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<title>Sphinn / SEOdisco / What's New</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:34:35 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[10 Principles Of Effective Web Design]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26153</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26153</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:34:35 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Usability</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26153</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A nice post focusing on the main principles, heuristics and approaches for effective web design - approaches which, used properly, can lead to more sophisticated design decisions and simplify the process of perceiving presented information.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Southpark Google Organizational Information Flow Patent Application]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/19900</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/19900</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:45:48 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/19900</guid>
<description><![CDATA[You have to love a patent filing that uses South Park characters in examples. Even if it is a somewhat odd patent filing.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Economic Idiocy of Blocking Social Media Traffic]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/15638</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/15638</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:10:14 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/15638</guid>
<description><![CDATA[By now most of you have probably seen the site 'Why Digg is Blocked'. For those that haven't come across it, the site is on a mission to convince webmasters and content producers to reject social media traffic. Here's a look at the incredibly flawed logic the site uses to justify its purpose.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Address Commenters and Add Style Properly for a Better Blog Commenting Experience]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/14055</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/14055</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:32:01 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/14055</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Without question, getting comments from interested readers is one of the most enjoyable and rewarding aspects of blogging. Unfortunately, interacting with people through comments is an asynchronous task, and this oftentimes makes it difficult to follow the ongoing conversation...<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Clueless SEO - Meet Our Staff]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/11319</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/11319</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:47:43 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/11319</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We offer an excellent progressive pay scale with BIG, BIG, BIG, BONUSES! Many of our long term high quality staff members are making upwards of  $10,000.00 USD per year!<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Message to the Sphinn Community]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/11247</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/11247</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:53:55 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/11247</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;Sphinn is our community, and while the fact remains that we are a community of marketers and have a natural desire to leverage such social mediums to gain maximum exposure, doing so in a community filled with other marketers just doesn't seem necessary.&quot;<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dogpile Ranked #1 In Customer Satisfaction?? AGAIN???]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/10146</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/10146</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:44:15 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/10146</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;J.D. Powers and Associates reports that Dogpile ranks highest in customer satisfaction among search engines for the second year in a row.&quot; WHAT!?<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[13 Things to Do When Your Loved One is Away at Conferences]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9655</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9655</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:27:54 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9655</guid>
<description><![CDATA[By Mystery Guest: &quot;As many of you know, Rand travels quite a bit for his work, leaving me at home with Raul, the cabana boy. All is well for the first few hours, until I grow tired of Raul's deep tissue massages and the peeled grapes he insists on feeding me. After that, I tend to get a little bored and lonely. I'm assuming the other conference widows out there feel the same way, and as such, I've composed a list of ways to pass the time when your fiance is away and your rippled Ecuadorian paramour is dehydrated.&quot;<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Blog Action Day: BE the Change! 5 Easy Tips]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9638</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9638</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:37:03 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9638</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;Commit to being smegma-neutral by 2009. This means that for every 4 grams of smegma you produce you have to mail a check for $2.50 to my organization, SmegmaOffset.org. We are not a scam.&quot;<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Online Ad Spending Kicks All Other Mediaa4s Asses]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/7980</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/7980</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:50:37 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/7980</guid>
<description><![CDATA[According to The Nielsen Company, the overall advertising spending in the U.S. dropped by 0.5% for the first half of 2007 (compared to the first half of 2006). However, internet ad spend grew by 23.2%, which is the strongest performance by any media category!<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Brock Sampson Applies For Job At SEOmoz]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/7028</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/7028</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:21:50 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Jobs Wanted</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/7028</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Brock is a bodyguard character from the Adult Swim animated series, the Venture Bros...<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hardlinking = No More Typing And No More Search Engines?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6646</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6646</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:37:59 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6646</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lucas Ng brings &amp;quot;hardlinking&amp;quot; to our attention...&amp;quot;With QR Codes, the Japanese have created a 'hardlink' or 'physical hyperlink' -&amp;nbsp; a direct connection between the physical world and the Internet... With a QR reader installed, Japanese cellphone users simply wave their phone at a QR code and like magic, they are taken directly to the corresponding website.&amp;quot;<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Planning Giant Undersea Cable?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6492</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6492</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:56:28 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6492</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;Google is planning a multi-terabit undersea communications cable across the Pacific Ocean for launch in 2009...&quot;<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[WeBuildPages Backlink & Anchor Text SEO Tool Updated - Ninja Style]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6336</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6336</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:22:44 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6336</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;Our backlink anchor text tool was semi-broke for a while there, but today we got the new bugs worked out. I also figured that so long as we were doing work on that tool that I might as well add some updates to the tool.&quot;<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Taking A Stab At The Definition of Holistic SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6286</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6286</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:15:51 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6286</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The term &quot;holistic SEO&quot; is being used more and more, lately.  This is an attempt to define it with the help of the SEO community.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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