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		<title>SEO Your Blog URLs with Permalinks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cjbowen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEM / PPC Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO Tactics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Control Panel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Designer Hand Bags]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[End Result]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sem]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you are using WordPress for your blog, you can easily customize how each page's URL name is written using variables provided within WordPress. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you are using WordPress for your blog, you can easily customize how each page&#8217;s URL name is written using variables provided within WordPress.  It takes all of 2 seconds to configure and provides a much better user experience, SEO and even SEM URL quality.</p>
<p>To do this, you will need to be on your WordPress control panel and scroll down to <strong>Settings</strong>.  Beneath the <strong>Settings</strong> category, you can click on <strong>Permalinks</strong> which will help you configure your blog to write a logically named URL based upon your variables selected.  I recommend these variables:  <strong>/%post_id%/%postname%/</strong></p>
<p><strong><em><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-189" title="Permalinks" src="http://semoservices.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Permalinks2.JPG" alt="Permalinks" width="479" height="182" /></em></strong></p>
<p>The end result will look like this:</p>
<p><strong><em>http://unique-gift-list.com/1709/top-14-luxury-designer-hand-bags/</em></strong></p>
<p>If you have already started your WordPress blog without configured permalinks, you can add the variables in at any time without causing damage to your blog.
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		<title>PPC Basics &#8211; Keyword Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cjbowen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEM / PPC Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adwords]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Descriptive Words]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Google Keyword Tool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keywords]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Matter Of Minutes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you need more exposure on the search engines, Pay Per Click (SEM - Search Engine Marketing) is one way to get high placement in a matter of minutes.  ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you need more exposure on the search engines, <a title="Pay Per Click Advertising" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_per_click" target="_blank">Pay Per Click</a> (SEM &#8211; <a title="Search Engine Marketing / SEM" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_marketing" target="_blank">Search Engine Marketing</a>) is one way to get high placement in a matter of minutes.  Since I&#8217;m a Google fan, <a title="Google Adwords Signup" href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/ads/" target="_blank">Google Adwords</a> is one of the most popular ways to get started with Pay Per Click quickly.</p>
<p>Of course, you&#8217;ll need to create your Adwords account first where there is a $5.00 signup fee charged.  Once you have an Adwords account created, you can start populating the account by performing research for keywords relative to your product or service.  Google has a built-in Keyword Tool that you can access within your accounts through the Tools tab, and then selecting Keyword Tool.  This same <a title="Google Keyword Tool" href="https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal" target="_blank">Google Keyword Tool</a> is accessible outside of an Adwords account as well and looks like this:</p>
<p><a href="https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-149" title="google keyword tool" src="http://semoservices.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/google-keyword-tool.JPG" alt="google keyword tool" width="504" height="266" /></a>The Google Keyword Tool is absolutely free and can offer you keywords based on Website Content or via Descriptive Words and Phrases you enter.  HINT: Look for relative keywords that provide high traffic volume.  I tend to steer away from &#8220;broad match&#8221; keywords and prefer to use &#8220;phrase match&#8221; or &#8220;exact match&#8221; keywords.  The broad match types tend to grab traffic that is not necessarily relative.  Phrase and Exact match keywords usually attract more qualified clicks and, in turn, cost you less in clicks from what I call &#8220;Lookie Lous&#8221;.  Until next time&#8230;
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