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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:05:12 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[FireFox SEO Extensions - the Ultimate Collection]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/70286</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/70286</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:05:12 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[FireFox is the most customizable browser I am aware of and hence it is my favorite one. A while ago posting a huge overview of SEO tools I promised to compile a similar list of available FireFox SEO extensions; and so here I am.<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[5 Tools to Visualize Page Outlinking Tactics]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/68595</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/68595</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:00:02 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/68595</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ann Smarty loves playing with visualizing tools because they allow her to see what you might have missed exploring a table or a graph. This time she has compiled the list of tools that show various outlinking tactics and characteristics.<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[13 Free and Cheap Website Monitoring Services]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/68283</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/68283</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:49:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/68283</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A list of 13 services that will help you monitor your website<br/><br/>43 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Get Alerted Once Any Page Is Changed]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/68170</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/68170</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:15:44 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/68170</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ann Smarty writes, &quot;Being automatically updated once a page is changed opens up a wealth of (probably missed) opportunities. There are two handy ways I personally use to keep track of changes introduced to any webpage&quot;<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[URIs and Pascal Casing - A Study of Case]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/64831</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/64831</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:08:24 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/64831</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Pascal Casing : The first letter in the identifier and the first letter of each subsequent concatenated word are capitalized. May also be referred to as Studley Caps. e.g. PascalCasing Edward (Pageoneresults) Runs us through Pascal Casing - we a<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[6 Lessons I Wish I Knew When I Started Online Freelancing]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/63907</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/63907</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:00:47 PDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/63907</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It's okay to be firm with difficult clients. Some clients give you so much stress that you just want to let them go. They eat up your time needlessly, leaving you less time for actual clients or the work you have to do. Before, I would just be there<br/><br/>61 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Traffic Marks: Terrific New Linkbuilding Tool]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/62416</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/62416</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:23:55 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/62416</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Traffic Marks helps you locate authority sites - sites that would make good places to acquire links. You supply a keyword and it grabs the Top 10 sites in Google for your keyword, and it crawls those sites' first 100 +/- backlinks (I assume from Yah<br/><br/>56 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ways to Find Out if Your Site Has Been Hacked or Hijacked]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/62476</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/62476</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:56:18 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/62476</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ann Smarty writes, &quot;More and more sites have fallen victim to hackers recently and some important steps should be taken to (1) secure your site and (2) monitor that your site hasn't been hacked.&quot;<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Protect Your Reputation Via FriendFeed]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/62290</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/62290</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:11:44 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/62290</guid>
<description><![CDATA[One of the main uses I see for FriendFeed is as a reputation monitoring and management tool.Here are five ways to utilize the service for rep management and monitoring:<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Visual Comparison of Search Results: A Censorship Case Study]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/60345</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/60345</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:56:12 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/60345</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The search results that you see from Google in the US for a specific query may be different than the search results you see in France, or China, or Germany.  Indiana University researchers have developed an interesting tool that points out diffe<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[11 FireFox Extensions to Search Google Properly]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54549</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54549</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:23:46 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54549</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The following FireFox Extensions will help you to adapt Google's interface and results to what you need, in the most efficient manner possible, making Google even better.<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tools to Find Your Competitors Keyword Rankings]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53404</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53404</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:32:27 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53404</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Here Ann listed 4 tools to find your competitors keywords ranking<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[To Use Images or Not to Use Images in Your Posts]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/35390</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/35390</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:16:34 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/35390</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How important is using images in your posts? Michaels example is one of many to show the benefits of putting your little 3 minutes worth of effort into adding an image, including locating, cropping and tagging. As Michael puts it, &quot;How nice is it to<br/><br/>55 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[See How Old A Page Is With One Click - New Firefox Plugin]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/33229</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/33229</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:40:40 PST</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/33229</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A fantastic addition the linkdiagnosis plugin which now allows you to right-click a page and see when Google first found it. Essential stuff!<br/><br/>43 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Research Tools to Add to Your Arsenal]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/31827</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/31827</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:29:28 PST</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/31827</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dev gives a list of 10 awesome keyword research tools.<br/><br/>48 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[11 Firefox Extensions for SEOs You Didn't Know About]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/28758</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/28758</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:28:08 PST</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/28758</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Nice list of less popular Firefox Extensions that are helpful to SEO projects.<br/><br/>54 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[12 Popular Browser Toolbars Reviewed - The Worthwhile and the Worthless]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/23746</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/23746</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:26:01 PST</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/23746</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Rand gives a rough overview of the most popular toolbars on the web and their features.<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[FeedBurner Numbers Spike -- Blame FeedBlitz!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/23773</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/23773</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:34:46 PST</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/23773</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The FeedBurner numbers we and others get have gone wonky. To blame? FeedBlitz seems to be putting out BAD STATS<br/><br/>34 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Robots Exclusion Protocol 101]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/23574</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/23574</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:20:00 PST</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/23574</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Very useful post on robots by Sebastian - must read!<br/><br/>50 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Ultimate Guide To Advanced Searching Within Yahoo, Google And MSN]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/12978</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/12978</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:09:38 PST</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/12978</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Have you ever taken the time to think about a Search Engine's Query? Is there an easy way to monitor links to your site through these queries? How advanced can &quot;searching&quot; really get? Within this post I will show how Google, Yahoo and MSN have creat<br/><br/>38 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cool Tool: Check the PageRank of your Internal Pages]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/11854</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/11854</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:26:49 PDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/11854</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This tool looks at the PageRank of all your pages and then allows you to sort from high to low.  Pretty cool.<br/><br/>38 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[RoboForm Video by Jared Blake]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4419</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4419</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:54:31 PDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4419</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Check out our simple quick video on RoboForm (demo1). If you don't already have this software you should. RoboForm is an inexpensive password management program that can save you a load of time when accessing your accounts and websites on the intern<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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