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	<title>Accommodation Guru Blog</title>
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	<description>Online bookings for premier travel destinations around the globe.</description>
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		<title>How Maps Are Transforming Local Search</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.accommodationguru.com/2010/03/12/how-maps-are-transforming-local-search/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gregg Stewart, ClickZ, Mar 11, 2010

Recently, I was in the airport where I watched a 10-year-old boy show his dad how to access Google Maps for directions to their hotel. I had to laugh. But then I started pondering how local search and navigation have changed in just a few short years. When had I last [...]


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		<title>39 Tools for Marketing Your Small Busíness Online</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.accommodationguru.com/2010/03/06/39-tools-for-marketing-your-small-business-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stone Reuning (c) 2010






Video: Black Hat vs. White Hat SEO   - What Difference Does It 




Thousands of free online marketíng tools clamor for attention, with new ones popping up every week it seems. You know you should be doing more to reach out to your customers, but just researching which tools to [...]


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		<title>How to Market Your Business with Social Media &#8212; Our Top 6 Tips</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.accommodationguru.com/2010/03/05/how-to-market-your-business-with-social-media-our-top-6-tips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By The Internet Marketing Center
If you want to have a successful online business, you can no longer afford to ignore social media.


Whether you&#8217;re talking about sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or the millions of blogs, forums, and groups that exist online, social media continues to dominate the Internet landscape.
If you want to be a part [...]


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		<title>Ten Top Tips for Video Marketing Your Online Business</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.accommodationguru.com/2010/03/04/ten-top-tips-for-video-marketing-your-online-business/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jay Allyson (c) 2010
Nearly all internet marketing professionals use video as one of the core methods for marketing their business. These ten tips aim to help you get started creating short, attractive, effective videos based on solid keywords that convert and that stand the test of time.
Video grabs people&#8217;s attention far more quickly and [...]


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		<title>Link Building Best  Practices - A Guide to  Effective Link Building Methods</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.accommodationguru.com/2010/03/02/link-building-best-practices-a-guide-to-effective-link-building-methods/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[By SEOFocused.com (c) 2010
Just to cover the ground, lets go over what link building is quickly. Link building is the process of building backlinks to your site. The more backlinks (links from other sites to your site) a site has, the higher it ranks on the search engines. Link building therefore is a mission of [...]


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		<title>What travel shoppers want from hotel videos</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.accommodationguru.com/2010/02/27/what-travel-shoppers-want-from-hotel-videos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 26, 2010 &#124; Hospitality Industry

People connect with video. When researching hotels online, travel shoppers want to see two types of videos: professionally shot and guest produced. They want to be enticed but they also need validation.
Based on a study that Google recently conducted, where they asked travel shoppers at what stage of the planning [...]


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		<title>3 Ways To Safeguard Your Business From Google Slaps and Triple Your Traffic At The Same Time</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.accommodationguru.com/2010/02/24/3-ways-to-safeguard-your-business-from-google-slaps-and-triple-your-traffic-at-the-same-time/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul McCarthy (c) 2010

It&#8217;s soon brought to their attention that the moderators have no control over the listings and 9 times out of 10 there&#8217;s nothing they can do to resurrect their sites&#8217; rankings other than playing the waiting game.
How would you feel if you relied on Google for 80% of your traffic and [...]


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		<title>The Lifeblood of the Internet</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.accommodationguru.com/2010/02/22/the-lifeblood-of-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Imbriale (c) 2010
To completely over-simplify things, the applications are what make it possible for us to create, share, and use the content we find on the Internet. So to say content is King, you&#8217;d have to also say that the applications are Queen in order to have a more complete view of the [...]


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		<title>Who&#8217;s Linking to Your  Web Site and What Does  That Say About You to Google?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stone Reuning (c) 2010

 All types of links can impact your search engine optimization results, helping determine where your web site shows up online. Though the hardest to control, inbound links pointing to your site can make the biggest impact.

At its most basic, the concept is that if several high-quality sites are linking to [...]


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		<title>How to Deal With Negative Feedback</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.accommodationguru.com/2010/02/17/how-to-deal-with-negative-feedback/</link>
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Feb 16, 2010 -

We often say that social media is a conversation, and what we mean by that is unlike traditional broadcast and print mediums, which are often one-directional, social media is very much a two-way channel.  Not only can businesses communicate with their customers, but their customers can communicate with them and with each [...]


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