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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:47:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[This Month In SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/76298</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/76298</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:47:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/76298</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Steven Bradley's awesome round up of the best SEO &amp; social media articles for September.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[10 tips to become a Make Money Online sheep]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/68405</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/68405</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:31:44 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/68405</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Friggen brilliant summary of how to create a lame MMO clone. Hilarious!<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Headsmacking Tip #5 - Link Building through Conservation]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/65544</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/65544</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:05:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/65544</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Rand gives us another head smacking tip: Simply by purchasing common misspellings, mistypings and alternative TLD extensions (Eg. Yutube.comn), you can earn links the easy way - by conserving them. Just grab these domains and 301 redirect them to the right site.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Link Building isa4]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/64266</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/64266</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:25:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/64266</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Wiep gives us his definition of what actually constitutes link building.<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Social Media Helped ProBlogger Get Unbanned]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/62921</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/62921</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:26:22 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/62921</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The best case study on the power of a social media community you'll ever see. A wave of Tweets, Diggs &amp; Stumble complaints sees Problogger's StumbleUpon ban lifted in one hour and 44 minutes.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[An Engaging Collection Of Links - This Month In SEO - 7/08]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/62899</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/62899</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:44:09 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/62899</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Steven Bradley's awesome monthly round up of search &amp; social media links. If you missed your reading this month, this is the only place to catch up.<br/><br/>48 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Link-Fest for Monday July 21st 2008]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/60446</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/60446</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:19:30 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/60446</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ken Jones gives us a round up of his favourite search marketing articles of the week and some personal insight (and jokes) on each piece.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dont be a Sheep Online]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/58985</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/58985</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:43:54 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/58985</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Individuality online is not easily classed as black or white its about being the many shades of you.Being, bold enough to stand-out may make you seem like a figure of controversy but is instigating a deeper understanding of a written work by asking questions really outlandish?<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Claim back your Stumbleupon Blog]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/58059</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/58059</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:22:26 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/58059</guid>
<description><![CDATA[My new pal Ahmed posts a nice article about how to optimise your StumbleUpon blog to connect with others in your niche.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Shine A Light - How to explain link-theory to a layman]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/55243</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/55243</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:33:45 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/55243</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There are all sorts of metaphors and analogies you can use to illustrate various aspects of link theory, from the buckets full of link juice used to explain PR flow and sculpting, through to examples where Links=Votes.Ken has devised a new analogy - Links are like torch beams. The more links pointing to your site and the more powerful they are, the brighter your site will shine<br/><br/>66 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter is Dead a4 Long Live Plurk (Or some other stupid named micro blogging platform)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54994</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54994</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:46:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54994</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Paul proclaims Plurk as the new micro blogging king, leaving Twitter in its wake. And he ponders just what micro blogging can offer an SEO.<br/><br/>55 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fight For Your Right To Desphinn]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54478</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54478</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:58:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54478</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Do you desphinn your colleagues when you visit Sphinn? If so, what criteria you use? Do you simply have to disagree, find the content offensive, or maybe you only desphinn when something is blatantly spam?<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social Media Gamblers: Learn To Play The Odds]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50560</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50560</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:16:06 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50560</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Danny from from SEO Moz puts Digg and StumbleUpon head to head in an attempt to determine where to invest social media optimization efforts.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Linkbait-Gate: Money.co.uk Apologises]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48426</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48426</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 22:57:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48426</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The saga continues... money.co.uk issues a formal apology for the linkbait saga. Maybe this will close it once and for all...<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[With SEO, Time and Authority are on Your Side!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46475</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46475</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 16:14:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46475</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Smith talks about the 'grandfather effect' and the impact it has on a search engines level of trust/authority in a web site.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Could you sell your blog (and would anyone buy it)?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46249</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46249</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:26:40 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46249</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Debate on the value of buying an existing blog, and discussion of the blogging elements money can't buy (relationships, authority etc).<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Marketing to the virtual generation]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46134</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46134</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 04:53:37 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46134</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Mark Dykeman debates the impact online persona's &amp; behaviour will have on marketing tactics in the future.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Don't We Read (and How Much Do We Read) on the Web?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45018</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45018</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 05:40:29 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45018</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Rand Fishkin analyses recent research from Jakob Nielsen regarding users reading habits on the web... and gives his two cents on the implications for webmasters/SEOs.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Five Steps to Content that Doesnt Suck]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/44547</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/44547</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 05:02:09 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/44547</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The first of many guest posts likely to sprout on Dave Harry's blog until Dave's hand mends. From the article:Without quality content why would anyone come to your site? Without quality content why is your site relevant enough to rank? Without quality content how will you convince anyone to utilize your site the way you want it to be utilized?