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<title>Sphinn / NickWilsdon / Commented News</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:08:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[10 Myths about Google Chrome Browser]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/70853</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/70853</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:08:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/70853</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yeah I know *enough already* with the Chrome posts. This is a great read though on why the much hyped features of the new browser are nothing new to the browser market. It certainly made me respect the power of Google's marketing.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Chrome Bait a4n Switch?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/70382</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/70382</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:12:19 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/70382</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As John Andrews writes, bait and switch is the practice of offering something attractive to draw an audience of consumers, to which you then sell an alternative. Has Google just done this to us with Chrome/Chromium?<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter Define Rules on Spam and Commercial usage]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/69799</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/69799</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:24:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/69799</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Twitter have released their most detailed list yet on what they consider spam. Commercial or promotional Twitter users take note, these activities can get your account suspended or banned.<br/><br/>57 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Your WordPress With These 8 Must-Have Plugins]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/66857</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/66857</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:53:18 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/66857</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Joost's on a roll today. Here is a list of his 8 must-have WordPress SEO plugins (several of which he has also written). This dovetails with his &quot;WordPress SEO Guide&quot; and should be bookmarked by anyone carrying out WP optimisation.<br/><br/>70 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New WordPress Breadcrumbs Plugin By Joost de Valk]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/66796</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/66796</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:01:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/66796</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Breadcrumbs are a great utility, both for usability and SEO. They allow people and search engines to easily determine the structure of a domain. Good reasons for Joost to add them as an action point in his WordPress SEO guide. Now he gives us the plugin to make this modification even easier.<br/><br/>54 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Trouble with Twitter]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/66675</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/66675</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:30:29 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/66675</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Don't be surprised to see advertising on Twitter soon. It's about the only way the service can generate revenue. But will it be enough? Insightful article by Ben Kunz at BusinessWeek.<br/><br/>61 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter Cuts SMS Service Outside US, Canada and India]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/65578</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/65578</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:56:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/65578</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Twitter has killed its outbound SMS services outside of the United States, Canada or India, and with it a potentially highly lucrative business model in Europe.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter Gave Me the Mark of the Beast]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/65549</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/65549</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:33:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/65549</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Don Draper, creator of the GreaseMonkey Twitter script, reports that his account has been limited to 666. That would suggest an algorithm rather than a hard &quot;2000&quot; limit with exceptions. This might be a fun algorithm to bust over a few beers.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BrowseRank - Detailed Review & Summary of the Theory]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/63728</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/63728</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:47:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Microsoft SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/63728</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dixon Jones has been reading through the new 8 page, two column document by Microsoft on BrowseRank, the new idea coming out of China which may well eventually beat Google's PageRank. Point by point summary in easy to digest terms.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google, Ethics and The Myths of Social Media: An Interview with Jill Whalen]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/63674</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/63674</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:27:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/63674</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jill is someone who needs no introduction round these parts. I had the pleasure of interviewing her last week on the topic of Google, ethics, old-school marketers, Cuil and the myths of social media.<br/><br/>48 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SocialMedian Review: First Impressions Of The Next Big Thing]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/63439</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/63439</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:14:45 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/63439</guid>
