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		<title>Don’t Be Afraid to Ask for a Link</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 11:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inbound links from relevant and authoritative sites are an important component of SEO. These inbound links help to convey to the search engines that your site provides something valuable and can be trusted. Link building is the ongoing portion of an SEO campaign, however sometimes links appear naturally. These natural links are really the best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>404s Aren’t Errors, They’re Link Building Opportunities!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 12:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Stamoulis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next time you are poking around your Google Webmaster Tools account take a look under HEALTH -> CRAWL ERRORS -> NOT FOUND. I bet your site has at least a few 404 errors in there. If you recently redesigned your website or reorganized a lot of content there’s probably a few more. A 404 error [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Your Site Be Penalized for a Link Spike?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 12:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Stamoulis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=7497</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of SEO professionals, myself included, talk about the importance of taking a natural and diversified approach to link building. It’s important to build your inbound links up slowly overtime as a way to avoid making it seem like you are trying to “spam” the system. A lot of black hat SEO spammers offer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basic Links that Every Site Should Have</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 12:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=8097</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Arguably the most difficult part of an SEO campaign is the ongoing link building component. It’s a manual, time consuming process to find locations in which to build links. This is especially true now, as the search engines pay close attention to the quality of links as opposed to the quantity of links. Basically, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leverage Advertising for SEO Link Building</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Link Building]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=7818</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The individuals, companies, firms, etc. that are the most successful with SEO are the ones that think outside of the box when it comes to SEO activities and understand that other things that the business is up to can help to improve SEO. SEO is a part of online marketing but that doesn’t mean that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Research Tips for Blog Commenting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Link Building]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=7956</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this week’s SEO video lesson, Nick Stamoulis outlines some steps for researching blogs for blog commenting. Blog commenting is an important part of a link building campaign in which you research and find industry related and niche blogs where you then contribute to discussions on various posts, with a link back to your website. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Links to Beget Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Stamoulis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best kinds of link building activities are the ones that stimulate other activity. Imagine your SEO campaign is like a racecar and your link building efforts are the turbo boost&#8212;it’s what kicks things up a notch and takes your website to the next level. 5-10 years ago most websites could build a few links [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Pay Per Link SEO is No Good</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=7490</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’re in the market for an SEO provider you’ll find that there are plenty of options to choose from. You could hire an in house professional or opt to outsource the work. Outsourcing is typically the way to go for budget purposes since an in house professional can be pricey. Once you’ve decided to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incorporate a Variety of Keyword Anchor Text</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=7429</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SEO best practice is to conduct keyword research before progressing with any other component of the campaign. This is because keywords set the foundation of the campaign and are used in every SEO activity from on site optimization to content marketing to social media to traditional link building. Keyword research should be conducted for every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carefully Consider Outbound Links Too</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Link Building]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=7414</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to online marketing, and SEO in particular, when people are talking about links it’s typically about inbound links. This is because inbound links pointing to your site are what help to convey trust to the search engine spiders. A link from another website over to yours serves as a sort of “vote” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Nofollow Links Still Worth Something?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Stamoulis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Link Building]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=6778</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Nofollow” is how a site owner can tell the search spiders to literally not follow a specific link through to the next page it links to. Some site owners use nofollow links as a way to discourage spammers from building up inbound links from their site because a nofollow links doesn’t pass any link juice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Your Referral Links Driving Traffic?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Stamoulis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=6670</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Also known as inbound links, referral links are the links you’ve built on high-quality sites that help drive targeted traffic over to your site. One of the best ways to ensure that your link building stays white hat and doesn’t run afoul of the Google Penguin update (which targeted web spam and sites with poor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Link Building Requires a Time Commitment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=7384</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this week’s SEO video lesson, Nick Stamoulis explains how link building is an ongoing process that requires a solid time commitment of 20-60 hours each month SEO is long-term and it takes a lot of time and effort to achieve results. As link building is a part of the overall SEO strategy, you need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are There Good Paid Links?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=7011</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to white hat SEO, there are a lot of rules to follow. The search engines lay out certain guidelines that must be abided by in order to be viewed favorably by the search engines. The black hat SEO practitioners pretty much ignore these guidelines and prefer to risk it. Black hat tactics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integrating Link Building with Day to Day Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=7321</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this week’s SEO video lesson, Nick Stamoulis provides some ideas on how to integrate link building into your day to day activities. Everything you do in your business can be related back to link building, and everything you do can be leveraged for SEO. Whether you are launching a new product or starting a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take the Right Approach to Blog Commenting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=6960</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Blog commenting is a valuable online marketing tactic for multiple reasons. Reading industry blogs can provide you with knowledge that can make you better at your craft. You can see what others are talking about in the industry and use what you learn in order to create your own content. By leaving a comment on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There Are Always Link Building Opportunities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=6917</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Once keyword research has been conducted and the website has been optimized, the ongoing component of an SEO program is link building. Link building is necessary because inbound links pointing to a website are what convey trust to the search engine spiders. The search spiders crawl the web link to link and the more quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reasons to Conduct a Full SEO Link Audit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=6824</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An SEO link audit is the process of pulling the inbound link data of your site and of your competitors using an SEO tool like SEOMoz and analyzing each existing link that points to the sites. It involves manually visiting each link and categorizing the link. Categories could include article links, press release links, blog/blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Link Building Activities Need to Be Relevant!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Stamoulis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=6404</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a strictly white hat link building advocate and have been my whole SEO career. That means I believe that SEO campaigns need to play by the rules set forth by the search engines (as best as we can understand them anyway) and to avoid anything that might land your website in hot water. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Build Links That Generate Traffic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Link Building]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=6773</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s no doubt that link building is an important part of SEO. Inbound links are what help convey trust to the search engines and improve a search engine presence. However, you never want to focus too much on the search engines when it comes to link building. After all, the search engines are simply robots. [...]]]></description>
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