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<title>Sphinn / UtahSEOpro / Voted News</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:44:30 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[7 Talents of an Excellent SEO/M Employee]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/65517</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/65517</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:44:30 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/65517</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I'm [Brian Carter] a big fan of the &quot;Now Discover Your Strengths&quot; series of books, including &quot;StrengthsFinder 2.0&quot;, and &quot;First Break All the Rules&quot;.If you're not familiar with these books, the big idea is:    It makes more sense to do what you're really good at, what you've always been a natural at, than it does to try to perfect your weaknesses. This goes contrary to common business organizational practices.  And that may be one reason why so many businesses are mediocre.<br/><br/>52 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[When SEO & Usability Go Head To Head]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/65499</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/65499</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:56:35 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/65499</guid>
<description><![CDATA[At times what's best for the user doesn't always seem to be what's best for the search engine and vice versa so compromises have to be made. I've gone over here some of the most common flash points between usability and SEO best practice I see.<br/><br/>59 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Rid Subpages & Avoid Penalty]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/65237</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/65237</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:26:48 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/65237</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SEOs come across this problem very often: what is the best way to get rid of lots of website pages without loosing rankings or getting into any sort of penalties? The problem may be associated with:    * moving the site to a new domain;    * changing a CMS;    * optimization process (for the sake of better crawl rate and usability); etc.<br/><br/>52 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social Media Free For All Pages]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/65015</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/65015</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:53:32 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/65015</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It is fun to watch Tamar Weinberg and John Andrews write about social media. Largely because they are both firm in their beliefs, and they believe polar opposites. Tamar's piece covering the definition of social media marketers is uplifting and paints social media as friendships to be won rather than games to be played and people to be fooled. But bots and ad networks are amoral, and they control the production of much of the free content.John's view of social media is a bit more cynical - highlighting quotes like this one:    In an age when most major media outlets are providing outrage-of-the-hour content, one should not be surprised that the community built around that is also comprised of illogical, emotionally charged drivel flavored with a smattering of generally useless regurgitated trivia posing as genuine information.<br/><br/>49 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Salaries, SEO Jobs & In-House Survey - More Data!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/63527</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/63527</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:04:40 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/63527</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In October of 2006, when I [Mike Valentine] was first interviewing for in-house SEO positions, I wrote a series of articles on SEO job searches (listed below) and incorporated my own research on Salary ranges for SEO.<br/><br/>50 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Delicious.com Finally Relaunches!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/62841</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/62841</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:39:35 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Bookmarking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/62841</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Enhanced Speed, Search &amp; Design with No Dots<br/><br/>55 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEOmoz's The Best Of Q&A]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/62835</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/62835</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:00:34 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/62835</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Questions range from very simple and easy to answer to incredibly complex. Questions that I can't answer usually end up being assigned to Rand or to one of our developers. I give legal questions to Sarah, and the Distilled guys take on a fair number now too. In the eighteen months we've operated the service, I've at least read just about everything.<br/><br/>55 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[5 Powerful Local SEM Tactics]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/62501</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/62501</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:47:36 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/62501</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A SMX Local Mobile Presentation:And I'm [Brian Carter] presenting it here to you in a variety of ways, since I know some of you like video, some like slideshows, some just like blog posts... for the blog post only, keep scrolling down.  Best way to get it all?  Watch the video in a separate window while skimming the blog post notes below.Disclaimer: the presentation starts with a rather controversial tip, which I'm going to be blogging about in more detail later this week, and that is my advice that agencies use only AdWords, not all three major PPC engines.  Turns out I need to justify that a bit better for some people... ;-)<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO & Press Releases]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/62320</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/62320</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:33:16 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/62320</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Many companies still don't take advantage of SEO. There are many, however, that issue press releases on a regular basis. What they don't understand is that press releases can be part of your SEO efforts, and can be used to gain presence in the editorial results of the search engines, even if it's not a direct presence for your actual domain.Press releases, in the traditional sense, were meant to reach out to journalists with the hope that a publication would pick it up, call someone within your company for comment, and gain a presence within the traditional media community (television, radio and/or print) to enhance your image and further your business.