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<title>Sphinn / DoshDosh / All</title>
<link>http://sphinn.com</link>
<description>Sphinn</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:11:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Trickle Down Link-O-Nomics : Reaching the Messenger]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57356</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57356</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:11:41 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57356</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In link building, sometimes marketers lose their focus or get over aggressive, and spend too much time contacting every single site within their niche, hoping to get a link or a buzz generating blog post about their product or service. Sometimes it's better to identify one blogger, site or messenger who will do your link marketing for you.<br/><br/>33 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[When SEO Isna4t For Increasing Sales]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57336</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57336</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:58:19 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57336</guid>
<description><![CDATA[An often overlooked content optimization opportunity concerns customer service related information. So much effort is put into optimizing content to &quot;make the sale&quot; or &quot;capture the lead&quot;, but not on making content that is useful to existing customers more easily available.<br/><br/>47 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Let Me Count The Ways: Enumerated Sphinn Wisdom]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57036</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57036</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:32:07 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57036</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SEO's, SEM's and other abbreviated people within our industry love, love, numbers. Clickthrough rate, how many positions up in the rankings, number of estimated searches per month, links per minute. Heck, even Google is into it: -6, -30, -950, -whatever number penalty. Our very own Tom Tsinas loves numbers so much he's created a series of &quot;[insert keyword] by the numbers&quot; posts.<br/><br/>55 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Build Your Reputation, Traffic & Links via Social Media Q&A Sites]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/56549</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/56549</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:47:45 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/56549</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Social media has opened up many avenues to many people and has brought forth a new level of communication. People now lean on the social media for support networks, feedback, counsel, research, conversation, and more.<br/><br/>49 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reduce Bounce Rates: How to Fight for the Second Click!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/56183</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/56183</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:06:55 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Usability</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/56183</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Different traffic sources imply different reasons for why visitors might immediately leave your site. Design to keep deep-link followers engaged through additional pageviews.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Using the Cross Pollination Concept to Aid With Social Media Success!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/56140</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/56140</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:15:40 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/56140</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The implications of this cross pollination concept are this; to gain a foothold in the world of social media, you do not need to be an expert in all the major sites to begin. Choose 1 popular social media site to begin (Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Propeller), and participate fully. Become a power user of that site. Military strategists might refer to it as a4divide and conquer'.<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rushing Your SEO Doesna4t Mean Quicker Results]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54967</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54967</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:58:48 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54967</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Not staying on top of what's working and what's not can result in unexpected outcomes. Bad and outdated information can be very costly. While I don't think all company web site owners need to retain a full time in-house SEO consultant or agency in all cases, they do need to allocate resources either internally or externally to keeping company knowledge current<br/><br/>59 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Most Powerful Persuasive Element of Blogging]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54608</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54608</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:20:14 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54608</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The most powerful additional thing about blogging is an aspect of human nature that doesn't require a psychology degree to understand. Blogging allows people to like you, and people like to do business with people they like.<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Plurk - An investigation into the benefits and detriments of micro blogging]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54603</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54603</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:55:29 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54603</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ironically, it isn't the adoption of Twitter that has me reconsidering my stance. I have spread my anti-Twitter message to just enough people that adoption would result in endless ridicule and torment. It is the emergence of Plurk, Twitter's latest competitor that has me rethinking my attitude towards micro blogging.<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why LinkedIn is the One Social Network I Couldn't Work Without]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54036</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54036</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:21:48 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54036</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When I teach Social Media classes to small businesses, I can always count on someone in the audience to ask a question that goes a little something like this: &quot;I've got limited time to invest in social media, but there seem to be a million sites out there. How do I know which one is worth my time? If I only have time for one, which one should it be?&quot; Well I generally try to weasel out of that question by telling them I'd use both LinkedIn AND Twitter, the truth is if I had to pick just one, LinkedIn would win, hands down. Let me tell you why.<br/><br/>72 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[An SEO Workflow that Works]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53790</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53790</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:24:34 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53790</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There's a right and wrong way to include SEO in your internet marketing mix. Throwing it in as an afterthought after your shiny new site launches is the wrong way. Here's the perfect SEO workflow.<br/><br/>74 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Feedly Brings New Social Experience to Start Pages]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53304</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53304</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:52:38 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53304</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Following a lengthy incubation period, intended to get the product rock-solid with an army of features and a sharp interface, Feedly hits the Web today with their own take on the social start page - using your Google Reader subscriptions at its core, but layering on intelligence that learns from you, including your reading patterns, to personalize your information waterfall.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Check your search box for XSS exploits]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53273</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53273</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:40:44 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53273</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Just a quick reminder that websites should check for XSS holes on their site, especially freeform text input such as search boxes. Even big sites can have these issues with XSS and escaping user input.