<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184</id><updated>2012-02-16T08:23:38.093-05:00</updated><category term='Monroe'/><category term='Blackhat'/><category term='bloggers'/><category term='Matt Cutts'/><category term='SMB'/><category term='news'/><category term='stumbleupon'/><category term='Photo'/><category term='Communities'/><category term='PubCon'/><category term='title attributes'/><category term='Advertising'/><category term='using'/><category term='freedom'/><category term='Web'/><category term='Forum'/><category term='panda'/><category term='Story'/><category term='gutenberg project'/><category term='Starter Guide'/><category term='Marketing'/><category term='middletown'/><category term='xponex'/><category term='honey badger'/><category term='posting'/><category term='Yahoo'/><category term='update'/><category term='blog topics'/><category term='padding images html'/><category term='Required'/><category term='propeller'/><category term='Ohio'/><category term='newspaper'/><category term='thanks'/><category term='Welcome Bloggers'/><category term='honey'/><category term='Sean Jackson'/><category term='algorithm'/><category term='Search'/><category term='links'/><category term='ideas'/><category term='Google'/><category term='tag clouds'/><category term='improving your posts'/><category term='new to a blog'/><category term='WORM'/><category term='rule'/><category term='copyright'/><category term='edit'/><category term='SEO'/><category term='digg'/><category term='twitter'/><category term='linking'/><category term='Search Engine'/><category term='UGC'/><category term='blogging'/><category term='content'/><category term='SERP'/><category term='reader'/><category term='deep links'/><title type='text'>Xponex Insider</title><subtitle type='html'>The blog for Xponex Bloggers.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>John Beagle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a3gG37u1AsE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAes/gdP2CeTrXqo/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>25</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-6604958536603231939</id><published>2011-11-13T12:11:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-14T10:55:37.887-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Matt Cutts' Dramatic Response to Irrelevant Search Engines</title><content type='html'>So someone asked Matt what is favorite tweet was from Pubcon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vJTs6sKZsLs" width="640"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Matt Cuts shares his reaction after reading a tweet that said, "Leo Laporte says he does't know if search engines are going to be relevant in 6 months. And somewhere Matt Cutts spit out his coffee."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From his reaction, he does feel search engines are going to be around allot longer than 6 months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why should we care what Matt thinks? Because he may be the leading authority in the world on the Organic Google Search Engine product.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;b&gt;About Matt Cutts:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Matt Cutts, a Google Engineer, specializes in search engine optimation (SEO) issues. He is widely known in the SEO community for his application of &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=1c342e7d4bdc97c6&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;Google's Quality Guidelines&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Matt is known for carrying around a little book where he keeps research notes on specific websites. And yes, if he discovers that a website clearly violates Google Quality Guidelines, he can manually remove that site from the Google index. We would love to get our hands on that little black book.&amp;nbsp;Clearly Matt and Google take quality seriously. Their number one priority, according to Matt, is to have the best user experience possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We agree with this approach of getting rid of sites that score high on the search engine score because of crappy SEO&amp;nbsp;manipulation&amp;nbsp;such as keyword stuffing, Cloaking, Paid Links and Duplicate content. Sites that score high on search results should be there due to popularity and relevancy and not because someone bought a bunch of links or&amp;nbsp;stuffed&amp;nbsp;the same word over and over again on the page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As bloggers for Xponex, you have a responsibility to follow the rules of both Bing and Google. Always write original material, cite yours sources and find a relevant graphic for your post.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-6604958536603231939?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/6604958536603231939/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2011/11/matt-cutts-dramatic-response-to.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/6604958536603231939'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/6604958536603231939'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2011/11/matt-cutts-dramatic-response-to.html' title='Matt Cutts&apos; Dramatic Response to Irrelevant Search Engines'/><author><name>John Beagle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a3gG37u1AsE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAes/gdP2CeTrXqo/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/vJTs6sKZsLs/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-8950716380767383570</id><published>2011-06-11T16:17:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-06-11T16:37:28.158-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='panda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='honey badger'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='update'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Google'/><title type='text'>The Panda Update with Danny Sullivan and Matt Cutts</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sjpjwmx5XK8" width="640"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 15px;"&gt;Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land and Matt Cutts of Google discuss the latest Panda Update.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 15px;"&gt;First Danny presents Matt with a large panda bear and some matching panda footstools.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 15px;"&gt;The reference to Honey Badger being the next Google Named update is a joke because internally, Bing calles the updates to Bing's Webmaster tools, Honey Badger. Plus what makes it even funnier is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg"&gt;this video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 15px;"&gt; which Randall states in a funny way, "Honey Badger don't care."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Video Transcript:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cutts: There's this mass perception outside the search industry that theres too much low quality stuff in the search results.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sullivan: We had Panda 1 in the US, and we had Panda 2 outside the US in English language. Then we had Panda 2.1 and are we at Panda 2.2?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cutts: There was a quality launch meeting last week were we approved another iteration of Panda. So the way to think about this is we [Google] are going to iterate at least through the end of the year. We are going to be thinking about how can we pull in new signals, how can we find high quality content. We don't consider it finished. We know there are some cases where we know ok this is a good site and we want to return it in the search results. And we know there are sites that are not a good experience for users. So we're going to continue to iterate. I don't know when we are going to launch fully internationally so not just in English. So there is still some things to do there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sullivan: Will the update that comes after this be called honey badger?&lt;br /&gt;Cutts: [Laughs] The honey badger update? Ah that is a good name. Honey badger don't care.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-8950716380767383570?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/8950716380767383570/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2011/06/panda-update-with-danny-sullivan-and.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/8950716380767383570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/8950716380767383570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2011/06/panda-update-with-danny-sullivan-and.html' title='The Panda Update with Danny Sullivan and Matt Cutts'/><author><name>John Beagle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a3gG37u1AsE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAes/gdP2CeTrXqo/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/sjpjwmx5XK8/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-7562613352772655072</id><published>2011-02-24T10:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-24T10:48:24.056-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Matt Cutts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='links'/><title type='text'>100 Links</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/l6g5hoBYlf0" title="YouTube video player" width="640"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to Matt Cutts, the nine year old guideline limiting 100 links per page has been removed from the &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;amp;answer=35291"&gt;official Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keep in mind that the page rank still is distributed among all the links on the page, so having hundreds of links would not be very effective for sites with low page rank on their homepage.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-7562613352772655072?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/7562613352772655072/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2011/02/100-links.