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<title>Sphinn / TannerC / All</title>
<link>http://sphinn.com</link>
<description>Sphinn</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:57:09 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Introducing Matt Cutt's alternate identity, Garry Conn.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/31448</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/31448</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:57:09 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/31448</guid>
<description><![CDATA[You have to see it to believe it.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Page Rank will make you feel good, but higher conversions will make you rich.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27949</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27949</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:22:29 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27949</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It's such a &quot;duh&quot; thing, but a lot of webmasters and SEMs just don't get it.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Four fake, and one true, predictions about the future of the Internet.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26804</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26804</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:01:42 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26804</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What does the future of the Internet look like? Nobody can really say, but they can make predictions. And if you dig through enough predictions about the future of the Internet, you are bound to stumble across something that is right. Right?<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The problem with the internet is that it makes us think we are all experts.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26156</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26156</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:50:34 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26156</guid>
<description><![CDATA[While the fountain of knowledge that the internet has become is plentiful and extremely rewarding, it creates a big problem - especially with, but not limited to, today's youth. The problem with the internet is that it makes us think we are all experts, when we're not.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Three incredibly simple marketing tactics you can learn from the movie Cloverfield.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/23884</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/23884</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:38:04 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/23884</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Despite the fact that I'm a huge fan and you may not be - here are three incredibly simple marketing tactics you can learn from the movie Cloverfield.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["Having trouble finding purpose in your daily internet usage?"]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/23483</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/23483</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:39:59 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/23483</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The problem, as I see it, is that you don't have goals. You wake up in the morning, you log onto your favorite websites and let the ball roll. And, while there may be some purpose and goals made through-out the day, you are missing out on some great opportunities.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fact: search engines ultimately hinder creativity.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/23028</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/23028</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:44:47 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/23028</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If the search engines can't find readable content on your website, your site won't show up (or it will, but on an obscure page - like page 1043 of 1,000,000). And if your site doesn't show up in search engines you are missing out on valuable traffic.The problem here is that search engines limit the way a webpage can be designed.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["Be prepared with this loss of internet preparedness kit."]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/21772</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/21772</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:57:35 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/21772</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Almost everything these days is powered by computers and controlled through networks across the internet. From traffic lights to powerplants, entire businesses to satellites, and news networks and blogs. If you're reading this right now: chances are a big chunk of your life is dependent on internet access and networking.So what happens when the internet fails us and we cannot access any of our networks or news or tools or email?<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The best SEM campaign is the one that helps webmasters help themselves.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/21364</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/21364</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:42:30 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/21364</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The father of Taoism and revered philosopher, Lao Tzu, has said something you have most likely heard before today, he once stated: &quot;Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.&quot;...something that can be (and should be) taken into many different areas of life, including search engine marketing.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["Your free premium guide to internet buzz." Plus a FREE download!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/21032</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/21032</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:27:26 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/21032</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Staying on top of the latest internet news and buzz is like digging for gold. You have to sort through a lot of dirt, but once you find a tiny nugget of gold it can be extremely rewarding.But, just like digging for gold, finding and tracking internet buzz can be difficult and time consuming. Unless, of course, you have resources to help you out.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The biggest, best, and most important social networking moments of 2007.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/20938</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/20938</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:06:26 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/20938</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The year 2007 is officially nomore, but that doesn't mean we can't look back at some of the biggest, best, and most important social networking moments of 2007 and learn a thing or two.So, for your entertainment - and education - here are just a few moments from 2007 that will go down in social networking, and all things internet, history.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Three indisputable ways to create valuable content for your website or blog.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/19380</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/19380</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:25:37 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/19380</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How exactly do you generate valuable content for your website? Here are three indisputable ways to create valuable content for your website or blog.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[By groveling on social networks, you risk your image, your worth, and your future.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/19170</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/19170</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:54:41 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/19170</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Fellow writer, and assumingly great guy, Jonathan Crossfield recently got a taste of social networking groveling, something everyone who dabbles in social networking of any type has - or will have - experienced at least once.But was it worth it? Is a little online social attention worth groveling? Believe it or not: by groveling on social networks, you risk your image, your worth, and your future.<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["Not exactly perfect, but darn close. Sphinn has a brighter future."]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/18607</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/18607</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:32:42 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/18607</guid>
