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	<description>Thoughts, Theories and the Science of SEO</description>
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		<title>Starting an Online Community that Contributes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been working with some websites that are trying to create a community within their site.  When helping build and optimize these websites I think about what community sites I visit and why.
When I was in highschool I got involved in online First Person Shooters. To be more specific, Quake 2 was the title [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Budget SEO Experiment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lastnight I was reading &#8220;Crush it&#8221; by Gary Vaynerchuk, who&#8217;s known for using social media to grow his brand and wine library tv. While I was reading it I came to a section where he was talking about choosing a blog platform. The two he really focused on was wordpress, which was no surprise, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrishornak.com/blog/no-budget-seo-experiment/</link>
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		<title>New Year and New Pittsburgh SEO Group</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At this Friday’s Pittsburgh SEO Group meeting I’ll be leading a group discussion on Recent Google Updates including: real-time search, personalized search for everyone and the New 3 Panel Google Design. We’ve been talking about these google updates around the office over the past month, especially the real-time search. It will be really great to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrishornak.com/blog/new-year-and-new-pittsburgh-seo-group/</link>
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		<title>Tracking Google Algorithm Updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Subscribe to Major Search Engine Blogs
Part of being an SEO professional is keeping up to date with major search engine updates. To keep things simple I&#8217;m just going to talk about tracking Google&#8217;s algorithm updates. Of course one of the best places to start is the official Google blog. Subscribe to the feed using an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrishornak.com/blog/tracking-google-algorithm-updates/</link>
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		<title>Analyzing the Ability to Pass PageRank or Link Juice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently putting together a manual link building guide.  The guide was developed to go through the process of how to find potential links using a number of different tools and strategies.  Once I got the reader to understand each way to find the links I needed to also provide a way for them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrishornak.com/blog/analyzing-the-ability-to-pass-pagerank-or-link-juice/</link>
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		<title>What is the Most Important Link Building Factor?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently asked what is the most important factor when building links? It seemed like a simple enough question but then I realized it was going to take some real though to think of the single most important factor.
Link building factors that came to mind;

Does the page you&#8217;re getting a link from have PageRank?
How [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrishornak.com/blog/what-is-the-most-important-link-building-factor/</link>
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		<title>8 Advanced Search Engine Research Papers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve been collecting online resources that look deeper into the science behind search engines.  Here are some of the papers I&#8217;ve read that I felt like really provided me with a much deeper insight into SEO.  When you start out learning about search engine&#8217;s optimization you get caught up in many of the tips [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrishornak.com/blog/advanced-seo-research-papers/</link>
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		<title>Guide to On-Page Optimization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday Rand Fishkin make a great post on the SEOmoz blog titled &#8220;Perfecting Keyword Targeting &#38; On-Page Optimization&#8220;.  I usually pass over these on-page checklists as it seems they are a dime a dozen and usually there&#8217;s a lot of opinion that over shadows the core principles.  This article really stuck out of the crowed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrishornak.com/blog/guide-to-on-page-optimization/</link>
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		<title>Optimizing Yourself for an SEO Career</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday will be my last day of class and my completion of the MBA program at Point Park University in  downtown Pittsburgh, Pa. I have always had the urge to keep learning and this is one of many reasons to why I have found myself in the field of search engine optimization.
I often get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrishornak.com/blog/optimizing-yourself-seo-career/</link>
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		<title>Developing SEO Analysis Tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At Eyeflow we find it important to develop some of your own SEO tools. There are many options out there when it comes to checking your link popularity, on-page optimization, trust, etc but there usually isn&#8217;t one tool that does it all the best and also to meet your specific needs. We&#8217;ve found that your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrishornak.com/blog/developing-seo-analysis-tools/</link>
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