<description><![CDATA[My first impressions of SocialMedian.com, the news aggregation and voting site launched last week. I've also included a list of SEO/SEMs newsmakers who are already active in the system. Reserve your username, click the links and get set up. This one looks like a contender.<br/><br/>46 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["Candy Ass Social Media Goody 2 Shoes"?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/61422</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/61422</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:32:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/61422</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Thoughtful and well written response to the last few days in the SEM industry by Andrew Goodman. Beyond the events, he addresses the ethics of Marty's technique and argues that this courageous &quot;candy ass&quot; may end up walking away with the clients.<br/><br/>54 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Free Tool For Google Malware & Phishing Blacklists]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/55374</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/55374</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:55:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/55374</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SERPGuard is launched in beta today. The system is built in Ruby on Rails using the new Safe Browsing API that Google has helpfully made available. We built this application as part of our in-house client suite but decided to release it publicly. Hope you enjoy.You create an account, log in and add all your sites into one simple interface. If our system detects any of your URLs on the Google phishing or malware blacklists, it will send you an RSS message and email immediately.<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[John McCain's Google Bomb Link Widget]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54558</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54558</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:28:43 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54558</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Chris Bowers is trying to push in certain articles into the Google search results for a search on [john mccain]. His goal is to &quot;Google Bomb&quot; these articles into the search results before Labor Day. What is interesting to me is that the site in question is using a widget to manipulate Google's results. Tricky ground though for the Big G to step on.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo The Failure: Myth Versus Reality]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54180</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54180</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:59:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Yahoo Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54180</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As Danny puts it, Yahoo's leadership has done a piss-poor job making people believe there's hope, he's stepped up and given it a swing. As SS Yahoo appears to be sinking, Danny gives us the counter view on the company's future.<br/><br/>66 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Encyclopaedia Britannica Takes on Wikipedia]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52185</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52185</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:37:17 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52185</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Encyclopaedia Britannica is now in direct competition with Wikipedia. Although they will be keeping editorial approval for changes, they are inviting community submissions. Even more interestingly they are allowing users to upload articles, essays, and multimedia presentations on their chosen subjects. This material will be accredited to the author and remain under their copyright. Will that be enough to make core Wikipedians desert?<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Matt Cutts Suggests Google Penalties For Fake Stories]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47900</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47900</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 01:15:31 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47900</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Matt Cutts, head of Google's Webspam team, has finally waded in on the issue of fake linkbait.<br/><br/>70 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Russian SU Domain Registry Continues to Snub ICANN]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/40675</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/40675</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:40:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Domaining</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/40675</guid>
<description><![CDATA[To summerise the dispute so far, September saw ICANN release a statement urging &quot;the current .SU operators to make it clear to the .SU registrants the issues surrounding the domain, as well as to freeze new registrations until its future is clear&quot;.In response, the .SU Registry announced an 80% price cut to the .SU domain, bringing it into line with .RU (Russia) pricing and the proposed launch of an IDN (international) version of the domain extension. Not exactly the reaction ICANN must have been hoping for.<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fund.com sold for $10 million in Highest Ever Domain Sale]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/34026</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/34026</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:03:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Domaining</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/34026</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Clek Media Inc. announced today that it has brokered the world-record sale of the domain FUND.COM for US$9,999,950 in an all-cash transaction. This would make this sale the highest ever price paid for a domain name. The purchase price tops what the Guinness World Records books report as the highest previous price, the memorable BUSINESS.COM purchase at 7.5m.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Time to Pull the Plug on Under-Age Domainers?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/33944</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/33944</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:03:37 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Domaining</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/33944</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This weekend saw one of the the largest domain scams in internet history, with one user out by $120'000. What was fascinating about the story is that the theft involves one or more 16yr olds. That has renewed calls for underage domainers to be banned from the industry. According to Registrar rules, under 18's are prohibited from even owning a domain name, let along trading in them. In reality, some are negotiating deals worth thousands of dollars.As the domaining industry attempts to legitimize itself, how will they deal with a group that exists outside the law?<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SES NYC:  Give us Your Questions For Jason Calacanis]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/32977</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/32977</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:08:15 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/32977</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Search Marketing Gurus will be the vehicle driving most of the questions during the Calacanis keynote at SES NYC. Li has asked for tough ones, so lets not disappoint her eh?The Rules:You cannot ask &quot;Jason why are you such an jerk?&quot; or any other type of questions along those lines.  That means, no &quot;why are you a &quot;*insert any other derogatory comment here*?&quot; type questions, and also no &quot;why do you think SEO is bullshit&quot; questions.<br/><br/>35 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Blueprint for a StumbleUpon Viral]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/28077</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/28077</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:34:11 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/28077</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Last weekend saw the launch of the first ever viral for StumbleUpon, the StumbleCard. I watched it unfold, reported on it and joined in the traffic rush. We have received 6500+ visitors so far to our news post. The cards themselves have received hundreds of reviews and bookmarks and presumably much more traffic than us. In this post I have given some reasons why this was successful and suggested some improvements for future viral campaigns.