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<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 11:43:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Term Frequency, Inverse Document Frequency (TFIDF): TheRarestWords.com]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48612</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48612</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 11:43:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48612</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Mad scientist Andy Edmonds offers some insight into the meaning of TFIDF by exploring several sites with TheRarestWords.com - a truly copacetic tool with numerous interesting applications.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dan Thies Releases 2008 Edition of SEO Fast Start]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46673</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46673</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 12:20:01 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46673</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you haven't read the 2007 edition, because you've been waiting for this, now is the time, and yes it's still free. If you've already read the 2007 edition, don't get too excited, because not very much has changed.Sorry if you were expecting something radically different, but the point of the &quot;fast start&quot; system is that it doesn't have to change all the time. I can't reinvent SEO again, unless something big happens.As I told someone the other day, the only thing that seems to never change in SEO is the persistent myth that the search engines &quot;change the rules&quot; all the time.<br/><br/>53 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Announces "Custom Time" for GMail]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38094</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38094</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:46:25 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38094</guid>
<description><![CDATA[April Fool's Joke from Google...<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Adwords "Landing Page Quality" Has Minimal Impact On Search Ads]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/35084</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/35084</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:59:53 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/35084</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Why does everyone think that landing page load times are going to affect their search ads, when Google's documentation tells us that they won't, other than minimum bids?<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Money Grab: Serving Ads from Capped Budgets & On Negative Terms]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/30449</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/30449</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:59:56 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/30449</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This post went by a month ago, UnSphunn and unloved. If you run Adwords, it's worth a read.<br/><br/>23 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Adwords' New "Automatic Matching" - Don't Fall For This!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/30435</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/30435</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:41:33 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/30435</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Not satisfied with fooling Adwords advertisers via expanded broad matching and &quot;free campaign optimization,&quot; Google has invented a new way to empty your wallet.<br/><br/>75 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[(some of the) best posts from last week]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/29302</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/29302</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:20:48 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/29302</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SEO Fast Start presents a new feature... please let us know if we're doing good or bad.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ding Ding, Google! Time For Cathedral v. Bazaar, Round 2?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/22500</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/22500</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:55:54 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/22500</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Building a great search engine just might be harder than Wikia's Jimmy Wales thinks - are they up to it?<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Stop Words Are Dead! Did I Miss Another Memo?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/22213</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/22213</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:29:03 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/22213</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Stop words, one of the oldest and most useless &quot;features&quot; of the SEO landscape, are on their way to dinosaur status. When did this happen? Did I miss a memo?<br/><br/>38 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Google Can't Just Dump PageRank]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/13269</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/13269</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:42:07 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/13269</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Forget about the green pixels for a few minutes if you can. This is about the real PageRank score, not what they show you on the toolbar. It's about why Google can't just get rid of PageRank, why the Supplemental Index exists, and... just for fun, why Scoble shouldn't talk about it.This may be a little bit heavy for some readers. Take your time. Read it twice if you have to.<br/><br/>64 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[I Have PageRank Now! Is My Link Bait Working?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/11387</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/11387</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:00:52 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/11387</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The toolbar PageRank for my new site is now PR4 - up from zero... have I been rewarded? Have I been penalized? Were any of the PageRank penalties real in the first place?<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mastering Both Kinds Of Link Building - Authority & Reputation]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/8956</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/8956</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:04:48 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/8956</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There are two important aspects of successful link building. Finding the right balance between building authority and PageRank vs. getting anchor text is key to making the most of your SEO efforts... and renting links is not the only answer.<br/><br/>58 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[I, For One, Welcome Our New SEO Overlords]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5122</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5122</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:25:42 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5122</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google says the FTC wants us to label paid links - Why Google's nofollow plan can't work, observations on what we can expect from the FTC if they do weigh in.<br/><br/>32 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sphinn Assassinated by SpamAssassin]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5004</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5004</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:29:14 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5004</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dan Thies reports that emails containing references to Sphinn.com are now being blocked as spam content by SURBL.org, which feeds SpamAssassin.<br/><br/>31 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dynamic Linking & Nofollow - Practical Examples, Diagrams, + FAQs]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4949</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4949</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:40:42 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4949</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dan Thies follows up with two illustrated examples of how to use nofollow on internal links... and feels just a little dirty for Sphinning himself.<br/><br/>33 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dynamic Sites - Yahoo Tosses Us A Bone]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/3913</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/3913</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:43:48 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/3913</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dan Thies expresses slight gratitude to Yahoo for the recent &quot;enhancement&quot; to Site Explorer, but points out that it's meaningless until all the search engines come together on a standard.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Keyword Strategy: "Long Tail" Myth & Reality]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2139</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2139</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:36:53 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2139</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I wrote this in response to a recent marketing campaign that &quot;debunks&quot; the Long Tail of search... by using a fallacious argument that has become typical of the Internet Marketing world. The long tail is real, and I've seen it.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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