<br/><br/>36 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Interview with Twitter Co-Founder  Biz Stone]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52753</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52753</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:13:51 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52753</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Twitter has received a truckload of criticism over the last month for its frequent service outages. While the stability debate is intense, I got back to basics with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone about what's on the radar in terms of features, battling bots, community engagement - and why he isn't afraid of a &quot;Twitter killer&quot;:<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Designing a Reputation System for Your Social Website]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52187</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52187</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:44:13 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52187</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Recently, we released a family of related Reputation patterns to the Yahoo Design Pattern Library, the first of several collections of social-design related patterns that we're working on. These patterns are somewhat different from the typical UI or rich-interaction type of pattern. They don't tell you how to lay out a page or where to put an interactive widget. Instead, they address how to design a reputation system for your social software.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Trust the Linkers, Not The Links]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52013</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52013</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:58:33 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52013</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The recent fake-news-story-as-successful-link-bait event and the surrounding firestorm has bugged me and had me thinking, which is dangerous when I'm supposed to be on vacation. Yet here I am with my laptop. The concept I can't get off my mind is this notion of &quot;trusted links&quot; and &quot;truthiness&quot;. Is one fake news story any different than the thousands of press releases put out daily that are that are filled with hype masquerading as news?<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Can You Write an (Almost) Unbelievable Headline?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51958</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51958</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:57:14 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51958</guid>
<description><![CDATA[See, making outlandish claims with your headline in order to attract attention is a sucker's game. Even if you manage to score the click, you're history when the reader discovers you can't deliver on your promise, or you've pulled some lame bait and switch. What you want to do is write a headline that's almost unbelievable.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Writing Style for Print vs. Web (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51742</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51742</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:28:08 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Usability</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51742</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We should accept that the Web is too fast-paced for big-picture learning. No problem; we have other media, and each has its strengths. At the same time, the Web is perfect for narrow, just-in-time learning of information nuggets - so long as the learner already has the conceptual framework in place to make sense of the facts.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The 6 Best Ways to Rock FriendFeed]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51694</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51694</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:41:02 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51694</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Just joined FriendFeed? Want to know some dirty secrets you can exploit to gain you popularity, followers and perhaps a bit of fame (or at least infamy)? If so, I have some tips for you! Keep reading and I'll make you a master of the craft in no time.<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[No, Advanced SEO Does Not Mean Spamming]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51693</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51693</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:38:31 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51693</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Coming back from our SMX Advanced conference last week, I found myself doing some soul searching. How was it that some people could wonder if advanced SEO means spamming search engines? And have I been contributing to this confusion? For the record -- no, advanced SEO doesn't mean you have to spam. Not in my book.<br/><br/>89 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Plurk: Social Media Marketing in Action]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51645</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51645</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:23:18 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51645</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Something interesting happened last Sunday. Plurk, a new social network, grew it's subscriber base from a handful of beta users to over 2,000 in one day. Since then they've continued to grow exponentially. As a marketer, and one of the 2,000+, I think it's been a fascinating process to watch.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[3 Best Desktop Backlink Checking Tools]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51639</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51639</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:31:21 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51639</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I've been sitting the whole day downloading, installing, testing and uninstalling applications and in the end narrowed my list to only 3 tools I found really useful (most of the tools I came across either didn't work or focused on rather outdated and now mostly useless features like reciprocal links checking and monitoring)<br/><br/>64 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Make The Links Come To You]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51302</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51302</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:15:31 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51302</guid>
<description><![CDATA[But in a world where Google can claim it has basically said not to buy links since 2003 and can be iffy on just how juicy linkbait is allowed to be, seems to me the days of tricks are over .So. Here's what I propose we do.<br/><br/>21 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Comment About Your Company on Blog Posts, Without Being Spammy]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51288</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51288</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:19:02 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51288</guid>
<description><![CDATA[For every 1000 people who read a tech blog post, there may be one that leaves a comment. Lurking in the crowd are often any number of people who work for companies related to the subject of the post. They almost never comment, and when they do they often come across as obnoxious, self-promoting and spammy. It doesn't have to be that way, though.<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[4 Alternative Uses of Social Media]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51009</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51009</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:45:21 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51009</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, looking at things from a different perspective helps. Here are 4 ways to look at social media from a different perspective a4 and none require the submission to go a4hot' to receive benefit.<br/><br/>60 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Blackhat Ethics: Whose Rules Are They Anyway?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50733</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50733</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:16:26 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50733</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I have no qualms about &quot;tricking&quot; Google.Rewind time to when search engines were a fresh idea, and many people thought they themselves were unethical. Search engines are not invited to sites. They copy/cache content, and do whatever they can to profit from this content they were never asked to access.<br/><br/>71 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Three Easy Ways to Fix Broken Links and Stop Unneccessary Visitor Loss]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50714</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50714</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:54:03 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50714</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When the broken links are internal, within your own site, those are easy to prevent and correct. But when broken links are external, from other sites or bookmarks, there is not a lot you can do to correct them, short of contacting each offender and asking them to change it. No matter what, you can't always prevent people from linking to you incorrectly. So the onus is on you to do what you can to keep the visitor on your site despite the broken link.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pick One, Just One Web Analytics Report!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50522</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50522</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:04:14 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Web Analytics</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50522</guid>
