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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:55:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Dead Horse of ROI and Analysis Paralysis]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/89289</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/89289</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:55:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/89289</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Social Media ROI is dead?@AmberCadabra writes:&quot;We have literally bludgeoned the poor social media ROI horse to death recently. There's a lot of sage discussion that's happened around the topic, but it all seems to boil down to a few things, an ROI credo of sorts&quot;<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[No, Google Is Right: Bounces Are People Too]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/87613</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/87613</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:46:45 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Web Analytics</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/87613</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Our web analytics department head got huffy and wrote this rant... (you have to be a real analytics nerd to get that passionate about this stuff)&quot;A recent post by Brandt Dainow entitled &quot;The disturbing inaccuracy behind Google Analytics&quot; has created some healthy debate about website visitors who bounce...&quot;Some interesting discussion of how bounces are calculated in Google Analytics and Omniture.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PPC Holiday Tips: Ita4s all about Execution]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/87521</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/87521</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:34:16 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/87521</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Great, easy to read, bullet form column from George Michie- who was a great speaker at SMX Advanced.George writes:&quot;The Rimm-Kaufman Group manages paid search for a great many retailers across just about every vertical and the October pain was felt by all of them. We know that the stakes are incredibly high going into this holiday in particular, placing a premium on getting the details right. Here are some tips to help out.&quot;<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Seth Says: You Will Be Misunderstood]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/87341</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/87341</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:51:11 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/87341</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Seth Godin writes:&quot;I typically write posts that are three to six paragraphs long. I try to be clear and direct. And yet, just about everything I write is misunderstood by someone. (Not the same someone, alas).&quot;<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Don't Be Stupid (Social Networking Rule No. 1)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/86903</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/86903</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:11:43 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/86903</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lorenzo Perez writes: &quot;It's been said before, but recent incidents suggest it bears repeating: The profiles that online social network users maintain can -- and often do -- have ways of coming around and biting them in real life...&quot;<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Turn Off Google SearchWiki]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/86880</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/86880</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:43:06 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/86880</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Saad Kamal writes:&quot;Google doesn't offer anyway to turn off SearchWiki. So if you are logged in to your Google Account, SearchWiki will be enabled for you by default. Of course you can turn off SearchWiki by logging out from your account, but thats very inconvenient, right? So the biggest concern regarding SearchWiki is, How the heck do I turn this damn thing off? Google Operating System has came to the rescue with a solution to this problem.&quot;<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New seoMOZ Toolbar - A Review]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/86670</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/86670</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:39:48 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/86670</guid>
<description><![CDATA[By Manda Otto, from New Edge Media:&quot;I received my invitation to officially beta test the new SEOmoz toolbar late Wednesday afternoon. I was all over it a mere 5 minutes later.&quot;They got permission to post this review- the first one.  I verified that with Rand personally.I've used the toolbar myself, as part of the beta test, and I'm lovin it.  Eat a Big Mac.  Read the article.<br/><br/>50 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Funny Brand Hijacking on Twitter, Analyzed]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/85883</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/85883</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:48:43 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/85883</guid>
<description><![CDATA[An Bui writes:&quot;Last night, @briancarter asked an interesting question: 'Did you guys see the super top law firm whose twitter profile (@orrick) was hijacked? Funny, sad, a good argument for ORM.'  &quot;Hrm. Interesting. I had seen it earlier this year, but thought it had gotten yanked. Apparently I was wrong, as a quick jump over to @orrick's profile showed...&quot;<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Twitter RockedPubCon]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/85870</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/85870</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:08:41 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/85870</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jon Henshaw writes:&quot;I've been to several PubCon conferences in the past, but this year something different happened. &quot;It wasn't that there were more panels and the speakers were better than ever (which they were). &quot;Instead, it had more to do with the conversations going on in the background - something I call the Twitter effect.&quot;<br/><br/>36 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is it Time to Fire Your SEO Agency?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/83441</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/83441</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:29:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/83441</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Some guy from Yahoo - j/k, Ron Belanger - writes on the well-read online marketing iMedia website... a site whose demographics suggest it likely is read by the CMO's and CEO's you want to sell SEO to... a piece whose title should frighten any SEO agency in this economy.He makes some good points- however, the longer I've been in SEO and the more people I talk to in the industry, the less I think standards and guidelines make sense- especially when there are SEO's who have white-hat practices that WORK but that conflict with advice given on SEO blogs... it's dangerous to apply some standards too rigidly to the industry.Agree/disagree?