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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 Posted By: JointVentureBroker 7 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetmarketingprofitscenter.com)
Category: Blogging
Here are 5 reasons why you should use blogging as an internet marketing tool. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Wiep 17 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: Other Social Media
No matter which department you're in, Web 2.0 technologies have had an impact. If you've been ignoring their prevalence and adoption, you're at risk of falling behind in your career and your business is at risk of losing ground to its competitors wh read more »
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Avatar Posted By: airraid706 20 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mitchellblatt.com)
Category: Blogging
What niche brings the most traffic? I'm new to political blogging, but I just got 9,000 hits to one article in 5 hours just from one link from a Pajama's Media blogger. This post summarizes the "Instapundit effect." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BlogCoach 20 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.betterbusinessblogging.com)
Category: Blogging
An easy to understand introduction to RSS and how to use it read more »
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Avatar Posted By: melvinblog 22 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.melvinblog.com)
Category: Blogging
Students and kids who are obsessed with blogging seemed to have stopped now! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MIBsteve 1 day 27 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pc-tech.me.uk)
Category: Blogging
There are many search engine marketing companies who offer pay-for-inclusion services to put your website on the top of the search engine listings. Is this a strategy that you should use? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Purposeinc 1 day 5 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.purposeinc.com)
Category: Social Media
Shoemoney sphunn a page on his blog about the ThinkTank.
It went hot perhaps faster than any other post ever has.
Then later on, without a published reason why, was taken down.

Was this Shoe bashing? of a brilliant piece of marketing?

Or was read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MoneyNing 1 day 7 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://busyblogging.com)
Category: Blogging
One of the secrets I accidentally found was that I write much better if I turn off the internet when I write blog articles. They turn out more complete, better structured and flow much better. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Limeshot 1 day 7 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://limeshot.com)
Category: Blogging
PageRank vs traffic volume and content quality; should we build directories of industry specific dofollow blogs, rather than high PR blogs. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: soulfood 1 day 15 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.evisibility.com)
Category: Social Media
As I continue to build my credibility of a Social Media Specialist, and in my efforts for what it’s worth, I wish to contribute what I think is the best practice in social media marketing. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: websitemagazine 1 day 15 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.websitemagazine.com)
Category: Other Social Media
This one's for the reputation conscious and those that relentlessly track specific keyword mentions in the blogosphere, forum-sphere or traditional media. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SpostareDuro 1 day 17 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://twitterstars.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Twalliteration is a one twick pony. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: blueingy 1 day 18 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.businessfeet.com)
Category: Social Media
While more and more internet marketers are making friends with social media and talking about emerging communication channels, many are unsure as to just what return they'll get from doing so. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 5, 2008 - 2:45 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 1 day 20 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoptimise.com)
Category: Social Media
Great post from Tad Chef about how to generate 3,000 high-quality visitors from the search industry. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SpostareDuro 1 day 20 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.facebook.com)
Category: Other Social Media
New Facebook Frequently Asked Questions read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jasongreen 1 day 22 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wildapricot.com)
Category: Other Social Media
We’ve talked before about how nonprofits are using Facebook to connect with their supporters online, figuring out ways to work around the “closed door” model of the popular social-networking site. For example, setting up a nonprofit Facebook Page t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dani 1 day 22 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.hostcolor.com)
Category: News Sites
Yes, it is hard decision, no doubt. Five or ten years ago all you had to do is to find a web designer, a company or freelancer, and to draw your project. You were not supposed to make any decisions at the time, except to say what do you want. The we read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Guavafruit 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.search-engine-war.co.uk)
Category: Social Media
When someone says "I've got a social media strategy" the first thing I usually do is look at them inquisitively and ask them what they mean? To which they then usually look surprised, wave their arms around gesticulating something - I guess is the s read more »
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Avatar Posted By: peteronline 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://writ.news.findlaw.com)
Category: News Sites
After Jennifer Reisinger created a link from her own website to a page from the Sheboygan Michigan police department, the City Attorney issued a "cease and desist" order commanding her to remove the link. Interesting to see the authorities understan read more »
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Avatar Posted By: infowarp 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogtoolscollection.com)
Category: Blogging
Although tentatively scheduled for November, WordPress 2.7 looks to be as big of a release since WordPress 2.5, perhaps even bigger. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrickMarketing 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com)
Category: Social Media
I had recently written a post about Facebook’s “new and improved” account deletion tactics on our social marketing journal which you can read here, so just when I thought things where over they have started all over again. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kimota 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://venturebeat.com)
Category: Social Media
This is easily the most detailed post on exactly how StumbleUpon processes and serves up pages to users - from the horse's mouth, co-founder Garrett Camp.

One thing I didn't know was that quick stumbles - when you just hit the Stumble button agai read more »
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Avatar Posted By: lenwood 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.lostinsearch.com)
Category: Bookmarking
First there was TinyURL, then Snurl. Newcomers are bit.ly and is.gd. Is there really a market for all 4 of these? Article also includes comments on the differences between them. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: maxx03 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.submitedge.com)
Category: News Sites
The mobile networking scene is set to explode. The social scene has always been connected to mobile use, with texting, calls, photo and video share, etc - and now the main online social networks are expected to be showing increased activity on the s read more »
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Avatar Posted By: biker 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://internetmarketingsucks.com)
Category: Blogging
This is great - a look at blog commenting strategy and how successful you can be if you are the first person to comment on a popular story.

Full proof too - there are blog screenshots and traffic screenshots. read more »
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