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		<title>Accepting Payments Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want to sell online, you need to be able to accept credit card payments. The traditional way is to open a merchant account. However, opening a merchant account is expensive, especially for small businesses who are just starting. In the last few years, however, a number of companies have entered the market with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Content is Key to Website Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No matter how flashy or great your Web site looks, if you don&#8217;t have good content you are in a boat without a paddle. I can not count the times that I have said that content is key to a Web site&#8217;s success. Too many times to count. There are other things you should know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Captcha: Fighting Automated Submissions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Our days computers and Internet have evolved to the point when software tools ( such as standalone programs or web scripts ) can perform automated task on the web, such as navigating from website to website ( spiders ) filling and submitting web forms. This task was difficult many years ago, and people did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Search Engine Optimization: 8 Steps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Why is it so important to optimize your web site for search engine placement? The answer is simple: 82% of online shoppers know exactly what they want when they log onto the internet and ½ of them use search engines to find vendors and solution resources. Most of all the searches end within the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.seastride.com/main/?p=72</link>
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		<title>Introduction: Google Sitemaps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google recently launched a service that allows webmasters to feed Google pages they would like to have indexed. Up till now, webmasters had no control over what pages Google crawled. Webmasters could only submit their homepage to Google and hope that Google would crawl through links to find the rest of their web site. Google&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.seastride.com/main/?p=70</link>
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		<title>Is your site wearing a jacket and tie?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Internet is a virtual environment. Every single thing you see is non-tangible. Your visitors cannot actually hold your product or service in their hands. They cannot feel it, smell it, taste it or hear it. You can only work within a limited environment; the Internet. So how do you sell a product or service [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Recession, Business must be Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been said by many that we’re now in the biggest world economic crisis since the stock-market crash of 1929, and the ensuing Great Depression of the 1930s. However, in this day and age, the world is very different from that of seventy to eighty years ago. If you think about it, just in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.seastride.com/main/?p=67</link>
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		<title>Protecting your Computer &#8216;Privacy&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nowadays we use computers and the Internet everywhere &#8211; we do our banking, read books, find different kinds of information, plan holidays and more. The list is endless. But on the other side Internet is full of potential risk to our privacy and security. It is like a mirror that shows all tracks of our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.seastride.com/main/?p=64</link>
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		<title>10 Things to avoid having an &#8216;Abandoned Website&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ideas are one thing, putting them into action is another thing entirely. You find out that many people come up with ideas for websites that they never get round to executing. Some never get as far as ordering a website hosting service, while others do substantially better by getting a website up but fall victim [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.seastride.com/main/?p=62</link>
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		<title>Optimize your site: Use TAGS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  We have all heard of alt and title tags when it comes to Web site coding, but how many of us are using them to our advantage? Any search engine optimization guru will tell you that they are the perfect place to put your Web site’s keywords. Others will tell you they are there [...]]]></description>
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