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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:53:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Advanced Backlink Research Queries: Rand's "Give it Up" Presentation]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/62193</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/62193</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:53:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/62193</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This post covers Rand's SMX Advanced &quot;Give it Up&quot; presentation in detail.  It has some extremely juicy link research queries, local ranking tips, and buzz tracking information. Excellent, nay essential, stuff!<br/><br/>50 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AboutUs.org Adds "NoFollow" to External Links]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47523</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47523</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 14:32:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47523</guid>
<description><![CDATA[AboutUs.Org was one of the great free Wiki resources for webmasters looking to create a page about their websites, and get a little bit of link love flowing to start things off. It appears, as of this week, that AboutUs.org is now automatically adding the &quot;nofollow&quot; attribute to all external links on the website. Sadly, another great little link building tool bites the dust!<br/><br/>34 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Managing Risk: Legal Issues for Merchants and Affiliate Marketers]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38068</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38068</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:32:11 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Affiliate Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38068</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This post by SEOmoz attorney Sarah Bird looks at many of the legal issues that affiliates and e-commerce sellers can run into, and it offers excellent advice on defending yourself against fraud and attacks.<br/><br/>29 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[7 SEO Techniques That Google Smashed in 2007]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/20815</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/20815</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 09:46:15 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/20815</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The SEO playbook changes fast. Really fast. Techniques come and go on a monthly basis, and methods considered to be &quot;the way and the light&quot; can become obsolete - literally overnight. What helped a site rank yesterday can suddenly cause it to get penalized. Here are 7 ways that Google changed the SEO world in 2007...<br/><br/>66 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Murky Origins of Facebook]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/16803</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/16803</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:47:35 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/16803</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg created one of the most trafficked sites on the Web and became a paper billionaire as a result. But ongoing lawsuits suggest that Facebook's origins are murkier than Zuckerberg would like to admit. Is the man many are calling Harvard's next Bill Gates telling the truth?<br/><br/>32 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Linkbait is the New Reciprocal Links Page]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/13370</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/13370</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:12:49 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/13370</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The potential upside of a linkbait driven marketing campaign is growing smaller by the day.  Dave Naylor hinted that he believed that Google is looking at how natural a site's link growth profile looks like, and discounting many of the rapid growth spikes if they are not followed up by an increased baseline link growth rate. Which ultimately means linkbait only creates significant value if you can keep launching one right after another.<br/><br/>38 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Organizes Less Than 0.02% of the Worlda4s Information]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/12892</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/12892</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:41:22 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/12892</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;I wonder how valuable the other %99.98 of the world's information is worth?&quot;<br/><br/>29 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Social Media Marketing Sustainable?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/10604</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/10604</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:39:43 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/10604</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Some people find social media to be a lot more exciting than old-fashioned SEO, and they would love to make a career out of it. But social media marketing can be very volatile. This article explores some of the challenges and ethics of social media marketing, and offers some ideas on how to be legit and get paid for it.<br/><br/>53 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How NOT to Handle a Reputation Management Crisis]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/7118</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/7118</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:59:07 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/7118</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This article takes a look at some of the dangers of trying to manage your online reputation with lawsuits, Wikipedia listings, fake reviews and threats.... and offers some tips and links.<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Story Killers: Digga4s Bury Brigade vs. Reddita4s Downmod Squad]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4568</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4568</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:59:11 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4568</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This article explores the reasons why stories get voted down on Digg and Reddit, and it offers strategies on how to protect your content from being banished.<br/><br/>29 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Make the Digg Home Page: An Illustrated Guide]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2072</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2072</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:43:30 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2072</guid>
<description><![CDATA[An illustrated guide for beginners that explains how to build up a solid network of friends on Digg.  Building up a network of legitimate, reciprocal friendships with people whose content you enjoy is by far the best way to help your stories hit the home page.<br/><br/>34 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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