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		<title>3 Traits Of Quality Seo Web Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Chua</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to web design, you will find so incredible designers available. Most web designers are really creative and have a strong artistic background. They're able to make use of their artistic talents to generate layouts which are guaranteed to catch the eye of your visitors. Unfortunately, there's 1 main thing that most web designers are missing. The majority of internet designers aren't familiar with the concepts and implementation of search engine optimization strategies. Even if a web designer has at least some basic understanding of SEO, the majority do not worry about implementing search engine optimization techniques into their designs.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When it comes to web design, you will find so incredible designers available. Most web designers are really creative and have a strong artistic background. They&#8217;re able to make use of their artistic talents to generate layouts which are guaranteed to catch the eye of your visitors. Unfortunately, there&#8217;s 1 main thing that most web designers are missing. The majority of internet designers aren&#8217;t familiar with the concepts and implementation of search engine optimization strategies. Even if a web designer has at least some basic understanding of SEO, the majority do not worry about implementing search engine optimization techniques into their designs.</p>
<p>While this may possibly seem like a trivial detail, it can truly be the root of some key difficulties. No matter how appealing your web site is, if it is not indexed by the key search engines, the visitors it receives is going to be minimal. Once you recognize this is happening, you might be going to have to hire somebody with SEO knowledge to fix your layout. As a result, you may end up paying double for something that ought to have been done the 1st time around. Whether you&#8217;re a web designer or someone obtaining ready to hire a internet designer, here are 3 traits of high quality SEO web design:</p>
<p>Usability: As a general rule of thumb, if the design of a web website makes it easy for your human visitors to navigate, it&#8217;ll also be relatively easy for search engine robots to access, crawl and index your web site. Making your site user (and search engine) friendly consists of minimizing (or entirely eliminating) things including Flash, Javascript navigation and layouts designed with tables. By designing with usability in mind, you can be certain that your visitors as well as the search engines will probably be happy with your web web site.</p>
<p>Steer clear of Being Sneaky: Because web designers are generally very creative people, they like to push the envelope when it comes to designing web internet sites. Although this mentality can result in some genuinely amazing web layouts, it can also cause problems if taken too far. When creating a web website layout, it&#8217;s essential to maintain the web master guidelines of search engines like Google in mind. Incorporating things like hidden text into your designs is a positive method to get penalized (or de-indexed) by search engines. It&#8217;s ok to push the envelope with your designs, but just make certain that you stay away from doing anything that the search engines tell you not to do.</p>
<p>Onpage SEO: Even though this is the last item on the list, it really is truly probably the most crucial. On-page SEO is the basis for top quality SEO web design. It is important that correctly implement things such as title, meta, H1 and H2 tags, along with internal linking and the other key components of on-page search engine optimization. Taking the time to employ these practices will make a significant distinction in where your internet website ranks inside the search engines.</p>
<p>Looking to find the best deal on <a href='http://malcolmsolutions.com/'>seo services</a>,then visit www.malcolmsolutions.com to find the best advice on <a href='http://malcolmsolutions.com/'>search engine optimization consulting</a> for you.</p>
<p>categories: internet marketing,search engine optimization,seo</p>
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		<title>Improve Your Websites Response Rate by Implementing These Ten Simple and Easy Ideas!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are ten effortless ways to increase your websites response drastically with no cost associated with the improvements.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style='font-style:italic;' class='designbyline'>by Andrew Wood</div>
<p>Here are ten effortless ways to increase your websites response drastically with no cost associated with the improvements.</p>
<p>1. Add more content to your website, there simply isnt enough on yours. Why? Because you cant get enough content on your site especially if its good, relevant content. It will dramatically boost your search engine rankings and also the amount of time visitors spend interacting with your site.</p>
<p>2. Add Strong Benefit laden headlines to every page of your website instead of lame efforts like welcome to our club! One out of one thousand websites has strong sales copy, and they are the ones that are producing the best response!</p>
<p>3. Change your lead generation contest and promos every 60-90 days to keep them fresh! You need multiple ways to collect data running in key areas of your site simultaneously. Then you need to keep them fresh by changing them every 60-90 days.</p>
