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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: July 3, 2009 - 7:25 am
Posted By: Lyndon 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cornwallseo.com)
Category: Social Media
The guys at Moonfruit show how it's done over at Twitter. Clever people. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2009 - 8:02 pm
Posted By: michddot 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Blogging
"Explore blog comments and discuss what can be done to turn them into real conversations... Via the Internet, you clearly have access to a huge inventory of information and knowledge. However that is not the most amazing aspect of the Internet. Mo read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2009 - 12:45 pm
Posted By: annie7 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dirjournal.com)
Category: Blogging
A good piece listing pros and cons of small business blogging. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2009 - 6:43 am
Posted By: sithburns 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sem-group.net)
Category: Blogging
[11:00:15 AM] Gerald J Weber III: They’re the lifeblood of blogging. Without this ability to interact with the author and other readers, blogs wouldn’t be blogs at all. They’d just be standard, boring, static articles.

When the subject of blog co read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2009 - 4:23 am
Posted By: annie7 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Networking
Glenn Gabe's thoughts about people currently 55 and older and social networks: "Although I wish the numbers were better, I think 80% will never adopt social networking. I think 15% will be interested, but run into barriers and be confused with the read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2009 - 3:32 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk)
Category: Blogging
Shaun Anderson over at Hobo-Web.co.uk has just released an awesome new wordpress plugin. "Recent announcements with the way Google Pagerank flows via nofollow links at Google has bloggers all a flutter. I asked Marty if he could sit down and modify read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2009 - 2:45 pm
Posted By: htownseoguy 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.burnseo.com)
Category: Bookmarking
Stumble upon is one of the great social media sharing sites available today. While it’s true that proper use of stumble upon can bring you great traffic, it can also be a huge time sink and provide little results or even get you banned if you don’t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2009 - 1:24 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Social Media
Since their infancy, social news sites have been trying to stay one step ahead of social media users trying to artificially promote content to their front page. Digg.com has been the center focus for spamming and gaming in social media because a fro read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2009 - 11:58 am
Posted By: amabaie 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mckremie.com)
Category: Social Media
A great interview with one of the top social media experts, including a comparison of some of the top social media spaces and their users. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2009 - 11:55 am
Posted By: htownseoguy 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Bookmarking
Sharing stories on social voting and bookmarking sites both grows your social media profile power and enables you to reach your audience. Surprisingly enough, being one of the most important element of the story success, proper tagging is very often read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2009 - 9:39 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Social Media
Jordan Kasteler (aka. Utah SEO Pro) tells the true story of a business which had their online reputation punked by a disgruntled employee, and ways to dig out of the ORM ditch with strong social media profiles. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2009 - 9:17 am
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brentcsutoras.com)
Category: Social Media
The main aspect to this update was to introduce a new ‘Dupe Detection’ system that users have been screaming for. Like some of the recent changes Digg has rolled out, this seems to be another really useful change that will only make the submission p read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2009 - 7:43 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fourhourworkweek.com)
Category: Blogging
Excellent keynote speech video from Tim Ferriss at San Francisco WorldCamp. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: June 30, 2009 - 4:24 am
Posted By: BasvdBeld 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchcowboys.com)
Category: Blogging
Jane Copland compares SEO blogging to swimming, some nice similarities :) read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2009 - 12:53 am
Posted By: htownseoguy 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: News Sites
Has Michael Jackson died or is this another social media and Internet hoax? Social Media is reporting his death. CNN is reporting he’s in a coma. And the search engines don’t have a clue what’s going on. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2009 - 10:51 pm
Posted By: htownseoguy 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Hash tags were cool for about 10 minutes. But then they started to remind us of IRC, Meta Data, and reading a book written in another language.

When Twitter hit the big time, just a couple months before the landmark “@oprah” show, all of the tren read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2009 - 8:51 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Social Media
Brian Carter shares his 6 spheres of SMM diagram, which he says "gives you a map of how to get prospects to take action no matter where they're at, and no matter what Internet marketing channel you use." read more »
10 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2009 - 11:07 am
Posted By: shimsand 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Social Media
I’m glad you found my IM name in my social profile, but my full name isn’t ‘Can you Digg this for me,’ read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2009 - 7:10 am
Posted By: michddot 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sem-group.net)
Category: News Sites
Chances are you’re familiar with both StumbleUpon and Digg. Have you ever wished it would be as easy to Digg posts as it was to Stumble from site to site? Well, now it can be... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2009 - 6:51 am
Posted By: annie7 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dirjournal.com)
Category: Networking
Learn about the Twitter tactics you probably shouldn't waste your time on. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 23, 2009 - 1:56 am
Posted By: bwelford 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.otherbb.com)
Category: Social Media
StumbleUpon has introduced a new URL shortener that displays the blog post within a frame that maximizes the possibility that the post will be retweeted. read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 22, 2009 - 1:06 pm
Posted By: lorenbaker 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Social Media
Via Brian Chappell : Finding great content online from a social media and search marketer’s standpoint is a very vital aspect to building out social accounts, writing blog posts, researching target markets, link acquisition, and blogger outreach. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 21, 2009 - 7:53 am
Posted By: michddot 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nowsourcing.com)
Category: Blogging
"The popular real-time feed aggregator, FriendFeed, can bring a bit of traffic to a blog. As of today, FriendFeed’s Kevin Fox has announced it is adding its subscriber count to the number of RSS subscribers.
Site admins should start seeing a spike read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2009 - 8:10 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Blogging
Andy Beard takes a look at FeedBurner's change to now include tracking of FriendFeed subscriber data. read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2009 - 3:54 am
Posted By: TomDemers 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Blogging
"Being an authentic corporate blogger means finding a way to balance your voice with the goals of the company you‘re representing."

Great post on how to be authentic without "crossing the line". read more »
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