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<title>Sphinn / Kalena / Voted News</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 22:28:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Get More Followers On Twitter If Youa4re A Girl And Arena4t All That Interesting]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48549</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48549</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 22:28:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48549</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;Twitter at Michael Arrington and make it seem like he replies&quot; - just one of the recommendations Jane makes in her hilarious rant about a particular breed of female Twits.<br/><br/>56 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Sites Now Open to the Public]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47897</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47897</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 01:08:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47897</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A few months ago Google Sites launched exclusively as part of Google Apps for companies and organizations that wanted to use the service on their own domains. Now they've opened it for anyone to set up a website to share all types of information like team projects, company intranets, community groups, classrooms, clubs, family updates, you name it, in one place, for a few people, a group or the world. You can securely host your own website at Google and add as many pages as you like for free.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Peanuts, monkeys, tailors and charging for SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46556</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46556</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 02:26:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46556</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Knowing how to charge for search engine optimisation services is the key to building a profitable agency. Keeping your clients happy and profitable should be the number 1 priority. Patrick talks about how to approach charging for SEO.<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A New Wave of Reputation Management Issues]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46108</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46108</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 01:55:26 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46108</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Online reputation management issues can really affect a persons life as there are a lot of ways your reputation can be damaged. Glen shows examples where women have taken reputation management into their own hands after their men went looking for other women online.<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Court Declares META Keywords Dead]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/42960</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/42960</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:55:43 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/42960</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In a move that would only shock SEOs working in 1998, a US court has deemed Meta keywords as &quot;immaterial&quot; as it relates to their effect on search rankings. The decision was reached during the Standard Process, Inc. v. Banks case.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AdSense Roll out Ad Review Center to All Publishers]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/42381</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/42381</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:31:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/42381</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The idea behind the Ad Review Center is that when advertisers target your specific blog you now can see that they're targeting it and can approve or ban and ad depending on whether you want it to appear on your site or not. This gives you more control over the ads that appear on your site.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Yahoo Could Get Microsoft To Increase Their Bid]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/42187</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/42187</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:49:39 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/42187</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ciaran thinks Flickr is the key to Yahoo squeezing more money out of Microsoft:&quot;Where Yahoo is really ahead of the competition is with its photo (and now video) sharing site, flickr. And if they could increase the number of people paying for premium membership, well, maybe that would be enough to push Ballmer into putting his hands (further) into his pockets.&quot;<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social Media and SEO: The Wonder Twins]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/41608</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/41608</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:48:09 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/41608</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In his keynote speech for SMX Sydney, Danny Sullivan mentioned something that really resonated with me. He talked about how he sees social media marketing and SEO as reinforcing each other, like that old cartoon, the Wonder Twins where the brother and sister touched their hands together to create some awesome power to defeat the bad guys.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Diary of a Novice SMX Attendee]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/40656</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/40656</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:06:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/40656</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Post by Sarah Parker of Search Engine College who talks about her experiences as a first-time conference attendee: &quot;SMX Sydney provided me with the chance to meet several industry rock stars and to really get a feel for the search marketing industry.&quot;<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Training of the Smelly Kind]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38651</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38651</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:51:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38651</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We now have a more appropriate anagram for SEO: the Sewage Enforcement Officer! Check the current Google SERP for &quot;SEO Training&quot;, paying careful attention to the #3 result. Yep, you can now undertake SEO Training of the Smelly Kind.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Guy Kawasaki Chooses Sphinn Stars for Latest Venture]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/37804</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/37804</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:24:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/37804</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Apple evangelist, venture capitalist and Internet startup super hero Guy Kawasaki has chosen to showcase some of Sphinn's favorite blogging stars in the SEO category on his new web site Alltop.com. Wow!<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[We Dona4t Need No Stinkina4 Standards. Do We?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/37656</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/37656</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:12:29 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/37656</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yes, it's another post about standards. But in his great summary of the entire argument, Steven invites the general public to have their say: &quot;Most of the debate that I've seen has been done by the SEO community. I know a good deal of you reading here wouldn't define yourselves as SEOs and I'm interested in hearing the thoughts of people outside the community.&quot;<br/><br/>31 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEOMoz Down?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/37572</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/37572</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:00:03 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/37572</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Is it just me, or is the SEOMoz site http://www.seomoz.org/ down? Security!<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Firefox Plugin Helps You Be First to Snatch Hot Domains]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/37547</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/37547</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:53:02 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Domaining</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/37547</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Donna reviews a new Firefox plugin that helps us track down the million dollar domain names of the future and grab them before anyone else.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Web 2.Overwhelming: 22 Ways to Frustrate Your Site Visitors]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/35654</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/35654</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:48:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Usability</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/35654</guid>