<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Top 10 2008 Election Tweets]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/83233</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/83233</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:27:24 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/83233</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;It was a marathon evening for media buffs as Barack Obama beat rival John McCain to become the United States' first African-American president-elect. You couldn't miss it on Twitter, as the microblogging service exploded with election updates, commentary, and speculation.&quot;Miraculously, Twitter's servers lasted the night, and had quite a lot of terrific, 140-characters-long election commentary (in messages known as &quot;tweets&quot;) to serve up for hungry news hounds. Here are 10 of CNET News' favorites.&quot;<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Blogging Dead? No, Wired.com Is Full of ****]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/82866</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/82866</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:29:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/82866</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Grant Griffiths writes:&quot;Maybe the &quot;post&quot; on Wired's &quot;Blog&quot; made me cranky, but I really think they are full of crap...&quot;If bloggers today can't compete with the Huffington and The York Times, tell me this: Why is it that the Wall Street Journal and other major national newspapers link to and quote from blogs almost on a daily basis. Tell me why reporters are now using a RSS reader as one of the first sources of news they go to?&quot;<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["Toys R Us" Social Networking?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/82677</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/82677</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:22:20 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/82677</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Julie Dural of Fuel Interactive writes: &quot;Toys R Us has hopped on the Social Networking bandwagon with a cool new tool that could change online shopping.&quot;&quot;with tools like this, viral marketing may very well completely overtake traditional ways of advertising.&quot;Will it work?  What do you think?<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[10 Social Media Tools for PR Professionals and Journalists]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/82642</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/82642</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 10:26:49 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/82642</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The PR and journalism people are moving into social media more and more... and those of us in SEO, PPC, etc. need to take note and work with them.The very cute and connected Sarah Evans writes on Mashable: &quot;In the ever-evolving world of social media, public relations professionals (PR) and journalists have more opportunities than ever to build strong relationships.&quot;It serves each of us well to stay up on social media trends-learning faster, easier ways to share information.&quot;With that, here are 10 of the best social media tools for PR professionals and journalists...&quot;<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New: Google Alerts Offered Via RSS]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/82441</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/82441</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:07:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/82441</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Finally, you can get your Google Alerts via RSS!!!I used to want this for some reason and now I can't remember why, but I'm still excited anyway!I just hope I remember why I wanted it.Maybe to put them in my iGoogle as an ORM dashboard.  Oh yeah, I think that was it.  It's Friday.  Bye!<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[95 Killer Tips from Scary SEO's 19 Session Speakers]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/81951</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/81951</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:49:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/81951</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dana Lookadoo writes:&quot;Two Days of Search Training that will make you so good it will be Scary IT WORKED!!!! I spent two days in training, living and breathing search. I gained knowledge that will help elevate my clients' rankings, and I am no longer scared! Why?&quot;And then, all Halloween-like, she summarizes 95 &quot;Tricks &amp; Treats&quot; from 19 speaker sessions.  Wow. Lots of good stuff.<br/><br/>51 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[WTF- Is You A Social Media MFC?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/81842</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/81842</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:49:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/81842</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Chelsi Nakano says:&quot;A recent study by Rubicon Consulting reports that 80-90% of the content on any given social media site is produced by less than 10% of its users...&quot;...it is critical that companies understand who the Most Frequent Contributors (MFCs) are, as they are the companies' fellow actors in a theatrical online performance.&quot;But WHO ARE THEY, CMSWire, tell me!  WHO ARE THEY?  (The article tells you.)<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Scary SEO and Twootball.com]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/81673</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/81673</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:34:45 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/81673</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Italy represented at Scary... Davide writes about it here, and his founding of Twootball:&quot;I really liked the format of the event because the number of attendees was limited to 50 and that made it really intimate. There was a lot of time dedicated to networking and discussion. I will attend again next year for sure, and I'll also look forward SEM Spring break next year, organized again by Dave Snyder.&quot;&quot;Also this weekend after only three weeks since Twootball.com was launched, the project got the attention of a lot of people on Twitter, including Biz Stone (co-funder of Twitter). I have to be honest, I am really excited about all this buzz around Twootball.com&quot;<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dealing with Unhappy SEO Clients]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/81572</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/81572</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:22:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/81572</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Pamela Lund, who I accused of having emotional intelligence, gives three steps for avoiding and dealing successfully with unhappy clients.Awesome presentation she gave at ScarySEO!Its actually applies to any clients in any industry... not just SEO.<br/><br/>66 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Practicing Safe Social Networking: Are You?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/81562</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/81562</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:29:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/81562</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sarah Evans writes, &quot;Last week I hosted my first ever tweetup... A few hours before the tweetup I managed to persuade a new Twitter friend, Brent Payne, to come and hang out... He was going to take the train to the suburbs and I said I would pick him up.