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		<title>Understanding Google Penalties: Penguin 2.0 Is Coming</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 11:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Word on the street is that Penguin 2.0 will be coming to a Google organic search result near you very shortly. If you aren’t familiar with the Google Penguin algorithm update, it was first launched in the spring of 2012 and targeted websites that were using low quality (spammy) link building tactics. According to Matt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Search Engine Penalty: Manual or Algorithmic?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 12:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve noticed a significant dip in traffic to your website that spans a substantial amount of time (more than just a few days or weeks) and you haven’t scaled back any of your marketing efforts and can’t attribute it to external factors like the seasonality of your product or service your website may have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Website In the Google Sandbox?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOs spend a lot of time thinking about the Google search algorithm. After all, Google is the King of Search as everyone “Googles” what they are looking for. Unfortunately the Google algorithm remains a secretive entity and we are only left to trial and error to even begin to understand it. However, one component of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Tells Us “How Search Works”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=7513</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of its continued effort to be more transparent, Google has recently published “How Search Works” on its Inside Search site which tells the “from algorithms to answers” story. The main “How Search Works” page tells the story in image form as you scroll down and it is separated into three parts: Crawling and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret to Withstanding the Next Google Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawna Wright</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=6744</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Panda, Penguin, ads above the fold, exact match domains, Venice&#8212;it sometimes seemed like a new Google update was rolling out every other week in 2012. If you want to see exactly how many Google updates actually went live SEOMoz has a great algorithm change timeline. Panda and Penguin were undoubtedly the heaviest hitters of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s Up With Google Debt Collectors?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by Amanda DiSilvestro of HigherVisibility Google might be on top of the world, but let’s not forget they still need your money. Google AdWords is a huge source of revenue for the search engine giant, so if you’re in debt they’re going to find you and collect just as any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ways to Claim More SERP Real Estate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=6153</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When people are looking for information today they typically turn to their favorite search engine, which is most likely Google. Not only do you want your business to appear within search results, but ideally you want your business to appear multiple times on a SERP (search engine results page). This is especially true for branded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google’s Venice Update—The Forgotten Local Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Stamoulis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=6116</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last few months I noticed that Brick Marketing was ranking in the top five search results for incredibly broad, national keywords like “SEO company.” We’ve been doing very well for localized keywords for a long time, but to see the company crack the SERPs for a national keyword (especially one as competitive as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bing Webmaster Guidelines: Does Anyone Care?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Stamoulis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=6309</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bing recently announced on its blog that it released the Bing Webmaster Guidelines. According to Bing: These Webmaster guidelines are broad, but provide guidance on major points such as: 1. Technical SEO 2. Social Media 3. Content 4. Links 5. Things to Avoid Changes should be infrequent as these current Bing Webmaster Guidelines cover most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Google Webmaster Tools to Verify a Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=6290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this week’s SEO link building video lesson, Nick Stamoulis explains the difference between Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools. Google Webmaster Tools shows you what is going on with your site “under the hood,&#8221; whereas Google Analytics shows you where your traffic is coming from. For SEO purposes, you can submit your XML sitemap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create a Search Engine Spider Friendly Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=6072</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The whole purpose of having a business website is to get visitors to the site that will ultimately become clients or customers. For most websites, the number one referral source of traffic is Google. For most people, Google is the first place they go when they are looking for just about anything. If you want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Harsh Realities of a Search Engine Penalty</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Stamoulis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=5886</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In early October 2012, Google lived up to Matt Cutts’ promise of “jarring” updates. In about a week Google pushed out the exact match domain (EMD) update, a new Panda update, a page layout algorithm update AND the long awaited Penguin refresh. The EMD update happened first, and plenty of sites without keyword rich domains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use Google Alerts to Improve Marketing Efforts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=5961</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google is a great resource for searching online and finding information that you need. We all know this. But Google’s product offerings expand beyond search. For anyone serious about marketing their website Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools are essential because these tools provide you with vital information about the performance of your website and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Releases a Tool to Disavow Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=5937</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Links have always been and continue to be an extremely important part of SEO. Google ranks websites based on trust and the inbound links pointing to a website convey this trust. In the early days of Google and SEO nearly any link was considered to be a good link. That’s why so many low quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Was Your Site Impacted by an Algorithm Update?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=5792</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The search engines release updates to their algorithms all the time. Most of these updates go unnoticed because they affect such a small number of sites, and may not even make a huge difference when it comes to ranking or traffic. However, some algorithm updates are massive game changers like the Google Panda update and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Cracks Down on Exact Match Domains</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Stamoulis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=5675</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in May I hypothesized that the Google Panda update would take on exact match domains in the coming months, and it turns out I was right! Matt Cutts of Google announced a few days ago that a “small upcoming Google algo change will reduce low-quality &#8220;exact-match&#8221; domains in search results.” He did add that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Google’s Global Market Finder Tool Will Help You Reach Overseas Customers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 07:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by Courtney Mills of ineedhits. If it’s time to push your business into new countries then you are going to need to compile a list of keywords to target for each specific location. There are a number of tools that can help you achieve this, but one of the best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google to Include Gmail Info in Search Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google recently announced that they would be taking their mission of personalizing search results one step further by including your email information from Gmail in search results. From the official Google blog: Sometimes the best answer to your question isn’t available on the public web—it may be contained somewhere else, such as in your email. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Was My Site Was Penalized by Google?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Stamoulis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brickmarketing.com/blog/?p=4586</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First off, it’s important to mention that a website can be penalized by Google in two different ways—manual action or algorithmic update. A manual penalty means a human employee at Google physically reviewed your website and issued a penalty. An algorithmic penalty happens when your site gets caught in the cross hairs of an algorithm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use Google Tools to Monitor Your Brand Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brick Marketing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A positive online brand reputation can take years to build. It’s important to do all that you can to preserve that positive reputation once it has been earned. When consumers are looking for a product or service or for information about a business, they turn to the Internet. Anybody with an Internet connection can find [...]]]></description>
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