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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:00:45 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Looking Back At a4The Summer Of Locala4]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/77928</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/77928</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:00:45 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Local &amp; Maps</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/77928</guid>
<description><![CDATA[David Mihm's recap of the top stories in local search so far this year is well worth reading. Have trouble keeping up with the rapidly changing local search landscape? This article is a great guide. Mihm lists some of the top stories and major changes in local search marketing.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yellow Pages & Blog Payola]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/76627</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/76627</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:54:35 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/76627</guid>
<description><![CDATA[DexKnows.com gets outed for using Pay-Per-Post for link-building. Details, including one YP industry advocate's denial over the affair.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Town Creates Smiley Face in Google Maps]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/75245</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/75245</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:04:59 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/75245</guid>
<description><![CDATA[These Russian townspeople glommed together to form a giant, human happy face for when pics were shot for Google Maps -- only it didn't quite happen.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Avoiding the keywords meta tag may be best]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/72762</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/72762</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:16:29 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/72762</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A year ago, Danny Sullivan showed some clear research results showing that only Yahoo and Ask were using the keyword meta tag for retrieval purposes. Is that enough reason to be using it? This article suggests that the keyword meta may be used by Google for negative ranking purposes, in which case using it wrong might prove risky.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NebuAd Aborts Big Brother]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/70602</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/70602</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:52:36 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/70602</guid>
<description><![CDATA[NebuAd folds under pressure from consumer groups and government scrutiny, mothballing plans to deploy their behavioral ad targeting platform.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Marriage Proposals Found In Google Maps]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/63751</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/63751</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:47:26 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/63751</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The recent marriage proposal delivered by a Googler via Street View wasn't the first proposal seen in the Maps interfaces - here are a few other marriage offers seen in Google Maps, too.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yellow Pages Usage Stats Are Likely Wrong]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/62120</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/62120</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:26:17 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/62120</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Knowledge Networks anticipated my sort of criticism, and in their YP Directory Audience Measurement White Paper, they state that of the estimated 8% of households without landlines that are missed in their sampling, the 2% entirely without phones are not likely to be potential customers (I'm supposing), and the 6% that are cell phone only households are not statistically significant:<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Street View Attacked By Child Safety Advocates]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/60889</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/60889</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:37:13 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/60889</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Stop Child Predators organization has launched an attack on Google Street View as a tool which child abusers and kidnappers might use to effectively stalk and attack children.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Long Tail A Myth? Study Calls It Into Question]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/56585</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/56585</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:21:59 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/56585</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A new study from Harvard Business School calls into question The Long Tail theory. While this study was based on hard data from music and video sales, it may not be advisable to give up on Long Tail theory so quickly.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cool Sights In Google Street View]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49409</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49409</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 19:21:03 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Local &amp; Maps</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49409</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Here's some of the most interesting sights to be seen in Google Street View, from skywriting to aliens to crimes being committed to odd contrasts. You may've seen some of these collected elsewhere, but we've worked hard to assemble a unique set of the various sights to see all on one page.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[When location is everywhere]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/44639</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/44639</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 12:26:17 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Local &amp; Maps</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/44639</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How would a universal location layer for the social web change the design and implementation of existing applications? Will the ubiquity of location data, like the adoption of web standards before, catalyze entirely new breeds of applications and web services?<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[More Searches Including Local/Travel Turning Case-Sensitive in Google]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/40799</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/40799</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:53:52 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/40799</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Case-sensitive search results were first reported in the UK, but are now affecting US queries, including for local/travel keywords.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Blog SEO Tip: Hop On A Media Feeding Frenzy]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26727</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26727</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:06:11 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26727</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hopping on the rising tide of a media feeding frenzy can help you ride the wave to higher short-term and long-term traffic for your blog.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Googlea4s Ia4m Feeling Lucky Button Enabling Spam]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25950</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25950</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:05:21 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25950</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google's functionality is lucky for spammers -- the I'm Feeling Lucky button is apparently allowing spam to bypass email filters that would otherwise catch it.