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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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		<title>Selling The Benefits Of SEO In A Large Enterprise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first of a two part series on selling SEO in a large enterprise. Part 2 will be published as my next Industrial Strength column. In Part 1, the focus will be on why getting search traffic is important to an organization.  Part 2 will explore some of the consequences of that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/selling-the-benefits-of-seo-in-a-large-enterprise/</link>
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		<title>Google’s Street View Finds More Trouble In Europe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a letter earlier this month, members of the European Union’s data protection group urged Google to make changes to its Street View mapping/photo service and warned that Google might be breaking EU laws.
According to Bloomberg News, the letter from the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party asks Google to store unblurred Street View images [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/google%e2%80%99s-street-view-finds-more-trouble-in-europe/</link>
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		<title>Google Adds Flickr, Picasa Photos To Street View</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google has been showing crowdsourced photos from its own Panoramio service in Street View for just about a year, and it’s now announced that user photos from both Flickr and Picasa are being added to the mix.
The integration works the same way it has since last February; when images are available, a small box labeled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/google-adds-flickr-picasa-photos-to-street-view/</link>
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		<title>Portals Most Commonly Used News Sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Pew Internet project has just released a lengthy report on online news consumption entitled Understanding the Participatory News Consumer. There are no search-specific findings; however it appears from the survey data that “portal websites like Google News, AOL and Topix are the most commonly used online news sources, visited by over half of online news users on a typical day.”
Here are some of the high-level findings from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/portals-most-commonly-used-news-sites/</link>
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		<title>More Are Seeing A New Google Look-And-Feel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’re getting more and more reports from readers who are seeing a “new” Google look-and-feel for its search results. This is a three column design that Google’s actually been testing for some time. That testing appears to be accelerating.
Google  Tackles Its “UI Jazz” Problem, Tests Streamlining Search Options  Feature is our story from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/more-are-seeing-a-new-google-look-and-feel/</link>
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		<title>Optimizing Page Speed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past couple of months, Google has been telling the world that page speed is an increasingly important aspect of Web sites. The Google Speed site – which has the laudable goal of making Web browsing as fast as turning the pages of a magazine – has been featured in several posts on their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/optimizing-page-speed/</link>
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		<title>Use Google Analytics on Your Facebook Fan Page</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking to integrate your analytical data and tracking across your site, blog and now even your Facebook Fanpages? It appears that the UK’s WebDigi Dev team has figured out a pretty easy way to use Google Analytics on your Facebook Fan Page. With SEJ’s Facebook Page having over 4,000 users and lots of cool comments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/use-google-analytics-on-your-facebook-fan-page/</link>
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		<title>Blog from Your Email</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you travel much and still need to keep your blog active, you will definitely find these tips useful: they will show you how to post to your blogs from email (and thus from your mobile phone).
Of course, you won’t be able to apply those to all types of blogs but generally this is very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/blog-from-your-email/</link>
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