<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comprehensive Look at Digg's Recommendation Engine]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/62239</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/62239</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:02:38 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/62239</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It's hard to believe but Digg's latest feature, the recommendation engine is one that has been in the works for over two years. Before they developed images functionality, launched visualization tools, released Google, Netvibes, and Myspace widgets, developed Facebook functionality, rolled out dataportability enhancements, released updates to the comment system, updates to digg the candidates, and added several other features or enhancements to the social news site, the team at Digg already had the idea for a recommendation engine. They were looking at the site as a platform that monitors how you interact with it, and improves your experience based on what it learns about you. In fact, they took so long that some people even took matters into their own hands.<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Interview with SEO: Dave Harry aka TheGypsy]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/62007</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/62007</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:10:30 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/62007</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Garrett Pierson had the wonderful opportunity to talk a bit with the crazy and funny Dave Harry aka TheGypsy. If you don't know who Dave is then shame on you because you are totally missing out on his very valuable and hilarious content at his famous SEO Blog Huomah.com. So listen to my interview podcast with Dave and get into the mind of this master of words! (P.S. He didn't even swear once, NEW RECORD!)<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ultimate Guide To SEM Pt. II]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/61568</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/61568</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:53:01 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/61568</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. Today: News from the search engines, today's in-depth look, The Ultimate Guide to Search Marketing Optimization Part 2 - Reference Guide, SpyFu competitive research tool, and this week's free tips and tools.<br/><br/>49 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Big Brand Understands SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/61313</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/61313</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:39:58 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/61313</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Once in a while major brands get SEO right when dealing with Flash, Ajax and JavaScript. Reasons why major brands don't think they need to care about their SEO is probably due to market share and mind share of their brand. Take American Express for example, they don't really care if their URLs are the ugliest thing on the planet - as long as they keep on signing up business owners and members.<br/><br/>31 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[B2B Content SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/60664</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/60664</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:38:39 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/60664</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In the first part of this series about B2B SEO, we spoke about an online strategy for B2B websites. We named some differences between B2B and B2C websites. We also determined the kind of content a B2B website needs. This article dives deeper into the content part of a B2B website. This topic also shows us a few differences between SEO for B2B and B2C. To show you, let's start by showing you how we normally do a keyword review for the B2C market:   1. We brainstorm about important keywords   2. We use log files and analytics to find more of them   3. We deepen the list by finding some synonyms   4. We sort all the keywords on decreasing traffic by using tools like the Google Traffic Estimator<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Usability and SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/60663</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/60663</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:38:00 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Usability</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/60663</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When talking about usability, most people will refer to &quot;simple things&quot; like making sure your phone number is in the top right corner of your Web pages so the visitor can easily convert for you.Stuff like that is important (the point of driving people to a Web site is to grow your business). However, that's only one reason to focus on usability.<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Link Building The Kiss of Death]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/60655</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/60655</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:49:35 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/60655</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you are an experienced link builder, you might be tempted to read something other than today's column, which on first glance may appear a bit to rudimentary for your skills. If you do stick around, and I hope you do, I'll share with you what I consider to be one of the tragic mistakes that even sophisticated link builders often make when contacting a site to request a review/link: Using the wrong contact method.<br/><br/>68 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tracking Backlinks w/Analytics Tools]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/60353</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/60353</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:46:13 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/60353</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ann Smarty writes: &quot;After my recent huge post on SEO tools was published, I promised to add the section for free online internal analytics services; but before that I decided to discuss different aspects of the topic starting with effective tracking of your backlinks and referrals. The 4 tools I'll be reviewing here include:&quot;<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Matt Cutts on Spam [video]]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/59961</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/59961</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:51:30 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/59961</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Google Webmaster Central Blog posted a video interview created by Juliane Stiller of Search Quality Team. Juliane interviewed Matt Cutts about search spam for the German Google Blog. My favorite question and answer set was when was the first time Matt found his first web spam.<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ultimate Guide to Search Marketing]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/59948</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/59948</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:52:12 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/59948</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. Today: News from the search engines and today's in-depth look, The Ultimate Guide to Search Marketing Optimization Part 1 and To Broad Match or To Not Broad Match: That is the Question.<br/><br/>43 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social Media 101: How to Get Business Involved]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/59792</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/59792</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:07:07 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/59792</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Many companies are intrigued by the concept of social media, but have no idea how to actually integrate it into business practices. In an earlier post, we explored one approach to putting a simple social media plan in place.