<p>4. Don&#8217;t just send e-mail special offers, enhance the content of every e-mail with jokes, tips, cartoons, funny stories and other content that adds value and makes it 100 times more likely that the player getting your e-mail might pass it on to someone else.</p>
<p>5. Add a blog and get someone, anyone, to blog every week. Blogs add excellent content, inbounds links and personalization to your companies website. They also provide an excellent and easy forum to solicit feedback. Internet marketing blogs are popping up everywhere. In this day and age your website is behind the times if you aren&#8217;t using a blog on your website. For example, they are becoming almost as popular as good marketing books for finding quality information about marketing. Going back five years ago you couldnt find any information about small business marketing one simple place, you had to find fifty or one hundred sites to compile a lot of good information!</p>
<p>6. Add a Twitter account reach younger people, boost your search engine rankings and get specials and news out in bite size flashes!</p>
<p>7. Ask more questions in your surveys then load a whole series of e-mail offers into your site that are triggered by your customers preferences. In that way you only send special offers to those customers who are most likely to be interested and respond. This dramatically increases your email marketing response rates and decreases opt out rates.</p>
<p>8. Add a Social engine, for your members or players to interact with others at your club.</p>
<p>9. Add a hover ad to your home page, one that must be closed to move on into the site. This will increase your data collection by 300% or more.</p>
<p>10. Build vertical mini websites for key income streams like membership, wedding and outings.</p>
<p>Get a comprehensive review and in depth report on how to maximize your Internet marketing strategy for just $1,500 and you don&#8217;t even have to use one of our sites!</p>
<p>Call me direct 352 266 2099 and Ill tell you how to maximize your internet investment even if you are with another company and believe me most of them need the help!</p>
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<div class='designlinks'>Andrew Wood is the world&#8217;s leading expert on golf related marketing. He is the author of over 20 <a href="http://www.cunninglyclevermarketing.com">marketing books</a> including Cunningly Clever Marketing Book and The Golf Marketing Bible. Andrew speaks worldwide on sales and marketing topics. He is the CEO multiple golf marketing companies including Legendary <a href="http://www.legendarygolfmanagement.com">Golf Management Company</a>.</div>
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		<title>Deciding Whether Or Not To Do Search Engine Optimization</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marty Albercore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Websites and blogs are being created and content is being produced at a higher rate than ever before. With the dramatic increase in information, it's easy to get lost in the proverbial crowd. On one hand, search engines are more adept than ever at indexing this new information and enabling searchers to find it. Conversely, the amount of information means that a lot of content will be shoved to the end of the rankings and people are likely to never find the content.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Websites and blogs are being created and content is being produced at a higher rate than ever before. With the dramatic increase in information, it&#8217;s easy to get lost in the proverbial crowd. On one hand, search engines are more adept than ever at indexing this new information and enabling searchers to find it. Conversely, the amount of information means that a lot of content will be shoved to the end of the rankings and people are likely to never find the content.</p>
<p>Search engine optimization can help any website standout. SEO works to optimize the website and build up infrastructure around the website that will help it rank higher in the search engine&#8217;s eyes. Search engine optimization is a process, not an event. It requires consistent dedicated effort over time to become competitive.</p>
<p>Do all sites need SEO? Believe it or not, the answer is no. SEO is a results-driven process. There has to be some end goal in mind, whether that be readership, sales, or branding purposes. If your goal is not about selling as much as possible, increasing readership as much as possible, etc., then you may not need search engine optimization at all.</p>
<p>You may be focused on blogging for a very specific audience, like family. Nobody else would be that interested in your life events. You might operate a site specifically for the purpose of chronicling your achievements or your creations. In cases like this, people are likely to find your site by typing in your name, and the people who are searching for you are those you would want to be readers.</p>
<p>Search engine optimization takes a lot of work and requires a definite investment of time and energy, not to mention success mixed with failure, especially if you want to show up for competitive keywords. If you don&#8217;t have a reason to do SEO, it&#8217;s just not worth it. You&#8217;d be better off focusing on writing content that people will find by accident and enjoy.</p>
