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		<title>Google Japan / Yahoo Japan Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tokyo Web Designs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japan Web Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Japan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today it was announced by Google Asia Pacific and Japan vice president Daniel Alegre that Yahoo Japan would switch at the end of the year to using Google Japan&#8217;s search engine results. Sometime next year, Google&#8217;s text ad system, Adwords will also replace Yahoo Japan&#8217;s Sponsored Search listings.
The announcement ends speculation that began last summer [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.tokyowebdesigns.com/advice/1633/internet-marketing-in-japan/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Internet Marketing in Japan'>Internet Marketing in Japan</a></li>
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		<title>Internet Marketing in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tokyo Web Designs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japan Web Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once you have your website up and running often the next challenge for website owners is attracting visitor traffic. Search Engine Optimization is a must, but it takes time and there is often a lot of strong competition for the top spots with your favorite keywords. At this point you might want to consider what [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.tokyowebdesigns.com/advice/1648/google-japan-yahoo-japan-deal/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Google Japan / Yahoo Japan Deal'>Google Japan / Yahoo Japan Deal</a></li>
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		<title>Simple English Guide To PCI &amp; PA-DSS</title>
		<link>http://www.tokyowebdesigns.com/advice/1517/simple-english-guide-to-pci-pa-dss/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tokyowebdesigns.com/advice/1517/simple-english-guide-to-pci-pa-dss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tokyo Web Designs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows that e-commerce transactions are on the rise. Unfortunately so is credit card fraud. To counter threats to sensitive credit card information, the five major credit card companies Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover and JCB aligned their individual policies in 2004  in the form of  the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). The [...]


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		<title>5 Reasons Why Your Business Should Be Using Twitter</title>
		<link>http://www.tokyowebdesigns.com/advice/1576/reasons-why-your-business-should-be-using-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tokyo Web Designs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To survive and prosper these days, all businesses small and large need to be aware of the tools of social media, especially Twitter. It is a form of micro-blogging that has gone from just a small user base a couple of years ago, to a household name today. However, many business owners are skeptical about [...]


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		<title>The Revolution Will Be Tweeted</title>
		<link>http://www.tokyowebdesigns.com/advice/1503/the-revolution-will-be-tweeted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tokyo Web Designs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Business owners cannot afford to think that social media is a passing fad. The Social Media Revolution is sweeping away established notions of how companies should market their products and connect with customers. In the YouTube/Twitter/Facebook/Blogging era, companies need to consider themselves as content providers first, advertisers second.
Some facts:

Social media has overtaken porn as the [...]


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		<title>Wireframing Your Site &#8211; What, Why and How</title>
		<link>http://www.tokyowebdesigns.com/advice/1487/wireframing-your-site-what-why-and-how/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tokyo Web Designs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Design Planning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A good proportion of the time taken to construct a successful website lies in the planning phase before the designer even opens PhotoShop or the developer writes a single line of code. Proper planning is essential in order to avoid costly redesigns and re-engineering at later stages in the website development life cycle. Wireframing is [...]


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		<title>Promote Your Site With QR Codes</title>
		<link>http://www.tokyowebdesigns.com/advice/1466/promote-your-site-with-qr-codes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tokyo Web Designs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japan Web Watch]]></category>

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Anyone who is familiar with the Japanese urban landscape will have noticed that QR code symbols are virtually everywhere. On train advertisements, pamphlets, menus, business cards and product labels. In some extreme cases even on  family graves!
QR  (Quick Response) codes were originally conceived by Japanese company Denso-wave back in 1994 as a method of tracking [...]


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		<title>Google Japan Gets Rich Snippets</title>
		<link>http://www.tokyowebdesigns.com/advice/1437/google-japan-gets-rich-snippets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tokyo Web Designs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rich Snippets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over time you are going to see more search engine result listings on Google Japan similar to the example below, showing rating information, number of reviews, price ranges, and a whole lot more information that Google thinks will give better search results. These are called Rich Snippets and website owners should pay attention because early [...]


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		<title>Can You Get Me On The Front Page Of Google?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tokyo Web Designs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;So can you get my website on the front page of Google search results?&#8221;
This is one of those &#8220;how long is a piece of string?&#8221; type questions that website owners sometimes ask. The only honest answer is &#8220;it all depends&#8221;.
To give any kind of meaningful response actually depends on knowing the answer to one important [...]


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		<title>You Tube Captioning &#8211; The Next Search Frontier?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tokyo Web Designs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Usability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[YouTube]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[YouTube has recently announced the addition of &#8220;auto captioning&#8221; and &#8220;auto caption timing&#8221; . Video captioning has been available for a while but now it is extremely easy for viewers of some YouTube videos to automatically add their own text captions via Google&#8217;s voice recognition technology. The service is planned to expand and it seems [...]


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