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Do CueCats Have 9 Lives?!? Google Resurrects a Bad Idea]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25733</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25733</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:34:58 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25733</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Silicon Alley Insider reports Google is trying out barcodes in newspaper ads. This reminds one of a terrible idea that was behind one of the biggest dot-bombs ever: CueCats. Deja vu! Do CueCats have 9 lives?<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Jason Calacanis Now Vulnerable To Google Penalty]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/24955</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/24955</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:54:07 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/24955</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Recent Hitwise graphs show that 76% of Mahalo's traffic is from search engine referrals - ironic since Calacanis sneered at the worth of SEO. Now his Mahalo search engine traffic is prone to Google Penalty since Google doesn't like to index &quot;search results pages&quot;...<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ReachLocal Becomes Authorized Google Adwords Reseller]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/22001</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/22001</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:34:55 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/22001</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This tiny local agency has been growing by leaps and bounds, opening local sales offices across the US and now becoming a Google Adwords reseller. Online yellow pages are put on notice...<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Are Your Customers Looking For A Problem?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/14933</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/14933</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:44:34 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/14933</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Great article by Mike Moran on approaching search marketing by trying to help solve the problems of potential customers. This &quot;user-centered marketing&quot; approach could be very beneficial since it will naturalistically help enable you to target long-tail terms rather than just focus on product names and types. Developing content to help consumers provides a win-win scenario on the internet.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google is Hiding Content Behind an Image on their SERPs]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/14713</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/14713</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:00:57 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/14713</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Search Engine Roundtable reports that a Webmaster Central team member stated that Google doesn't mind you hiding text behind an image, if it reflects the same text found within that image. Interestingly enough, it appears that Google's actually using this very method on their own search results...<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Maps forces Navy to redesign swastika building]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/7124</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/7124</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:35:43 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Local &amp; Maps</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/7124</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Satellite pics of a building viewed via Google Maps appears in the shape of a Swastika. The US Navy has apparently taken so much flack about this that they're paying to reshape the building's aerial profile. First time Google Maps has forced a building redesign?<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Am I an SEO Dog? More On Toasting of Internet Yellow Pages]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/7076</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/7076</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:50:54 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Local &amp; Maps</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/7076</guid>
<description><![CDATA[My article on Search Engine Land, &quot;Google Trends: Yellow Pages Will Be Toast in Four Years&quot; brought a bit of controversy, escalating to a virtual attack by former ZDNet journalist Donna Bogatin. In her post, &quot;Yellow Pages Trash Talking: The SEO Dog in the Google Local Fight&quot;, she claims I posted the article just to drive businesses to leave yellow pages in favor of using businesses like mine for natural search optimization. Ahem! Not! The accusations on my supposed motives are clearly not true, and while attacking my character, my company Netconcepts, and the people behind Search Engine Land, she completely neglects to criticize the basis of my premise which could validly be debated.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Eye Tracking on Universal and Personalized Search]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6375</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6375</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:48:44 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6375</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Really great analysis of user behavior changes introduced by universal search layout on Google -- eyetracking heat maps show how universal search layouts affected where users scan and stop to look on Google SERPs.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mobile-Friendly Websites & The Duplicate Content Trap]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5989</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5989</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:40:02 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Mobile Search</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5989</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Much like print-friendly versions of pages, mobile versions of pages can introduce duplication issues on sites, watering down their PageRank. This story describes a real-world case in point, and shows one solution to satisfy mobile distribution aims while supporting core site SEO.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Thorny Issue: Detecting Mobile Search Click-Fraud]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4476</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4476</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:34:54 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Paid Search</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4476</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Search engines and internet yellow pages are pushing to offer content on cellphones, and to sell ads through them. However, wireless devices are missing some of the classic signals used to detect click fraud, and this seems concerning...<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Few Pics of Google Dance]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/3915</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/3915</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:18:46 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/3915</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A few of the pix I took at the Google Dance during last week's Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Jose.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google's Marissa Mayer demos the iPhone at SES]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/3559</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/3559</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:49:49 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/3559</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products &amp; User Experience at Google demoed the iPhone during the keynote conversation between her and Danny Sullivan. This almost amounted to a product endorsement - could Google be planning a partnership with Apple?<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Browser & Google Phone Confirmed]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/3080</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/3080</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:51:34 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/3080</guid>
