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	<link>http://andysweet.com</link>
	<description>Observations on Web Marketing</description>
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		<title>Organic vs. PPC &#8211; A Search Engine&#8217;s Priority Dilemma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right now (as of June 2) there is a conversation ongoing at Webmaster World about the declining value of a #1 organic search ranking.  The argument is that the #1 position doesn&#8217;t attract as much traffic as it used to (on Google in particular) because of the way that Google has placed ads and added [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andysweet.com/2010/06/organic-vs-ppc-a-search-engines-priority-dilemma/</link>
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		<title>Here Traffic Traffic Traffic&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TV drives people to the web. Not exactly breaking news. But too often, TV advertisers fail to take advantage of the waves their ads create. It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve seen for a long time and now has a direct connection to this site. Almost two years ago JK Harris bought backtaxes.com. I wrote about it back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andysweet.com/2009/12/here-traffic-traffic-traffic/</link>
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		<title>Yahoo PPC Traffic Quality Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Still crap. On the upside, they raised the domain exclusion list option to 500. On the downside&#8230;. you&#8217;ll need it.]]></description>
		<link>http://andysweet.com/2008/12/yahoo-ppc-traffic-quality-update/</link>
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		<title>It SOUNDS Awesome&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I bet this would be really cool if it weren&#8217;t created by Yahoo&#8230; http://apt.yahoo.com/index.php]]></description>
		<link>http://andysweet.com/2008/11/it-sounds-awesome/</link>
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		<title>Losing in Las Vegas &#8211; A Domain Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve ever had a friend come back who hasn&#8217;t told me the thousands they made in Las Vegas.&#160; With numbers like that, it&#8217;s a miracle that the poor city can stay in business!&#160; It&#8217;s not a charity folks!&#160; Do your part and give back! Well, contrary to popular belief, not everybody wins [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andysweet.com/2008/11/losing-in-las-vegas-a-domain-story/</link>
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		<title>SouthAmericanVacations.com and AEIOU</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many domainers have been trying out AEIOU.com&#8216;s micro-site development as a way to rapidly develop some of their domains and get away from parking.&#160; As I&#8217;ve mentioned in the past, a developed site will still get the same amount of direct navigation traffic and now you&#8217;re hopefully going to be attracting some organic search traffic, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andysweet.com/2008/10/southamericanvacationscom-and-aeiou/</link>
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		<title>Domain Giveaway Competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As many of you know, my work is focused on gathering and monetizing traffic. At its root, that&#8217;s pretty much what EVERYBODY who does business on the web does whether they describe it that way or not. There are so many ways to accomplish this and I&#8217;ve addressed a few of the ways here. One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andysweet.com/2008/09/domain-giveaway-competition/</link>
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		<title>Marchex domains pulling rank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was searching today for one of my recently launched mini-sites to see if it had been indexed yet and came across an interesting (at least to me) find. I found a Marchex domain ranking #1 in Google! As many domainers know, Marchex is a big domain portfolio owner. Back in 2004, they bought Yun [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andysweet.com/2008/08/marchex-domains-pulling-rank/</link>
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		<title>Click Fraud Presentation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I gave a talk to the Cambridge SEO Meetup group about 10 ways advertisers can reduce their exposure to click fraud. If you would like to download the presentation, you can do so here.]]></description>
		<link>http://andysweet.com/2008/08/click-fraud-presentation/</link>
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		<title>GRCity.us &#8211; A Question of Domain Selection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got back from a vacation in Michigan with my wife and son. My wife grew up in East Grand Rapids, so we spent a couple of days there before heading up to Crystal Mountain for some golf, hiking and boating. While in East Grand Rapids, I was reading the newspaper and saw an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andysweet.com/2008/07/grcityus-a-question-of-domain-selection/</link>
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