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/7562613352772655072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/7562613352772655072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2011/02/100-links.html' title='100 Links'/><author><name>John Beagle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a3gG37u1AsE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAes/gdP2CeTrXqo/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/l6g5hoBYlf0/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-6306439517711459491</id><published>2011-01-16T12:50:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-01-16T13:17:30.448-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tag clouds'/><title type='text'>Do tag clouds help or hinder SEO?</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="295" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bYPX_ZmhLqg?fs=1" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think Tag Clouds can be good for both the user and search engines. If someone is looking for an &lt;b&gt;Office Security Camera&lt;/b&gt;, it would be nice to have a tag that would take me to all the articles about "&lt;b&gt;Office Security Cameras&lt;/b&gt;". I don't want to read about residential or industrial security cameras. I want articles and information about a particular subject.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The biggest problem with tag clouds is that they are so misunderstood by most bloggers that they are either not used or over used. Having a list of key terms is helpful, exceptions could be made, but some standard should be attempted in order to keep your&amp;nbsp;categories&amp;nbsp;meaningful.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/blockquote&gt;So what about this blog? Na we don't use tag clouds. Not yet anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the video, I selected two quotes. The first one reminds me of the movie Scarface. The second comment is funny.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"&gt;I never liked tag clouds, I think they are useless&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 5px;"&gt;&lt;a class="author" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/vxcriss" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4272db; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;" title="vxcriss"&gt;vxcriss&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 5px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="content" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 450px;"&gt;&lt;div class="comment-text" dir="ltr" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;I tend to use cumulonimbus tag clouds. I tried some cirrus ones﻿ with not alot of luck.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="metadata" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 0.9166em; line-height: 0.6; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a class="author" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/bvllets" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4272db; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;" title="bvllets"&gt;bvllets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-6306439517711459491?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/6306439517711459491/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2011/01/do-tag-clouds-help-or-hinder-seo.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/6306439517711459491'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/6306439517711459491'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2011/01/do-tag-clouds-help-or-hinder-seo.html' title='Do tag clouds help or hinder SEO?'/><author><name>John Beagle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a3gG37u1AsE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAes/gdP2CeTrXqo/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/bYPX_ZmhLqg/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-7793819039732674027</id><published>2010-11-18T13:32:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-11-18T13:34:55.132-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sean Jackson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PubCon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SMB'/><title type='text'>Rule of 72: Headlines Matter Most</title><content type='html'>&lt;div id="xcpost" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"&gt;&lt;script src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Remember the rule of 72:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Headlines Matter Most and keep them to 72 characters or less.&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnbeagle/5187814020/" title="Sean Jackson and Lisa Buyer by John Beagle, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Sean Jackson and Lisa Buyer" height="359" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1006/5187814020_930e272a02.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photo: Sean Jackson and Lisa Buyer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: PubCon 2010 Session&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How SMBs Can Use PR Campaigns to Grow Traffic&lt;br /&gt;Hosted by Taylor Pratt with Guillaume Buchard, Lisa Buyer and Sean Jackson of Copyblogger Media&lt;br /&gt;The tip was mentioned at this session by Sean Jackson. I made up the part about it being a rule. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still, its a good way to remember that headlines have limitations and that limitation is ....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;The Rule of 72&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;h2 style="color: #999999; font: normal normal normal 78%/normal 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.2em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1.5em; text-transform: uppercase;"&gt;HEADLINES MATTER MOST AND KEEP THEM TO 72 CHARACTERS OR LESS.&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="xcfooter" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000; padding-top: 5px;"&gt;Get your next meeting infocus with an &lt;a href="http://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/Products/InFocus-LCD-Projector.asp"&gt;InFocus Projector Rental&lt;/a&gt; then visit Rentacomputer.com or give them a call at 800-736-8772.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-7793819039732674027?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/7793819039732674027/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2010/11/rule-of-72-headlines-matter-most.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/7793819039732674027'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/7793819039732674027'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2010/11/rule-of-72-headlines-matter-most.html' title='Rule of 72: Headlines Matter Most'/><author><name>John Beagle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a3gG37u1AsE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAes/gdP2CeTrXqo/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1006/5187814020_930e272a02_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-5278320460240407216</id><published>2010-07-30T12:05:00.015-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-30T14:53:45.833-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='title attributes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='using'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogging'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='links'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='improving your posts'/><title type='text'>Making The Best Of The Title Attribute</title><content type='html'>&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.xponex.com/images/hyperlink.jpg" width="250" height="160" alt="Using Title Attributes To Improve Your Blog" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5" /&gt;Ever notice that little text box that pops up when you mouse over a link on a webpage? Well, if not: &lt;b&gt;you should have&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What you are seeing when that happens is the title attribute on a hyperlink.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When blogging, it's in your best interest to pay attention to when and how you use title attributes. If the link is relevant to your post, and to a site you own or wish to promote, then you should always use a title attribute. This would be the case even when the anchor text is perfectly self explanatory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By using the title attribute in this manner, you provide added information about a link when a reader mouses over it, thus increasing the likelihood they might follow it. Additionally, you improve the post itself by naturally increasing your relevant keyword density which aids the search engines when they attempt to figure out what your post is about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As mentioned above, even if the anchor text is a perfect match for the hyperlink, the title attribute should still be used. Just be sure you use it to explain the link in a slightly different way. Keep in mind the title attribute and the anchor text should never be exactly the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example: If the anchor text was "Upgrade Your Security System" then the title attribute might be "GeoVision Surveillance System Upgrades".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In your HTML, the title attribute can precede or follow the link as seen below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;a href="http://www.camerasecuritynow.com/Geovision_Version_Upgrade.asp" title="GeoVision Surveillance System Upgrades"&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Try your best to have a strong correlation between the anchor text and the title attribute; remember a good title attribute is all the more important when you have to use a one word anchor text. For example: Do not use anchor text of "dog" and a title attribute of "CCTV Surveillance System Upgrades".