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<title>Sphinn / OliverTaco / All</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:39:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Digg Death Penalty for Promote My Site]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/43041</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/43041</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:39:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/43041</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Digg hung our blog and buried it in a pauper's field without a trial and with no review. That's not the &quot;wisdom of the crowd&quot; or &quot;social peer pressure&quot; - it is French Revolution style mob rule. What makes it worse? The guy who got his friends to gang up on us got banned that same week!<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[$31,752 Additional Profit in Man's Pocket via SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/40038</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/40038</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:46:54 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/40038</guid>
<description><![CDATA[At least. Which is a pretty good piece of pocket money. I suspect even Warren Buffet would slow down to pick that up.I attribute this to SEO because even thought it was a change in business process coupled with good SEO that made it happen it could not have happened without SEO.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Digg This Cheap Shot Friend Strategy]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/39176</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/39176</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:48:58 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/39176</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Recently I have been bending over backwards to be a good digg friend and to really nuture my network.  Not only because I am a nice guy (when I don't have low blood sugar!) but because I have been thinking and reading a lot about the dynamics of friends, voting, and vote &quot;power&quot; on digg.  And I had been planning to do some testing with different kinds of stories and shouting methods.  So I've had some focus on the subject for a week or two.And that is when I realized that there was a whole different kind of play going on which in my head I've labeled: The Cheap Shot.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Humans Versus Robots On Digg]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38333</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38333</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:42:56 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38333</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Does you new friend on Digg drink Guinness or Valvoline?I don't think you can apply a pure Turing test (human or robot?) to Diggers, because Digg is a highly complex system and you can't know as much as you need to.But there are some things you can figure out.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Entrecard and Almost VC Money]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/37920</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/37920</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:21:57 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/37920</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As you might have heard, the Entrecard guys picked up $100K+ in funding.  So I sat down to have a ponder on what that tells us. 1,200 words later I had a post about analyzing someone's VC funding.  Enjoy!<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Social Heartbeat Monitor for more than 2,000 Social Network and Social Bookmark Sites]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/36404</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/36404</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:28:05 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/36404</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We added pagerank, inbound link count, page load time, etc to our huge list of social networking and social bookmarking sites - so we call it a &quot;heartbeat&quot; because it will tell you the health and increasing/decreasing power of a site over time.We'll be updating it weekly and adding news sites (there is an easy suggest tool too!).  You can manipulate it in a cool advanced search/sort grid or download it as a CSV file - which should stop people complaining about how slow google docs is!<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Greatest Link Attraction Strategy Ever]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/36399</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/36399</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:19:04 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/36399</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The strategy centers around faking your own death. For added buzz, you should also consider spinning the story so that you died while blogging in order to gain maximum A-List penetration (reminding them of their own mortality might be the last way available to get them to link outside of their personal echo chambers).<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Best. Digg. Shout. Ever.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/35976</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/35976</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:24:12 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/35976</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It's 800 words long, has 20+ links, contains both Latin and the word &quot;huzzle,&quot; and wants me to free Tibet.Priceless.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Digg versus VOIPigg]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/35747</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/35747</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:20:08 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/35747</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In my last article about Google possibly punishing Digg I contrasted Digg versus a niche pligg site, VOIPigg. And I noted that you might too casually dismiss VOIPigg.  Here's why you shouldn't....<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[From Consulting to Product - Part 2, or When the Sharks Start Circling]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/35393</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/35393</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:29:27 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/35393</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Here's where you are: balancing on a razor's edge. You are juggling competing needs:    * Capitol for product development    * Cash flow to pay for sale effort    * Attention required to staff two different models:    * Traditional consultants for your cash flow business    * Developers and support staff    * Sudden need to build an infrastructure to support a growing business    * Finance guys, admin staff, human resources/recruitingYou're enormously attracted to the rush of 90% profit margins on each product sale but you are starting to miss the simpler days, when you had half a dozen guys out doing consulting and a one-room office that you and your partner shared. And if you were both out consulting, you answered client calls at the Homewood Suites at night.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cool Utility: Down for Everyone or Just Me?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/35310</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/35310</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:15:28 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/35310</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Have you ever found a utility that you know you'll only need every month or so but that you never knew you needed until you found it?Here you go: Down For Everyone Or Just Me?