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		<title>Eight ways to optimise your website for search engines and people</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ned Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 15th May I spoke at IFSEC International, the largest event for the security industry. The exhibition took place in two of the massive halls at the NEC and I was invited there by Cicada client, the British Security Industry Association. It was pretty huge: over 650 exhibitors from 100 countries and the BSIA had an impressive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BrightonSEO, from a creative designer&#8217;s perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 08:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Mason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nick Mason creates digital art and beautiful websites. His creative work for Cicada includes the illustrations on the First Line Support homepage and the related the magazine advertising &#8211; of which this is an example. We were delighted when he accepted an invitation from us to attend the BrightonSEO conference. And we were even happier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from the BrightonSEO charity and NGO roundtable</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ned Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brighton seo charity roundtable from Ned Wells On Thursday 11th April, the day before the main BrightonSEO conference, I was lucky enough to host the charity and NGO roundtable discussion. The talented Aisha Kellaway from BrightonSEO took the notes, and here they are for you to refer back to: Download the notes from-brightonSEO-NGO-roundtable]]></description>
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		<title>From bread and butter to big and engaging: content counts at BrightonSEO 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caroline Mainprize</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Content was king last week at BrightonSEO 2013, a massive one-day conference for the search industry, featuring 40 speakers in three different venues. Never before has so much up-to-date technology been seen together with so many, er, retro hairstyles. From the panel of ex-Google staffers, who urged delegates to “solve someone’s problem”, to Hannah Smith [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Selling SEO&#8221; talk at OxonDigital</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ned Wells</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[building an SEO business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I did it. Bit nerve-wracking standing up in front of 50-odd people to talk through a bunch of slides. But I think it was well received and it was certainly good experience for me. Nothing like getting out of your comfort zone every now and then! My talk was based on a guest post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hosting the charity roundtable discussion at BrightonSEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ned Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BrightonSEO is fast approaching and I wanted to let you know that in addition to the little sponsorship package that we&#8217;re doing, we&#8217;re also hosting a roundtable event the day before. Roundtable what? OK so here&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening. The main conference takes place on Friday 12th April. The day before that, the organisers have put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cicada sponsors BrightonSEO again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ned Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re sponsoring the brilliant BrightonSEO conference again! Coming up on April 12th, for the first time it&#8217;s running as a multi-track event. Check out the agenda here. Never heard of BrightonSEO? It&#8217;s the brainchild of Kelvin Newman from Brighton SEO agency SiteVisibility, who also runs the very good Internet Marketing Podcast. A little bit of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My first guest post on OxonDigital</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ned Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OxonDigital is a website and networking group set up by gifted local SEO professional Daniel Bianchini. I&#8217;ve been to a few of their networking events since he set it up in 2011, and have been impressed. So when Dan asked if I&#8217;d be interested in contributing to the blog, I was happy to commit to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video short from SEOmoz: how to win at content marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.cicada-online.com/blog/2013/02/video-short-from-seomoz-how-to-win-at-content-marketing/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=video-short-from-seomoz-how-to-win-at-content-marketing</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 10:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ned Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Helpful video short by Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz, called &#8220;How to Win a Content Arms Race.&#8221; In his video, Rand acknowledges that the rate at which organisations are developing content is accelerating. So the question he&#8217;s addressing is, how can you produce good quality, maybe even better quality, content that our competition, and keep doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great testimonial from a charity client</title>
		<link>http://www.cicada-online.com/blog/2012/12/great-testimonial-from-a-charity-client/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=great-testimonial-from-a-charity-client</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ned Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re delighted to have recently received this glowing testimonial from our charity client Marie Stopes International: &#8220;Marie Stopes International has been working with Cicada Online since 2010 to maximise the commercial impact of our digital work globally. Most recently, Cicada provided extensive and ongoing support around the launch our new international website www.mariestopes.org, delivering significant [...]]]></description>
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