<p>I am a expert writer with a good knowledge search engine optimization and the benefits of <a href="http://www.seo.com/services/">SEO services</a>. If you are interested in learning more about a expert <a href="http://www.seo.com">SEO company</a> please visit SEO.com.</p>
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		<title>What To Ask Web Design Firms</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Dalton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding the best web design firms to provide you with website design service takes quite a bit of car and consideration. Out of all the things to research when making your selection, how to layout your website and how to market your website are two very important ones. Learning more about these will help to protect your investment.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Finding the best web design firms to provide you with website design service takes quite a bit of car and consideration. Out of all the things to research when making your selection, how to layout your website and how to market your website are two very important ones. Learning more about these will help to protect your investment.</p>
<p>Design Concept</p>
<p>You can find websites designed myriad different ways by website design companies. There are basic principles hat most designers follow regarding core placement or font size, etc. But there are no hard rules to the way a website should look. </p>
<p>What are other websites in your industry like? What most do is going to be just fine for your website, or at least it is a good place to start. Most computer monitors are better than 1024 x 768, but some still have this size or have their monitors zoomed in. So be sure to take these dimensions into consideration.</p>
<p>Internet Marketing Techniques</p>
<p>You will hear many different ideas on search engine marketing. No one really knows all the tricks and if they did, it would change tomorrow anyway. If a web company is seeking your business, just get references, plain and simple. Ask for data. If they are helping current clients to rank, then they are obviously capable. </p>
<p>The rules of the internet are constantly changing and it takes quite a bit of work to keep up with state-of-the0art tactics. Monitoring your websites progress and the effects of your search engine marketing is the best way to make sure that you are not wasting your money and that you are getting a proper return on your investment.</p>
<p>When shopping web design firms, you must obtain their opinions on format, content management, design and marketing strategies. Do not underestimate the potential effect that a powerful website can have on your business and your income. Do not delegate the task of building your site haphazardly or you will encounter many hassles and disappointments. </p>
<p>Speaking clearly about your goals and expectations with web design companies that you are considering will help to make sure that your website succeeds. Learning as much as you can about web design before making any purchase will also help to make sure that you get the website you were looking for and further that your new website does its job and brings more traffic to your cause.</p>
<p>Source: B. Dalton has been in the web business a long time, look at all his articles for more on <a href="http://www.statuspromedia.com/web-design-firms.php">web design firms</a> and <a href="http://www.statuspromedia.com/website-design-service.php">website design service</a>.</p>
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		<title>Get More Traffic By Utilising Keyword Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gill Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keyword links will get traffic. Adobe currently beats 1.4 billion results to get to number one for what keyword phrase? click here, probably the most common keyword link in existence. And this simply happened because most websites that have an Adobe download link make it click here. Whether they get traffic with this search is debatable, but the point is made.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style='italic;' class='designbyline'>by Gill Taylor</div>
<p>Keyword links will get traffic. Adobe currently beats 1.4 billion results to get to number one for what keyword phrase? click here, probably the most common keyword link in existence. And this simply happened because most websites that have an Adobe download link make it click here. Whether they get traffic with this search is debatable, but the point is made.</p>
<p>So what exactly is a keyword link? A keyword link is a focussed back link, a link that points to your site. But its a super back link. A keyword link not only gives your site a back link, but also tells the search engines that your site is the authority on that keyword phrase. In short Google loves keyword links. And you want Google to love you.</p>
<p>So are you using keyword links to get traffic to your site? You should, because its actually quite easy to use keyword links to your great advantage. Your forum signatures should have keyword back licks. And your article resource boxes should definitely have keyword links in them. Youre not doing any extra work, but youre getting much higher quality back links.</p>
<p>And its so easy to get the right keywords for your keyword links. The major search engines, including Google, have a keyword research tool that will show you how many searches were done on a whole family of a particular keyword or keyword phrase. Have a look at a specific keyword and its family and choose a brother or sister keyword that is typical of your site, but not to widely used.</p>