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So remember, using proper title attributes on your hyperlinks will make for an overall better blog post because it makes your post both better for the reader and for the search engines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Related Reading On The Title Attribute:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zdnetasia.com/using-title-attribute-to-provide-more-data-about-html-elements-62046782.htm" title="How Title Attributes Provide More Data About Your Links" target="_Blank"&gt;Using title attribute to provide more data about HTML elements&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/12/using-alt-attributes-smartly.html" title="Matt Cutts Video On Alt Attributes" target="_Blank"&gt;Using Alt Attributes Smartly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol6/html_no1.htm" title="Webmaster Tips - Understanding And Using Alt And Title Attributes" target="_blank"&gt;Using Alt and Title Attributes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-5278320460240407216?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/5278320460240407216/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2010/07/making-best-of-title-attribute.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/5278320460240407216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/5278320460240407216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2010/07/making-best-of-title-attribute.html' title='Making The Best Of The Title Attribute'/><author><name>Andy Wendt</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01442779713721596612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_n_MxrEaZjDc/R3vYUldM4MI/AAAAAAAAAA4/KMLE3wg1Ppg/S220/Maddie.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-594546570784975322</id><published>2010-07-08T12:56:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-08T12:59:02.953-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Web'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Forum'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Communities'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO'/><title type='text'>Promoting your Blog Posts on Forums</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src="http://www.xponex.com/images/field.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you build it, they won't&amp;nbsp;necessarily&amp;nbsp;come. You have to tell them what you did. That is where our social efforts come in, the promotion of your blog post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have several social&amp;nbsp;initiatives&amp;nbsp;in place to help you promote yours and others blog posts and web pages. One of the most effective things we can do is promote our content to Xponex generated communities/forums. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have Monroe and Middletown, Ohio communities as well as a techie community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are our web communities:&lt;br /&gt;Main Street Monroe's '&lt;a href="http://www.mainstreetmonroe.com/Voice/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=2"&gt;The Voice&lt;/a&gt;'&lt;br /&gt;MiddletownUSA's '&lt;a href="http://middletownusa.com/forum/"&gt;MUSA Blog Forum&lt;/a&gt;'&lt;br /&gt;Tech Army Organization's '&lt;a href="http://www.tech-army.org/forum/"&gt;Tech Army Blog Forum&lt;/a&gt;'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I plan to add two more forums, one for&lt;a href="http://www.smbnow.com/"&gt; SMB's&lt;/a&gt; and One for &lt;a href="http://www.xponex.com/SEO.asp"&gt;Web Marketing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All you do is take a relevant&amp;nbsp;snippet&amp;nbsp;of your blog post, and post it on the forum. If you are not registered to post, please register yourself. I ask that you additionally post on existing links like the ones welcoming new Tech Army members or other bloggers promotions. That way our forum will be more enticing for others to post to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a recent example of promoting Xponex content from each of our community forums:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tech-army.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2926" style="color: #003300;"&gt;Gen Con 2010 Indianapolis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;- TABF&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3108" style="color: #22386f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;" title="Middletown City Legislation set for Tuesday, July 6, 2010 meeting.   1. Ordinance No. O2010-43, an ordinance authorizing the City Manager to enter..."&gt;City Council Legislation&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;MUSABF&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="spnMessageText"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.mainstreetmonroe.com/Voice/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19695" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Perfect Citizen is Big Brother&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;-The Voice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Why Promote your Blog Post on Xponex Forums?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Use one or more of the most relevant forums to promote your blog post. Even if no one else posts on your forum, we still benefit by adding content. Many people do not post, they just read and click on links. So give a variety of links to a variety of Xponex content. By posting on our forums you are helping drive traffic to your blog post. Bloggers with the most traffic will be rewarded.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-594546570784975322?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/594546570784975322/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2010/07/promoting-your-blog-posts-on-forums.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/594546570784975322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/594546570784975322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2010/07/promoting-your-blog-posts-on-forums.html' title='Promoting your Blog Posts on Forums'/><author><name>John Beagle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a3gG37u1AsE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAes/gdP2CeTrXqo/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-7944875284934196000</id><published>2010-07-04T18:39:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-04T19:10:45.151-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog topics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='new to a blog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ideas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deep links'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='links'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='content'/><title type='text'>What To Do When You Are New To A Blog</title><content type='html'>&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.xponex.com/images/question-man.jpg" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5" /&gt;Here's an answer to a common question I received today that could help everyone:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Question:&lt;br /&gt;I was also assigned the Computer Rental Blog and I've never posted for that before either...I don't really deal with any of the computer rental information so I wasn't exactly sure what you wanted me to do with this one?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Answer:&lt;br /&gt;On any blog you have not worked with before start by looking at the existing posts. Look at the links you see in the posts and in the blog roll.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keep in mind our content is really there as a reason to create these links that can pass value to our other properties. In that context, any story that’s on topic with the blog, well written, and full of useful and relevant links to our properties is a good story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this specific case, as the blog is tied to the rentacoputer.com domain, go ahead and take a look at the domain itself. Find those useful stories buried deep in the site (try checking out the site map or articles page) and use them as inspiration for a post. Be sure to add relevant in-text links as you write. Remember deep linking is best and whenever possible do not repeat a link that's already on the page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This Xponex Insider post by John Beagle entitled &lt;a href="http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2010/06/welcome-new-bloggers.html"&gt;Welcome New Bloggers&lt;/a&gt; is a must read, and has some great ideas for content inspiration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for reading and now start blogging!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-7944875284934196000?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/7944875284934196000/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-to-do-when-you-are-new-to-blog.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/7944875284934196000'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/7944875284934196000'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-to-do-when-you-are-new-to-blog.html' title='What To Do When You Are New To A Blog'/><author><name>Andy Wendt</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01442779713721596612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_n_MxrEaZjDc/R3vYUldM4MI/AAAAAAAAAA4/KMLE3wg1Ppg/S220/Maddie.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-2860279497165477958</id><published>2010-06-22T12:36:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-22T12:36:53.560-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Welcome Bloggers'/><title type='text'>Welcome New Bloggers</title><content type='html'>&lt;img align="right" src="http://www.xponex.com/images/blog.jpg" /&gt;Welcome!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a new blogger to Xponex Media Blogger Group, I want to personally welcome you and provide you with 'the baics' of blogging for Xponex Bloggers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First of all, &lt;b&gt;choose your &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.xponex.com/blogs.asp"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Xponex Blogs&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt; wisely&lt;/b&gt;. Choose only the blogs that you are willing to do an excellent job. Research and have at least 2 sources for&amp;nbsp;critical&amp;nbsp;posts or make sure you are expressing your opinion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Subscribe to&lt;a href="http://www.copyblogger.com/"&gt; Copyblogger&lt;/a&gt;. This is an excellent publication that brings up many issues about blogging and copyrighting that you as a blogger should know and think about. You will get an email per day, so subscribe with your Xponex email address. (Also subscribe to this blog).