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		<title>Why You Should Always Control Your Content</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a sad story in the Guardian today about several leading music blogs being shut down on Blogger.com. It seems they had DMCA notices filled against them and although they attempted to respond to the complaints, Blogger deleted their entire sites. These contained more than four years of archives. 
&#8220;It&#8217;s just sad because we were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Defines Search Space Not ICANN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ICANN has just delayed the launch of their new Top Level Domain (TLD) extension program, which lets businesses apply for custom extensions such as .shoes, .flowers and .texas. They have cited technical, economic, legal, and policy issues that still need to be resolved. There’s one issue ICANN are unlikely to consider though; how these domains [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickwilsdon.com/google-defines-search-space-not-icann/</link>
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		<title>French Handball Creates Online Reputation Nightmare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Communication has been drastically changed by the Internet. Now world events are commented on within minutes by thousands of users. So when Henry Thierry used the &#8216;hand of God&#8217; to push them through to French team through to the 2010 WorldCup &#8211; millions of comments appeared on the web.

In terms of client reputation management this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickwilsdon.com/french-handball-creates-online-reputation-nightmare/</link>
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		<title>Google Speed Ranking Effect On International SEO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first thought when hearing that Google are making site speed a ranking factor, was how this would affect International SEO. 
Hosting infrastructure in the US is large-scale, reliable and often cheaper than local providers in developing countries. The Planet states that 42% of their customers are located in international markets. On the other hand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickwilsdon.com/google-speed-ranking-effect-on-international-seo/</link>
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		<title>Using Network Features On Sphinn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this post, I wanted to show you one of the useful additions to the new Sphinn platform; networking. This feature lets you filter the articles on the site to submitters you trust and want to follow. 
Underneath each submission there is an add button, as you see below. Click this to add this person [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickwilsdon.com/network-features-sphinn/</link>
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		<title>Unfortunate ALT Tags in Email Campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This piece of email marketing from Vocus PR made me smile today.

You have to wonder if they checked the mailing without the images being shown (default usually). Writing out the full word &#8220;Bullet&#8221; in the ALT tags is going to take a few seconds longer &#8211; but trust me &#8211; you give the reader a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickwilsdon.com/unfortunate-alt-tags-in-email-campaign/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Debutes In Dilbert</title>
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AFAIK this is a first time Twitter has appeared in the world of Dilbert. Goes to show how far the service is progressing into the mainstream. A recent report by eMarketer suggests that Twitter user numbers could exceed 26m in the US alone. Global estimates have been put at 35-45m current users. Even with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickwilsdon.com/twitter-debutes-dilbert/</link>
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		<title>Google Adding In-Page Navigation Links in SERPs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google seems to be including in-page navigation links within their SERPs, most likely as part of their strategy to show the user as much info as possible about the destination page before they click through. We&#8217;ve seen this strategy in action with the site search box that is added below the SERP entry. John Andrew&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickwilsdon.com/google-adding-in-page-navigation-links-in-serps/</link>
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		<title>12 Defensive Steps To Secure Your Sites &amp; Income</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s easy to avoid disasters with hindsight and hopefully 10yrs as a domain registrar, web producer and marketer has given me some. In my opinion, here are 12 defensive steps which you should take right now.
1. Ensure Your Domains Have Accurate WHOIS records
Sounds simple but you wouldn&#8217;t believe how many domain registrations have been made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickwilsdon.com/12-defensive-steps-secure-sites-income/</link>
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		<title>WhosTalkin: New Social Search Tool Launched</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WhosTalkin is a new search engine for the social media landscape. It searches across 40+ popular social media applications, providing in depth results not usually seen in the mainstream search engines. In their own words:
WhosTalkin.com is a social media search tool that allows users to search for conversations surrounding the topics that they care about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickwilsdon.com/whostalkin-new-social-media-search-tool-launched/</link>
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