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		<title>By: mario</title>
		<link>http://ittybiz.com/on-seo-snake-oil-ninjas-and-how-ittybiz-came-to-be/#comment-7119</link>
		<dc:creator>mario</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 03:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>how hard is SEO? if you game it, you lose. period! if you have good, interesting content people will link it. success doesn&#039;t come easy. if you have crap, you will have crap rankings. it&#039;s frickin common-sense. read it again folks, common sense. buy all the books you want, you&#039;re wasting your time. come up with better content than anybody and you win.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>how hard is SEO? if you game it, you lose. period! if you have good, interesting content people will link it. success doesn&#8217;t come easy. if you have crap, you will have crap rankings. it&#8217;s frickin common-sense. read it again folks, common sense. buy all the books you want, you&#8217;re wasting your time. come up with better content than anybody and you win.</p>
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		<title>By: Nicole</title>
		<link>http://ittybiz.com/on-seo-snake-oil-ninjas-and-how-ittybiz-came-to-be/#comment-6599</link>
		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just a little update. After finishing reading the e-Book, I wrote 2-3 blog posts and used some of the tips and I have seen at LEAST twice as much traffic on my site from search engines! I&#039;m expecting more as I continue writing. Great info for us newbies! Thanks, again!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just a little update. After finishing reading the e-Book, I wrote 2-3 blog posts and used some of the tips and I have seen at LEAST twice as much traffic on my site from search engines! I&#8217;m expecting more as I continue writing. Great info for us newbies! Thanks, again!</p>
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		<title>By: Angela Parker</title>
		<link>http://ittybiz.com/on-seo-snake-oil-ninjas-and-how-ittybiz-came-to-be/#comment-6462</link>
		<dc:creator>Angela Parker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Read the first paragraph and became self-conscious. 

Had to remove a sock and cover the webcam before I was able to continue reading this Saturday morning. I was still in my sleep shirt and... you guessed it... no pants!

Great tips and entertaining delivery!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Read the first paragraph and became self-conscious. </p>
<p>Had to remove a sock and cover the webcam before I was able to continue reading this Saturday morning. I was still in my sleep shirt and&#8230; you guessed it&#8230; no pants!</p>
<p>Great tips and entertaining delivery!</p>
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		<title>By: Steph</title>
		<link>http://ittybiz.com/on-seo-snake-oil-ninjas-and-how-ittybiz-came-to-be/#comment-6329</link>
		<dc:creator>Steph</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Naomi,

I just sent you a rather long-ass comment form message about your eBook (I have some questions and I hope that&#039;s okay and it doesn&#039;t make you want to take more pills).  But here, I just wanted to say thank you for your amazing writing, for all the work you&#039;ve put into this book and blog, and for having what it takes to stand out from the rest. I&#039;m super glad I&#039;ve found you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Naomi,</p>
<p>I just sent you a rather long-ass comment form message about your eBook (I have some questions and I hope that&#8217;s okay and it doesn&#8217;t make you want to take more pills).  But here, I just wanted to say thank you for your amazing writing, for all the work you&#8217;ve put into this book and blog, and for having what it takes to stand out from the rest. I&#8217;m super glad I&#8217;ve found you.</p>
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		<title>By: Jamie Dunford</title>
		<link>http://ittybiz.com/on-seo-snake-oil-ninjas-and-how-ittybiz-came-to-be/#comment-6328</link>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Dunford</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Tei - That was totally my fault. In our determination to upload the file and be done with it I forgot to zip it. Sue me. Or get a  better internet connection.

Be a hater if you must, but at least hate the right person. :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Tei &#8211; That was totally my fault. In our determination to upload the file and be done with it I forgot to zip it. Sue me. Or get a  better internet connection.</p>
<p>Be a hater if you must, but at least hate the right person. :)</p>
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		<title>By: April</title>
		<link>http://ittybiz.com/on-seo-snake-oil-ninjas-and-how-ittybiz-came-to-be/#comment-6323</link>
		<dc:creator>April</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Naomi,

Congrats on the book!

I&#039;ve been lurking for a little bit and trying to catch up on what I&#039;ve missed. I haven&#039;t ordered the book yet, but it&#039;s on the list. Just commenting to let you know that you have &quot;taken control of your financial destiny&quot; (in case you didn&#039;t already know). Yup, I just read an article on Success.com, so I&#039;m able to inform you expertly. It said, &quot;Writing a Book Gives You Total Control of Your Financial Destiny&quot;. I included the link if you want to check it out and see how &quot;Person B&quot; you are.

So, Naomi Dunford, you&#039;ve just taken control of your financial destiny; what are you going to do next (after you get the boxes unpacked)? :) 

http://www.successmagazine.com/article?articleId=73&amp;taxonomyId=15</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Naomi,</p>
<p>Congrats on the book!</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been lurking for a little bit and trying to catch up on what I&#8217;ve missed. I haven&#8217;t ordered the book yet, but it&#8217;s on the list. Just commenting to let you know that you have &#8220;taken control of your financial destiny&#8221; (in case you didn&#8217;t already know). Yup, I just read an article on Success.com, so I&#8217;m able to inform you expertly. It said, &#8220;Writing a Book Gives You Total Control of Your Financial Destiny&#8221;. I included the link if you want to check it out and see how &#8220;Person B&#8221; you are.</p>
<p>So, Naomi Dunford, you&#8217;ve just taken control of your financial destiny; what are you going to do next (after you get the boxes unpacked)? :) </p>
<p><a href="http://www.successmagazine.com/article?articleId=73&amp;taxonomyId=15" rel="nofollow">http://www.successmagazine.com/article?articleId=73&amp;taxonomyId=15</a></p>
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		<title>By: bob hoffman</title>
		<link>http://ittybiz.com/on-seo-snake-oil-ninjas-and-how-ittybiz-came-to-be/#comment-6311</link>
		<dc:creator>bob hoffman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t give a shit about SEO. I don&#039;t care how it works or why it works. I don&#039;t want to know and I hope I never know.  