<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[When Your Product Eats Your Consulting $]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/34748</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/34748</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:51:06 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/34748</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So you're rocking along, doing some pretty good dollar consulting, and you build a small product, internal use only, to help you get your fixed price projects done more quickly.  And now you're really pulling in some bucks.  Then a junior consultant you just hired from Compsci-U gets drunk at TGIF with the client and spills the beans about your groovy-o tool.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Has Arrived - Torchwood]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/34379</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/34379</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:13:13 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/34379</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I was watching one of my favorite shows, Torchwood, and at a very important point in this weeks space opera episode they have to try to find out the nature of an inter-dimensional creature given just a few words it mutters in their presence.So they google it.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Booth Thoughts from Two Mozzers and an Irishman]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/32478</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/32478</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:35:20 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/32478</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Heh, very funny.  My favorite is still number 6: Wear comfortable shoes. What? Which of those words did you not understand?<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Digg Friend Finder Bookmarklet]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/31248</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/31248</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:09:07 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/31248</guid>
<description><![CDATA[You asked for it. And now it's here! The Digg Friend Finder bookmarklet is now available.Just drag the link to your toolbar. Whenever you're on a page that has some interesting text and you'd like to see which Digg users have submitted similar content, just select the text then click the bookmark in your toolbar.The Digg Friend Finder page will load, with your selected text already populated in the search field. Just click search and watch the magic.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Tools or SEO Content]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/31105</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/31105</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:35:40 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/31105</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Do you write content to get people to use/buy your tools or do you build tools to get people to buy your premium content or services?<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Promote Your Site With Google Products]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/30918</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/30918</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:23:03 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/30918</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I just bought my father in law a Garmin Nuvi 660 for his birthday and, as I am interested in all things Google, I tried shopping for it in there. It was a fascinating descent into a totally wild west environment. And I think that there is a very interesting opportunity for merchants willing to dive into the.... google matrix!<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Free SEO Tools are the Traffic Gift that Keeps On Giving]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/30871</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/30871</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:46:23 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/30871</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When we released Digg Friend Finder and Backlink Pinger we thought that the people who were visiting every day would find them useful and maybe make a few more visits. Perhaps even put the blog on their RSS Feed.Wow, we did not really anticipate people coming back several times a day, bookmarking us, sending emails about us to friends, etc. (Yes, it is amazing what you can learn from site logs!)  And suddenly our overseas reader count really ramped up.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[OpenID is a Social Networking Nightmare Waiting to Happen]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/30408</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/30408</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:13:27 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/30408</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I finally had a chance to have a good think about OpenID and how it will actually work in the world of Social Bookmarking and networking.It's gonna be really really really bad.  Really.Let's just say that the phishers will *love* the results of implementing OpenID.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Digg Friend Finder Top Ten Learnings]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/30376</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/30376</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:34:11 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/30376</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What do you learn when you release a SEO tool into the digg community?  Ten thing, of course....<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[4 ways to find and make friends on Digg]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/29883</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/29883</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:41:27 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/29883</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Let's face it. Making Digg friends isn't always easy. But to conduct a successful social bookmarking strategy, you need to find ways to make friends and leverage their linking power.Why is it important to make friends? Well, without friends, chances of your submissions hitting the front page of Digg are low. You need backing. You need support. You need someone to give you a nod when you find something you like.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Doing Keyword Research to Promote Your Site]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/29881</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/29881</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:36:48 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/29881</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Keyword research sounds very intellectual and theoretical, but it is very actionable information. If you have the phrase &quot;driving technique&quot; as a key phrase and the suggestion comes back that &quot;snow driving&quot; has 1K searches a day, well, you can do something about that to capture traffic.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Promoting Your Site Through Efficient Friending]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/29026</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/29026</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:43:59 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/29026</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you want your content to do well (link juice, readers, fame and fortune- whatever) you either have exactly three options:    * World Class Link Bait    * Pounding Out A Thousand Singles    * Don't Be A Friend To MankindBaiting a Dull HookI know, I know, there are lots of articles about how to create popular content for so-called boring industries. Some of the better ones are:    * Is Your Industry Too Boring for Linkbait?    * SeoMoz's Most Excellent Jane Presentation    * SeoBook's Digg is for DweebsBut you know, mostly that is simply not going to work. It's not that this isn't good advice, it's just that you can't really operationalize it. Some of your content has to be more prosaic to get keywords, concepts, and basic communications out to the reading public. So none of that can be linkbait.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Airplane Plumber SEO School]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/28552</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/28552</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:47:07 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/28552</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I was on the plane coming home and the cat next to me in first got to talking. It seems his son (11th grade) had put up a website extolling the virtues of his plumbing business and they'd actually gotten a customer from a google search the day before.Needless to say, he thought this was pretty trick. Over the last 20 years he'd spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on yellow pages, bus signs, bench-backs, high-school yearbooks, little-league teams, etc, etc. He said that he reckoned that the average customer cost around $100 to acquire, the average bill was around $115, and costs were around $75. So each customer basically lost $25.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Customer Service]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/28068</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/28068</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:33:55 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/28068</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What does it mean when people put &quot;free&quot; SEO tools out and they break? Promise rankings. Sell spammy link pages. Engage customers without contracts or SLA's?I'm not saying that SEO is different from, say, CRM or ERP implementations. Anyone who has been on the receiving end of a SAP implementation knows what I mean.I have to say, if I were some Yahoo Store owner wandering through our little universe I'd probably turn right around and leave.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Choosing a Web Application Manipulation Tool]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27951</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27951</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:28:31 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27951</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The bad news is that if you choose the wrong tool you'll have a heck of a time unwinding the mistake. The good news is that these products are different enough and the choice is pretty clear.We said earlier that a web application manipulation tool is one that drives a web site based on a link back to your backend application containing workflow and data driven information. In a real world setting this tool must have the following characteristics:    * Supported application - from a commercially viable vendor or an active OSF-type community    * Mature product - must have developers documentation and have deployment successes    * Flexible - Must handle a wide variety of web-based applications<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[I Will Take Spambot for 147 Dollars Alex]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27950</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27950</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:26:37 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27950</guid>
<description><![CDATA[One of the first things that might warn you that Novasoft's SutumbleBot is a social network spamming tool is their blatant ripoff of StumbleUpon's logo.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[iMacro SEO Automation Framework]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27780</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27780</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:42:28 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27780</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In order to build an efficient SEO automation framework you must carefully seperate value added manual tasks from reptitious automatable steps. For example, writing content on Social Networking is value added, but posting it to 23 different pligg sites and bookmarking the article at 50+ sites is not.Manual or AutomationBut determining which categories it goes into on the 23 pligg sites is an appropriate manual task. So it's not like you are just going to offshore someone to pickup the phone and say: &quot;Dr. Newharts office, hold please.&quot;Let's posit, for the sake of argument, that you've built a framework of CMS, user administration, content creation, database driven workflow, and iMacro automation of specific tasks. Not a small task, but you can get there stepwise, so bear with me.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[You Simply Cannot Maintain Free Software]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27646</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27646</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:17:18 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27646</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I reviewed several manualized social network automators (OnlyWire, Social Poster, Social Marker , EkStreme, Post Toaster, etc) and then summarized the 114 sites they supported. And one of my criticisms was that they either had (a) no monetization or (b) weak but clear. And what fruit does that bear?<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[All Your Google Docs Are Belong To Me]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27310</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27310</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:00:38 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27310</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We all know how crappy the google doc's experience is if you try creating/editing something there.Do you know who owns a copy of your documentation?  Did you read the TOS?  I did.....<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[114 Social Media Sites Where You Can Use Automation]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27139</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27139</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:26:46 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27139</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I thought it might be useful to compare the sites that the minor productivity enhancers we've discussed and reviewed actually claim to support.I thought there was more overlap - this is a very interesting results table.  But you *can* get to all 114 sites by using all five of the minor productivity tools (Ekstreme, etc) we've reviewed.Plus, as a bonus, I made a downloadable google doc of the list!