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	<title>Edinburgh web design and marketing articles, musings - Blot Design, Edinburgh</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>3 reasons to make sure you’re on Bing!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft&#8217;s replaced their Live Search engine around 3&#189; months ago with Bing! - a completely new search engine.   Is your site listed?
We&#8217;ve noted that quite a few sites which rank highly on Google and Yahoo are nowhere on Bing! and if you read some of the Bing community forum posts, there are quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ignore social networking at your peril</title>
		<link>http://www.blotdesign.com/writing/ignore-social-networking-at-your-peril</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter, Facebook, MySpace - the list goes on and on.  Social networking is a phenomenon that looks like it&#8217;s here to stay, but are people starting to tire of it all?

I know quite a few people who are heartily sick of being bombarded with social networking.  They have no wish to share their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create your own XML sitemap</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is so much misinformation about search engines and search engine optimisation these days.  A lot of people believe that a site map will increase a site&#8217;s ranking.
Just about the only way a site map will increase your site&#8217;s ranking is if the site has been badly built.  
Once the search engines know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Website images 101</title>
		<link>http://www.blotdesign.com/writing/website-images-101</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good photographs on a webpage can make the difference between keeping your visitor interested or losing him/her.  If you have any responsibilities in updating your website, you&#8217;ll have to learn the basics of image/photo editing.

Why, you might ask?  Well, if the image is not the right dimensions for the webpage, it will likely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flood at Blot Towers</title>
		<link>http://www.blotdesign.com/writing/flood-at-blot-towers</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global warming or what?  This week web development got put on hold after the Blot Design office was flooded!
Picture the scene; it&#8217;s just coming up to 5:00pm, the Blot office is still hard at work and it&#8217;s raining - typical Scottish summer day you might think, but you&#8217;d be wrong.  It&#8217;s raining, then [...]]]></description>
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