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<title>Sphinn / Kimota / Hot Today</title>
<link>http://sphinn.com</link>
<description>Sphinn</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:23:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Instant (Bad) Karma's Gonna Get Ya: AdWords Account Quality At Startup]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51883</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51883</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:23:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51883</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Great post on what to do when inheriting a poorly managed Adwords account.&quot;If you've inherited a &quot;dog&quot; account, it could be a long, long time (like maybe forever) before minimum bids on a poor account get down to sustainable levels. It's as if Google starts out assuming you're an idiot, but then you have to go and prove it by ringing up piles of untargeted clicks. Now they know you suck.So if you inherit this puppy, the long struggle to right the ship may wear you down, and the client's budget may be exhausted if you aren't first.&quot;<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Media Watch: Linkbait-gate Covered on TV, including Sphinn reactions]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48881</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48881</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 12:13:29 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48881</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Well, well, well. The Australian media have really taken up the story with the long running show 'Media Watch' making the Lyndoman linkbait story and how it duped the Daily Telegraph their lead feature!There is a full online transcript plus there is a podcast of the episode available at http://abc.net.au/mediawatch/vodcast/mediawatch_mp4.xmlEven Sphinn makes an appearance. We're telly celebrities, people!<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why PageRank is broken and how ita4s being fixed]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/23393</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/23393</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:29:41 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/23393</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Blogstorm looks at the controversial issue of PageRank and attempts by Yahoo and Google to make it more relevant again in the wake of a new patent filed by Yahoo.<br/><br/>35 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[7 Tips For Finding & Expanding Your Negative Keywords]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/22930</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/22930</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:50:52 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/22930</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Not enough is said about negative keywords, but they can have a distinct impact on customer conversion in PPC campaigns especially.Here are some solid tips to determine the most harmful negative keywords that could actually be damaging your website results.<br/><br/>38 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Use the a4Rule of Threea4 to Create Engaging Content]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/19186</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/19186</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:36:24 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/19186</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The wonderful Brian Clark from Copyblogger again with a brilliant post on why the number three is so important structurally when writing engaging content.This is one of the best blogs out there.<br/><br/>36 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Veni Vidi Vici: I Came, I Saw, I... Sphunn?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/19058</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/19058</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:03:45 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/19058</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Well, who'da thunk it?My plea for Sphinns resulted in a huge outpouring of support. Once the post gained some momentum (at first, people seemed to be nervous about jumping on board) the Sphinns rolled in so fast that the post not only went hot but became the hottest post of the day!For most of the day, though, it was narrowly being beaten by Jeff Quipp's submission announcing the arrival of a little Wiep. This has led me to thinking that I should start pressuring my girlfriend so that I can have another white-hot post in nine months. Certainly not the lamest excuse I've used to get her into bed...But finally my post crept forward, taking the lead and going on to reach a staggering 51 Sphins! This is actually more Sphinns than all my other submissions added together and is deserving of a huge amount of thanks to all of you.So what can be learned from this experiment?<br/><br/>38 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[It's Come to This - Grovelling for a Sphinn!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/18697</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/18697</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:59:36 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Bookmarking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/18697</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Seems like this social bookmarking is a tough nut to crack, but read to the bottom for a one-off Sphinn related offer.Getting onto the front page of Digg has always been notoriously difficult, so I realized a while ago that chasing the Digg vote for an online marketing blog wasn't a good strategy.But with Sphinn, it is a different matter. Here is a social bookmarking site that should respond very well to the types of posts I want to submit - particularly SEO and online marketing. These people read the same blogs as I do, so it was a no-brainer to throw myself into Sphinn, especially as a post can go hot at one tenth of the numbers required at Digg.Yet, try as I might, I can't seem to break through the wall. Posts that feel to me as if they should definitely punch through languish with single-figure Sphinns. All the time I wait monitoring RSS feeds to leap on the latest post by a hot blogger seems to do me no good, but the guy who submits a different post of theirs reaps front page gold.<br/><br/>58 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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