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		<title>Friday Talk: Gary Vaynerchuk: Entrepeneur Who Uses The Web</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bas van den Beld</dc:creator>
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		<description>Most people either love or hate Gary Vaynerchuk. But whether you like him or not, there is no denying he is a successful entrepreneur who knows how to use the web. Vaynerchuk is a passionate speaker so his talks will keep you awake. And trust me, you will have fun and learn something. Take a [...]
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		<title>Five Areas You Could Improve to Become the Ultimate Search Marketer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelvin Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description>The last two weeks I’ve had the pleasure to interviewing 20 odd search marketers for a couple of roles I’ve been recruiting for. I’ve noticed a number of trends and patterns in the process but one thing really stood out – the improvement in the quality of candidates. Of all the rounds of recruitment I’ve [...]
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		<title>Everything You Need to Know About the Facebook IPO</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bas van den Beld</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infographics]]></category>
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		<description>So Facebook is going public. But what does that mean? Is it a big deal? And if so, how big a deal, what for example is the perspective towards other IPO&amp;#8217;s? And who are the current shareholders? All this captured in one infographic. The second infographic shows the numbers on Facebook: revenue, employees, income and [...]
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		<title>Will Critchlow: “I Love The Increasing Socialisation of my Search Results”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bas van den Beld</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ses london 2012]]></category>
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		<description>In two weeks time the European Search World will gather in London to attend, network and share knowledge at SES London 2012. Like every year it promises to be a great event with a great line up of speakers. State of Search will off course be covering the event and in cooperation with our friends [...]
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		<title>Google Fined in France For Abusing Dominant Position</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bas van den Beld</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description>Things are not really going Google&amp;#8217;s way in the first weeks of January so it seems. At least, if you look at the outside perspective of things. From the inside they did some pretty nifty things with the launch of Search Plus Your World for example. From the outside however we have seen complaints about [...]
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		<title>Goldilocks SEO: Too Hot, Too Cold or Just Right?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bas van den Beld</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Infographics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO 101]]></category>
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		<description>SEO Book has a nice set of infographics they are sharing. Like for example this one below. They show the different types of SEO tactics in several categories based on whether they are too hot, too cold or just right. 
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		<title>Building Your Brand: Test Your Content, Not Just Your Keywords</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annabel Hodges</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>
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		<description>I was doing my usual shuffle through a few analytics accounts the other day, for interest rather than with a clear goal in my mind when this blog post occurred to me. Firstly apologies for again writing something that is not &amp;#8216;in the news&amp;#8217; as such. I promise my next post will be about current [...]
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		<title>Are You a Young SEO? Here’s Your Chance: SES London Tickets + SEO Chicks Mentoring</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bas van den Beld</dc:creator>
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		<description>As you may have noticed conference season is about to begin again. The first major event in Europe will be SES London 2012. Many great speakers will be present there, some of which we will be highlighting starting next week. There are many chances you will get to go to that conference, for free! And [...]
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		<title>State of Search radioshow – episode 81: Google Privacy Changes, Negative SEO and No Recession</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bas van den Beld</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[radioshow]]></category>
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		<description>Bas and Roy had a lot of different topics to discuss in this episode. Going from the SEO industry seemingly not being in a recession to Google&amp;#8217;s Privacy changes and negative SEO by commenting anonymously using proxies on blogs. The entire week in just 45 minutes! You can listen to the show below. Listen to [...]
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		<title>Elements That Decide Which Conference You Choose To Attend</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bas van den Beld</dc:creator>
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