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Content is KING&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Content is king on the web, its all about content first. Who wants to read a bad blog. Bad blogs never get linked to. Interesting ones get links naturally. Nothing really matters if it is not content that someone would want to read. Let's make sure that we provide interesting content with well written titles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read and utilize &lt;b&gt;basic SEO methods&lt;/b&gt; in your content so Google can find us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/04/download-google-seo-starter-guide.html"&gt;http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/04/download-google-seo-starter-guide.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://xponex.blogspot.com/2009/01/googles-search-engine-optimization.html"&gt;http://xponex.blogspot.com/2009/01/googles-search-engine-optimization.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consider our keyword list (on left hand side of &lt;a href="http://www.xponex.com/"&gt;Xponex Media&lt;/a&gt;) when writing content. Consider other related content in our network you may link to throughout the post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Understand Copyright Policies in the United States:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/06/always-add-by-line-to-give-credit-and.html"&gt;http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/06/always-add-by-line-to-give-credit-and.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Blog Brain Dead?&lt;/b&gt; Search &lt;a href="http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/"&gt;Thinkstock&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for ideas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/12/let-photo-write-story-for-you.html"&gt;http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/12/let-photo-write-story-for-you.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Link to relevant content on the Xponex Media Network and Socialize:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/09/improving-posts-and-linking.html"&gt;http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/09/improving-posts-and-linking.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;- this is a tough one to understand, I talk about many of our properties that have good linking capabilities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esentially, brag about your blog post in the appropiate fourm plus use our &lt;a href="http://digg.com/users/dailypizza"&gt;Digg Daily Pizza Account&lt;/a&gt;, Twitter Account, either &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/techarmy"&gt;TechArmy&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/techtravelagent"&gt;TechTravelAgent&lt;/a&gt;. We also have a &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55128475162&amp;amp;ref=ts"&gt;Facebook Page&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&amp;amp;gid=1354307"&gt;Linkedin Group&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pad Your Photos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2010/05/padding-your-pictures-on-blogs.html"&gt;http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2010/05/padding-your-pictures-on-blogs.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;- please pad your pictures if the text lines up too close. Some of our blogs need a little HTML help.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.xponex.com/images/fishing.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Worm Blogging and Posting&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/08/worm-blogging.html"&gt;http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/08/worm-blogging.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Worm Blogging, write once republish many.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Social Effort Results&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/07/social-efforts-prime-traffic-source-for.html"&gt;http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/07/social-efforts-prime-traffic-source-for.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Why we social it up! Making connections, the more you have, the more likely your content will get more connections. Without connections, we are not doing anything of value.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Project Gutenberg is Copy Safe&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/06/project-gutenberg.html"&gt;http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/06/project-gutenberg.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Project Gutenberg is essentially a place for content that you don't have to worry about as being protected by copywrite laws. Not very usefull, but I thought you might like to take a look. Possibly good for an idea or two.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.xponex.com/images/clover1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May the road rise up to meet you.&lt;br /&gt;May the wind always be at your back.&lt;br /&gt;May the sun shine warm upon your face,&lt;br /&gt;and rains fall soft upon your land.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-2860279497165477958?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/2860279497165477958/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2010/06/welcome-new-bloggers.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/2860279497165477958'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/2860279497165477958'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2010/06/welcome-new-bloggers.html' title='Welcome New Bloggers'/><author><name>John Beagle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a3gG37u1AsE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAes/gdP2CeTrXqo/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-2502905216134211091</id><published>2010-06-01T14:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-01T14:28:21.512-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Matt Cutts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='algorithm'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Google'/><title type='text'>May Day Algorithmic Change and Long Tail Searches</title><content type='html'>&lt;object height="385" width="640"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WJ6CtBmaIQM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WJ6CtBmaIQM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Matt Cutts explains about the latest Google Algorithmic change called "&lt;b&gt;May Day"&lt;/b&gt;. Many are seeing changes in their SERPs for long tail searches according to Web Masterworld's &lt;a href="http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4132195.htm"&gt;Google SEO News and Discussion Page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a good example from gohome:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"&gt;"My biggest concern right now is my main site, it started to tank on Tuesday 11th May and its more than just longtail thats dropping. One keyword I held 2nd position on for a couple of years has started to move further down the page. I havent done anything mad with the site, its mostly unquie content articles has been rock solid for the past 4 years."&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Over the past month Xponex properties have seen changes in pageview both up and down. However our largest change was with &lt;a href="http://www.computerservicenow.com/"&gt;Computer Service Now&lt;/a&gt; with a 21.4% increase in &lt;b&gt;visits&lt;/b&gt; in May vs April along with a 30.09% increase in t&lt;b&gt;otal page views&lt;/b&gt;. With our largest gain in Colorado with a 51.13% increase in page views.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, what's with Google naming their&amp;nbsp;algorithmic&amp;nbsp;changes? Google Dancing, Google&amp;nbsp;Caffeine, Google May Day. &amp;nbsp;What's next the Google&amp;nbsp;Apocalypse?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once again, this tells me that content rules and weak spam links drool. We must continue to write new, interesting and&amp;nbsp;unique&amp;nbsp;content about our products and services and link accordingly. It's working! Thanks!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-2502905216134211091?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/2502905216134211091/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2010/06/may-day-algorithmic-change-and-long.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/2502905216134211091'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/2502905216134211091'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2010/06/may-day-algorithmic-change-and-long.html' title='May Day Algorithmic Change and Long Tail Searches'/><author><name>John Beagle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a3gG37u1AsE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAes/gdP2CeTrXqo/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-1268767746377367625</id><published>2010-05-13T10:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-13T10:17:53.652-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='padding images html'/><title type='text'>Padding your Pictures on Blogs</title><content type='html'>If you have pictures on your blog post you should pad them so the text isn't squeezed too close to the image. Here is how you can add padding. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go into the html (click on html tab) and modify by adding this style html code:&lt;br /&gt;----------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;style="padding:10px"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----------------&lt;br /&gt;Just edit HTML on the blog post and add the above code to the img src code.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.xponex.com/images/imgsrcpadding.png" style="padding: 10px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like to use 10px for my pictures, but you can use more or less depending on your post and how nice it looks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;brackets&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/brackets&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-1268767746377367625?