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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: August 9, 2007 - 8:51 am
Posted By: toprank 334 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Blogging
I may not read 400 SEO blogs every day, but I read at least 50-100 one day per week and these are the things that can make it a pain in the rear experience. Listen up! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 20, 2007 - 8:36 am
Posted By: MattSawyer 231 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Blogging
Gaining exposure for your blog is critical to building a following, readership, and revenue. Besides the basic SEO steps of adding compelling and keyword friendly titles, URL structure and descriptions (along with the basic Wordpress SEO plugins) ba read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 15, 2008 - 3:04 pm
Posted By: tomcritchlow 54 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cornwallseo.com)
Category: Bookmarking
Lyndon shows us how it's done by launching a simple article across social media. Some time later, 1/2 million page views, and he's on fox news with 'headline of the week'. Hat off to you sir! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 10, 2008 - 2:14 pm
Posted By: Wingnut 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://yoast.com)
Category: Blogging
Joost de Valk gives us his final guide to WordPress SEO. read more »
20 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 20, 2008 - 2:02 am
Posted By: TheMadHat 111 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://raven-seo-tools.com)
Category: Social Media
Great summary of the pros and cons of 7 social media websites and how they work in conjunction with your SEO efforts. read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 7:43 am
Posted By: tamar 1 day 21 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://en.wikipedia.org)
Category: Other Social Media
Just look at this guy's Wikipedia page. "Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Search engine optimization. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate read more »
19 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 3, 2008 - 12:33 pm
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: News Sites
Recently, SEO.com attempted to manipulate sphinn.com votes in an effort to get publicity. This is a breakdown of what they tried, how they got caught, and why it didn't work.
This article is the result of a poll I ran on whether they should be outt read more »
15 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 29, 2008 - 9:07 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 70 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Social Media
The best way to demonstrate the usefulness or power of Twitter is to show real examples. I started this experiment at approximately 5:20 PM EST on Monday afternoon. Within 1 hour, I had over 80 different replies that answered all of my questions and read more »
13 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 15, 2008 - 2:34 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 55 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Social Media
Jeff Quipp writes, "Have you ever had a client come to you in a state of desperation, begging for help to remove a blog post that ranks for their business name, and portrays them in less than a positive light?" Jeff goes on to list 50+ social sites read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 11, 2008 - 3:17 pm
Posted By: Lid 60 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: Social Media
If only people would learn from this. Tad gives real examples of why your content won't make it on social media sites; worth your time to read. read more »
13 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 28, 2007 - 2:02 pm
Posted By: 0thelisa 284 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Social Media
Michael Gray writes:

"If you’re one of those people writing 3.1416 ways to optimize your blog titles with wordpress plugin THX-1137 and you’ll triple your subscribers with some meaningless traffic ponzi scheme, I’m talking to you. Are you really read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: February 20, 2008 - 6:28 am
Posted By: TheNanny612 140 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://bloggingbits.com)
Category: Social Media
Hidden in the obscure StumbleUpon toolbar settings is a feature that’ll change the way you stumble! Add a Search Box to the StumbleUpon toolbar. read more »
10 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 12, 2007 - 12:43 am
Posted By: aimClear 271 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.softwaredeveloper.com)
Category: Networking
Get the one-stop down and dirty facebook API programming skinny. From technical to tactical this softwareDeveloper.com masterpiece is a blow away how-to-tutorial! I printed it and distributed to our staff. This is the hottest topic on the Internet. read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 31, 2007 - 8:31 am
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 252 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: Networking
Oh, this is going to cause quite a stir, I'm sure, but Marty didn't pull punches with this knock on the A-listers. Gotta love it! read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 14, 2008 - 10:50 pm
Posted By: bwelford 87 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
Every suggestion in this is well worth considering. A must-read post on getting more traffic that should give you at least one new thought. read more »
17 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 25, 2007 - 8:30 am
Posted By: Jill 257 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Social Media
My latest Search Engine Land article:
"Fall is the time of year when we start to look at where search marketing is heading. Looking at the latest search marketing conference agendas, articles, and online news in the SEM space, it certainly appears read more »
19 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 10:14 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Other Social Media
When I teach Social Media classes to small businesses, I can always count on someone in the audience to ask a question that goes a little something like this: "I've got limited time to invest in social media, but there seem to be a million sites out read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 8, 2007 - 3:14 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 244 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techipedia.com)
Category: News Sites
Tamar calls out Kevin Rose and has the links and screenshots to back it up.

Seems like every time I start to like digg a little bit, I learn a little more to change my mind.... read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 17, 2007 - 4:45 pm
Posted By: ahmedbilal 295 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://performancing.com)
Category: Blogging
If you've been blogging for a while, you probably have certain blogging 'habits' and tips that you swear by. This article is a collection of such tips, designed to help you build a better blog. read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 14, 2008 - 3:07 pm
Posted By: OliverTaco 176 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Social Media
Look, we all make mistakes (though I am rarely in place to make such a super spectacular one!) but what is really rare is to have someone 'man up' and apologize.

Not a wimpy political "I am sorry it could have been interpreted as blah blah" but a read more »
18 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 14, 2008 - 10:21 am
Posted By: Dash 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: Social Media
If you’re a new or not yet established brand, how should you use social media to build a reputation for yourself? read more »
10 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 21, 2008 - 1:13 pm
Posted By: dailymoolah 78 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.maxyro.com)
Category: Social Media
Bogdan comments :"I have recently heard news about StumbleUpon banning several accounts because the users submitted comercial content. Here is the message these unfortunate stumblers usually received"

Regrettably, your account privileges have bee read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 30, 2008 - 1:01 pm
Posted By: TheNanny612 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techipedia.com)
Category: Social Media
Tamar explains in this post that you shouldn't be canceling your Twitter account yet..... Twitter & Plurk are totally different. read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 5, 2008 - 2:17 pm
Posted By: gyutae 33 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dailyblogtips.com)
Category: Blogging
Almost two years passed since I quit my job inside a multinational company to work from home on the Internet. For me it was pretty a straight forward move. One year inside a corporation was enough to clarify what I wanted to do professionally, and w read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 4:24 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: Blogging
Want to take your blog to the next level? DoshDosh (Maki) gives great advice ... fancy yourself of the Editor-in-Chief, and not just as a writer.

Excellent point! read more »
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