<p>Heres an example: you have a website that mentors people on how to get traffic to their sites. They best keyword link would be something like get traffic or instantly get traffic or get traffic here. So in your recourse box you would have: We teach big traffic secrets! Click here, get traffic now. In this case get traffic now would be your keyword link and not click here. Competing with Adobe on a silly phase like that really is futile.</p>
<p>When you start promoting a new website its best to stick to only a couple of keyword links. Work with then until you get traffic and authority status. If you spread out your efforts to thinly across the web it will only take longer to get traffic and search engine results. And its always better to get traffic now, rather then later.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gill Taylor</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style='italic;' class='designbyline'>by Gill Taylor</div>
<p>Keyword links will get traffic. Adobe currently beats 1.4 billion results to get to number one for what keyword phrase? click here, probably the most common keyword link in existence. And this simply happened because most websites that have an Adobe download link make it click here. Whether they get traffic with this search is debatable, but the point is made.</p>
<p>First off a definition of a keyword link. A keyword link is a link pointing to your website. Its very much like a back link, only much more shiny. A keyword link has the keyword phrase that you want you website to be associated with. What makes a keyword link so powerful is that the search engines look at both the back link and than also links the keywords in that link to your site. </p>
<p>So is using keyword links part of your marketing repertoire. If not you should ask yourself why, because using keyword links to your advantage is almost as easy as tweaking what you are already using. Using discussion forums? You should have a keyword link in your signature pointing back to your site. Writing articles? Make sure you have a keyword link, or two, in your resource box. Simple tweaking, great new results!</p>
<p>How do you choose the keywords to have in your links? Luckily you dont have to go blindly into choosing your keywords. Google and most other search engines have great tools to see how many times searches were done on a particular keyword or keyword string. Choose a couple of keywords for your link that are not too competitive and absolutely relevant to your website.</p>
<p>To put this in writing; you have a site about getting traffic to a new website. I would suggest that you use the keyword link get traffic or get traffic for free or want to get traffic. So you would put the following in your forum signature: Learn from the traffic kings, click here to get traffic. Your clickable keyword link should be get traffic and not click here. Trying to muscle Adobe from their famous triumph will leave you wanting.</p>
<p>If youre starting your promotion work for your website you should maybe limit your keyword links to one or two. If you have too many keyword links drifting on the internet, in the early days, the search engines might still guess what your site is about. The quicker you get traffic to your website, so sooner the cash starts rolling in.</p>
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		<title>Is It True That Keyword Links Can Get You More Traffic?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gill Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get traffic with keyword links. Adobe is living proof of this. Search the keywords click here and Adobe pops up first, out of almost 1.4 billion results. Want to know how this happened? Easy, the download link for Adobe on almost all sites is the keyword link click here. Im sure its unintentional, so Im not sure if they actually get traffic with that keyword phrase.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style='italic;' class='designbyline'>by Gill Taylor</div>
<p>Get traffic with keyword links. Adobe is living proof of this. Search the keywords click here and Adobe pops up first, out of almost 1.4 billion results. Want to know how this happened? Easy, the download link for Adobe on almost all sites is the keyword link click here. Im sure its unintentional, so Im not sure if they actually get traffic with that keyword phrase.</p>
<p>First off a definition of a keyword link. A keyword link is a link pointing to your website. Its very much like a back link, only much more shiny. A keyword link has the keyword phrase that you want you website to be associated with. What makes a keyword link so powerful is that the search engines look at both the back link and than also links the keywords in that link to your site. </p>
<p>So are you using keyword links to get traffic to your site? You should, because its actually quite easy to use keyword links to your great advantage. Your forum signatures should have keyword back licks. And your article resource boxes should definitely have keyword links in them. Youre not doing any extra work, but youre getting much higher quality back links.</p>
<p>This raises the question of what keywords your keyword links should have. Most of the search engines have dedicated tools to see how many searches are done on a specific keyword or keyword phrase, so be sure to make use of that. Some basic guidelines are to choose keywords for your link is the competition should not be to stiff and it should be very relevant to your site.</p>