<br/><br/>49 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO is About Communication]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/59789</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/59789</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:41:54 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/59789</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We've all heard various experts toot the horn of various elements of SEO: &quot;Content is king!&quot; or &quot;It's all about the links.&quot; Others tout their proprietary software tools or throw out terms like latent semantic indexing. The truth is, all of these things play a part in SEO (along with a bunch of other things), but if you focus on any one of these, you're missing the bigger picture.<br/><br/>50 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[10 Most Basic SEO Copywriting Rules]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/59511</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/59511</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:31:15 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/59511</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sadly even in 2008 most SEOs fail at writing, even SEO copywriting. Reading most SEO sites is still awful although the dark ages of too obvious keyword stuffing seem to be gone. So as even I, as a SEO, barely can stand it, imagine your average John Doe search engine optimization help seekera4<br/><br/>54 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social Media Is Always Changing - Are You?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/59502</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/59502</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:22:27 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/59502</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Social media marketing is one of the fastest changing forms of marketing online. Every time a new site, service, or community is launched, there comes both new opportunity for marketing and the possibility that the site you just spent months participating in will become obsolete.<br/><br/>62 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO For Semantic Search Engines]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/58899</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/58899</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:52:32 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/58899</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A new generation of search engines are starting to become publicly available and so it's time to start thinking about how they will affect SEO efforts.<br/><br/>49 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Robots.txt : 4 Things SEOs Should Know]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/58883</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/58883</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:42:26 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/58883</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Robots.txt has become a widely used method of controlling your site crawling. Thus it has become one of the first things I check when diagnosing on-site issues. While nowadays almost every webmaster knows its basics, some things still cause misunderstandings<br/><br/>58 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEOa4s Still Dominating Digg]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/58516</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/58516</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:00:31 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/58516</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There was a recent study on popfail which showed the last 500 stories to hit the front page of Digg. An impressive 1/3 of the 500 were controlled by 10 users. Of those 10 users many are recognized in the SEO industry.<br/><br/>57 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New SEO Tool: Acrobat Pro 9?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/58308</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/58308</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:18:16 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/58308</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Adobe recently announced their final release of the Acrobat Pro 9 software line, touting new video capabilities that are meant to provide a wider range of interactive publishing capabilities, along with improved engagement methods for end users. What's unmentioned in Adobe's press releases on the Acrobat 9 series is that there are some special benefits for search engine marketers. Acrobat 9 may be the first all-inclusive software program that can implement, distribute and event optimize video for search results, into a user-friendly and inclusive software platform. That's a big plus for most search optimizers who are looking to take advantage of the video space, but lack video post-production technical skills.<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Getting Links From Known, Quality Linkers]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/58307</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/58307</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:17:28 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/58307</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Eric Enge writes &quot;I always like to see what types of link building things that people talk about and/or present. Based on some basic tips provided by Roger Montti in the &quot;Blow Your Mind Link Building Techniques&quot; session at SMX Advanced, this post will expand upon those to describe a specific link building plan that nearly any site can use.&quot;<br/><br/>54 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The SEO Adrenaline Junkie, Interview with Todd Malicoat]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/58289</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/58289</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:36:59 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/58289</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When the opportunity arose to discuss one advanced subject with the SEO expert, who is respectfully tight-lipped on specific techniques, the next best subject was how he manages to stay relevant in a sea of noise. The self-proclaimed shameless marketing whore and adrenaline junkie has been noticeably absent from sites like Sphinn and much of the back and forth chatter on Twitter (until recently, follow Todd!).<br/><br/>43 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Video SEO for SMBa4s]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/58287</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/58287</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:25:40 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/58287</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Why all the fuss about the importance of online video SEO for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), as a way to ultimately help to drive action and sales? I get versions of this question on a super regular basis, but instead of trotting out some top-level trends, today I thought I'd cite a specific study that proves to be very illustrative to this discussion:<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[14 Steps to Super SEO Status]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57494</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57494</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:42:01 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57494</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Gyutae Park writes &quot;I want to give a little background information on my various SEO experiences and then outline what I think is an ideal career path for aspiring newbies to become SEO rockstars.