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		<title>Zappos Dominates SERPs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Doing some research today with query &#8220;satchel handbags&#8221; and notice Zappos getting listed with some oddities. The title is &#8220;diaper bag&#8221; and the descriptions and URLs are all over the place. If you click through one of the pages &#8211; it&#8217;s a Zappos Search results page&#8230; Was Zappos a victim of the Panda update? Or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Small Businesses Really Compete with Big Companies?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the million-dollar question to many small companies, especially ones that are just trying to launch a new business; online or offline. But for this article I will be focusing on what small businesses can and should do to compete against the larger companies online. So you decided one day to launch a new e-commerce [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.derekchew.com/2010/03/23/can-small-businesses-really-compete-with-big-companies/</link>
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		<title>Google Competing with LendingTree and LowerMyBills</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was doing some research on mortgage loans and to my surprise, I saw this. Is this something new or old news? Not sure, but I get this feeling that Google is going to enroach into the lead gen space and steal some serious cash. I clicked on &#8220;Buy a home&#8221; and it brought me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.derekchew.com/2010/01/04/google-competing-with-lendingtree-and-lowermybills/</link>
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		<title>Goodbye 2009. Helloooo 2010!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HAPPY NEW YEAR!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.derekchew.com/2009/12/31/goodbye-2009-helloooo-2010/</link>
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		<title>Yahoo Removing Paid Inclusion &#8211; Coming Clean</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For many years, even during the time I was at Yahoo! doing SEO, their Paid Inclusion offering never made sense to me. This hybrid of organic search+paid search+directory-like approach has always ruffled feathers among search practitioners. Of course, depending on what department paid inclusion falls under, it could be a true blessing or a devil&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.derekchew.com/2009/10/16/yahoo-removing-paid-inclusion-coming-clean/</link>
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		<title>FUD Marketing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I last posted anything &#8211; to be exact since June 3rd 2009! But let&#8217;s not dwell on the absence of my posts, but rather what I&#8217;m about to write about. FUD Marketing. So what&#8217;s FUD? Do you FUD someone, or tell someone to FUD-off, or is it some sick version [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.derekchew.com/2009/09/22/fud-marketing/</link>
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		<title>Interview with Senket Creator &#8211; Geoff Canyon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of you might recall me writing about a new game called Senket last month, something that I had absolutely no clue about. And since it is in my nature to refuse not understanding anything, I begged my friend, and creator of Senket, Geoff Canyon to sit down with me and give me the 30,000 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.derekchew.com/2009/06/03/interview-with-senket-creator-geoff-canyon/</link>
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		<title>USPS Fading, Slowly but Surely</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you remember my prediction about the demise of our postal service earlier this year, and people said I was either crazy, off my rockers, bonkers, ya know &#8211; the normal stuff people refer to me anyways &#8211; well, today I cam across another news story that supports my theory &#8211; that in 5 years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.derekchew.com/2009/05/18/usps-fading-slowly-but-surely/</link>
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		<title>How to Phuck Up a Free Meal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you live someone in the United States and haven&#8217;t heard about Oprah and KFC&#8217;s joint venture to promote the colonel&#8217;s new grilled chicken, you must be living under a rock. Basically, on May 6, 2009 &#8211; Oprah decided to offer a free KFC grilled chicken meal (with NO DRINK WTF!!) to anyone who downloads [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.derekchew.com/2009/05/11/oprah-owes-some-chicken-to-america/</link>
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		<title>Senket, Go and My Friend Geoff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me start by saying that I have absolutely NO IDEA what the heck Senket is. And if you have no clue what Senket is either and wonder if it&#8217;s the name of a newly discovered creature (sounds like a cat huh?), the name of a lost tribe, or my childhood nickname &#8211; just stop!! [...]]]></description>
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