<description><![CDATA[My take on Damian Conway's hilarious web site usability presentation at Webstock 2008. Includes cute kitten aversion therapy, how to use fonts as a weapon and the Grandma Usability Metric.<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Gadget Maker Goes Global]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/35646</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/35646</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:51:13 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/35646</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google's Gadget Maker has just rolled out in 42 languages. The Gadget Maker is a feature of iGoogle allowing you to create a personalized gadget with just a few clicks and no programming skills.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Google Applies Science to Search (Part 2)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/35029</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/35029</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:17:38 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/35029</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Part 2 of presentation coverage of Google's Senior Research Scientist, Dr. Craig Nevill-Manning, as he explains how Google uses science to develop more precise search techniques.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Google Applies Science to Search (Part 1)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/35027</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/35027</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:14:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/35027</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google's Senior Research Scientist, Dr. Craig Nevill-Manning, explains how Google uses science to develop more precise search techniques. Fascinating stuff!<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Q and A: Why am I getting so few visitors to my site?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/35022</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/35022</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:16:12 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/35022</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Help! I've had my Hightower pottery website for about 4 years. On a good day I may get 20 hits and that's during the holidays. Normally I get between 0-10 hits a day. What am I doing wrong? Is it a content issue?<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Ad Manager for publishers - it's FREE!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/35002</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/35002</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:02:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/35002</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you have been wanting to run an ad server for testing AdSense or simply to just better manage your ad inventory and available placements, you are in luck.  Google has launched their new Ad Manager platform, a hosted ad management solution - free for publishers.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Q and A: Why doesna4t my site appear if I type my business name into Yahoo search?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/33548</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/33548</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:20:04 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/33548</guid>
<description><![CDATA[For the past 3 months my site would appear on page 1 of Yahoo when my &quot;girly party&quot; or &quot;girly party&quot; was typed into the search engine. Recently I've noticed that I don't even appear in the top 10 pages. How could this have happened?<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Learning How to Make Love (SEO)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/33473</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/33473</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:56:23 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/33473</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Bill got a silly grin on his face when he saw the SERPs. He said it's kinda cool that his girlfriend ranks #8 for &quot;learning how to make love.&quot;<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Basics in 45 Minutes]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/29773</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/29773</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:43:41 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/29773</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I didn't think it was possible to outline SEO in 45 minutes. But in her presentation for Webstock 2008, Jill Whalen proved me wrong.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Buy Books, Fight Poverty]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27847</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27847</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:23:59 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27847</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Good Books New Zealand is a new not-for-profit startup that is trying to fight poverty in a very unique way. They call themselves the online bookstore with a conscience, because they plan to donate 100 percent of profits from their book sales to Oxfam. So you can buy a book and help fight poverty!<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[DIY SEO, Where Do I Begin?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/22380</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/22380</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:35:37 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/22380</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jaan takes webmasters through a basic checklist on how to SEO a web site: &quot;Sure Do It Yourself SEO can seem very daunting at first sight, but once you put together a plan of SEO action steps for yourself it can be much easier than you think. One thing I tell most of my clients is that SEO is not rocket science.&quot;<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why SEMPO is Worse than the Defunct Search Marketing Associations]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/21462</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/21462</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:42:48 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/21462</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Aaron tells the story of how a SEMPO tutor apparently used his position at Search Engine Watch to undermine Aaron's book. Ouch!<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Kim's Favorite No Nonsense Blog Posts]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/21460</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/21460</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:31:24 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/21460</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In her travels throughout the blogosphere today, our fearless Girl Wonder Kim documents her favorite &quot;no nonsense&quot; blog posts from Debra, Aaron, Danielle and Marty, plus one she thinks is complete nonsense.