&quot;<br/><br/>57 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Top 5 Reasons To Attend SMX Local & Mobile]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57437</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57437</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:30:19 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57437</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Pundits have been touting the promise of local and mobile search for years, but it seems like hype often outweighed substance-until now. This year, we're seeing the convergence of a number of key factors that resoundingly demonstrate that the local and mobile space is emerging as a serious opportunity for savvy search marketers.<br/><br/>33 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Secrets of SMX Advanced: Give It Up]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/56838</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/56838</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:03:01 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/56838</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lisa Barone writes:[Looks around, makes sure it's safe to reveal secret squirrel SEO information.]Okay, kids, it's July 3rd. That means it has officially been a month since the Give It Up session that occurred at SMX Advanced 2008. The embargo has lifted and now I can speak about it. If only I remembered what happened... Kidding. Sort of.<br/><br/>56 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO: Pagination & Dupe Content Issues]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/56670</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/56670</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:12:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/56670</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Very often with large dynamic sites webmasters just can't do without pagination. Apart from usability here they come across another serious issue: duplicate content.The thing is that all pages normally have identical titles and meta description and while some SEOs think it's not an issue at all (as search engines &quot;don't see identical titles as duplicate content&quot;), I do believe that this may at least result in inadequate site crawling rate and depth.<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Adobe Makes Flash SEO Friendly]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/56389</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/56389</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:27:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/56389</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Adobe announced today that it is teaming up with major search engines - notably Google and Yahoo - to &quot;dramatically improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs).&quot; In a press statement, Adobe said that it is &quot;providing optimized Adobe Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search engines.&quot;Adobe claims that it will provide more relevant search results and rankings for RIA content. In a separate blog post, Google announced that it has launched a &quot;Flash indexing algorithm&quot;, which will result in better search results.<br/><br/>46 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social Media in Web Content Strategies]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/56367</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/56367</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:19:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/56367</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Whether you're an employee or a consultant, it sometimes falls to you to drag an organization into the 21st century-and that often means convincing a company to adopt social media. Someone might even be asking you about some new web tool their son or daughter is using.<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Usability of SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/56147</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/56147</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:42:48 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/56147</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It is the chicken before the egg of the online industry.Which comes first usability or SEO?Designers and developers often take one stance on the issue, and SEOs another. I am not sure there is a right or wrong answer. Despite how many in our industry present information the only way we can quantify any degree of success in what we do is by measuring how profitable a web property is (I know not all websites operate for revenue, but who cares about them?).<br/><br/>52 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Digg a4Story Deserves Freshnessa4 Algorithm]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/55212</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/55212</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:38:02 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/55212</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Digg has a similar system [to Google] for promoting breaking news stories to the homepage. Most of the time a story takes 24 hours and perhaps 200 Diggs to make it's way through the system to the homepage but whenever a really hot story breaks (such as a new iPhone from Apple) you can be sure the Engadget coverage will hit the homepage with around 35 Diggs in the first hour.<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social Media for Firefox 3.0 - New Tool]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/55014</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/55014</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:02:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/55014</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Back in 2007 the folks from 97th Floor released a promising Firefox add-on to help facilitate cross-submissions between social bookmarking sites. Unfortunately, development on this add-on stopped in October 2007 and it wasn't long before the add-on itself became non-functional.Marios Alexandrou has taken it upon himself to fix the code and it is now back to being fully functional. By fixing the code and re-releasing this add-on he's probably stepped on some toes, but it was a shame to see a cool add-on lose its support. I've also made the necessary updates so this add-on will work with Firefox 3.0.<br/><br/>63 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Should You Be Ranking For [SEO]?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54664</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54664</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:03:19 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54664</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;I used to hear this question from prospective clients around 3 years ago whilst heading up the SEO department at a London based marketing agency. The question was usually asked by SMEs, in the belief that either Google recommended the agencies in the top 10, or that a #1 ranking for [seo] meant that their website could also get a #1 ranking for a completely different search term with ease. This myth was happily spread by those already ranking for term, many of which were using very dubious link acquisition tactics to keep their sites on the first page at the time (and most have since dropped).&quot; - EvilGreenMonkey<br/><br/>54 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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