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<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 10:08:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter Beats Second Brain For  Brainstorming]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49580</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49580</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 10:08:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49580</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Twitter can give instant feedback from your followers.  Use it for brainstorming, like a human network version of your subconscious.<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[10 Ways to Improve Blog Traffic in 30 Minutes or Less]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/40218</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/40218</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:50:58 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/40218</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Every suggestion in this is well worth considering.  A must-read post on getting more traffic that should give you at least one new thought.<br/><br/>76 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Top SEO Expert Aaron Wall Speaks Out About SEO's Bleeding Edge]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/40244</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/40244</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:56:12 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/40244</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A great interview with Aaron Wall.  Sometimes I find interviews are of lesser value than you'd expect from the interviewee.  In this case, you won't be disappointed.<br/><br/>77 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Remove NoFollow From Comment Links With DoFollow In WordPress Blogs]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38975</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38975</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:39:03 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38975</guid>
<description><![CDATA[WordPress by default applies a NoFollow tag on all blog post comments.  A recent Cre8asite Forums discussion suggested using the Lucia's Linky Love plugin.  Using both DoFollow and Akismet plugins, it takes more work but valuable comments can get linkjuice.Are you a DoFollow-er or a NoFollow-er?<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Aware Wordpress Publishing]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38720</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38720</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:21:28 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38720</guid>
<description><![CDATA[John Andrews is always someone who is worth reading.  Here he encourages those who care about writing in a search engine visible way to share their tips to create memorable posts.  It's a good initiative to get involved with.  Let's all see what we can do.<br/><br/>36 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Human Hardware: Dunbar's Number]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38793</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38793</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:40:53 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38793</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A most thought-provoking and well presented article.  This is your must-read piece of the week.  Remember the answer is 150, give or take a bit.<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook hires away Google's top chef]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38804</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38804</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:40:34 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38804</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The competition is getting ugly.<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google LinksTen Commandments]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38713</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38713</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:07:31 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38713</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Recently LinkMoses seemed to have a problem listing Best Practices for Link Building that others found satisfying.  His new Q&amp;A blog may cure that.  However Best Practices may be too much of a challenge.  A less demanding task is to define what we should not do when working on links or backlinks.  These 10 Commandments for Google Links lists practices to avoid.  Perhaps with your input we can polish these so that they can be inscribed in tablets of stone that Moses would be proud to carry.<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Blog Post Snippets Are Now Dated For Keyword Searches In The Searcher's Language]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38169</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38169</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:35:51 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38169</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google blog post snippets may start with the date in the searcher's language, however many characters that might require. 138 characters of the Description are then often added to complete the snippet.<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Desphunn Comments should be Comments]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38088</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38088</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:08:49 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38088</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I think there's nothing to lose and everything to gain by making Desphunn Comments just another way of making a regular Comment.  If they're in the normal flow and appear in Latest Comments, then they will encourage discussion, which presumably is the reason for their existence.<br/><br/>54 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Snippet Rules Re Blogs Change]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/37623</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/37623</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:49:47 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/37623</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google snippets appear below each item in keyword search engine report pages (SERP). Good snippets increase clickthroughs to the Web page. It now appears that for blogs the Description should be less than 138 characters to be used as the snippet.<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[WordPress Guide: How to Force Your Blog To Load Fast]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/37142</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/37142</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:14:50 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/37142</guid>
<description><![CDATA[An excellent resource with some great reminders on how to get your blog to display fast.<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Those Descriptions For More Google Traffic]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/36707</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/36707</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:21:58 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/36707</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google adds short snippets to entries in a keyword query search engine report to help searchers find what they want.  If you apply SEO to the Web page Description, then you can increase the chances that the Description becomes the snippet that Google uses for your Web page entry.  This can bring more visitor traffic.<br/><br/>56 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Blogs Were Hot News In February]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/31866</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/31866</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:01:56 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/31866</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So why were blogs in the headlines in February? There were three principal reasons:1.  Hackers2.  Google3.  Big business has noticed blogs beat traditional media<br/><br/>34 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Wordpress Blogs Are Hacked]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/29680</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/29680</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:19:37 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/29680</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hacking WordPress Blogs is lucrative to a hacker as they create hundreds of online pharmaceutical blog posts that rank well and fast in Google searches.<br/><br/>49 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Shows the Indexing Date for Each Search Result]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27769</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27769</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:23:17 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27769</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This is great functionality.  Most useful when you'd like to know how long something has been around.<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why I unsubscribed to your blog]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27555</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27555</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:42:29 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27555</guid>