<description><![CDATA[About a month ago it was said that Sphinn, the social network focused around internet marketing,  was a complete wreck.In the original post Sphinn was deemed as &quot;pathetic, practically useless,&quot; and &quot;extremely worthless.&quot; Because of observations made about the community and the efforts of that community to become a popularity contest, the points made about Sphinn were true. Or so some thought.As it turns out, the original observations are now completely inaccurate.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[You don't need to be a professional to start optimizing your website for search engines.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/16167</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/16167</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:12:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/16167</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Search engine optimization isn't something every household person can do. It requires knowledge, experience, and weeks - sometimes months - of planning and executing strategies.That doesn't mean, however, that you can't start the optimization process without any knowledge of search engine optimization.<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Danny and the long tail.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/15986</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/15986</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:11:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/15986</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Great photo by Jeffrey Zelman, featuring our very own Danny Sulivan and the long tail.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The all time top 40 blog posts to help you become a better blogger.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/15166</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/15166</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:07:45 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/15166</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;There are over 170 million blogs on the internet, with about 120,000 blogs being created everyday. It doesn't matter what planet you're from: you can't count that using your hands.The truth is that I want you to be successful. I want your blog to rise up and be seen by the world. So, I've researched, collected, and listed the all time top 40 blog posts to help you become a better blogger.&quot;Also: Happy Thanksgiving to all of my fellow bloggers in the US!<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["How to turn your blog from a PR 0 to PR 4 in under 61 posts."]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/13131</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/13131</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:29:55 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/13131</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It typically takes a lot of time and even more hard work to increase a website's PageRank from 0 to a higher number, but Internet Hunger was able to go from a PageRank of 0 to a PageRank of 4 in just four months.How did I do it?I'm going to tell you how to turn your blog from a PR0 to PR4 in under 61 posts.<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["The all-time dumbest assumptions and observations about the internet."]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/12583</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/12583</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:24:05 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/12583</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Who knew the internet would be so successful in everyday life? A lot of critics and analysts had no idea the internet would even be around today, they thought it was going to drop off the map - it was just a fad, after all. But here we are, seven years later, and anyone with a computer is online.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Trick, or treat? Get a free website or blog design from Internet Hunger!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/11879</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/11879</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:37:29 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/11879</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What's better than free candy on Halloween, the scariest holiday of all? How about a free website or blog design?To say thanks to Internet Hunger readers, I am offering you a chance to win a completely free website or blog design for your website.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[12 of the most inspiring, helpful, and incredible blogs that you have never heard of, but probably should have.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/11675</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/11675</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:01:21 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/11675</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There are an estimated 15 to 30 million blogs owned in the United States alone. Of those millions of blogs, there are only a few hundred that could be considered great; A lot of the time there are great blogs that get overlooked.Blogs that provide helpful, useful, and inspirational content, but are lost amongst the crowd.<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["Google Action Figures Limited Edition Matt Cutts"]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/11208</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/11208</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:07:30 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/11208</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Featuring GoogleBana4 Action!<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["A few unbelievable things you should start doing today to help benefit our environment."]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9570</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9570</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:43:55 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9570</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Are you doing your part to help out the environment? As an internet user, blogger, or someone who likes to take cell phone calls, there are a lot of things you can do to help the environment.This post is a part of Blog Action Day.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["Internet marketers are the crack addicts of the internet."]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/8430</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/8430</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:30:09 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/8430</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Imagine a crack addict living in the ghetto. Willing to do almost anything to get his or her next drug fix. Nothing matters to this person except for their next fix. Internet marketers are the crack addicts of the internet, willing to almost anything to get results.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["The Ultimate Beginners Resource Guide to Search Engine Optimization."]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/8272</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/8272</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:25:54 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/8272</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I present to you The Ultimate Beginners Resource Guide to Search Engine Optimization. Or, UBRGSEO for short. Filled with valuable links to resources, tools, and blogs.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["... Your information is recorded, sorted, and stored in a database. Should you be worried?"]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6933</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6933</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:07:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6933</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In order to successfully operate as the top search engine, Google has to spend millions of dollars researching and evaluating you and I.You may not know it, but every time you search for something on Google your information is recorded, sorted, and stored in a database. Should you be worried?<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["Yes Virginia, reciprocal linking is more than ok. It's a necessity for all websites."]