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/1268767746377367625/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2010/05/padding-your-pictures-on-blogs.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/1268767746377367625'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/1268767746377367625'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2010/05/padding-your-pictures-on-blogs.html' title='Padding your Pictures on Blogs'/><author><name>John Beagle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a3gG37u1AsE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAes/gdP2CeTrXqo/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-2093948297481404592</id><published>2010-04-15T09:27:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-15T13:00:03.693-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Search'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Matt Cutts'/><title type='text'>What is the future of semantic search?</title><content type='html'>&lt;object height="385" width="640"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/200OVIZb1YI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/200OVIZb1YI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Matt Cutt answers a question from Magico from London, UK: "What is the future of semantic search?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The question is too difficult and not happening today. In the meantime, make sure you use as many synonyms as possible on the page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Great Article:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://rentourlaptops.blogspot.com/2010/04/redbox-ready-to-give-netflix-some.html" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Redbox Ready to Give Netflix Some Competition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-2093948297481404592?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/2093948297481404592/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2010/04/what-is-future-of-semantic-search.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/2093948297481404592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/2093948297481404592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2010/04/what-is-future-of-semantic-search.html' title='What is the future of semantic search?'/><author><name>John Beagle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a3gG37u1AsE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAes/gdP2CeTrXqo/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-310564117500127652</id><published>2010-04-06T14:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-06T14:15:15.494-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Search'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Matt Cutts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Google'/><title type='text'>Matt Cutts: How Google Search Works</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BNHR6IQJGZs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BNHR6IQJGZs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Matt Cutts, Google Engineer and lead Spam Killer explains how Google search works. A must watch for any Xponex Blogger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inside the Google Computer Data Center and more on &lt;a href="http://aserverblog.blogspot.com/"&gt;A Server Blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-310564117500127652?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/310564117500127652/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2010/04/matt-cutts-how-google-search-works.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/310564117500127652'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/310564117500127652'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2010/04/matt-cutts-how-google-search-works.html' title='Matt Cutts: How Google Search Works'/><author><name>John Beagle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a3gG37u1AsE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAes/gdP2CeTrXqo/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-5539113486662141665</id><published>2009-12-13T15:28:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-09T17:29:57.690-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Story'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Advertising'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photo'/><title type='text'>Let the Photo Write the Story for You</title><content type='html'>&lt;img align="center" src="http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/dreamworks_skg/anchorman/_group_photos/david_koechner8.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Advertising is nothing more than story telling. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oxy-clean can really get your clothes cleaner, and its really exciting. And yes, I always jump in the air when I buy a Toyota.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Technology writing doesn't have to be boring. If you can come up with examples using characters in a photo to tell the story.&amp;nbsp; For example, Recently I blogged about &lt;a href="http://blog.rentacomputer.com/2009/12/13/computer-lab-rentals"&gt;Cindy A. who put together a 100 computer training session in 24 hours&lt;/a&gt;.The story is all about Cindy starting with a Monday morning meeting. By Friday, she was thinking about how much it helped to have Darcy from Rentacomputer.com.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.xponex.com/images/computer-lab2s.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I put this 100 computer lab together in 1 day with one phone call to Darcy Mann, my Tech Travel Agent from Rentacomputer.com." -Employee Training Department Manager, Cindy A. Marketing Company&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are the reasons people rent technology? Tell it with a story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.rentacomputer.com/images/photos/projector-training-2s.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The story of the amazing &lt;a href="http://www.rentourprojectors.com/Wireless-Projector-Rentals.asp"&gt;wireless projector&lt;/a&gt; and audience participation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.rentacomputer.com/images/photos/travel-laptops.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Laptop got ran over by a train, another&lt;a href="http://www.rentacomputer.com/PR/Emergency-Disaster-Recovery-Services.asp"&gt; laptop disaster&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.rentacomputer.com/images/photos/little-laptop-man-3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not sure what the story is here. But my challenge is to start with the photo first. A picture is worth a thousand words. Start with an idea, then seek an image to fill that idea and help tell the story. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;_______________________&lt;br /&gt;Inside the Google Computer Data Center and more on &lt;a href="http://aserverblog.blogspot.com/"&gt;A Server Blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-5539113486662141665?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/5539113486662141665/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/12/let-photo-write-story-for-you.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/5539113486662141665'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/5539113486662141665'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/12/let-photo-write-story-for-you.html' title='Let the Photo Write the Story for You'/><author><name>John Beagle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a3gG37u1AsE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAes/gdP2CeTrXqo/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-9184847564844337428</id><published>2009-11-06T13:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-06T13:26:17.926-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blackhat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UGC'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yahoo'/><title type='text'>Yahoo!'s UGC Detection and Rating Patent Application</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.xponex.com/images/spy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://www.xponex.com/images/spy.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;United States Patent Application #20090271391 dated: October 29, 2009 is Yahoo!'s attempt to find and rate UGC-User generated content.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many of our websites and blogs have content generated by our website visitors. All of our blogs allow comments, that's UGC. Our discussion forums,&amp;nbsp;The Voice, MUSA BF and TA Blog Forum also have significant user generated content.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why would Yahoo! care? Does Google, Bing and Ask care? &amp;nbsp;One reason is spam bot generated content. If Yahoo! can detect SPAM, they either target the entire document or specific comments as spam and remove them from indexing factors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jOLdCdA-gBE/SvRqHUcwXnI/AAAAAAAAAG4/xhupXbva_p0/s1600-h/blackhat-s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jOLdCdA-gBE/SvRqHUcwXnI/AAAAAAAAAG4/xhupXbva_p0/s320/blackhat-s.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Alert: Black Hat Problem&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That brings up an interesting problem. If the search engines are going to detect spam, can't SEO's spam other sites to get pages removed? If every topic contains scripted spam, then a site could be damaged by competitors or just random acts of web violence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;So what are we going to do about it?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Be on the look out for SPAM bots and signatures with spam. Lookout for suspicious activity, competition on our forums. And when you find SPAM, kill it! And if you can't kill it, report it to web@xponex.com.