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[5000 Reasons to Love Twitter (PRACTICE DESPHINN POST)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27945</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27945</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:52:19 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27945</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As Danny suggested, this is a practice post to see the new Desphinn feature working. Go ahead, desphinn, I won't take it personally ;)<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[This Month in SEO: By Sphinn Member Vangogh]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26480</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26480</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:30:38 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26480</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I've just discovered that Sphinn member Steven Bradley (a.k.a. Vangogh) publishes an in-depth monthly roundup of marketing posts and news. If you thought this was just another link dump *look again*. He's spun some excellent commentary around the posts and taken the time to intelligently section the material. So if you're looking for some weekend reading, this post will keep you busy. I've found quite a few posts that slipped under my radar over the month.<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Makes $45 Billion Bid To Buy Yahoo]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26311</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26311</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:58:17 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26311</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Huge news. Microsoft make an official bid for Yahoo. We've been here before with the rumors but now this looks serious. What do you think? Would this be a good move for both companies?<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Top 100 Internet Marketing Blogs As Voted By You]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/22428</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/22428</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:03:19 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/22428</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It's not very Web 2.0 of us but today SocialBlogroll is out of beta. Thanks to everyone who has helped us test the system.We're now polling over 100 blogrolls belonging to everyone from Matt Cutts, SugarRae to Mikkel deMib Svendsen to find out which blogs they rate within the internet marketing blogosphere. You can now view the top 100+ list on the site. Of course the main function of SocialBlogroll is to be an easy web based aggregator. You can use the AJAX search to get an overview of the internet marketing blogosphere or bookmark specific tagged pages, such as PPC, link building or domaining. Claim your blog to add your own tags.<br/><br/>53 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is 'Registrant Search' Threatening Your Privacy?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/13755</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/13755</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:09:53 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Domaining</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/13755</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The latest tool released by Jay Westerdal has raised a furry of concern from domainers, shocked by the information which is now available on their portfolio and activities. However this issue has wider implications which should be considered by all domain owners, businesses and privacy advocates. For a fee, they can provide all historic registration records on all your domains, grouping them by company or users name. This search can uncover and connect domains which were later hidden with WHOIS protection, providing a goldmine of information for those investigating.  On the back of concerns about Google becoming a Registrar in 2005, could this also be proof of concept for their own internal tools?<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Domain Snatching - How Private Are Your Domain Searches?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/12677</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/12677</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:53:53 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Domaining</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/12677</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The accusation being made is that domain availability searches are not being kept private and this data is either being sold or somehow obtained by other registration companies. You carry out your domain research and then return to find the domain mysteriously registered. While this is easy enough if you set up your own domain availability tool, these accusations are being leveled at some of the best known Registrars in the industry. ICANN is now set to investigate this phenomenon, which they have termed &quot;Domain name front running&quot; to prevent the &quot;perception from evolving to accepted wisdom.&quot;.<br/><br/>36 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cuttlet-Block Firefox Plugin For MattCutts.com]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9687</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9687</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:03:26 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9687</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Matt's blog is essential reading for our industry but I have to admit some of the comments bug me. Especially when I see people bashing SEO, answering technical SEO questions they really aren't qualified to and the repetitive references to Google's webmaster guidelines. But no more. With new Cuttlet Block (TM) you can ban or block users on Matt's blog and never have to read them again. Think of this as a Web 2.0. killfile ;)The other feature we have thrown in there is the ability to  show Matt's replies only with one extra link at the start of the comments section.  People can use it as they like, happy to share.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Global Search Report 2007 Released]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9568</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9568</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:22:05 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9568</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The 2007 Global Search Report contains search engine and PPC marketshare statistics for the following countries: Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, The Netherlands, Ukraine and the UK. Essential information for those interested in multilingual marketing. The free 21-page PDF (1.3MB) is available for download now.<br/><br/>38 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Technical Tips on Connecting WordPress to Web 1.0 Sites]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/7733</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/7733</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:51:22 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/7733</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Following on from Marty's (aimClear) post on adding WordPress to spice up your client's Web 1.0 site. I've outlined some practical steps to include WordPress functions and other RSS/XML content on the old site using the Magpie library. Hopefully my guide should be easy enough to follow for non-programmers.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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