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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:23:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Screw best practice and write for your audience]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/64011</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/64011</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:23:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/64011</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;Most online marketers will tell you I consistently break one of the golden rules of writing for the web, which is to keep content short, punchy and concise. But to them I say - screw your rules! I'm writing content for my audience, so you can take your rules and shove them.&quot;<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Drunk Idiota4s Guide to Twitter]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/62846</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/62846</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:52:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/62846</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We all know that internet marketers LOVE Twitter, but what about the rest of the world?  Here's a funny take on it from the folks at Cracked.com...&quot;Hailed by prominent nerds as the best thing to hit the internet since the dancing baby, Twitter has quickly risen to become the web's most popular &quot;micro-blogging&quot; site.That's all well &amp; good for tech-savvy bloggers who actually know what &quot;micro-blogging&quot; is, but what about you, the average Joe who still uses Netscape to check your Friendster &quot;Testimonials&quot; on a shared computer at the public library?&quot;<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Official Google Blog: Introduction to Google Ranking]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57968</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57968</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:25:36 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57968</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The most common question I get asked about Google's ranking is &quot;how do you do it?&quot; Of course, there is a lot that goes into building a state-of-the-art ranking system like ours, and I will delve deeper into the technology behind it in a later post. Today, I would like to briefly share the philosophies behind Google ranking:1) Best locally relevant results served globally.2) Keep it simple.3) No manual intervention.<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to increase search rankings via guest blogging]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57938</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57938</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:38:23 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57938</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Most bloggers recognise the importance of search engine rankings. Search engines deliver the highest quality/most qualified traffic on the web. And best of alla4 it's free. Thus, establishing visibility within search engines for relevant keywords &amp; phrases is a priority for most bloggers. Actually pulling rank however is another story altogethera4<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[5 ways to improve rankings through content management]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57690</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57690</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:49:53 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57690</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Does your content creation and management plan consist of merely a fire-and-forget-it perspective? Then you may be missing out on ways to not only strengthen existing rankings but bolstering new ones. You may be making costly mistakes without even knowing it. Today, we're going to look at how historical ranking factors can come into play with your content plans.<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO vs SMO - Traffic Quality Put To The Test]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/56073</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/56073</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:37:43 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/56073</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Pop quiz - If you could choose between 1,000 social media visitors and 1,000 search engine visitors for your blog or business, which would you choose? It's a no-brainer right? Everybody knows that search engine traffic is of a far higher quality!James Duthie writes a great guest post for Dazzlin Donna.<br/><br/>63 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Link Building this Week]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/55584</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/55584</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:58:53 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/55584</guid>
<description><![CDATA[With all the great posts about link building that have been going around recently, Wiep's done the logical thing and compiled a post listing links to them all for your reference.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rand Fishkin still doesna4t understand NoFollow]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52267</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52267</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:21:29 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52267</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There's nothing like a bit of healthy debate to encourage people to think seriously about what advice to follow and what to rel=nofollow ;-)Here's Michael Martinez's take on Rand's recent statement regarding PR Sculpting and the use of rel=nofollow.From the post...&quot;I hate doing this but enough people follow SEOmoz that if Rand Fishkin posts something wrong, the chances are pretty good that a lot of people will start repeating the erroneous idea and then we have yet another war against SEO ignorance to wage.&quot;<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social Media Karma a4 What Goes Around Comes Around]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50761</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50761</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:28:03 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50761</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Shana's getting help from guest bloggers and this is James Duthie's contribution - a great lesson on the principle of building good karma through social media and the benefits it can bring both to the submitter and the submittee.<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[British Man Caught MasterBaiting With 13 Year Old Hooker - Hoaxbait parody]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50430</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50430</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:20:50 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50430</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Does this remind you of anyone?I know this is probably asking for trouble, but it's just too funny to pass up.Sean Maguire fires of a warning shot not to mess with Texas with this story of an un-named man from Cornwall and his master-baiting antics.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Mergers And Acquisitions May Change The Search Engine Playing Field]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/41987</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/41987</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:10:56 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/41987</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ask.com seems to be stepping out of the spotlight to focus on specific markets, and in early March 2008, Microsoft began attempting to purchase the Yahoo! search engine.If there are just two top search engines with which to be concerned, what does this mean for your business and for SEO as a whole?<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[April Fools' Fallout - The Problogger's Reaction]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/39846</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/39846</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:56:31 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/39846</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Darren Rowse's own take on the situation that developed around the &quot;Problogger goes bankrupt&quot; April Fools' Day Joke. He handles the matter very maturely and gives some good advice to would-be pranksters regarding the risks of ill-thought out &quot;jokes&quot; like the one at his expense, without resorting to naming and shaming.<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rand Fishkin on Evaluating Link Authority]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/37821</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/37821</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:18:21 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/37821</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Rand Fishkin put up this very informative post about link building and evaluating the authority of sites you may want to get links from.  As the man himself states, &quot;It doesn't get much more relevant than this.&quot;<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[YSM Blog promoting Viagra - Shocker!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/36913</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/36913</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:03:58 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/36913</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The eagle-eyed boys over at PPC discussions spotted this little slip up on the YSM Blog.Especially ironic as the screenshot illustrating it is from their recent post about new guidelines for questionable products.  Hee hee!<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Help me SEObi Wan Kenobis, you're my only hope.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/35430</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/35430</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:43:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/35430</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Having witnessed the success of Ask-Kalena's recent outing of a site scraper, I was hoping that the community here on Sphinn might be willing to help me out with a scraper problem of my own.  Any advice on what to do would be more than gratefully received.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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