&quot;Before I went to  pick up Brent a wave of fear hit me-we knew absolutely NOTHING about one another. My mother's voice was in the back of my head, &quot;are you insane? meeting a man you've never met AND you're letting him in your car?&quot; Not being a social networker herself, the concept of meeting someone &quot;you met on the internet&quot; is ABSURD (I'm sure she'd use a much stronger word)!&quot;<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Spleling Iz Importent: 3 Scenarios]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/81517</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/81517</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:24:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/81517</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There's a very small, simple, yet very important skill needed in internet marketing.  What is it?SpellingWhether it's a keyword, ad copy, URLs, or what, the simple fumble of a few letters can cause major damage to your marketing efforts.<br/><br/>21 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Analytics Gets a Major Upgrade]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/80662</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/80662</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:21:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/80662</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Check it owwwwwwwwwwt!!!1. Custom Reports2. Audience Segmentation3. AdSense integration4. API5. Bubble Charts6. User Interface Tweaks:<br/><br/>75 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How The Election Changes Twitter, ORM, & The World!!!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/80654</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/80654</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:08:33 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/80654</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Black belt Zima-master MARTIN BOWLING takes on the controversial US Election: its effect on Twitter, online reputation management, and the world!&quot;There are several key factors that I would like to talk about...* Partisanship and online reputation management issues* Effects of Partisan/overtly political comments on the relationships that people have worked hard to form online * The transformation of Twitter from a simple conversation tool to a full blown MEMETRACKER.&quot;<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social Network Marketing FAIL Compared to Email?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/80454</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/80454</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:10:27 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/80454</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hot discussion going on in comments for this one:&quot;Is email marketing better than marketing through social networks? Yes, according to a new study from ExactTarget and Ball State University's Center for Media Design. The study reveals...&quot;&quot;The study outlined six personas and how they interact with different media, including where they prefer to receive marketing messages...&quot;<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter is Like Sex]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/79994</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/79994</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:37:46 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/79994</guid>
<description><![CDATA[@remarkablogger Michael Martine writes: &quot;Twitter is like sex. You can read all the stuff (or look at it) about sex all you want, but if you've never had it, you simply have no idea what it's like.&quot;&quot;You know that desperate person at the party who will sleep with just about anybody, but nobody ever wants to take them up on it? They're on Twitter, too. You will recognize them by their tweets...&quot;(Now don't you want to find out if you tweet like that desperate person?)<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[6 SEO Questions For Website Redesign That Can Save Your Search Engine Rankings]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/79961</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/79961</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:47:11 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/79961</guid>
<description><![CDATA[An evergreen topic, very well written post, this could go straight to your web design friends or coworkers.Glenn Gabe writes: &quot;I'm not one to strike fear into people about SEO, but in my experience, website redesigns (or even website updates) have a knack for hurting Natural Search rankings.&quot;&quot;Here are 6 questions you can ask during your website redesign that can save your search engine rankings.&quot;<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Optimizing Their Optimizer?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/79530</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/79530</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:43:25 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/79530</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Josh Williams of Fuel Interactive writes, &quot;While tinkering around in some of our PPC accounts the other day, our team came across an interesting find in AdWords.&quot;&quot;The industrious folks at Google, in their never ending quest to make everything better, are optimizing their optimizer.&quot;<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Does Martin Bowling Love Zima?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/75134</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/75134</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:08:00 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/75134</guid>
<description><![CDATA[@JoshuaSci scratches his head and says, in effect: &quot;What's all the hubbub about Martin Bowling and Zima?  I bet most people don't know.  Here's the whole story.&quot;He actually says:&quot;Now, every time I think about &quot;Martin Bowling loving Zima&quot;, I smile. If you asked me why, I honestly couldn't tell you. It's just funny. Trying to explain a joke, especially this one, is like trying to explain why you shouldn't eat sanda4 :p&quot;&quot;Either way, I'm writing this post because Zima is becoming big, bigger than an a4inside joke', it's evolving into a brand (which I'll get into later).&quot;<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Journalism Tools: Data Analytics and Social Media Tracking]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/70213</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/70213</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:52:18 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/70213</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Will Sullivan of Journerdism gives a different list of things we should be tracking to follow, track, and predict news stories.  &quot;Savvy reporters that brush up on their analytical, social media and data metrics skills may be able to see which way the wind is blowing before the leaves start to rustle or an official press release is proofed. (Not to get all scifi geek on you but kinda like Neo reading the lines of neon green floating code in The Matrix.)&quot;The nerdy approach to journalism.  