&lt;br /&gt;____________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yahoo! UGC Patent Abstract&lt;br /&gt;Generally, a method and apparatus provides for rating user generated content (UGC) with respect to search engine results. The method and apparatus includes recognizing a UGC data field collected from a web document located at a web location. The method and apparatus calculates: a document goodness factor for the web document; an author rank for an author of the UGC data field; and a location rank for web location. The method and apparatus thereby generates a rating factor for the UGC field based on the document goodness factor, the author rank and the location rank. The method and apparatus also outputs a search result that includes the UGC data field positioned in the search results based on the rating factor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&amp;amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&amp;amp;r=1&amp;amp;p=1&amp;amp;f=G&amp;amp;l=50&amp;amp;d=PG01&amp;amp;S1=20090271391.PGNR.&amp;amp;OS=dn/20090271391&amp;amp;RS=DN/20090271391"&gt;Claims&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-9184847564844337428?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/9184847564844337428/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/11/yahoos-ugc-detection-and-rating-patent.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/9184847564844337428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/9184847564844337428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/11/yahoos-ugc-detection-and-rating-patent.html' title='Yahoo!&apos;s UGC Detection and Rating Patent Application'/><author><name>John Beagle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a3gG37u1AsE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAes/gdP2CeTrXqo/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jOLdCdA-gBE/SvRqHUcwXnI/AAAAAAAAAG4/xhupXbva_p0/s72-c/blackhat-s.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-7659527582152933657</id><published>2009-09-17T15:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-17T16:35:43.350-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reader'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='edit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='posting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linking'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='digg'/><title type='text'>Improving Posts and Linking</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jOLdCdA-gBE/SrKYEB2FicI/AAAAAAAAAF8/6Ny1jUUUyMQ/s1600-h/SMX+Seattle+259.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jOLdCdA-gBE/SrKXYgd4rOI/AAAAAAAAAF0/3aossHaiWXU/s1600-h/SMX+Seattle+254.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style=" margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jOLdCdA-gBE/SrKXYgd4rOI/AAAAAAAAAF0/3aossHaiWXU/s320/SMX+Seattle+254.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382530951949102306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);  line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Photo: Matt Cutts and Danny Sullivan unplug their wireless microphones so they can remove their shirts.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Once you make a blog post, you should revisit it as a reader.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I do that and every time I make changes, everytime.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Take this post for example:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.smbnow.com/articles/SMBs-are-Buying-and-Hiring-IT" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;http://www.smbnow.com/articles/SMBs-are-Buying-and-Hiring-IT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I hastily added the last part, but it was written in first person. So I corrected, then made other subtle changes, thus improving my post.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Also in addition to digging, I also did some posting, here: &lt;a href="http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1955&amp;amp;PID=11210#11210"&gt;http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1955&amp;amp;PID=11210#11210&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;And here: &lt;a href="http://www.tech-army.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1988&amp;amp;PID=5763" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;http://www.tech-army.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1988&amp;amp;PID=5763&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Now the good thing about here: &lt;a href="http://www.tech-army.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1988&amp;amp;PID=5763"&gt;http://www.tech-army.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1988&amp;amp;PID=5763&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Is the link also shows up here: &lt;a href="http://www.computerservicenow.com/"&gt;http://www.computerservicenow.com/&lt;/a&gt; under Computer Software category&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;And the good thing about posting here: &lt;a href="http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1955&amp;amp;PID=11210#11210"&gt;http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1955&amp;amp;PID=11210#11210&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Is that it shows up on the front page here: &lt;a href="http://www.middletownusa.com/"&gt;http://www.middletownusa.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;For maximum link stimulus, don’t just Blog and Digg, post too. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Why did Matt and Danny remove their shirts?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;To reveal the shirts they were wearing underneath. Matt's shirt says "Matt Cutts" and Danny's says "Not Matt Cutts."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;A bit of an inside joke. People are always confusing Danny with Matt, so Danny thought it would be funny to wear a Not Matt Cutts shirt during the You&amp;amp;A with Matt Cutts session at SMX Advanced in Seattle.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jOLdCdA-gBE/SrKYEB2FicI/AAAAAAAAAF8/6Ny1jUUUyMQ/s400/SMX+Seattle+259.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382531699643353538" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You&amp;amp;A With Matt Cutts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What’s a You&amp;amp;A? That’s where you, the audience, put your questions directly to the head of Google’s web spam team, Matt Cutts. As an engineer in search quality, Matt’s been dealing with webmaster issues for Google since 2000 and is well known to many advanced search marketers from his blog and public speaking.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-7659527582152933657?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/7659527582152933657/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/09/improving-posts-and-linking.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/7659527582152933657'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/7659527582152933657'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/09/improving-posts-and-linking.html' title='Improving Posts and Linking'/><author><name>John Beagle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a3gG37u1AsE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAes/gdP2CeTrXqo/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jOLdCdA-gBE/SrKXYgd4rOI/AAAAAAAAAF0/3aossHaiWXU/s72-c/SMX+Seattle+254.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-4118245726438215091</id><published>2009-08-06T09:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-06T09:25:40.346-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WORM'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='content'/><title type='text'>WORM Blogging</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src="http://www.xponex.com/images/fishing.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WORM – Write Once Rewrite Many&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This strategy is about leveraging content to other blogs, websites and forums.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once content is created, it needs to be redistributed, snip-itized for discussion forums, socialized and then compiled with other blog posts for an ‘on-domain’ magnum opus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That means a blog post is the start point for everything else we do.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-4118245726438215091?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/4118245726438215091/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/08/worm-blogging.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/4118245726438215091'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/4118245726438215091'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/08/worm-blogging.html' title='WORM Blogging'/><author><name>John Beagle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a3gG37u1AsE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAes/gdP2CeTrXqo/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-6956615316504333798</id><published>2009-07-21T08:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-07-21T09:03:02.891-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='propeller'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='twitter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stumbleupon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='digg'/><title type='text'>Social Efforts Prime Traffic Source for Critical Politics</title><content type='html'>If you ever wondered about the value of social media, consider this list of referrals for traffic on our blog: &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(33, 117, 155);"&gt;twitter.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="views" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; width: 6em;"&gt;134&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;td class="label" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 8px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stumbleupon.com/refer.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcriticalpolitics.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F04%2F15%2Ftea-parties-sweep-the-country%2F" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(33, 117, 155);"&gt;stumbleupon.com/refer.php?url=http%3A…&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="views" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; width: 6em;"&gt;106&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="alternate" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;td class="label" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 8px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stumbleupon.com/refer.