<description><![CDATA[My earlier supposition about Google work upon their own browser has been confirmed by a WSJ article, along with the report on Google's initiative to develop a Google Phone.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Geolocation: Core To The Local Space And Key To Click-Fraud Detection]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2801</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2801</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:15:09 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Local &amp; Maps</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2801</guid>
<description><![CDATA[People notice geolocation when they have locally-relevant ads and other content automatically delivered up to them, but, how does it work? This article describes how it works, who's doing it, how important it is to click-fraud detection, and some problems with accuracy of it.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Breed of People Search Engine Launches: Spock.com]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2385</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2385</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:23:26 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2385</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Spock.com went into public beta today, but not without a degree of controversy. Their method of compiling people's profiles from other website data is very similar to a method used by the CIA to build dossiers on all citizens from various databases. Aside from the privacy concerns, Spock has some pretty cool features and is likely to become rather successful.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Searcharazzi: Forget the GPhone, we want the new GCar]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2083</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2083</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:35:45 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2083</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Swedish dude is proud of his custom Google plates...<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yelp opens API for developers]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2048</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2048</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:44:25 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Local &amp; Maps</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2048</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yelp makes the cool move of opening up their API for outside developers to use - a move that most online yellow pages companies are hesitant or unable to do. One or two details about Yelp's API are unfortunate, as outlined in this article.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[It's Not Just Google That Treats Underscores Like Dashes]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2030</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2030</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:14:36 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2030</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Fantastic follow-up by Barry Schwartz - seeing that Google announce that they treat underscores just like dashes, Barry approached Yahoo and MS Live and discovered they've evolved to handle underscores just like other whitespace characters, too!<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google browser rumors resurrected]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1834</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1834</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:14:18 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1834</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google's recent hiring of ethical browser hacker Michal Zalewski could be an indicator that Google really is working on developing an independent browser of their own. Zalewski has developed a name for himself by publicising security holes in both IE and Firefox browsers.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pay-Per-Action Ads may open up Google & AdSense publishers to Fraud]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1522</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1522</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:44:59 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1522</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Pay-per-action could open up Google and AdSense publishers to fraud as unethical advertisers try to use a simple exploit to get free advertising.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[comScore Report Likely Misses Large Internet Segments - Particularly Domaining Traffic]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1405</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1405</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:12:44 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Domaining</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1405</guid>
<description><![CDATA[comScore's recent report of the top internet properties likely misses large portions of internet traffic, particularly the traffic of domainers who have large portfolios of domain names. Here's a list of a few reasons why comScore is likely underrepresenting some traffic.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is SEO Awareness Dropping? Google Trends Shows it May Be]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1255</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1255</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:11:32 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1255</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google Trends shows that searches for &quot;Search Engine Optimization&quot; has been dropping off over the last two years. Has &quot;SEO&quot; jumped the shark?<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hot property -- Web domain names - CNN.com]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1228</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1228</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:01:38 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Domaining</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1228</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Brief, current story from CNN on Domaining. This article doesn't have anything earth-shattering or new, but it is a nice slice of local color reporting some specific work and results by two domainers, Larry Fischer and Ari Goldberger.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Simpsons & Great Participatory-Viral Marketing]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1180</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1180</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:20:37 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1180</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I've written up this bit (pix included) about my trip to the Dallas Kwik-E-Mart, one of the 11 nationwide created to promote The Simpsons movie, and I comment some about the effectiveness of this for online marketing.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Using Images For Local SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1144</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1144</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:00:32 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1144</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In this article, I wrote a handful of tips on using images for Local SEO and Online Local Marketing. The various search verticals have become increasingly integrated into Google's web search, so we can expect that there will also be increasing cross-pollination between the verticals as well.Using Images could be particularly beneficial for optimizing for local search and Google Maps, because Image Search has been one of the most-popular of Google vertical searches for some time now, along with Map Search. Pairing optimizations of the two together can provide synergies that would otherwise not be achievable.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Will It Blend Destroys an iPhone]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/109</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/109</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:22:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/109</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It seems like just a few weeks ago when Stephan and I chatted with Neil Patel about what the next quick hit for Diggers would be, and I think he suggested shoving an iPhone into a blender. So, the guys at Will It Blend have done it, of course. Submitted to Digg about 19 hours ago, it already has 6853 diggs. http://digg.com/apple/Will_it_Blend_iPhone<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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