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	<title>Renegade Search &#187; Google News</title>
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		<title>New Ratings in AdWords PPC Ads</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Pabich</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[PPC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While doing a few personal searches at work today I came across a new feature in Google search engine results pages &#8211; rating from Google Products as an extension of certain Google pay per click ads.

Google has been playing with a lot of different ad extensions for a while &#8211; from addresses for local search [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Business Photos for Places, Maps &amp; Local Business Center</title>
		<link>http://www.digitalthirdcoast.net/blog/google-business-photos-places-maps-local-business-center</link>
		<comments>http://www.digitalthirdcoast.net/blog/google-business-photos-places-maps-local-business-center#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Cimala</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Search]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Google announced that it will be sending professional photographers to business in an effort to beef up the quality and quantity of content in listings on Google Places. Apparently, the company isn&#8217;t satisfied with satellite photos, street views, a camera-equipped bicycle, and even a snowmobile for helping people find things in the real world. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Third Coast is Now a Favorite Place on Google</title>
		<link>http://www.digitalthirdcoast.net/blog/digital-coast-favorite-place-google</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Cimala</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DTC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, DTC was selected as a &#8220;Favorite Place&#8221; on Google. Based on information gathered from user behavior and local listings, this means that we have been selected among the Top 10% of businesses, calculated by the popularity of our local business listing.
Google informed us of our status with the following letter:
Dear Business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Soon: Google Analytics Intelligence</title>
		<link>http://www.digitalthirdcoast.net/blog/coming-google-analytics-intelligence</link>
		<comments>http://www.digitalthirdcoast.net/blog/coming-google-analytics-intelligence#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Marco</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biz Advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, a few of us here at Digital Third Coast attended the first-ever Stratigent Google Analytics User Conference at the Field Museum in Chicago. The conference brought together a variety of users of GA and gave us all an opportunity to interact with many of Google&#8217;s top Analytics engineers. During the days&#8217; presentations and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts &amp; Effects of Google Local Listing Ads on PPC</title>
		<link>http://www.digitalthirdcoast.net/blog/thoughts-effects-google-local-listing-ads-search-ppc</link>
		<comments>http://www.digitalthirdcoast.net/blog/thoughts-effects-google-local-listing-ads-search-ppc#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Pabich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PPC]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.digitalthirdcoast.net/blog/?p=320</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of chatter about Google&#8217;s latest augmentation of their local map results.  Earlier this year, there were many additions of map results to local search queries (explicit or implied).  Then Google announced new Local Listing Ads that would show above the natural map results &#8211; currently a regional trail only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Local&#8217;s New 7-Pack Makes Local More Competitive</title>
		<link>http://www.digitalthirdcoast.net/blog/google-locals-7pack-local-competitive</link>
		<comments>http://www.digitalthirdcoast.net/blog/google-locals-7pack-local-competitive#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Cimala</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Search]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Looking at some local search queries this morning, it appears as though Google is testing a new 7-pack of results as opposed to the 10-pack we have all gotten used to. 
Here is a screenshot of the new layout:
The results are still in the same order as yesterday for the searches that I performed, just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google to Start Offering Flat Rate Local Listing Ads</title>
		<link>http://www.digitalthirdcoast.net/blog/google-start-offering-flat-rate-local-listing-ads</link>
		<comments>http://www.digitalthirdcoast.net/blog/google-start-offering-flat-rate-local-listing-ads#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Cimala</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PPC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For businesses that have taken the steps to sign up with Google&#8217;s Local Business Center, Google has a new offering available &#8211; Local Listing Ads. Unfortunately it is only currently available in San Diego and San Francisco as a trial! While they are not intended to compete with AdWords in any way, I can see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Local Business Center Dashboard</title>
		<link>http://www.digitalthirdcoast.net/blog/local-business-center-dashboard</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Pabich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Search]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.digitalthirdcoast.net/blog/?p=234</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week Google updated their Local Business Center.  Now included is some analytics data including how many impressions (how often your listing was shown), actions (driving directions to your business, clicks to your website, etc.) and which search queries triggered your local business listing.  

If you don&#8217;t already have a local business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Do You Get a PPC Campaign Started?</title>
		<link>http://www.digitalthirdcoast.net/blog/get-ppc-campaign-started</link>
		<comments>http://www.digitalthirdcoast.net/blog/get-ppc-campaign-started#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Pabich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PPC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been asked this question several times over the last few years and so I’d like to do a run down on the initial aspects of PPC that any new account holder will have to go through.  Of course there are particulars that apply to specific industries or goals which I do not touch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Google Referral String Will Allow You To See Rankings in Analytics</title>
		<link>http://www.digitalthirdcoast.net/blog/google-referral-string-rankings-analytics</link>
		<comments>http://www.digitalthirdcoast.net/blog/google-referral-string-rankings-analytics#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Zlatin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keyword Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Testing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Google recently announced that they will be making some changes to their referral string format which will be rolling out this week.
The old url referral string looked something like this:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#38;q=flowers&#38;btnG=Google+Search
The new one will look something like this:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&#38;source=web&#38;ct=res&#38;cd=7&#38;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fmypage.htm&#38;ei=0SjdSa-1N5O8M_qW8dQN&#38;rct=j&#38;q=flowers&#38;usg=AFQjCNHJXSUh7Vw7oubPaO3tZOzz-F-u_w&#38;sig2=X8uCFh6IoPtnwmvGMULQfw

There seems to be a lot more data in the new URL string but one of the main improvements [...]]]></description>
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