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		<title>Is Google testing and cherry picking rich snippets?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 23:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaad Hamid</dc:creator>
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				</script><p>This blog post appeared first on <a href="http://www.shaadhamid.com/blog/">Shaad's SEO blog</a></p><p>I&#8217;m not entirely sure if this is something new, but I&#8217;m seeing Google display weird listings on the SERPs lately. OK let me try and be a bit more specific. I was manually monitoring rankings for a website I&#8217;m helping &#8230; <a href="http://www.shaadhamid.com/2012/12/google-testing-cherry-picking-rich-snippets/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p>]]></description>
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		<title>Add your own private contact details about XXX &#8211; New Google Plus feature?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaad Hamid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>This blog post appeared first on <a href="http://www.shaadhamid.com/blog/">Shaad's SEO blog</a></p><p>I was browsing the interwebs a few hours ago and thought I&#8217;d pop over to Google Plus. While there, I did my bit of +1ing stuff that I found interesting, commented on +Richard Fergie&#8217;s post and called Kevin Gibbons a &#8230; <a href="http://www.shaadhamid.com/2012/11/add-private-contact-details-xxx-google-feature/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p>]]></description>
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		<title>Agent/author rank and overall importance of authorship</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaad Hamid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>This blog post appeared first on <a href="http://www.shaadhamid.com/blog/">Shaad's SEO blog</a></p><p>I was pleasantly surprised when I saw an email sitting in my inbox by a member of my readership, Ruwanthi (hi Ruwanthi!  :-) many thanks for your email!). Among many other great content ideas she threw at me, I was &#8230; <a href="http://www.shaadhamid.com/2012/11/agentauthor-rank-and-overall-importance-of-authorship/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p>]]></description>
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		<title>One Young World – four days that changed my life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 07:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shalini Seneviratne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>This blog post appeared first on <a href="http://www.shaadhamid.com/blog/">Shaad's SEO blog</a></p><p>As clichéd as it may sound, returning from One Young World Summit 2012, I feel different, my life has definitely changed. One Young World (OYW) is an annual summit that brings together young people from around the world to discuss, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shaadhamid.com/2012/11/one-young-world-shalini-seneviratne/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p>]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook advertising isn&#8217;t the same as search advertising</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaad Hamid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>This blog post appeared first on <a href="http://www.shaadhamid.com/blog/">Shaad's SEO blog</a></p><p>A few of days ago, I received an email with a link to the BBC investigation on Facebook ads. The gentleman wanted to find out my opinion on the story and if there was any value in running Facebook ads; &#8230; <a href="http://www.shaadhamid.com/2012/10/facebook-advertising/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p>]]></description>
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		<title>Another Facebook Rumour Doing the Rounds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaad Hamid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>This blog post appeared first on <a href="http://www.shaadhamid.com/blog/">Shaad's SEO blog</a></p><p>This is a very quick post. Just seen the following status update posted by a very close friend of mine: Warning -any person and/or institution and/or Agent and/or Agency of any governmental structure including but not limited to the United &#8230; <a href="http://www.shaadhamid.com/2012/10/facebook-rumour-rounds/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p>]]></description>
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		<title>How to ask effective questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2012 17:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaad Hamid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>This blog post appeared first on <a href="http://www.shaadhamid.com/blog/">Shaad's SEO blog</a></p><p>In a learning environment, like OCVC, questions are vital. Lecturers need to ask the right questions which allow their students to express their ideas. Students can demonstrate their abilities or make an impression with a good question. A question can &#8230; <a href="http://www.shaadhamid.com/2012/09/effective-questions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p>]]></description>
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		<title>How to Procrastinate Efficiently</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2012 17:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaad Hamid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>This blog post appeared first on <a href="http://www.shaadhamid.com/blog/">Shaad's SEO blog</a></p><p>The term efficient procrastination may seem oxymoronic, but there is a logic, and even an art form in delaying something until just the right moment. Procrastination as a concept gets a lot of bad press. The concept that the word &#8230; <a href="http://www.shaadhamid.com/2012/09/procrastinate-efficiently/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p>]]></description>
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		<title>Education maybe free, but a degree or diploma isn&#8217;t</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaad Hamid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>This blog post appeared first on <a href="http://www.shaadhamid.com/blog/">Shaad's SEO blog</a></p><p>Follow any news media in the developed world and after a while you&#8217;ll find a story about funding higher education. Getting a degree is seen as a person&#8217;s right in some countries and an honour in others. Yet what is &#8230; <a href="http://www.shaadhamid.com/2012/09/education-free-degree-diploma/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p>]]></description>
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		<title>Educators going completely online</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaad Hamid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>This blog post appeared first on <a href="http://www.shaadhamid.com/blog/">Shaad's SEO blog</a></p><p>&#160; Former US Education Secretary Rod Paige argued in a 2002 speech that &#8220;Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.&#8221; In many ways he was right. Education is a classic discipline &#8211; it has a history &#8230; <a href="http://www.shaadhamid.com/2012/09/educators-completely-online/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p>]]></description>
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