<description><![CDATA[All tough questions to answer. With so much choice it is hard to pick one, and if you don't get paralyzed then it can reveal a lot about you.After having thought about it for a little while (ok for just a few minutes), regardless of the website and its purpose, I would pick this web analytics report as my golden choicea4<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Five Step Plan on How to Build a 'Twitter Killer']]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50505</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50505</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:03:36 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50505</guid>
<description><![CDATA[By building up a huge mass of users, Twitter benefits from our existing social connections and their inertia. But as the problems continue, it's possible that someone else could grab the mindshare - and traffic - that currently belongs to Twitter. Here's a five-step plan for building a &quot;Twitter killer.&quot;<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Social Media (Didn't) Change Business]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50277</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50277</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:59:04 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50277</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I'm continually amazed at how people go barreling into social media sites like a bull in a china shop and then wonder why they aren't well received. They hear social media is changing the way people do business and they make the mistake of thinking it's changing it to something &quot;new&quot; instead of simply changing it back to the way things used to be.<br/><br/>64 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Kevin Fox of Gmail & FriendFeed on User Experience Design]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50260</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50260</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:35:31 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Usability</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50260</guid>
<description><![CDATA[From 2003 to January 2008, Kevin Fox worked as a user experience designer at Google, designing such products as Gmail, Google Calendar, and the second version of Google Reader. He's currently working at FriendFeed. I met Kevin for a three-session instant messenger chat interview.<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Expand Customer Relationships As Search Engines Evolve User Experience]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49851</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49851</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 17:02:03 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49851</guid>
<description><![CDATA[From a marketing perspective, any interaction with your brand raises awareness, and while interaction on the SERP is clearly more difficult (if not impossible) to measure than a search referral, that interaction is still valuable. In some cases, it may be more valuable, if the user associates the positive experience of a quick answer with your brand. With that in mind, it's more important than ever to ensure both your brand and primary message are prominent in your title tag and meta description tag.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Your Site Social Media Friendly?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49380</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49380</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 15:43:30 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49380</guid>
<description><![CDATA[You should consider many factors when getting involved in Social Media Marketing, such as the quality of your content, your domain name, and who is submitting your content. But there is almost always one thing I find myself looking at before any of the above conversations even begin: the design.<br/><br/>51 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Search 4.0: Putting Humans Back In Search]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49311</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49311</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 10:22:05 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49311</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Previously I've covered what I dubbed Search 3.0, how search engines have evolved toward blending vertical or specialized results into &quot;regular&quot; web listings. Today, the step beyond that: Search 4.0, how personal, social and human-edited data can be used to refine search results.<br/><br/>55 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Your Obsession to Rank Higher is the Final Nail in Your Coffin]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49287</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49287</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 08:18:31 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49287</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What kind of recording artist says stuff like &quot;my goal is to make the Billboard Top 10a4? Sure, recording labels may set goals like that, but did Lou Reed ever sit down and write songs just to win a Grammy? If making money is your only goal on the web, I don't want you as a client.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Detect the Social Sites Your Visitors Use]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49286</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49286</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 08:14:26 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49286</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you could detect which social bookmarking sites your reader uses, on a per-reader basis, you could display only the badges they care about. But you can't know that because the browser secures the user's history, right? Wrong. Today I'm releasing SocialHistory.js, code which enables you to detect which social bookmarking sites your visitors use. Here's an example of how to use it<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Don't Call Me Linkbait]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49036</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49036</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 08:35:50 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49036</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When use of the phrase &quot;linkbait&quot; first started to achieve critical mass, some dismissed it as nothing more than a fad that would be dead in a year. Some truly understood linkbait and tried to explain it while some of those who grasped it ran with it and went on to profit from it (and still do). Below, what linkbait really is and where its value lies.<br/><br/>60 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[10 Helpful Email Design Guidelines]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48853</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48853</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 13:49:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48853</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As web designers, we've grown pretty good at understanding how to create a modern, semantic, accessible website using XHTML and CSS. We understand what makes a good website, and how to make it happen. When it comes time to design emails though, do all the same rules apply? Are there things we should be doing specifically for email that don't make sense on a website? In this article we'll discuss the technical, design and information elements that make up a successful HTML email.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Web users 'getting more selfish']]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48506</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48506</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 11:11:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Usability</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48506</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Web users are getting more ruthless and selfish when they go online, reveals research. The annual report into web habits by usability guru Jakob Nielsen shows people are becoming much less patient when they go online. Instead of dawdling on websites many users want simply to reach a site quickly, complete a task and leave.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Whiteboard Friday - Adopting Twitter]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48314</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48314</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 10:45:17 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48314</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This week, Rand (semi-reluctantly) takes a look at everybody's favorite new time-waster application: Twitter.  He outlines a few points that may help late adopters get over the hump and realize that, while it may seem a little silly, Twitter can actually have considerable social and marketing value to those of us in the search world.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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