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcriticalpolitics.wordpress.com%2F" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; width: 6em;"&gt;47&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="alternate" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;td class="label" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 8px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/home" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(33, 117, 155);"&gt;twitter.com/home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="views" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; width: 6em;"&gt;37&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;td class="label" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 8px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://propeller.com/story/2009/06/09/what-happeed-to-the-melting-pot/" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(33, 117, 155);"&gt;propeller.com/story/2009/06/09/what-h…&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="views" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; width: 6em;"&gt;33&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="alternate" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;td class="label" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 8px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sarahwaydownsouth.blogspot.com/" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(33, 117, 155);"&gt;sarahwaydownsouth.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="views" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; width: 6em;"&gt;31&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;td class="label" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 8px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/politics/Time_For_Real_Change_Michael_Steele_May_19_2009_Transcript" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(33, 117, 155);"&gt;digg.com/politics/Time_For_Real_Chang…&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="views" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; width: 6em;"&gt;22&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="alternate" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;td class="label" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 8px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://librarything.com/topic/68165" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(33, 117, 155);"&gt;librarything.com/topic/68165&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="views" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; width: 6em;"&gt;18&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;td class="label" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 8px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/SarahDownSouth" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(33, 117, 155);"&gt;twitter.com/SarahDownSouth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="views" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; width: 6em;"&gt;11&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="alternate" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;td class="label" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 8px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://mainstreetmonroe.com/Voice/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=14558" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(33, 117, 155);"&gt;mainstreetmonroe.com/Voice/topic.asp?…&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="views" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; width: 6em;"&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;td class="label" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 8px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://american-humanist.blogspot.com/" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(33, 117, 155);"&gt;american-humanist.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="views" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; 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line-height: 18px;font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:13px;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-6956615316504333798?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/6956615316504333798/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/07/social-efforts-prime-traffic-source-for.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/6956615316504333798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/6956615316504333798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/07/social-efforts-prime-traffic-source-for.html' title='Social Efforts Prime Traffic Source for Critical Politics'/><author><name>John Beagle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a3gG37u1AsE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAes/gdP2CeTrXqo/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-9049538303672161311</id><published>2009-06-10T14:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-10T14:39:46.365-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gutenberg project'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='copyright'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='freedom'/><title type='text'>Project Gutenberg</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src="http://www.xponex.com/images/gutenberg.jpg" align="left" /&gt;The Project Gutenberg collection was produced by tens of thousands of volunteers and was mentioned at the 2009 SMX Advanced in Seattle as a good place for content.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Use this &lt;a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page"&gt;Gutenberg Project Main Page&lt;/a&gt; to Search for books by words and author. You can even downloat the&lt;a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Help_on_Bibliographic_Record_Page#Plucker"&gt; plucker&lt;/a&gt; version of any eBook and read it on your iPhone or Blackberry.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;You don't have to worry about copywrite infringements with works from the Gutenberg Project.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The word &lt;i&gt;free&lt;/i&gt; in the English language does not distinguish between &lt;i&gt;free of charge&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;freedom&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Free of charge&lt;/i&gt; means that you don't have to pay for the book you received. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Freedom&lt;/i&gt; denotes that you may do as you like with the book you received. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the book you got is just &lt;i&gt;free of charge&lt;/i&gt;, you may not even make a copy of the book and give it to a friend. But if the book you got is &lt;i&gt;free as in freedom&lt;/i&gt; you may do anything you like with that book. Clearly &lt;i&gt;free as in freedom&lt;/i&gt; beats &lt;i&gt;free of charge&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately almost all Project Gutenberg ebooks are &lt;i&gt;free of charge&lt;/i&gt; &lt;b&gt;and&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;free as in freedom&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-9049538303672161311?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/9049538303672161311/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/06/project-gutenberg.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/9049538303672161311'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/9049538303672161311'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/06/project-gutenberg.html' title='Project Gutenberg'/><author><name>John Beagle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a3gG37u1AsE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAes/gdP2CeTrXqo/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-4569387034760200514</id><published>2009-06-09T15:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-09T15:39:46.083-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='middletown'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='newspaper'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Google'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ohio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Monroe'/><title type='text'>Always Add a 'BY' Line to Give Credit and Protect Work</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src="http://www.xponex.com/images/hand.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When posting on &lt;a href="http://www.smbnow.com"&gt;SMBnow.com&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="www.mainstreetmonroe.com"&gt;MainStreetMonroe.com&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.middletownusa.com"&gt;MiddletownUSA.com&lt;/a&gt; you should make sure that there is some sort of byline to the story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google News wants to see multiple writers before they will syndicate new through the Google News service. Adding a byline tells Google that this story was written by a unique person. This helps make our news get into Google News.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So next time you post a story, please include a byline.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-4569387034760200514?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/4569387034760200514/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/06/always-add-by-line-to-give-credit-and.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/4569387034760200514'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/4569387034760200514'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/06/always-add-by-line-to-give-credit-and.html' title='Always Add a &apos;BY&apos; Line to Give Credit and Protect Work'/><author><name>John Beagle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a3gG37u1AsE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAes/gdP2CeTrXqo/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-9191786370081606886</id><published>2009-04-30T14:45:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-16T09:21:25.891-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='honey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rule'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='thanks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='content'/><title type='text'>Catching More Content with Honey</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src="http://www.xponex.com/images/honey-500.jpg" alt="honey" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, you've just been assigned to post content that was already written and all it needs is a photo and or a paragraph. Great content with little effort on our part.