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    <title>Search Engine Opimisation Blog</title>
    <link>http://www.ebusiness-strategies.co.uk/</link>
    <description>This News Blog is dedicated to bringing news, information and innovations targeting the Search Engine Optimisation industry.
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      <title>Google PPC System update.</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:37:16 +0100</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Speculation is rife that Google is due to release an updated paid ads system which could see changes to the way adverts are displayed above organic search results.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.ebusiness-strategies.co.uk/news130807googleppcupdate.asp</link>
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      <title>Google BackLinks update.</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 7 Aug 2007 09:26:53 +0100</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Yesterday we saw Google update its recorded BackLinks. It doesn't appear to have updated its PageRank system, which is a shame because we are now in August and it is recording PageRank only on pages from the end of March - by the end of the month Google will be 6 months behind.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.ebusiness-strategies.co.uk/newsGoogleDanceupdates.htm</link>
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      <title>How to get listed in Google, forget submitting</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 1 Aug 2007 12:30:22 +0100</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[We are approached from time to time by people that are paying money to organisations who submit their sites to Google every month. Now it might not be a lot of money £60 to £100 appears to be the norm. We have known people submit their sites to Google for years with no effect.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.ebusiness-strategies.co.uk/news250707rankingsharks.asp</link>
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      <title>The search ranking sharks are circling</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:50:29 +0100</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Unbelievable how people can be lead into spending money on thin air. Within the last couple of days I've had a call from a guy that falls into this category. A perfectly likable bloke, as much as I could tell from a half hour telephone conversation. He started by explaining he didn't have a great deal of money to spend. But realising he had to market his web site to gain any results he'd bought into a "guaranteed" placement scheme that he'd found via an email he'd received. ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.ebusiness-strategies.co.uk/news250707rankingsharks.asp</link>
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      <title>FREE SEO Tutorials Updated</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:53:12 +0100</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Before you say it, yes I know it's been a while since we last updated our free online SEO Tutorials. 
The tutorials not only focus on the research element of keyphrases and competition, but also show how to create page meta, h1 tags, links structuring and the all important LINKBUILDING. One of the new items we have introduced is a demo account of one of our inhouse SEO Page Analysers - details of URL and passwords are in the tutorials...ENJOY!!!]]></description>
      <link>http://www.xseo.com/xseotutorials.htm</link>
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      <title>Branding matters online</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:55:37 +0100</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[New research has found that branding is important on the internet – especially when it comes to search.
Researchers at a US university found that ‘some emotional branding’ was having an effect on search results.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.ebusiness-strategies.co.uk/news150707brandingonline.htm</link>
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      <title>Another consumer group questions Google’s DoubleClick deal</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:54:46 +0100</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A European consumer rights group, Beuc, has questioned Google's proposed acquisition of DoubleClick on both competition and privacy grounds.
It has been reported that the organisation’s director wrote to European Commissioner Neelie Kroes last week with reservations about the deal.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.ebusiness-strategies.co.uk/news130707googledoubleclick.htm</link>
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      <title>Searching questions about Microsoft</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 8 Jul 2007 22:26:12 +0100</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[An article in US magazine BusinessWeek has questioned how Microsoft can catch Google in respect of search.
Microsoft is typically bullish and does not see Google’s dominance as insurmountable in what is described as ‘the early stages of internet search’.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.ebusiness-strategies.co.uk/news080707internetsearch.htm</link>
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      <title>Online advertising continues to grow</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:19:40 +0100</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Figures for online advertising spend are continuing the buck the industry trend –according to the latest set of figures from the Advertising Association.
Its Quarterly Survey of Advertising Expenditure revealed that online advertising spend in the UK was up by 42% to £648m in the first quarter of 2007.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.ebusiness-strategies.co.uk/news020707adspend.htm</link>
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      <title>News Corp in talks over MySpace deal with Yahoo!</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Yahoo! is reportedly being offered MySpace in exchange for a 25% stake in the digital giant by News Corporation.
Rupert Murdoch's company has proposed that Yahoo! buys Myspace for $12.3bn (£6.2bn) - which equates to giving it a 25% stake in the search engine. ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.ebusiness-strategies.co.uk/news270607myspacetakeover.htm</link>
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      <title>Results differ between search engines</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:30:51 +0100</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A new study has found dramatic differences in the results that search engines deliver.
Dogpile and Infospace conducted the research which found that first page results on Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask overlapped by less than one per cent. Furthermore, only 3.6% of the top ranked organic search results were the same across all search engines for any given query. This is half that of two years ago.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.ebusiness-strategies.co.uk/news250607searchenginedifferences.htm</link>
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      <title>Google BackLinks update</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:38:30 +0100</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[We are beginning to see some changes in the recorded BackLinks Google displays in its Link: to command. It doesn't appear to be on all sites, could be that Google is yet again changing how it reports such events.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.ebusiness-strategies.co.uk/news190607googleanalytics.htm</link>
      <author>blog@xseo.com</author>
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      <title>GoogleAnalytics unveils new features</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:02:20 +0100</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[New features have been added to Google Analytics traffic analysis web software following its emergence from beta testing.
The previous incarnation was plagued with problems. It was originally launched in 2005 after Google acquired Urchin. Google Analytics]]></description>
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