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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 518 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 415 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 15, 2008 - 3:04 pm
Posted By: tomcritchlow 238 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: September 9, 2008 - 12:48 pm
Posted By: streko 121 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://worstseoblogever.wordpress.com)
Category: Social Media
Sorry I ain’t been around much lately, baby. It’s been crazy busy you know. Just got a lot of shit going on and am spreading the Hack pretty thin. And I think we both know this time might be coming sooner or later, right? I mean, we had a good thing read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 7:43 am
Posted By: tamar 185 days 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 »
20 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 10, 2008 - 2:14 pm
Posted By: Wingnut 212 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 3, 2008 - 10:22 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Social Media
Rae Hoffman writes, "As you may have heard, Twitter recently decided to “nofollow” links left of the “bio” section of user profiles. The “web” link has always been a nofollow link, but the bio links passed popularity until Dave Naylor exposed it, wh read more »
11 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 20, 2008 - 2:02 am
Posted By: TheMadHat 295 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 »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 29, 2008 - 9:07 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 254 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 239 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: March 3, 2008 - 12:33 pm
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 311 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 24, 2008 - 8:22 am
Posted By: rishilakhani 168 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Social Media
Melanie tackles the present issue that faces SEO. Shes not the first to adress it, and possibly on the last. However she looks into aspects that are worth noting.

Note - this is on wolf-howl (Michael Gray's blog)and Mel is the first guest blogge read more »
13 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 10, 2008 - 4:23 pm
Posted By: gyutae 59 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.winningtheweb.com)
Category: Blogging
Searching for the top blogs in the Internet marketing niche? Look no further. Winning the Web’s IM Top Blogs is the ultimate ranked list of the best Internet marketing blogs in the industry. 10 quality factors are weighted according to their importa read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 11, 2008 - 3:17 pm
Posted By: Lid 244 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 468 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: October 23, 2008 - 3:01 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 77 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Networking
Should you get involved in social media ... or focus on local search? The good news is that you don't have to choose one or the other. This article covers eight sites at the intersection of social media and local search. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 14, 2008 - 10:50 pm
Posted By: bwelford 271 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 1, 2008 - 10:40 am
Posted By: Sugarrae 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Blogging
I wanted a way to give my community members more exposure than just a link to their website. I figured the best way was to give you the ability to showcase your profiles in addition to your website link at the social sites most common in my communit read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: February 20, 2008 - 6:28 am
Posted By: TheNanny612 324 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 Posted By: climber1 250 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.swamiseo.co.uk)
Category: Bookmarking
Excellent tutorial on social bookmarking for beginners as well as for experts. read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 12, 2007 - 12:43 am
Posted By: aimClear 454 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 435 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: July 4, 2008 - 7:28 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 189 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.setfiremedia.com)
Category: Other Social Media
A good post detailing 10 alternative social media sites to Digg that can drive traffic and links.

Very appropriate too given that Digg can be very tempermental. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 16, 2007 - 4:31 pm
Posted By: ViperChill 511 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.michellemacphearson.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Social Media Daily is available for download starting… Now!

It’s just $197 up front and $97 each month thereafter. Nah…. It’s FREE! read more »
20 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 4:24 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 195 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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