Smart stuff- somebody like Andy Beale needs to program something ORM-like for this. ;-)<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Web 2.0's Most Ridiculous Sites]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/69004</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/69004</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:19:33 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/69004</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How do you identify a dumb Web 2.0 site? First, the site's mission statement must be impenetrable. (&quot;Spotback is a personalized rating system that recommends relevant content based on personal rating history using collaborative filtering and aggregated knowledge technologies.&quot; Huh?) Second, the site must solve a problem that has been solved a million times already or didn't need solving in the first place. Third, its name must love the letter &quot;r&quot; but eschew vowels (Drivl, Grazr, Hngry), or be a refugee from &quot;Jabberwocky&quot; (CurdBee, Egghub, Humyo, Jiffle).<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Writing Good Title Tags for Local Businesses]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/68032</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/68032</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:33:32 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/68032</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Chris Silver Smith writes on Search Engine Land, &quot;If you're looking for a quick improvement in your local business site's rankings and don't have a lot of time, you can't go wrong with making some simple improvements to your homepage title tag. &quot;There are two main formats that searchers use when they're trying to locate a local business...&quot;<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[24 Ways for SEO Detractors to Prove Their Point]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/66454</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/66454</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:39:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/66454</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Very good list of things NOT to do for SEO... but if you really think SEO is a waste of time, you SHOULD do these things, because they can't hurt, right?<br/><br/>22 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO: Working the System vs. Gaming the System]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/56250</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/56250</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:49:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/56250</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Recently mentioned by Doug Heil, interesting discussion for SEO's.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[13 FriendFeed Tools for Twitter Refugees]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/56234</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/56234</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:01:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/56234</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Some killer stuff on here.  I like Gridjit and finally tried NoiseRiver.  Good stuff.TechCrunch says &quot;There has been much talk of Twitter users moving over to FriendFeed since Twitter replies were down for the majority of last week. Twitter announced that they were back on Saturday in their blog, but seeing as the outage may have inspired some users to flock to FriendFeed, I decided to take a look at the 3rd-party applications and scripts that enhance the FriendFeed functionality.&quot;<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why FriendFeed Could Be the Next Google]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53813</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53813</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:12:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53813</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Steve Rubel writes: &quot;My latest fascination is FriendFeed, a site that in one place aggregates your friends' streams from across different social sites. Right now FriendFeed's audience is paltry. According to Compete, it has 300,000 active users. Still, I believe that FriendFeed has the potential to become as big as Google. Others who are vying for the same crown include SocialThing, Facebook and Google itself.  &quot;Why am I so bullish about such a small site? Simple. There are three mega trends at work here...&quot;<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SMX Local/Mobile Conference Looks Good]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52878</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52878</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:58:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Local &amp; Maps</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52878</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Matt McGee explains why SMX Local looks so good that he's definitely going to have to... miss it.  What??  ;-)  Ok, I'm dogging Matt, definitely- But check out what he's going to miss, and guys, don't be a Matt- don't miss it!(And don't tell Matt what he missed after the conference, ok?)<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[10 Survival Tips for the Modern Wageslave]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52597</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52597</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:37:10 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52597</guid>
<description><![CDATA[You may not see yourself as a wage slave... fine.  But these are good &quot;career defense&quot; tips you need to read sooner than later.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Top 10 Talents of the Rock Star Analytics Expert]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52595</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52595</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:29:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Web Analytics</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52595</guid>
<description><![CDATA[From Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik, a killer post about what makes a great analytics person.  You may not be an analytics analyst, but if you do search marketing, you should know about this stuff.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SMX Advanced 2008 Preview]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49805</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49805</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 12:29:21 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49805</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Some stuff Dana's looking forward to seeing next week.Looking fw to the whole thing myself.Anybody know if the sessions will be recorded?  Why do I have to choose between three cool sessions?  Why?<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Tame The Social Media Madness!  FriendFeed, iGoogle, and Google Reader]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49658</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49658</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 21:29:22 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49658</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This is useful, because it's about simplification.  I guess not everyone's an iGoogle fan, but David Harry and I are.  Here he gives a really simple view of how to integrate Google Reader and Friendfeed etc. to tame the madness-This is way more organized than my current iGoogle page, so I think I'm going to finally get on the Google Reader boat and put it all together on iGoogle...<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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