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6722</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6722</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:11:03 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6722</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Link trades, link swaps, reciprocal linking, link exchanges, or whatever else you want to call them, are NOT bad. Like everything mankind has created, they can be bad if used inappropriately.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["The top movers and shakers of search engine optimization."]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6266</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6266</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:07:32 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6266</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Meet the Thomas Edison's of SEO.In the rapidly growing field of search engine optimization, there are a select few who are making an tremendous impact on the world of search optimization and marketing. So I present to you today, the top movers and shakers of search engine optimization. In no specific order.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["Everything I needed to know about the internet I learned from my neighborhood growing up."]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6162</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6162</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:18:31 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6162</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The internet is, after all, just one big neighborhood.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["Internet marketing exactly how it should be done."]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5997</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5997</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:57:57 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5997</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What do you get when you put a bunch of the worlds best internet marketers together in a room and tell them to make a website?You get SEOmoz, one of the fastest growing, most prominent online resource for search engine enthusiasts.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Matt Cutts - The Enforcer]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5385</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5385</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:41:29 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5385</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you sell links, you better watch out for Matt Cutts: The Enforcer.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[10 Search Engines You Don't Know About.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5380</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5380</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:58:52 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5380</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We've got some big news for you. Brace yourself. There are search options beyond Google--and we're not talking about Yahoo! and MSN. Vertical search is on the rise, and whether you're looking for business products, services or information, or a new place to advertise, vertical search sites can benefit your company.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["I'm sorry to be the one to say it, but the internet cannot help save the world."]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4845</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4845</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:23:59 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4845</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In-fact, the internet is one of the worst (if not the worst) places to promote an altruism lifestyle. If anything, the internet has shown us how lazy we can be.I would love to hear some thoughts on this subject.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["Take a revolutionary - yet debatable - approach to content management, use Twitter."]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/3644</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/3644</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:16:28 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Usability</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/3644</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Managing content on a website is important. Making sure your website is updated regularly to keep your visitors coming back is vital to your website's success. You could spend money on a content management system for your website, or you could use this tactic.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["Google isn't just a search engine, it's a business. If you forget that, you're setting yourself up."]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2528</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2528</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:56:20 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2528</guid>
<description><![CDATA[64% of all searches done on the internet are through Google. That's more than half of all searches online, making Google a colossal search engine. But Google isn't just a search engine, it's a business. A corporation that is not only viewed as one of the greatest search engines, but also as one of the most significant, well-run, outgoing businesses in the world.<br/><br/>21 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Improve your sitea4s rankings: build crappier interfaces!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2100</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2100</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:31:17 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Usability</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2100</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;Nielsen/NetRatings has just decided that page views aren't the key indicator of a sites popularity anymore and that, instead, time spent on the site is what now matters.I guess this makes sense coming from the mindset of TV ratings, and it certainly has some merits, but also some huge drawbacks.&quot;<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["Rand Fishkin speaks out about himself, the future of search engine optimization, Seattle, and ice cream."]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2098</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2098</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:47:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2098</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Search engine optimization king and devourer of good ice cream, Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz, was kind enough to take five minutes out of his hectic work life last week to answer some questions with Internet Hunger. Here, Rand Fishkin speaks out about himself, the future of search engine optimization, Seattle, and ice cream.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nobody seems to realize that the Unavailable_After tag is the new sliced bread.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2036</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2036</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:16:28 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2036</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google announced last Friday that they have created a new meta tag for webmasters to use with the Google bots. To anybody who thinks they have an idea of what the &quot;unavailable_after&quot; tag is, or isn't, I say: phooey.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Training a New SEO. Or, traits you need to have.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1869</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1869</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:05:49 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1869</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Great article by SearchEngineWatch about training new search engine optimizers. Most of us need to be reminded of a lot of the traits that make up a good SEO - and this article does just that.<br/><br/>32 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["Websites like SEOmoz and LifeHack don't focus on giving their visitors a good experience - you shouldn't either."]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1762</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1762</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:45:50 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1762</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Do you want your visitors to go away from your website thinking, &quot;That was a really good experience.&quot;? If your visitors have a good experience at your website, they're more likely to come back again and again.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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