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		<title>Google Buzz Draws New Content-Scraping Controversy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update 2: A Google spokesperson says the full-text issue is not a Google-specific problem. &#8220;It is possible for Bloggers to prevent their full content from showing in Buzz just like in Reader &#8211;it depends on how they set up their feed. If a blog owner wants to not show their whole blog, they have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Affordable Hosting for small businesses in SA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Webstyles is committed to helping South African businesses.
We all know that even though the recession is &#8220;over&#8221; people are still holding on to their hard earned cents, so why should you waste yours?. Paying more than you need to.
Our web hosting packages start from as little as R30 per month, This caters for your email [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should social media be held accountable for their users actions?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Case in Italy Has Serious Implications for the Web 
A judge in Milan, Italy has convicted three Google executives over a video uploaded to YouTube in a case, which could have serious implications for social media and ultimately, the web in general, at least in Italy. The video, uploaded back in 2006, featured a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Ways To Safeguard Your Business From Google Slaps</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.webstyles.co.za/blog/?p=461</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Time and time again I hear webmasters complaining about their sites getting slapped. In fact, if you take a look at Google&#8217;s official webmaster forum, you&#8217;ll be shocked at the number of new threads where business owners are pleading with the moderators for a reason why their site has dropped 10 pages down the rankings. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Search Engine Optimization and Paid Search: What Should Your Philosophy Be?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.webstyles.co.za/blog/?p=459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Without a hard look at your company&#8217;s goals and unique situation, there really isn&#8217;t a concrete answer to these questions. The true test of pursuing either an SEO campaign or PPC advertising (or both) is knowing that it all boils down to your company philosophy, ROI objectives, budget, and countless other monetary and marketing factors.
To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google local business listing Good or bad?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.webstyles.co.za/blog/?p=456</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We recently launched a trial, currently limited to the cities of San Jose and Houston, for a new ads feature in local search that allows business owners to enhance their listings. We&#8217;ve seen a lot of curiosity about this feature, so I wanted to take this opportunity to provide further information about it for everyone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Double talk: do search engines understand your web pages?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.webstyles.co.za/blog/?p=454</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You have a beautiful website with great products, great guarantees, many comprehensive pages and great customer service. Unfortunately, Google and other search engines won&#8217;t give your website high rankings.
There are several reasons why search engines do not list websites although they look great and offer quality content:
1. Your web pages are meaningless to search engine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social media, The Lifeblood of the Internet</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WebstylesHostingAndDesignBlog/~3/qu-u8ciMLUI/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.webstyles.co.za/blog/?p=452</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been involved in marketing of any kind over the last two decades, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard the saying, &#8220;content is King.&#8221; Marketers, successful marketers, live by that mantra. When I look at the Internet what I really see are two things. There is the content and then there are the applications that allow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traffic Power of LinkedIn</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LinkedIn is often discussed as a powerful social networking tool, particularly for business professionals, employers, and jobseekers. What is not discussed as frequently is the site&#8217;s ability to simply drive traffic to your site. We talked to entrepreneur Lewis Howes (who claims that LinkedIn is one of the top traffic sources to his blogs) about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who’s Linking to Your Web Site and What Does That Say About You to Google?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Linking is the mechanism that connects all the pages on the Internet. You&#8217;ve got links throughout your web site to let people navigate their way around. You may have links going out to other web sites that you think will be useful for your visitors. And hopefully you have links coming into your web site [...]]]></description>
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