<description><![CDATA[From the post - As a professional, it is such a turn off to think how can this guy have this large of a following when he doesn't respect his readers intelligence (or himself) enough to use a spell checker or a grammar checker.  At the very least, they turn away part of their audience.  How's that for expertise?<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[I Twitter Therefore I Am]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25551</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25551</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:11:54 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25551</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Twitter is seeing an enormous explosion.  With everyone twittering frequently will the tweat-world eventually drown under the ocean of tweats.  It seemed to happen at MacWorld last week.<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sphinn Needs A Ho-Hum Button]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/21721</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/21721</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:31:03 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/21721</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you don't think a topic deserves the Sphinns it's getting, I'm not aware of any easy way of expressing that. It's not that you want to vote the item down, but just indicate that it doesn't deserve all those perhaps knee-jerk Sphinns that some surprisingly popular topics seem to get. Is such a button doable?  Is there some other way you can indicate that you're not following the crowd?<br/><br/>49 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Watch Out! - A Worrying 'hallmark' Card Recieved]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/19948</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/19948</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:22:36 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/19948</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There may be a new and worrying malware incident via a Hallmark Card message with a spelling mistake.  Be warned!<br/><br/>30 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[URLs - Human-Friendly Or Robot-Friendly?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/18287</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/18287</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:52:15 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/18287</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Seth Godin is recommending human-friendly URLs today. That's the non-WWW version of the URL.  However if you want Google traffic, you may prefer to go with the WWW version.<br/><br/>43 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cre8ing Goes Green]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/14903</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/14903</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:39:32 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/14903</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Kim Berg spills a few more of the beans.<br/><br/>31 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Small Peephole On Google Supplemental Results]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4243</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4243</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:27:07 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4243</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Although the site:www.domain.com/&amp; search no longer seems to measure the number of web pages in the Google supplemental index, the site:www.domain.com/* search may still give useful information.<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Happy 5th Birthday, Cre8asite Forums]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/3536</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/3536</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:51:53 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/3536</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The ever vigilant Barry Schwartz spots that it's Cre8asite Forums 5th Birthday.  Many happy returns. :)<br/><br/>25 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Where Are The Moderators?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/3501</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/3501</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:27:09 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/3501</guid>
<description><![CDATA[My question is not because I'm frustrated by spam or whatever.  No, I was just wondering who exactly are the moderators.  I can't seem to find a list anywhere and it would be nice to even read short bios.  I can guess who several of them are, but it would be good to see them all.  Please .. :)<br/><br/>23 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[10 Reasons Why RSS Beats Email]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2779</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2779</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:00:23 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2779</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When I read this, I just had to Sphinn it.  The cause is so important.  I don't like 10 Reasons lists but these are very powerful.  If it had to be condensed to one, it's that Email newsletters and messages now come buried in a mound of spam.  The RSS News Feed tells you that some website you rate highly has just (within the last hour) added something new.  What more could you want?  This is a theme that's certainly worth Sphinning.  Let's do it.<br/><br/>38 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sphinn Doctor]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1742</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1742</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:02:01 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Usability</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1742</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sphinn is great for marketing associated with search engines, but it would be good to see more prominence given to other equally important factors such as Usability that determine a website's effectiveness.<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sphinn Buttons Don't Always Work]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1083</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1083</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:23:15 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1083</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I've now tried three times for each of two topics to Sphinn them without success. The Sphinn Button seems to show some action has been taken, yet nothing happens.  There is no trace anywhere else of my action.  I'm using Firefox Windows XP and a very normal set-up.  Am I the only one having this problem?<br/><br/>29 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pronouncing Sphinn: Is It Spin or Sfin?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/449</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/449</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:51:21 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/449</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I see from the About Sphinn that we are supposed to pronounce  it sp-hinn. I suggest it should be pronounced sfinn.<br/><br/>28 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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