{"id":3030,"date":"2012-11-09T05:34:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T09:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2012-11-03T09:40:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T13:40:23","slug":"google-placement-and-article-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2012\/11\/09\/google-placement-and-article-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Placement and Article Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very interesting video done by Matt Cutts Google&#8217;s voice to my industry on the topic of article marketing. 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