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		<title>Find Out Where Your Community Ranks in Google and How Many Impressions and Clicks You Receive</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/07/27/find-out-where-your-community-ranks-in-google-and-how-many-impressions-and-clicks-you-receive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered not just where your community was ranking in Google search queries, but also how many search impressions those queries generated and how many clicks? Well, you can find out.
Google Webmaster Tools is a free, cool service provided by Google that allows you do a myriad of things related to your site, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Building Community Around Your Blog: Growing Community on Your Site</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/06/25/building-community-around-your-blog-growing-community-on-your-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Managing the Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Promoting Your Community]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
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This is the third and final part in my series on building community around your blog. In part one, we discussed the community you have by default and, in part two, we touched on community building outside of your own site. Finally, we&#8217;re going to bring it home and discuss the growth [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Apture Site Bar: Improved Social Sharing on Your Community</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/06/07/apture-site-bar-improved-social-sharing-on-your-community/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/06/07/apture-site-bar-improved-social-sharing-on-your-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developing Your Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Promoting Your Community]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently came across the Apture Site Bar on my web travels, when I saw it pop up on a site I was reading. Simply put, it is a thin, floating top bar that appears when you scroll down below the fold.
It features the logo of the site that you&#8217;re on, links to share the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Poachers Are the Bad Guys (or &#8220;Poaching Community Members is Like Building Your Community on an Ancient Burial Ground&#8221;)</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/02/03/poachers-are-the-bad-guys-or-poaching-community-members-is-like-building-your-community-on-an-ancient-burial-ground/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/02/03/poachers-are-the-bad-guys-or-poaching-community-members-is-like-building-your-community-on-an-ancient-burial-ground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Promoting Your Community]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
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You&#8217;ve got a brand new community on basket weaving. You badly want people to come to your site. So, you go to the largest basket weaving community on the internet and start discreetly inviting members. Maybe you instant message or e-mail them off site, so that the people running the established community [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Does Your Community Receive a Lot of Traffic From Social Bookmarking, Networking or Sharing Sites? Install WP Greet Box</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/08/24/does-your-community-receive-a-lot-of-traffic-from-social-bookmarking-networking-or-sharing-sites-install-wp-greet-box/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/08/24/does-your-community-receive-a-lot-of-traffic-from-social-bookmarking-networking-or-sharing-sites-install-wp-greet-box/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Promoting Your Community]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Does your online community receive a lot of traffic from sites that are big on link sharing? For example:

Social bookmarking sites like delicious and StumbleUpon.
Social news sites like Digg.
Social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.
Microblogging services like Twitter.
Social aggregators like FriendFeed.
Or any site that allows and encourages people to easily share links &#8211; perhaps sites [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>New Book: &#8220;Online Marketing Inside Out&#8221; by Brandon Eley and Shayne Tilley</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/05/29/new-book-online-marketing-inside-out-by-brandon-eley-and-shayne-tilley/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/05/29/new-book-online-marketing-inside-out-by-brandon-eley-and-shayne-tilley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Promoting Your Community]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SitePoint has a new book out called &#8220;Online Marketing Inside Out&#8221; and it&#8217;s special to me for a few reasons. First, it&#8217;s co-authored by my good friend Brandon Eley, who I&#8217;ve known for like 7 of 8 years. The other co-author is Shayne Tilley, who I have talked to many times and like a lot, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Guest Post on ProBlogger: &#8220;Enhance and Grow Your Online Community Through Appreciation&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/05/07/guest-post-on-problogger-enhance-and-grow-your-online-community-through-appreciation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/05/07/guest-post-on-problogger-enhance-and-grow-your-online-community-through-appreciation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 16:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interacting with Users]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Managing Staff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Promoting Your Community]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over at ProBlogger, Darren Rowse was kind enough to allow me to provide a guest post that I titled &#8220;Enhance and Grow Your Online Community Through Appreciation.&#8221; In the post, I discuss how simple acts of appreciation can have noteworthy impact on the growth of your community. Here&#8217;s the closing excerpt:
Appreciation is a powerful thing. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Promoting Your Forums Through Twitter</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/05/03/promoting-your-forums-through-twitter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/05/03/promoting-your-forums-through-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 14:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Promoting Your Community]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I wanted to look into the benefits of using Twitter to promote your forums, I did an account search, looking for words like forums, forum, boards, board, community, etc. The most followed account at the time, back in March, was the rkforums account, for the Raisingkids Forums. They are part of the UKfamily.co.uk network, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Activity Breeds Activity on Your Online Community</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/04/15/activity-breeds-activity-on-your-online-community/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/04/15/activity-breeds-activity-on-your-online-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Promoting Your Community]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.managingcommunities.com/?p=436</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of ways to promote a community. After all, a community is a website, so most of the ways that you would promote any type of website will also apply to forums and communities. However, there is one simple promotional ideal that is probably one of the most important ones, as well.
That is: [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>5 Easy Ways to Find Stories, Topics and Discussions to Post on Your Online Community</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/02/24/5-easy-ways-to-find-stories-topics-and-discussions-to-post-on-your-online-community/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/02/24/5-easy-ways-to-find-stories-topics-and-discussions-to-post-on-your-online-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developing Your Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How Should I Participate?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Promoting Your Community]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Unhappy with the activity on your community? One way to take matters into your own hands is to start topics on your forums, allowing people who want to participate to add to the activity, rather than having them feel as if they have to create the activity. After you get past the standard sort of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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