But I&#039;m ordering your book. Good people deserve support.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t give a shit about SEO. I don&#8217;t care how it works or why it works. I don&#8217;t want to know and I hope I never know.  </p>
<p>But I&#8217;m ordering your book. Good people deserve support.</p>
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		<title>By: Nimic</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nimic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I bought the book last night, and finished reading it this morning.  I wish this book was released last month.  I&#039;ve spent the last 30 days researching SEO and frankly it made my head spin.  I&#039;m an engineer IRL, so it&#039;s not that I can&#039;t comprehend the technical information.  The problem is that there is so much of it, and one half conflicts with the other half.

In the past 30 days I&#039;ve read &quot;white hat&quot; tips that turned out to be black hat.  Pushed at least one of my websites into the &quot;sandbox&quot; and made several crappy niche domain purchases.  I&#039;ve learned that anyone who is trying to help you, even on $100 membership forums, is trying to sell you something that doesn&#039;t necessarily even work.

Is this book worth $39?  Well, I&#039;ll have to say I&#039;m very happy I managed to get it at the discounted price.  But, let&#039;s say I didn&#039;t.  Let&#039;s say I spent $39 dollars on a 52 page book.  It would have saved me about $200 in stupid mistakes that got me nowhere. 

There&#039;s a rhyme and a reason to SEO.  In my month of research, I discovered about 75% of the techniques in this book on my own, and tried them out.  I also discovered about twice as many techniques that this book warns about or leaves out that don&#039;t work.  It&#039;s also great to have a book as a reference instead of 100 badly organized links where the information I need is buried somewhere in a 10 page article.

I&#039;d buy the book again, but I&#039;d build a time machine take it back with me and save 30 days of frustration.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I bought the book last night, and finished reading it this morning.  I wish this book was released last month.  I&#8217;ve spent the last 30 days researching SEO and frankly it made my head spin.  I&#8217;m an engineer IRL, so it&#8217;s not that I can&#8217;t comprehend the technical information.  The problem is that there is so much of it, and one half conflicts with the other half.</p>
<p>In the past 30 days I&#8217;ve read &#8220;white hat&#8221; tips that turned out to be black hat.  Pushed at least one of my websites into the &#8220;sandbox&#8221; and made several crappy niche domain purchases.  I&#8217;ve learned that anyone who is trying to help you, even on $100 membership forums, is trying to sell you something that doesn&#8217;t necessarily even work.</p>
<p>Is this book worth $39?  Well, I&#8217;ll have to say I&#8217;m very happy I managed to get it at the discounted price.  But, let&#8217;s say I didn&#8217;t.  Let&#8217;s say I spent $39 dollars on a 52 page book.  It would have saved me about $200 in stupid mistakes that got me nowhere. </p>
<p>There&#8217;s a rhyme and a reason to SEO.  In my month of research, I discovered about 75% of the techniques in this book on my own, and tried them out.  I also discovered about twice as many techniques that this book warns about or leaves out that don&#8217;t work.  It&#8217;s also great to have a book as a reference instead of 100 badly organized links where the information I need is buried somewhere in a 10 page article.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d buy the book again, but I&#8217;d build a time machine take it back with me and save 30 days of frustration.</p>
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		<title>By: Jamie Dunford</title>
		<link>http://ittybiz.com/on-seo-snake-oil-ninjas-and-how-ittybiz-came-to-be/#comment-6287</link>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Dunford</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey guys,

First of all, thanks so much for your support, and I&#039;m glad this book seems to have been as useful for you as we hoped it would be. 

We&#039;re going to be doing a testimonials page and we&#039;ll be using some of your comments. If there is anything you want to add, feel free to shoot us an e-mail. Make sure to include your URL so we can attribute your comment and perhaps direct a few people to your site. Also, that way it won&#039;t look like we made you up :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>First of all, thanks so much for your support, and I&#8217;m glad this book seems to have been as useful for you as we hoped it would be. </p>
<p>We&#8217;re going to be doing a testimonials page and we&#8217;ll be using some of your comments. If there is anything you want to add, feel free to shoot us an e-mail. Make sure to include your URL so we can attribute your comment and perhaps direct a few people to your site. Also, that way it won&#8217;t look like we made you up :-)</p>
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		<title>By: Naomi Dunford</title>
		<link>http://ittybiz.com/on-seo-snake-oil-ninjas-and-how-ittybiz-came-to-be/#comment-6276</link>
		<dc:creator>Naomi Dunford</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You guys are so awesome. Thank you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You guys are so awesome. Thank you.</p>
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