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		<title>Twitter Gets Its Own URL Shortener</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter has just announced that to protect people from scams, links in direct messages and sent via email will be shortened using its own URL shortener. It’s a welcome move. Still, I was curious about any impacts this might have for good marketers who are not trying to scam people. Good news, on that front.
To [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/twitter-gets-its-own-url-shortener/</link>
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		<title>comScore Search Share For February</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The financial analysts were busy yesterday pushing out the comScore search market share data for February, which officially comes out later today. What the data show is: Google regaining some share “lost” in January and continued gains by Bing, albeit at a somewhat slowing pace.
Yahoo lost some share again and so did Ask, while AOL [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/comscore-search-share-for-february/</link>
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		<title>Search Month European Edition, February 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Search Month European Edition we bring you a monthly update of European search news, with related links to full coverage. Here’s what happened in February.
Googlers convicted in Italy. The biggest news in Europe in February without a doubt was the conviction of three Googlers in Italy. They were convicted to a suspended sentence after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/search-month-european-edition-february-2010/</link>
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		<title>Google Apps Marketplace Opens For B2Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taking a page from Salesforce.com, last night Google formally launched the anticipated Google Apps Marketplace at its “Campfire One” developer event. In short it allows companies and developers to gain access and sell into Google’s “2 million businesses and 25 million Google Apps users.” The marketplace launches with 50 partners including Intuit and competitor Zoho.
Google [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/google-apps-marketplace-opens-for-b2business/</link>
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		<title>Keyword Monitoring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because we are still in the research phase of PPC development, it’s important to get a very clear understanding of the advertiser’s business online and how that will affect the way we build and manage the account. Last week, I introduced the concept of the keyword landscape, the set of keywords, ads and competitors that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/keyword-monitoring/</link>
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		<title>Facebook Search Gains Boost Bing &amp; Motorola</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my discussion yesterday of the comScore search data I neglected to point out (as GigaOm has) that Facebook saw 10 percent search query growth in the past month. That’s significant and it validates an argument I’ve long made that Facebook could turn out to be a meaningful player in search, which would in turn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/facebook-search-gains-boost-bing-motorola/</link>
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		<title>Yahoo Search Update &#8211; March 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo announced a search update to their index.  The update includes possible updates to Yahoo’s crawling, indexing, and ranking algorithms.
Dan Rampton, Yahoo’s Product Manager said:
The Yahoo! Search engineering teams are rolling out updates to crawling, indexing, and ranking algorithms. Similar to previous updates, you may notice some ranking changes and page shuffling during the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/yahoo-search-update-march-2010/</link>
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		<title>Google Adds Microdata Support For Rich Snippets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Google Webmaster Central blog announced a third markup language supported for Rich Snippets. In addition to microformats and RDFa support, Google has added microdata support, which is part of the HTML5 specification.
Here is an example look at Microdata in HTML5 for use in Rich Snippets:

To learn more about Rich Snippet support in Google, go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/google-adds-microdata-support-for-rich-snippets/</link>
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		<title>How to Deal With SEO Resource Constraints</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been at companies large and small, fat and lean. Whether the company is two people trying to build a business out of their home, or 10K+ employees at companies like PayPal and Yahoo, no matter what the size of the company, there are always going to be resource constraints.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/how-to-deal-with-seo-resource-constraints/</link>
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		<title>Solving Website Indexing Problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Crawling and indexing issues can really put a damper on your efforts to rank well for a variety of competitive and non-competitive terms.  Solving indexing issues is definitely an important step towards increasing your keyword ranking footprint. And, the more real estate you own by solving those issues, means you’re taking the next steps in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/solving-website-indexing-problems/</link>
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		<title>Bing &amp; Yahoo Soon To Support Canonical Tag</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than a year since the three major search engines united to announce the canonical tag, neither Bing nor Yahoo formally support it. But that could be changing soon.
Speaking during the “Ask the Search Engines” session at SMX West on Thursday, reps from both search engines said they’re in the process of supporting rel=canonical right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/bing-yahoo-soon-to-support-canonical-tag/</link>
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		<title>SMX West 2010 Keynote – The State Of The Search Union</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s day three of SMX West 2010, and we’re going to kick off with a group keynote conversation called “The State Of The Search Union.” The description hints that we’ll be talking about where the industry is today, and where it’s going in the future. No doubt the Microsoft-Yahoo deal will be a big discussion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/smx-west-2010-keynote-%e2%80%93-the-state-of-the-search-union/</link>
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		<title>Blind To Real-Time Results In Search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Online marketing firm OneUpWeb recently conducted an eye-tracking study about the impact of integrating real-time data into search results. The study involved 44 people divided into two groups: “consumers” and “information foragers.” The difference between the groups involved the tasks they were given:
The first group was told to search for a product they might buy, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/blind-to-real-time-results-in-search/</link>
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		<title>SMX West 2010 Day Three Coverage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day three of SMX West 2010 is in the books, and that wraps up the main conference portion this year’s event. (There are in-depth training sessions on Friday.) We live-blogged today’s keynote, and a variety of bloggers and webmasters covered the rest of the day’s sessions and news. Here’s a recap of the SMX West [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/smx-west-2010-day-three-coverage/</link>
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		<title>SMX West 2010 Day Two Coverage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The second day of SMX West 2010 is in the books, and here are links to our own coverage of the day’s keynote:

Liveblog: SMX West 2010 Keynote – An Insider’s Look At Google Research
Google’s Norvig: PageRank Is Overhyped

But there was much more going on during the individual sessions. Here’s a recap of the SMX West [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/smx-west-2010-day-two-coverage/</link>
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		<title>Google’s Proposal For Crawling AJAX URLs is Live</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today at SMX West, Maile Ohye from Google confirmed that Google is indeed now crawling AJAX pages that use the standard proposed last Fall. The documentation is live on Google Code and you can also take a look at my recent article about how to implement the standard and its pros and cons. Maile mentioned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/google%e2%80%99s-proposal-for-crawling-ajax-urls-is-live/</link>
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		<title>Google Wants Feedback On Buzz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google is asking for user feedback and ideas for its Google Buzz product, and has setup an ideas forum using Google Moderator. After signing in with a Google account, users can submit ideas or vote on existing ideas from other users.
According to Google’s blog post, this ideas forum will remain open until March 31st.

Credits to: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/google-wants-feedback-on-buzz/</link>
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		<title>Google Grades Itself On SEO Best Practices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Culminating an internal project that seems to have lasted for several months, Google has published a “Google SEO Report Card” showing the results of an internal SEO audit on the home pages of 100 different Google Products. The main verdict? Like many companies, Google’s web site is a mixed bag of good SEO tactics and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/google-grades-itself-on-seo-best-practices/</link>
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		<title>Does SEM = SEO + CPC Still Add Up?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve found it annoying that over the years, more and more people use SEM to mean paid search, as if SEM excludes SEO. That’s not how I defined SEM — search engine marketing — back 2001. I’d still like to see the original definition retained. But I might be swimming against the tide. Below, how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/does-sem-seo-cpc-still-add-up/</link>
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		<title>Leveraging Your Employees For Local Search Rankings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many management advice books recommend that businesses should make better use of what’s often their biggest investment: employees. Yet, a lot of companies fail to inspire, motivate and exploit the good ideas of their employees. Local search marketing often has an employee component that’s overlooked as well. Read on for some tips on leveraging your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/leveraging-your-employees-for-local-search-rankings/</link>
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