<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Choosing a Web Application Manipulation Tool]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26930</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26930</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:36:00 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26930</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The bad news is that if you choose the wrong tool you'll have a heck of a time unwinding the mistake. The good news is that these products are different enough and the choice is pretty clear.We said earlier that a web application manipulation tool is one that drives a web site based on a link back to your backend application containing workflow and data driven information. In a real world setting this tool must have the following characteristics:    * Supported application - from a commercially viable vendor or an active OSF-type community    * Mature product - must have developers documentation and have deployment successes    * Flexible - Must handle a wide variety of web-based applicationsThere were only four real world candidates that were close enough to analyze:    * Macro Express    * iMacro    * CoScriper    * AutoItI was going to lump Chickenfoot in with CoScripter but I will break it out as it has some particularly interesting academic shortcomings.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Building Your Own Social Networking Automation]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26647</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26647</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:58:57 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26647</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It's a hallowed tradition in technology when you need something: build it. And once built, use it to support your core business. Nowadays big companies call it &quot;Eating Your Own Dogfood.&quot; So we know that the Microsofties were tortured with Office/2007 (motto: you thought you knew where things were....) long before any of us.....The most basic assumption to start with is that you are developing an application to save you time, money, and to produce a competitive advantage. And that you are not going to write your own web browser with a built in voice recognition and replay capability. In Urdu.The pointy end of the problem solving spear is a tool that you can use to programatically manipulate a web page: click buttons, insert text from your database, collect results, etc. This is a web application manipulation tool.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ferrari Pricing - Tag and Ping Semi-Automated Social Networking]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26315</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26315</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:28:43 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26315</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The guys at Novsoft have a supercar price on their Tag Automater - it's $297 and $67/month for maintenance. Wow. Actually, no, I mean it: wow. I believe this is the most expensive tool I've found in the SEO world.OverviewTag Automater claims to support just 10 sites , which makes the price and the promise of &quot;an Avalanche of Traffic&quot; pretty dubious.However, the software does support some handy functions:    * Automated user/password creation    * Timed submission of entries    * Proxy support    * Demo &quot;Lite&quot; versionMissing, unfortunately, are:    * Error reporting    * Workflow    * Activity reporting    * Support for RSS feeds    * Documentation    * Evidence of active maintenance or support<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[iMacro Introduction and Installation]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26167</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26167</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:43:53 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26167</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Macro is an amazing piece of technology and it can help you automate any of your web browser-centric tasks. They have some great examples, a good documentation wiki, and an active support/user community.Big Savings in Time and MoneyWe have been big users of this technology for over a year now and have found that it can pay for itself more quickly than an other product we've used. In one recent project we replaced three months of work by 14 people in a data entry center in India ($16,800) with 2 days of programming ($4K) and an enterprise copy of iMacro ($699). We then let six computers chug away for 10 days.Do the math - time saved and money saved. The bi-fecta!What is your time worth?<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tag to Rank Automation Software - Not Reccomended]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25982</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25982</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:34:16 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25982</guid>
<description><![CDATA[To be honest, when I started reviewing Semi-Automated Social Networking Automation Software, I expected to find more software like Tag To Rank . Software with an ill defined purpose, with a confusing website full of grammatical errors, and with a distinctly dodgy smell about it.In general, I didn't find that at all - some fairly fantastic claims and some pretty hard sells, but I've seen worse from Microsoft and Oracle.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Architecting SEO Tools For Success]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25937</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25937</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:16:27 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25937</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I'd like to get a bit geeky on everyone - not the chicken biting geeky, but the other kind - and talk about architecting SEO tools for successful deployment. I'm going to skip by discussions of PC/Mac UI, Ajax/Ruby, vi/EMACS, etc, etc. I want to talk about basic system architecture.The question is, how do you build SEO services so that they operate even when server loads increase and target sites would rather you not bother them so much?<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Server Side Social Bookmark Automation - RSS Bookmarker]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25637</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25637</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:03:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25637</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Running in the middle of the price pack, at $297, RSS Bookmarker has several distinguishing features:    * Clear and present Privacy Policy and TOS    * Clear return policy (30 Day MBG)    * Promise of lifetime support    * Reporting[Note that this review has the first SEO Capability Grid discussed earlier!  Well, I'm excited anyway.]<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Semi-Automated Social Networking Tools Overview]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25636</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25636</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:02:14 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25636</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you are willing to spend up to several hundred dollars you can (theoretically) get a fully featured product to help you take your content and place it on a number of social networking and bookmarking sites.The tools that are under discussion are:    * Mass Automateion RSS Bookmarker    * Tag and Ping    * Web2Submitter    * Tag to Rank<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Tool Capability Grid]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25438</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25438</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:50:01 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25438</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I have looked at more than 50 SEO tools in the last two days, trying to get my arms around the capability cloud that is available. And I have been deadly confused.Not because I'm stupid (my children aren't teenagers, yet, so I am still smart at home) but because this stuff is all over the place and I can't place stuff in some simple categories.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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