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		<title>How to Get Top Search Engine Optimization and Placement Results with Google Caffeine</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Wendy Suto (c) 2010
 Since its debut in 1996, Google&#8217;s search engine has experienced countless updates and revisions. But none of those revisions have fundamentally changed the architecture of the Google search algorithm as much as Google&#8217;s latest update, codenamed Caffeine.
While recent reports put Google&#8217;s market share at around 65 percent, a massive update [...]


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		<title>The Thirteen Best Online Travel Guides</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jul 25, 2010 at 2:46pm ET by Chris Sherman 

Virtually all of the famous print travel guides have online counterparts. Most are just as packed with information, photos and maps as their print versions. Most also have planning tools, community, deals and other online-specific features. Surprisingly, for sites that offer information about travel and moving around [...]


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		<title>Is Google Really  Developing a Facebook Killer?</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.accommodationguru.com/2010/07/26/is-google-really-developing-a-facebook-killer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Titus Hoskins (c) 2010



 No less than CNN is reporting rumors that Google does indeed have a social networking site in the works which could give Facebook some competition. This new social site/program is supposed to be called GoogleMe or Google Me.
Only Google knows the truth.
However, creating such a site would be a smart [...]


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		<title>Five things that could topple Facebook&#8217;s empire</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.accommodationguru.com/2010/07/22/five-things-that-could-topple-facebooks-empire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ryan Singel, Wired
July 21, 2010
(Wired) &#8212; Facebook is primed to announce this week that it&#8217;s amassed a half billion active friends, a milestone reinforcing its status as the king of social networks &#8212; a company to be regarded with the seriousness and power (if not revenue) of Google, Apple, Yahoo and Microsoft.
Five hundred million [...]


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		<title>Does Your Marketing Stop When Your Content Starts?</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.accommodationguru.com/2010/07/21/does-your-marketing-stop-when-your-content-starts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mark Nunney (c) 2010
Your website&#8217;s content will get noticed, get read, and get customers if you use your headline and first paragraph to let readers know what is in it for them. Here, I&#8217;ll introduce you to some techniques you can use to make that happen.

This article is an edited version of a chapter [...]


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		<title>Top 10 Google Search Features for Your Business</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.accommodationguru.com/2010/07/19/top-10-google-search-features-for-your-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By George Muha (c) 2010
The people at Google are truly inspired! They are evolving their search engine into something that can be an incredibly powerful tool for business. There are a zillion things that Google can do for different parts of your business and in this post, I will highlight the top 10 Google search [...]


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		<title>Travel Daily&#8217;s 2010 Business Class Guide</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.accommodationguru.com/2010/07/19/travel-dailys-2010-business-class-guide/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please click on link below to see a copy of the inaugural Travel Daily Airline Business Class Guide, a free supplement for TD readers giving an overview of the business class products offered by major airlines marketing flights in Australia.
Click here to download Travel Daily&#8217;s 2010 Business Class Guide




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		<title>The WWED effect on online hotel pricing</title>
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I’ve addressed the OTA issue a few times in the past, but it’s time to get down to brass tacks.  Not all OTAs are created equal, and in my opinion one of them is due for a comeuppance by the hotel industry.  At least, by those hotels that are not part of the big five.
I [...]


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		<title>TripAdvisor Business Listing – not for everyone</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[El blog de Mirai para hoteleros
On May 6th 2010 in its press release Tripadvisor announced that over 12 000 hotels around the world had subscribed to its Business Listings service and added their urls, emails and telephone numbers.  Five months after the launch Paris has taken the leader position wih 13% slice of the total listings [...]


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		<title>Why Many Teens Are Moving on from Facebook</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[JULY 12, 2010 
The main reason? They just lost interest
There’s no question of Facebook’s position at the top of the social networking space, and one thing that makes the site so powerful is that when it comes to social networking, a user’s friends must be users too. But among some teens, Facebook may be losing [...]


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