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	<description>Dustin Woodard&#039;s thoughts on search, social media, web analytics and the web in general.</description>
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		<title>Mike Siwek Lawyer MI Explained</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dustin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To better explain Wired magazine&#8217;s reference to mike siwek lawyer mi searches, I created this experimental blog post. Wired&#8217;s excellent article on Google&#8217;s algorithm links off to the search phrase: &#8220;mike siwek lawyer mi&#8221;, which sends you off to Google&#8217;s search results page for that query.
The mike siwek search phrase was used as an example [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections of a Pivotal Point in My Career</title>
		<link>http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/general/seo-career-reflections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/general/seo-career-reflections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dustin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something recently reminded me of an event early in my web marketing and SEO career. For me, it was a very pivotal moment of my career; for you, it might be an entertaining story of a consulting douche bag and how SEO battles don&#8217;t change much.
Roll back the clock to a little over a decade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Link Summary Snippets</title>
		<link>http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/social-networking/facebook-link-summary-snippets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/social-networking/facebook-link-summary-snippets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dustin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/?p=232</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you share a link on Facebook the summary text (or snippet) is usually displayed with the link. Sometimes they work well, other times they are completely random. Learn how to control exactly what shows up when a Facebook user shares a link.
Here&#8217;s an example of a link I recently shared that didn&#8217;t have ideal [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Speaking at Pubcon</title>
		<link>http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/seo/speaking-at-pubcon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/seo/speaking-at-pubcon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dustin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[User Generated Content]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pubcon is always a great conference and tends to attract more practitioners then some of the other major search conferences, which is something I highly value. I&#8217;ll be speaking at Pubcon next week on UGC SEO (optimizing user-generated content to drive large volumes of natural search traffic). Surprisingly, this is my first time speaking at [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Little Known Twitter Search Commands</title>
		<link>http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/seo/little-known-twitter-search-commands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/seo/little-known-twitter-search-commands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dustin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[User Generated Content]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/?p=195</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter search seems fairly basic, which often leads to people using 3rd party Twitter tools for searching. Most people don&#8217;t realize it, but Twitter some handy search command abilities:
Basic Twitter Search Commands (no surprises here):

Multi-word queries: if you search multiple words, Twitter&#8217;s default search will search tweets containing both (or all words).
Example:  big doggy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GoDaddy Twitter Relationship</title>
		<link>http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/uncategorized/godaddy-twitter-relationship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/uncategorized/godaddy-twitter-relationship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dustin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domaining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reputation Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/?p=186</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just over a month ago, I was shocked when I was force-fed a twitter screen takeover while looking at my domain names registered at GoDaddy. Immediately, I did some news searches to see if GoDaddy had purchased Twitter because it seemed very out of place. There were no such announcements. In fact, there was very [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>LinkedIn Benefits from Unemployment</title>
		<link>http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/general/linkedin-benefits-from-unemployment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/general/linkedin-benefits-from-unemployment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dustin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reputation Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you think about it, LinkedIn is a natural beneficiary from massive layoffs. Upon being laid off, here are some user activities LinkedIn might not see otherwise:

Status updates to let others know about layoff
Recommendation requests to co-workers
Recommendations for co-workers
Profile updates and employment history updates
Status updates about job seeking
LinkedIn personal network job searches
Contact info lookups to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Follow Google&#8217;s No-Follow Recommendations?</title>
		<link>http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/seo/do-you-follow-googles-no-follow-recommendations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/seo/do-you-follow-googles-no-follow-recommendations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dustin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[User Generated Content]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After attending SMX Advanced (or listening in), then reading Matt&#8217;s post about no-following, many SEOs, both beginning and advanced, are running around like chicken&#8217;s with their heads cut off, scrambling to decide what to do.
The more we pin Matt down on no-follow, the more confusing things become. If you were to read Matt&#8217;s post and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>NYT Sets Low Bar for Social Media Expert</title>
		<link>http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/social-networking/nyt-sets-low-bar-for-social-media-expert/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/social-networking/nyt-sets-low-bar-for-social-media-expert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 19:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dustin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reputation Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read this piece on Valleywag today about the New York Times hiring their first-ever Social Media Editor. 
Here&#8217;s the NYT description of their social media editor: 
One of the bracing things about this topsy-turvy media landscape is that you can wake up one morning and find yourself actually doing something you never thought you&#8217;d even [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Goodbye GeoCities</title>
		<link>http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/uncategorized/goodbye-geocities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/uncategorized/goodbye-geocities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dustin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/?p=144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As lame and as stale as many of their sites were, I still faintly remember the first GeoCities site I created in &#8216;96 or &#8216;97. I wish I could dig it up, but I have no idea what happened to it, though I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if it were one of their better sites ;)
Yahoo [...]]]></description>
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