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Topics related to social media search engines and sites. For more background, see the Let's Get Social column or social media news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Avatar Went Hot: January 8, 2009 - 5:09 am
Posted By: onreact 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoptimise.com)
Category: Social Media
When and why you lose your followers on Twitter and how to prevent that. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 7, 2009 - 9:25 am
Posted By: BrianChappell 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webuildpages.com)
Category: Bookmarking
Sometimes I [Zane] star articles in Google Reader that I find useful and that I think may also be useful to the people who follow me on Twitter.

Here is how to tweet your starred items. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 7, 2009 - 6:16 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 1 day 11 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://holisticsearch.co.uk)
Category: Social Media
Great list from Pete Young with some useful UK search marketing people you should follow on Twitter. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 6, 2009 - 7:27 pm
Posted By: eKstreme 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cli.gs)
Category: Other Social Media
A massive tweet data set containing over 2 million links is analyzed for linking patterns. Lots of numbers to dive into! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 6, 2009 - 4:05 pm
Posted By: aimClear 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Here are 6 free social search tools that may help small businesses make their initial foray into searching the social web more productive while keeping costs to a minimum. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 6, 2009 - 11:12 am
Posted By: saadkamal 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://battellemedia.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Like every year, John Battelle makes 13 Solid Prediction of 2009 surrounding Technology, Social Media & the World Economy.

Quoting a random paragraph from the article: "...Google will see search share decline significantly for the first time eve read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 6, 2009 - 8:38 am
Posted By: bbcarter 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://danzarrella.com)
Category: Blogging
Dan Zarrella continues to rock the social media world. Unbelievable.

He's created a script you can install in your blog posts that will show tweets about the post, just like trackbacks, but for tweets.

Um... AWESOME read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 6, 2009 - 7:12 am
Posted By: graywolf 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sarahlacy.com)
Category: Social Media
I'm not saying brand doesn't matter. I'm just saying it doesn't matter the way it seems like it should on paper. In the last year, a lot of college kids or journalists young in their careers have asked my advice on becoming a brand, and I've told th read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 6, 2009 - 6:31 am
Posted By: saadkamal 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.saadkamal.com)
Category: Social Media
Twitter is more than just a social tool. Because of its wide use and availability via smart phones & SMS it has become a very powerful medium of communication.

Is it powerful enough to be used as a medium of an Information Retrieval System? Lets read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 6, 2009 - 3:37 am
Posted By: graywolf 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dirjournal.com)
Category: Social Media
As potential customers, business partners, and employers begin to use the Internet as a research and background check tool, your reputation in the search engines is becoming increasingly more important. For most of my clients I recommend taking a pr read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 5, 2009 - 4:33 am
Posted By: planetc1 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://yoast.com)
Category: Social Media
Joost de Valk writes... This story shows the power of Twitter and how you should always be prepared for major traffic spikes. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 4, 2009 - 4:04 am
Posted By: saadkamal 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.chrisbrogan.com)
Category: Blogging
Chris Brogan writes - "Do you like learning about magic tricks? To me, the best magicians are the ones who share what they know. Penn and Teller are like that. They love deconstructing tricks in front of you? So, do you want to learn some blogging s read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 30, 2008 - 4:24 pm
Posted By: aimClear 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://cre8pc.com)
Category: Social Media
From avatars on social networking sites to link bait stories created for hype & hysteria. Trust between company, product & consumer has whittled away so what exists now is a battle of who can write the better tale and sound believable. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 30, 2008 - 3:45 pm
Posted By: Xurxo 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Social Media
Dev Basu rounds up of the Top 20 Twitter Posts of 2008 and separates the signal from the noise to provide readers another valuable meta-list to bookmark and refer back to as Twitter continues to grow exponentially in 2009. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 30, 2008 - 2:43 pm
Posted By: Teifion 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webuildpages.com)
Category: Blogging
Lisa Barone takes a look at automation and how it can have a very negative impact on your site. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 30, 2008 - 11:36 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: Social Media
It’s delightful that our favorite social media marketers are also the most giving. In the daily SEM social content stream, we’re all each others’ playground friends, mentors, students, scientists, satirists, freaks and thought leaders. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 29, 2008 - 8:04 pm
Posted By: graywolf 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: News Sites
A site with the advantage of having over 20 million unique visitors each month would be apt enough to monetize the site wisely, but it seems with their recent losses in the millions of dollars, they’re certainly not making themselves attractive for read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 29, 2008 - 12:58 pm
Posted By: saadkamal 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.winningtheweb.com)
Category: Blogging
Gyutae Park writes - "In case you’re not familiar with the term “snarky”, Urban Dictionary defines it as “any language that contains quips or comments containing sarcastic or satirical witticisms intended as blunt irony. It’s usually delivered in a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 26, 2008 - 5:32 am
Posted By: TCSM 16 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Social Media
Rae posted up something the other week about how Sphinn is broken, and needs to be fixed, because she's tired of seeing the same rubbish on the homepage day after day. And I agree, to a point. We really don't need any more posts about how to write ' read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 26, 2008 - 4:14 am
Posted By: ViperChill 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pluginhq.com)
Category: Blogging
Tips on increasing RSS subscribers are mentioned around 100 times per day in the blogosphere, everyone and their cat wants to share their knowledge. That isn’t to say these tips don’t work, but they are tips that most of us know about. Recently I te read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 24, 2008 - 11:02 am
Posted By: toddmintz 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Where I share the mental process I go through when I check out a new Twitter follower. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 24, 2008 - 8:33 am
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brentcsutoras.com)
Category: Social Media
When building a new profile on Digg, do not immediately add friends, especially power users. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 23, 2008 - 4:14 pm
Posted By: graywolf 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://venturebeat.com)
Category: Social Media
Dell says Twitter has produced $1 million in revenue over the past year and a half through sale alerts. People who sign up to follow Dell on Twitter receive messages when discounted products are available the company’s Home Outlet Store. They can cl read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 23, 2008 - 1:20 pm
Posted By: saadkamal 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webuildpages.com)
Category: Blogging
Lisa Barone of We Build Pages, shares six of her personal favorite resources for Kickass blogging! read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: December 22, 2008 - 7:39 pm
Posted By: HustlinGrind 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nickycakes.com)
Category: Blogging
After all the top 10 best of 2008 articles, Nickycakes is callin them out in the 2008 "Top 10 Worst Make Money Online Sites- find out what sites are just a waste of time in our space, just plain funny, or just plain embarrassing according to Mr. Cak read more »
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