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But how do we keep that content coming? Follow these simple rules, and you will be rewarded with more content in most cases.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Post the content with a nice photo from Stock Photos or what ever.&lt;br /&gt;2. Email the content provider (cc:web@xponex.com), be sure to include:&lt;br /&gt;   -complement on the content&lt;br /&gt;   -a link to the home page where their content link resides&lt;br /&gt;   -a linke to any sub page where content may reside (such as Schools)&lt;br /&gt;   -a permalink&lt;br /&gt;3. Invite them to send web@xponex.com or you personally, to send content in the future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's it. It fast, its easy, it assures you of at least 1 read on your post and its the Xponex Blogger rule.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-9191786370081606886?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/9191786370081606886/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/04/catching-more-content-with-honey.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/9191786370081606886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/9191786370081606886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/04/catching-more-content-with-honey.html' title='Catching More Content with Honey'/><author><name>John Beagle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a3gG37u1AsE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAes/gdP2CeTrXqo/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-108192797387961452</id><published>2009-04-23T14:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-23T14:21:21.264-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SERP'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Search Engine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Required'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Starter Guide'/><title type='text'>Download Google SEO Starter Guide</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src="http://www.xponex.com/images/googlegod.jpg" alt="google god" align="right" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We want everyone to understand the the Basics of SEO, so this is required reading, (thanks fellow blogger Zac Duncan for posting): &lt;a href="http://xponex.blogspot.com/2009/01/googles-search-engine-optimization.html"&gt;Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should be able to understand what SERP means and how we are doing with our &lt;a href="http://www.xponex.com/"&gt;Xponex sites&lt;/a&gt; and keywords.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the download: &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"&gt;Google SEO Starter Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-108192797387961452?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/108192797387961452/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/04/download-google-seo-starter-guide.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/108192797387961452'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/108192797387961452'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/04/download-google-seo-starter-guide.html' title='Download Google SEO Starter Guide'/><author><name>John Beagle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a3gG37u1AsE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAes/gdP2CeTrXqo/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-6009422925231036872</id><published>2009-04-23T13:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-23T13:59:57.673-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='copyright'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='newspaper'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='content'/><title type='text'>Believeable Content for MSM, MUSA, SMBnow</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src="http://www.xponex.com/images/ideas-500.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For that extra proof of content, always site one or two sources that you either got content from, or their content supports your content.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Protect our News Websites MSM, MUSA and SMBnow&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If there is a story that is in the newspaper, and you are reporting on it, make sure you cite both the author and the newspaper. A link is not necessary but is ok if you 'nofollow.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If possible, try to get a second or third source. You have up to an hour to write an article, so do a little 'Googling.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To make your article the most believable, prove to your readers that you have done your research. You do that by citing your source. One benefit is writers will find your story, because you cited them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are writing for &lt;a href="http://www.MiddletownUSA.com"&gt;MiddletownUSA.com&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.MainStreetMonroe.com"&gt;MainStreetMonroe.com&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.SMBnow.com"&gt;SMBnow.com&lt;/a&gt;, your story should be reported more like news, less like commentary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Save the commentary for the blogs and discussion threads. Get real facts and try to present them as they are as best as possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Newspaper Journalistic Skills Weakened by the Economy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most local newspaper articles in our area are hastily put together. Articles are written with little thought about making great sentences with multiple references. Newspapers, like &lt;a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901/new-york-times" rel="nofollow"&gt;the New York Times&lt;/a&gt;, are going out of business so they cut costs by making everyone write more content.  Thus you end up with a product written by poorly paid overworked staff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Xponex Journalistic Skills are Strengthing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My challenge to all Xponex Bloggers is to improve on the news by writing better news with better, more in-depth research and reporting of the news with more journalistic flair and professionalism.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-6009422925231036872?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/6009422925231036872/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/04/believeable-content-for-msm-musa-smbnow.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/6009422925231036872'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/6009422925231036872'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/04/believeable-content-for-msm-musa-smbnow.html' title='Believeable Content for MSM, MUSA, SMBnow'/><author><name>John Beagle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a3gG37u1AsE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAes/gdP2CeTrXqo/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-3464741505570374828</id><published>2009-04-22T15:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-22T15:41:36.553-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='xponex'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bloggers'/><title type='text'>New Tech Army Blog Forum Welcome Procedure</title><content type='html'>Here is the new procedure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. I send you a link like &lt;a href="http://www.tech-army.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1615&amp;amp;PID=4569"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. If you can, say something like "welcome" or "good to have someone in your area" or ask a question like how’s the cctv biz in your area…. be yourself please. Use your own words.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. That’s it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3374955602838919184-3464741505570374828?l=xponexinsider.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/feeds/3464741505570374828/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-tech-army-blog-forum-welcome.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/3464741505570374828'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374955602838919184/posts/default/3464741505570374828'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xponexinsider.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-tech-army-blog-forum-welcome.html' title='New Tech Army Blog Forum Welcome Procedure'/><author><name>John Beagle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a3gG37u1AsE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAes/gdP2CeTrXqo/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374955602838919184.post-2167415680364879092</id><published>2009-04-22T15:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-22T15:18:51.595-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='xponex'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bloggers'/><title type='text'>Xponex Insider...news and info for our bloggers</title><content type='html'>Welcome to the place for Xponex Bloggers. This will replace our old location: &lt;a href="http://www.xponex.com/bloggers.asp"&gt;http://www.xponex.com/bloggers.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everytime we post here, you get an email. All post from &lt;a href="http://www.xponex.com/bloggers.asp"&gt;that location&lt;/a&gt; will be moved here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the place for vital information regarding our standards, our targets and our keywords.&lt;br /&gt;Please consider this required reading. 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