On April 29, I reported that just using Twitter as a mechanism to increase your blogs rankings in the Search Engines wasn’t going to work, simply because the Twitter links are marked “No Follow”.

So, to continue my SEO experiment, I left my blog running and turned on pinging services. The results are far more interesting.
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The other day I was doing my normal checking of my blog today. I like to play and make sure that my readers are seeing what I see. I use RSS Popper as my RSS feed for Outlook 2003 and I noticed that my last couple of posts weren’t being published.

I use Feedburner to manage my RSS subscriptions, incredibly powerful and very easy. However, today when I went to look at my feed, Feedburner SPAT an error at me:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheKeysToInternetMarketing
Line Number 7, Column 122: xmlns:creativeCommons=”http://backend.userland.com/creativeCommonsRssModule” xmlns:media=”http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/”xmlns:itunes=”http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd”

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