<br/><br/>22 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Industry Flashback: Overture Gets Greedy]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/21330</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/21330</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:55:56 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/21330</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It's August 2002 and Overture is the main pay per click engine with Google AdWords still playing catch up at this point. As an Overture advertiser, I'm fired up about a new feature they've rolled out. I must have been pretty upset because in my blog post I've even compared them to LookSmart.<br/><br/>25 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[My first social media induced server crash]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/21278</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/21278</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:49:51 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/21278</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I was starting to despair that I'd never see much benefit from social media, despite my consistent participation. But this morning changed all that. You see, this morning, somebody found my blog post Dumbass of the Week: the Call Center Cow and decided to Stumble It. This blog went from 480 visitors yesterday to 25,321 today - I kid you not!<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dumbass of the Week: The Call Center Cow]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/20975</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/20975</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:43:20 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/20975</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So it's 10am at work and I am trying to wade through my mountain of tasks in the few hours I've got before I need to pick up my son from daycare. The phone rings. The conversation goes like this:<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Environmentally Friendly Web Site Marketing]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/20745</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/20745</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:45:30 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/20745</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Do you ever hit a slump when you're trying to come up with new content for your blog or web site? Yet everyone around you appears to be a marketing genius? The answer is simple: content recycling. Yes, the secret behind many of the Internet's most successful marketers is the recycling of content in different ways to appeal to different audiences. The more ways you can re-package your information, the wider audience you will reach.<br/><br/>30 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[High Rankings has a new site design]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/20738</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/20738</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:51:28 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/20738</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Looks like Jill has updated her site design this week (HighRankings.com) Looks great! I like the way the color changes for different pages. Very Web 2.0. Was the re-design a New Year's resolution Jill?<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pandia Gets Hacked]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/20073</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/20073</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:54:30 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/20073</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Some of Pandia's regular readers may have noticed some interesting links to DVDs, MP3 files and various pharmaceutical products in two of their blog posts this week:  &quot;Indeed, we were hacked. How, we do not know, but we are definitely taking measures to stop this from happening again.&quot;<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Top 10 Dumbest Web Site Decisions EVER]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/17977</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/17977</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:10:14 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/17977</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Here is a list of what I consider to be the Top 10 dumbest web site decisions ever, in reverse order, David Letterman style. Get ready to cringe!<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Clinton Will Be Democrat Nominee, says Google]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/17817</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/17817</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:50:59 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/17817</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Doug Caverly at WebProNews has the scoop that Google Trends shows Hilary Clinton as clear favorite to win the Democratic Presidential nomination. Plus the Clintons will be special guests at the wedding of Google co-founder Larry Page in the Carribbean this weekend.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sphinn Comment Bait]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/17633</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/17633</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:29:09 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/17633</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I've noticed that the new Sphinn features offer a great opportunity to get your post noticed. I find myself reading the new Latest Comments list a lot lately and it gives people the chance to attract attention to older posts or posts that have been overlooked in What's New. If you craft a comment carefully enough, like a post title, it can gain attention. Comment Bait of a sort. Anyone else noticed this? I'm conducting an experiment with it. Kinda fun.<br/><br/>21 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Jennifer finally opens the door to Google?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/17447</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/17447</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:40:34 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/17447</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Just noticed that Jennifer Laycock has finally opened Bento Yum's doors to Google after her experiment of launching a business online and preventing search engines from indexing it. When did this happen?<br/><br/>35 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Top 50 SEO Posts of the Year]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/17205</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:32:27 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Evan Carmichael has put together his Top 50 Must-Read SEO Posts of the Year. Quite a few Sphinnsters made the grade!<br/><br/>43 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Explosive Growth for Blogs and Social Sites]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/16428</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/16428</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:03:28 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/16428</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Mel Strocen finds a report released by Nielsen Online in October that shows social networking and blogging are still attracting large numbers of people although some sites and platforms are benefiting more than others, noticeably MySpace and Facebook.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Internet Prediction From 1900]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/16416</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:05:30 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/16416</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Philipp Lenssen has found an article from 1900 predicting the Internet: &quot;Man will see around the world... The instrument bringing these distant scenes to the very doors of people will be connected with a giant telephone apparatus transmitting each incidental sound in it's appropriate place.&quot;<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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