<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><generator>FeedManager</generator><title>Search Engine Optimisation Web Log (BLOG)</title><link>http://blog.xseo.com</link><language>en-gb</language><managingEditor>blog@xseo.com</managingEditor><webMaster>blog@xseo.com</webMaster><item><title>Facebook Sues Teacher Resource for Using the Word BOOK</title><pubDate>27/08/2010 19:07:30</pubDate><description>Facebook is suing a company called Teachbook, which operates a social networking site for teachers, apparently because it has BOOK in its name </description><link>http://blog.xseo.com/FacebooksuesTeacherresource</link><author>blog@xseo.com</author></item><item><title>Yahoo Switches to Bing for Organic Search Results</title><pubDate>25/08/2010 11:23:30</pubDate><description>Following the search alliance it formed with Microsoft last year, Yahoo has announced that Bing is now officially powering all of its organic search results in the U.S. and Canada, meaning webmasters and search-engine optimization professionals need only focus their efforts on one major engine besides market leader Google.</description><link>http://blog.xseo.com/YahooSwitchestoBingOrganicResults</link><author>blog@xseo.com</author></item><item><title>Wake Up Google&#44; it may be the internet age but customer service still counts!</title><pubDate>23/08/2010 18:49:30</pubDate><description>In a recent episode an old client approached us for assistance after having their PPC account suspended. They were notified by Google that their account was suspended and that it was in the hands of </description><link>http://blog.xseo.com/WakeUpGooglecustomerservicestillcounts</link><author>blog@xseo.com</author></item><item><title>Social media warning from search engine boss</title><pubDate>20/08/2010 13:13:30</pubDate><description>Eric Schmidt of search engine Google has warned young people that they may one day have to change their names to escape previous online activity.</description><link>http://blog.xseo.com/Socialmediawarningfromsearchengineboss</link><author>blog@xseo.com</author></item><item><title>PPC or SEO? The Ultimate Search Marketing Battle - SES San Francisco</title><pubDate>20/08/2010 12:57:30</pubDate><description>Will there never be an end to this discussion, for what it's worth &quot;BOTH&quot; now move on! That said here is what was said at SES San Francisco</description><link>http://blog.xseo.com/PPCorSEOSESSanFran</link><author>blog@xseo.com</author></item><item><title>Connected Marketing at SES San Francisco</title><pubDate>18/08/2010 15:07:30</pubDate><description>It's great to see, all too often we are asked to focus on purely SEO. Which is a shame because as Garry raises in his article strict SEO is only one part of the proposition. </description><link>http://blog.xseo.com/ConnectedMarketingSESSanFrancisco</link><author>blog@xseo.com</author></item><item><title>Nice little Viral</title><pubDate>17/08/2010 10:20:30</pubDate><description>Couldn't help myself on seeing this nice little viral video from a company selling iphone screen protectors</description><link>http://blog.xseo.com/nicelittleviral</link><author>blog@xseo.com</author></item><item><title>Optimizing Facebook Status Updates For Local Marketing</title><pubDate>16/08/2010 14:54:30</pubDate><description>A large component of Facebooking is &#8220;preaching to the choir&#8221;&#8212;most of the people who will &#8220;like&#8221; you and follow you on Facebook are those who already know your company exists.</description><link>http://blog.xseo.com/OptimizingFacebookStatusUpdatesForLocalMarketing</link><author>blog@xseo.com</author></item><item><title>Government spends millions on SEO</title><pubDate>13/08/2010 15:08:30</pubDate><description>New figures have shown that almost &#163;6 million was spent on search engine optimisation by four government departments over the past two years.</description><link>http://blog.xseo.com/GovernmentspendsmillionsonSEO</link><author>blog@xseo.com</author></item><item><title>Stolen content outranking the Original</title><pubDate>13/08/2010 13:51:30</pubDate><description>There are reports in forums that since the MayDay Update in Google that sites that crawl and cloan other peoples content are outranking in the search results.</description><link>http://blog.xseo.com/Stolencontentoutrankingoriginal</link><author>blog@xseo.com</author></item><item><title>SEO for Start-ups: Build Authority Offsite</title><pubDate>12/08/2010 16:02:30</pubDate><description>Start-ups with newly purchased domains nearly always enter some iteration of a search engine sandbox; a purgatory of sorts to ensure fresh domains aren't masquerading as spam zombies. </description><link>http://blog.xseo.com/SEOforStartupsBuildAuthorityOffsite</link><author>blog@xseo.com</author></item><item><title>Facebook has sights set on search engines</title><pubDate>03/08/2010 22:41:30</pubDate><description>Facebook may already dominate the world of social networking, but now it is making the first tentative steps into the fiercely competitive search engine market.</description><link>http://blog.xseo.com/Facebooksightssetonsearchengines</link><author>blog@xseo.com</author></item><item><title>SEO For Start Ups</title><pubDate>03/08/2010 15:27:30</pubDate><description>Earlier today we had a call to the office regarding SEO (search engine optimisation) for a new site, on a brand new domain. It served to remind me there is a huge need for assistance in this area, which on the most part is not catered for.</description><link>http://blog.xseo.com/SEOForStartUps</link><author>blog@xseo.com</author></item><item><title>Early morning SEO call&#44; tarnished the rest of the day</title><pubDate>02/08/2010 09:00:30</pubDate><description>It may be early-ish on a Monday morning but already I've had a lengthy conversation with someone about what not to do in optimising their website. They say a little knowledge is dangerous and with this one it was positively sublime. </description><link>http://blog.xseo.com/basicseo</link><author>blog@xseo.com</author></item><item><title>Ask is relaunched with a question and answer database.</title><pubDate>02/08/2010 08:10:30</pubDate><description>This week Ask was relaunched as a natural language search engine again&#44; this time based on a human edited database of responses. 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