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	<title>blog for the book Carnal Knowledge - A Navel Gazer's Dictionary of Anatomy, Etymology, and Trivia</title>
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	<description>Charles Hodgson's book about the words we use for our bodies</description>
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		<title>change of plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This site has been a blog for my first book but will sometime in the not-too-distant future both cease being a blog and also have a change of look (while still existing to provide info on the book). I highly recommend that you visit the podcast website, the site for my audio book and/or my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>audio book released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As of today I&#8217;ve got a new audio book available: Global Wording – The Fascinating Story of the Evolution of English. I&#8217;ve included a sample in the audio portion of tomorrow&#8217;s podictionary podcast. The book hasn&#8217;t shown up yet on iTunes &#38; Audible.com for sale as a download but it is there at online bookstores [...]]]></description>
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		<title>shortlisted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A funny thing happened to me on the way to a writers meeting&#8230; I was packing my bags to attend my first Writers Union of Canada annual meeting when the doorbell rang. What&#8217;s this? A UPS envelope from my publisher. Actually no, they just forwarded it. It&#8217;s from the Publishers Marketing Association. They write: &#8220;Congratulations! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://navelgazersdictionary.com/?p=79</link>
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		<title>Blogging part 8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Further to the Writers Union of Canada AGM panel RAISING YOUR PUBLIC PROFILE I said last post that today I&#8217;d give a practical example of &#8220;ink love.&#8221; Link love is the boost you get in Google ranking due to the fact that your blog links to other blogs and websites, and especially when others out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://navelgazersdictionary.com/?p=78</link>
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		<title>Blogging part 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Further to the Writers Union of Canada AGM panel RAISING YOUR PUBLIC PROFILE I told you some downsides to podcasting &#38; blogging and I told you some reasons that make me keep doing it. If you begin to get serious about blogging after a while you should also begin to think about SEO. SEO stands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging part 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Further to the Writers Union of Canada AGM panel RAISING YOUR PUBLIC PROFILE Last post was all bad news about podcasting and blogging. Today I get to show off. My podcast has had four million downloads and thousands of people listen to my voice or read my words every day. I&#8217;m getting within spitting distance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging part 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Further to the Writers Union of Canada AGM panel RAISING YOUR PUBLIC PROFILE There are lots of good things that have happened to me because I became a podcaster and blogger, but there is bad news too. Today I&#8217;ll talk about the dark side. Next time I&#8217;ll pull out the brag sheet. I began podcasting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://navelgazersdictionary.com/?p=75</link>
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		<title>Blogging part 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Further to the Writers Union of Canada AGM panel RAISING YOUR PUBLIC PROFILE If a blog is harder than a static web page, how can it be easier? Genni Gunn asked me how much technical expertise authors need to get into blogging or podcasting. My answer was: &#8220;How long is a piece of string?&#8221; What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://navelgazersdictionary.com/?p=74</link>
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		<title>Blogging part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Further to the Writers Union of Canada AGM panel RAISING YOUR PUBLIC PROFILE Running a blog is harder than setting up a website. But it&#8217;s easier in some ways too. It&#8217;s harder because you have to do the work of maintaining it with regular fresh material. A blog that hasn&#8217;t had a post for months [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://navelgazersdictionary.com/?p=73</link>
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		<title>Blogging part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Further to the Writers Union of Canada AGM panel RAISING YOUR PUBLIC PROFILE I got feedback from Penny Kome on my rhetorical question &#8220;can it still be true that some authors don&#8217;t have their own web presence at all?&#8221; She reminded me (so I&#8217;m reminding you) that Union members have access to their own member [...]]]></description>
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