<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[9 Ways To Know Youa4re A Twitter Addict]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/44245</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/44245</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 18:58:17 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/44245</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Amusing take on Twitter addiction. From the list:1. You recognise Robert Scoble on sight.2. You have no interest in baseball but know that the Astros are two down in the ninth inning.3. tinyurl.com is the only domain name in the world.4. At least one person you are following hates twitter and is deleting their account (but not really)...<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social Media = Society's Watchdog]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/43783</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/43783</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 16:16:06 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/43783</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Even a local ice cream parlour has learned how to use social media to build positive customer relations!<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Problem of Blogger Inferiority Complex]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/43660</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/43660</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 05:06:39 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/43660</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Darren Rowse tackles the issue of self esteem and self perception in the blogosphere.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[We're not SEO's - we're SRO's]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/42867</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/42867</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:49:25 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/42867</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ken rants on the semantics of the term SEO. From the article:&quot;I don't Optimize Search Engines.  That's what Matt Cutts and the rest of the algorithm-tweakers in the Googleplex do.  If anyone deserves to be called Search Engine Optimizers, it's them.&quot;<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Selling Ads Evil?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/42208</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/42208</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:58:35 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/42208</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Courtney Tuttle joins the discussion of whether selling ad space on your blog is evil.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Copywriting - Dona4t Lead Me to a Dry Well]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/42147</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/42147</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:58:19 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/42147</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Kim Bock takes a swipe at Search Engine Watch, and rants on the need to write web copy for people (not just search engines).<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Traffic Growth From Social Networking]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/42118</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/42118</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:13:36 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/42118</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Robin continues a series outlining his (newbie) experiences with social media, and the traffic growth outcomes.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Top 3 social media applications]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/41061</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/41061</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:18:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/41061</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Robin outlines the best apps to help us social media junkies use our time more efficiently.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Traffic Growth Tactics - Commenting Works, LinkedIn Doesn't.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/40631</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/40631</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:21:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/40631</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A blogger's personal account of social media tactics that have and haven't worked.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Don't Be Afraid of Social Media -- Your Customers Aren't]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/39288</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/39288</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:22:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/39288</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Customers use social media every day to talk about brands. Either join the conversation, or risk losing them to savvier competitors.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Search Engine Results, Blogs, and Credibility]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38198</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38198</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:18:17 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38198</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Are blogs really the most useful and relevant information for a user? Do they deserve to get the kind of rankings they receive?From the article:A colleague in another area of marketing said to me the other day, &quot;I've noticed the organic search results are getting worse.&quot; When probed about what she meant, she said that she found results are more cluttered with blogs and user-generated content (UGC) that aren't always credible or authoritative information sources.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sour grapes and my wrath]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/37977</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/37977</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:12:34 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/37977</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dave Harry vents after not being listed in Guy Kawasaki's new SEO aggregator site allTop. Seems his rant paid off as he's now been listed.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Marketing by Social Media Pitch]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/37973</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/37973</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:54:32 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/37973</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Marty Weintraub talks about the marketing opportunities social media bookmarking presents savvy marketers, and how to exploit them in a non intrusive manner.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Recession-Proof Your Online Marketing]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/37734</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/37734</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:18:05 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/37734</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Bryan Eisenberg discusses the importance of web site conversion and optimisation during difficult economic times.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Viral Marketing is Stupid]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/37680</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/37680</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:50:49 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/37680</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Danny from SEO Moz talks about viral marketing's tendency to appeal to the lowest common denominator.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What Easter Can Teach Us About Web 2.0, Social Media and Blogging]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/37087</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/37087</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:38:16 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/37087</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Tad ponders the phrase - 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket' and wonders about the implications for social media and traffic generation.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Does Your Search Traffic Suck? The 7 Most Likely Reasons]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/37063</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/37063</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:11:08 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/37063</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Rand Fishkin identifies 7 reasons why business struggle to generate organic rankings.<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to (Actually) Earn Money (Now) with Social Media  (Really)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/36741</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/36741</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:08:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/36741</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Marty Weintraub chats about how to generate cash flow within the first quarter of social media engagement.<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mahalo, Jason Calacanis and the definition of web spam]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/36580</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/36580</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:40:09 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/36580</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Tin Pig discusses the definition of spam following the latest Jason Calacanis controversy over the validity of Mahalo.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Google Becoming a Portal?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/35622</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/35622</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:44:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/35622</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What happens if Google stops sending searchers to other publishers' sites? What if Google starts sending people to its own content? Apparently they already have.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Darren Rowse's Reflections on SXSWi 2008]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/35263</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/35263</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:18:49 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/35263</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Darren Rowse of ProBlogger shares his thoughts and experiences of SXSWi 2008. Some interesting takes, including the realization that some A-List bloggers are 'snobs'.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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