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	<title>Comments on: Is Your Blog Called &#8220;Fluffy&#8221;?</title>
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		<title>By: Nick Stamoulis</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nick Stamoulis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@ Suzanne McDonald - Thanks for reading!  This is very true, good quality content, articles or a blog posts all need to answer questions the searcher is asking and complete the goals of each page...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ Suzanne McDonald &#8211; Thanks for reading!  This is very true, good quality content, articles or a blog posts all need to answer questions the searcher is asking and complete the goals of each page&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Suzanne McDonald</title>
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		<dc:creator>Suzanne McDonald</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Nick, Excellent points! Another thought: Be sure your landing page answers the question the searcher is asking. If the information isn&#039;t clear and concise, it won&#039;t matter where you&#039;re ranked: The searcher will back arrow and click another site. Best, Suzanne]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Nick, Excellent points! Another thought: Be sure your landing page answers the question the searcher is asking. If the information isn&#8217;t clear and concise, it won&#8217;t matter where you&#8217;re ranked: The searcher will back arrow and click another site. Best, Suzanne</p>
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		<title>By: Nick Stamoulis</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nick Stamoulis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@ Lorraine Grula - Thanks for reading and your comment!  I agree with you, good quality user focused content is so very important and is worth much more than $10 an article!  I think your content is on the excellent side of things :)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ Lorraine Grula &#8211; Thanks for reading and your comment!  I agree with you, good quality user focused content is so very important and is worth much more than $10 an article!  I think your content is on the excellent side of things <img src='http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Lorraine Grula</title>
		<link>http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/blog-called-fluffy/comment-page-1/#comment-54693</link>
		<dc:creator>Lorraine Grula</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excellent article Nick.  I have heard some SEO gurus actually advising people to write for the search engines over people.  That is bunk.  

I hope my blog is in the excellent category.  I do not think I am fluffy but honestly, sometimes I feel pressure from other marketing gurus to do things in a way that would lead to fluffiness. Like the constant advice to hire ghost writers at 10 bucks an article.  They seem to place no value on good writing.  What decent writer would work for 10 bucks an article?   

I constantly hear gurus telling people to create content by hiring cheap ghost writers, ripping off wikipadia or writing simplistic, quick and easy &quot;top ten&quot; lists. all that leads to crap content.  

When I tell people I sometimes spend 2-3 hours writing a blog post and way more if a video is included, they look at me like I am a fool.    

For so many people, their content is nothing more than &quot;buy my product&quot;  A sales pitch disguised as worthwhile educational content.  It&#039;s not.  It is impossible-to-learn-from, biased sales talk that does nothing to help me learn. To learn anything of true value, you have to spend the money.  I understand that is how they become rich, and that is supposidly the point here, but I sure get weary of it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excellent article Nick.  I have heard some SEO gurus actually advising people to write for the search engines over people.  That is bunk.  </p>
<p>I hope my blog is in the excellent category.  I do not think I am fluffy but honestly, sometimes I feel pressure from other marketing gurus to do things in a way that would lead to fluffiness. Like the constant advice to hire ghost writers at 10 bucks an article.  They seem to place no value on good writing.  What decent writer would work for 10 bucks an article?   </p>
<p>I constantly hear gurus telling people to create content by hiring cheap ghost writers, ripping off wikipadia or writing simplistic, quick and easy &#8220;top ten&#8221; lists. all that leads to crap content.  </p>
<p>When I tell people I sometimes spend 2-3 hours writing a blog post and way more if a video is included, they look at me like I am a fool.    </p>
<p>For so many people, their content is nothing more than &#8220;buy my product&#8221;  A sales pitch disguised as worthwhile educational content.  It&#8217;s not.  It is impossible-to-learn-from, biased sales talk that does nothing to help me learn. To learn anything of true value, you have to spend the money.  I understand that is how they become rich, and that is supposidly the point here, but I sure get weary of it.</p>
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		<title>By: John Ribbler</title>
		<link>http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/blog-called-fluffy/comment-page-1/#comment-49284</link>
		<dc:creator>John Ribbler</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Excellent&quot; article. &quot;Super&quot; headline. I&#039;ve been meaning to write in my blog about a phenomenon that you touch on.  While social media has revived writing, there is an impetus to use language that speaks to search engines rather than audiences.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Excellent&#8221; article. &#8220;Super&#8221; headline. I&#8217;ve been meaning to write in my blog about a phenomenon that you touch on.  While social media has revived writing, there is an impetus to use language that speaks to search engines rather than audiences.</p>
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		<title>By: Nick Stamoulis</title>
		<link>http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/blog-called-fluffy/comment-page-1/#comment-49256</link>
		<dc:creator>Nick Stamoulis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@Tara Jacobsen - Thanks for reading and the comment.  Yes, I agree there is so much online that there HAS to be real value!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Tara Jacobsen &#8211; Thanks for reading and the comment.  Yes, I agree there is so much online that there HAS to be real value!</p>
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		<title>By: Tara Jacobsen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tara Jacobsen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am so glad I can say I am in the excellent category and make sure to teach that in every class I teach! There is SO much out there on the internet now that you have to give real value to get eyeballs..:)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am so glad I can say I am in the excellent category and make sure to teach that in every class I teach! There is SO much out there on the internet now that you have to give real value to get eyeballs..:)</p>
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