<p>Heres an example: you have a website that mentors people on how to get traffic to their sites. They best keyword link would be something like get traffic or instantly get traffic or get traffic here. So in your recourse box you would have: We teach big traffic secrets! Click here, get traffic now. In this case get traffic now would be your keyword link and not click here. Competing with Adobe on a silly phase like that really is futile.</p>
<p>I think its best to concentrate on one or two keyword links when you start out promoting your site. If you sow different keyword links all over the internet your efforts will take some time to start giving you some really hardcore results. You want to get traffic now, not later.</p>
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		<title>Steps To Successful SEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Internet professionals are intently curious about search engine optimization (SEO). But how exactly is a page optimized for SEO? There are certain benchmarks that business can follow to achieve high search engine results page ranking (SERPs) and get the targeted traffic they want. These steps will be discussed in detail.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style='italic;' class='designbyline'>by Julie Johnson</div>
<p>Many Internet professionals are intently curious about search engine optimization (SEO). But how exactly is a page optimized for SEO? There are certain benchmarks that business can follow to achieve high search engine results page ranking (SERPs) and get the targeted traffic they want. These steps will be discussed in detail.</p>
<p>The initial step to SEO success is to create a strong webpage.  This does not mean you must fill it with  irrelevant features, widgets, feeds and more.  Instead, a page is considered strong when it is filled with original, quality content.  When speaking of originality it means that it is not plagiarized, and the meaning of quality relates to incorporating something new.  Plainly stated, when a search engine has numerous articles on walking dogs, preference begins to go to articles with specific topics, such as instructions for walking certain breeds, or walking a dog on a hot day.  It is important to realize that if something has been posted time and time again on the Internet, then it is not regarded to as special.</p>
<p>Second, SEO pages are optimized for keywords in the right locations. First, the targeted keywords must be accurately positioned. Targeted keywords and phrases should be in the page title (not the site title), which is normally marked in HTML with the tag. Also, targeted keywords should be in the actual URL of the page (e.g. www.stuff.com/Targeted_Keywords.html). Finally, the target keywords are generally recommended to be in the first paragraph and last sentence of content. Long-tail keywords, aka related keywords, should be in the article body and separated by paragraph. What this entire process says to a search engine bot is, This article is about X because the URL, page title, introductory paragraph and conclusion say it is. But X and A, B, C, D are related because they appear to be sub-topics of X. Index this article for X and A, B, C, D under X.</p>
<p>The Final step is to ensure that you have exceptional backlinks (a link placed on another page which directs a researcher onto your page.  SEO relies heavily on backlinks, so it is important to have your anchored on a page with minimal other links and that is highly regarded by search engines, such as Google PageRank.  </p>
<p>SEO is not a complex idea, but its practices use thousands of dollars each year as companies teach marketers to use SEO and buy backlinks. But one thing is for sure, the SEO industry is not going away soon.</p>
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		<title>Getting Your Business On The First Page of Google: The DK-is-a-Street-Performer Case Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 14:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liane Carmi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a business owner, you may have noticed that a listing in the Yellow Pages - even a full-page color ad - no longer brings you the number of customers it used to. That is because today's yellow pages are really the world wide web. Today, people search for services on Google, and many never open - or even own - a copy of the yellow book.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style='italic;' class='designbyline'>by Liane Carmi</div>
<p>As a business owner, you may have noticed that a listing in the Yellow Pages &#8211; even a full-page color ad &#8211; no longer brings you the number of customers it used to. That is because today&#8217;s yellow pages are really the world wide web. Today, people search for services on Google, and many never open &#8211; or even own &#8211; a copy of the yellow book.</p>
<p>That is why there is so much business for SEO experts nowadays. Business owners know that the key to getting new clients is to rank on the first page of Google, and they will pay hundreds of dollars per month to get their websites to show up. And when they do? You have a 10% chance of having someone click on your website. </p>
<p>10% is better than no percent &#8211; but today&#8217;s businesses are looking for something more &#8211; something equivalent to the full-page color ads that used to draw consumers&#8217; attention to your ad in the yellow pages. These ads would increase visibility, and increase the number of new customers coming in.</p>
