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	<link>http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com</link>
	<description>Proven &#38; practical local search marketing strategies for small businesses. Gain visibility in Google Maps, Yahoo Local Search, MSN Search Local &#38; much more!</description>
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		<title>Small Business Blogging &#8211; What To Blog About?</title>
		<link>http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/blog/social/small-business-blogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I work with a lot of small businesses and often they have no clue on what to blog about.  In  this post, I will (hopefully) inspire and give a boat load of ideas and topics that any small business can easily borrow and apply as a post to their business blog(s). Blogging is really, really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Maps Sponsored Listing: Tags</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[business coupons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business listing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/?p=1500</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Maps has been testing with several different sponsored listing models in late 2009 and early 2010.  It looks like they have finally settled on &#8220;tags&#8221; as their way to monetize the maps.  Recently, they rolled out this sponsored feature across the USA.  If you have a business in the US, you may have noticed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Maps Verification Postcard</title>
		<link>http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/blog/seo/google-maps-verification-postcard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/blog/seo/google-maps-verification-postcard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 12:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Hunt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[google maps pin #]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[how to submit to local listings]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/?p=1479</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Often I have customers and/or subscribers who need to verify their business&#8217;s listing in Google Maps (now known as Google Places) and you can do that 3 ways. What Google does is they send you a PIN # by one of your business&#8217;s listed contact details: Automated Phone Call SMS Text Message Mail (Good old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Social Search Works</title>
		<link>http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/blog/social/how-social-search-works/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Hunt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blended search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[search results pages]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/?p=1364</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Social search is not going away.  It is important for small businesses to get involved with the major social media sites especially now that social search is a part of the search results pages for people who belong to your social circles. I believe small businesses should have several social profiles.  One that is personal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Merge Google Maps Listing Properly</title>
		<link>http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/blog/seo/how-to-merge-google-maps-listing-properly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/blog/seo/how-to-merge-google-maps-listing-properly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Hunt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[duplicate google map listings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google LBC]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/?p=1325</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Maps can be a mess.  Often it can produce duplicate listings for business(s) which can cause many issues when you are trying to get your Google Map Listing to rank well (ideally within the 7-Pack). Sometimes its Google Map&#8217;s fault and other times it&#8217;s Merchant&#8217;s fault for  not understanding how Google Maps works.  Regardless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google LBC&#8217;s New &#8220;Post to Your Place Page&#8221; Feature</title>
		<link>http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/blog/seo/google-lbcs-new-post-to-your-place-page-feature/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/blog/seo/google-lbcs-new-post-to-your-place-page-feature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Hunt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google LBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google maps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google maps 30 day call-out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Business Center]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/?p=1290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is really cool.  Not sure when Google LBC released this new feature, I haven&#8217;t heard anyone speak about it yet. I was in tweaking a couple of things with a fairly new client&#8217;s account and I noticed a new feature called &#8220;Post to Your Place Page&#8221;.  It looks like this: And then when it goes live [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Edit &amp; Delete Google Maps Coupons</title>
		<link>http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/blog/seo/how-to-edit-delete-google-maps-coupons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/blog/seo/how-to-edit-delete-google-maps-coupons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Hunt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/?p=1285</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I noticed there was quite a few people who were having trouble understanding how to edit and/or delete their Google Maps Coupons on the G-Maps Forum.  It looks like some of merchants where dealing with a bug, but some people just didn&#8217;t know how to navigate around on the Local Business Center.   This video tutorial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Maps Bulk Upload</title>
		<link>http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/blog/seo/google-maps-bulk-upload/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/blog/seo/google-maps-bulk-upload/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Hunt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/?p=1276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To Upload, Or Not To Upload, That Is The Question: This has become a current question I have had to ask and consider with one of my more recent clients.  This client has several hundred locations via a franchise and they want to monitor &#38; optimize their Google Maps listings.  The question we had been [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Local Search Marketing for 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/blog/seo/local-search-marketing-for-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/blog/seo/local-search-marketing-for-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Hunt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blended search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local search marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personalized search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real tiem search]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/?p=1223</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Personalized Search So we are quickly approaching 2010 and its becoming more apparent what is on Google&#8217;s agenda. It looks like they are moving forward to add a couple new elements to Universal Search.  It looks like &#8216;personalize search&#8217; and &#8216;real time search&#8217; are two major elements of universal search that is not going away. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s &#8220;Favorite Places&#8221; Another Shift in Local Search Marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/blog/seo/googles-favorite-places-another-shift-in-local-search-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/blog/seo/googles-favorite-places-another-shift-in-local-search-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Hunt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[favorite places]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Google LBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local search marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[places pages]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/?p=1213</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks like there are more shifts taking place in the Local Search with Google. Today one of my favorite bloggers (Greg Sterling) in the Local Search Industry writes about how Google has sent out physical window decals to these 100,000 businesses for them to display in their windows. Now what is so cool about [...]]]></description>
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