook that displays your email once you click on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addition To Sitemap Protocol</title>
		<link>http://www.jicdesign.com/blog/search-engine-optimization/addition-to-sitemap-protocol.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 00:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MSN]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Yahoo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There has finally been an enhancement to the standardized sitemap protocol developed by Google, Yahoo and MSN - Autodiscovery. Autodiscovery gives siteowners the ability to easily share their sitemaps with all search engines at once, avoiding the overhead of manually submitting them to each search engine. 
The protocol works as follows. Add the following line [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advice From SEO Allstars</title>
		<link>http://www.jicdesign.com/blog/search-engine-optimization/advice-from-seo-allstars.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the help of numerous SEO gurus, including Danny Sullivan, Eric Ward and Rand Fishkin, there is a Search Engine Ranking Factors List. It&#8217;s hard to criticize anything that these SEO&#8217;s have to say since the many of them introduced the world to SEO. Without further ado, here are the Top 10 Positive Factors:

Keyword Use [...]]]></description>
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