<p>This is exactly what the dk-is-a-street-performer case study teaches. A new breed of online marketers is emerging &#8211; marketers who are able to bring your business to the first page of Google SEVERAL times &#8211; effectively erasing your competitors and dramatically increasing the chance that a client would click on your site.</p>
<p>The more sites you have on the first page of Google for a specific search, the more likely you are to get traffic (or clicks) to your website. One site on the first page gives you a 1/10 chance of acquiring a new customer, while four sites would give you a 4/10 chance. One of the challengers in the dk-is-a-street-performer case study, Liane Carmi, was actually able to get to 8/10!</p>
<p>Google updates its rankings all the time, bringing fresh news and blogs to the top of the page, and moving older items to the second and third pages of search. However, certain sites stay at the top. Ms. Carmi seems to have mastered the skills necessary to turn a website into an &#8220;authority&#8221; site which keeps a consistent high rank on the search engines.</p>
<p>During a recent interview, Ms. Carmi was asked about the challenge, and what has allowed her to rank so well. &#8220;You have to take action, and keep taking action,&#8221; she replied. &#8220;The winner is not the first person to do something &#8211; it&#8217;s the first person to do something, and keep doing it consistently even when everyone else has stopped.&#8221; </p>
<p>Ms. Carmi also offered this bit of advice for businesses who would like to have their websites take over the search engines: &#8220;Find an online marketer who has some experience with difficult niche markets. This is the type of marketer who can help you get on the first page of Google. Also, don&#8217;t forget to have someone look at your landing page, and make sure you are building a database. Traffic means nothing if you cannot convert the visitors into customers at some point.&#8221;</p>
<p>For the most recent updates on the contest, those interested should go to Google and type, &#8220;DK is a Street Performer&#8221; in the search.</p>
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<div class='designlinks'>Finally! The whole unbiased truth about &#8216;DK is a Street Performer&#8221; exposed. You owe it to yourself to visit <a href="http://hubpages.com/hub/DK-is-a-Street-Performer">DK is a Street Performer</a> and get the facts today.</div>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 16:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Ernie Orion</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Orange County California is such a wonderful place to live and do business.  There is a saying here that in Southern California, you are four hours away from everything.  Four hours from the beach, the mountains, Disneyland, Universal Studios, surfing and all sorts of other venues and activities.  This is even more true for people who live in Orange County who just happened to be centrally located in Southern California, just between Los Angeles and San Diego.  Instead of being four hours from everything, the people of Orange County are more like one hour from everything.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style='italic;' class='designbyline'>by Sam Ernie Orion</div>
<p>Orange County California is such a wonderful place to live and do business.  There is a saying here that in Southern California, you are four hours away from everything.  Four hours from the beach, the mountains, Disneyland, Universal Studios, surfing and all sorts of other venues and activities.  This is even more true for people who live in Orange County who just happened to be centrally located in Southern California, just between Los Angeles and San Diego.  Instead of being four hours from everything, the people of Orange County are more like one hour from everything.</p>
<p>Because the area is so beautiful and the location is perfectly suited, many people from around the world are attracted to come and live, vacation, or do business. In fact, Orange County draws more tourists than anywhere in the world.  In one area of the freeways, more cars travel here than anywhere in the world as well. The county has drawn many important businesses to the area, especially in the area of technology.  If there is a group of people who understand how to best use technology, then it must be the people of Orange County.</p>
<p>One area that is really booming is Orange County we design companies.  There are so many schools there that teach this skill and many people have graduated with technology degrees only to start their particular Orange County web design company.  You will find that the quality of work done here is some of the best available.  No question that there is a lot of competition, but competition breeds progress so this should not necessarily be viewed as a bad thing.  One area that is also growing is Orange County SEO expertise. </p>
<p>Orange County SEO companies specialize in Search Engine Optimization.  It is simply not good enough to have a website anymore and Orange County web design companies are having to focus more and more in this particular area.  For any company, it is really very critical that they consider optimization even before they make a web site for their company.  If a site is properly made from the ground up, then it will have a much better chance of placing well in the search engines.</p>
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