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<title>Sphinn / bwelford / Voted News</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 11:08:31 -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>Thu, 29 May 2008 11:08:31 -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[A Very Easy WordPress Tag Cloud Web Page]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47773</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47773</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 12:12:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47773</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As social media occupy more of our time, it is important to make our interventions as visible as possible.  Tags keep classification in our hands and complement what search engine computer indexing may do with our blog contents.  With WordPress Version 2.5, using the wp_tag_cloud template tag, a Web Page with the complete tag cloud for any blog is easily created.<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[WordPress Camp Vancouver  - a triple success]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/44714</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/44714</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 19:22:46 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/44714</guid>
<description><![CDATA[An excellent detailed account of a gathering in Vancouver, BC, Canada that drew three times as many participants as planned.  They were fully briefed on all the exciting things you can do with WordPress by some real experts.  Well worth a read.  You'll probably learn something you hadn't realized about the power of WordPress.<br/><br/>21 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to be a ruthless blogger - from a master]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/41825</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/41825</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:14:20 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/41825</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Problogger gives some great tips on how to be a more effective blogger - it's all about setting boundaries.<br/><br/>20 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>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:17:16 -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[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>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:43:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<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[Are Google SERP Ranking Formats Changing?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/39459</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/39459</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:47:27 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/39459</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google may be changing the format of its keyword query search engine report pages (SERPs). Separate items may appear where relevant rather than just a group of two from each domain.<br/><br/>13 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>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:45:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<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[Facebook hires away Google's top chef]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38804</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38804</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:46:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<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[Human Hardware: Dunbar's Number]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38793</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38793</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:05:38 -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[SEO Aware Wordpress Publishing]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38720</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38720</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:11:43 -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[Google LinksTen Commandments]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38713</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38713</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:58:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<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>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:30:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<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 07:10:26 -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>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:11:40 -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>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:22:58 -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[Google Snippets Or Twitter - which is more successful?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/36868</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/36868</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:51:34 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/36868</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Twitter limits its human writers to 140 characters and is a success. Google SERP snippets are 155 characters and are written by computers. The winner is?<br/><br/>23 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>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:52:04 -0700</pubDate>
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<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[I Totally Failed Rich Schefren But Kathy Sierra Returning]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/34220</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/34220</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:08:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/34220</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Great news from Andy Beard re Kathy Sierra.  She will be back to blogging soon.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/32830</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/32830</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:55:52 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/32830</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This is a superbly crafted blog post by Andy Beal, as guest author on Problogger.  Very well worth a read.<br/><br/>12 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>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:00:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<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>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:00:14 -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[Is De-Sphinn Inherently De-Structive?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/28618</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/28618</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:10:12 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/28618</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If I may be permitted, I would like for one final time to discuss a somewhat tangential idea.  It comes to mind after seeing the thread that Lyndon has started entitled, Saddle Up Boys and Girls, Sphinn Needs a Posse.  If you work your way down the comments you will see one by Bill Slawski that expresses his dislike of the De-Sphinn process.  I do not often disagree with Bill but on this occasion, I do.  He suggests that rather than having a De-Sphinn button, you should indicate your opposition to a topic by not Sphinning and commenting.  That was similar to Danny Sullivan's earlier advice to sit on your hands if you disagreed only slightly with a topic.  Let me explain why I disagree with that approach.First we should be clear on the nature of Sphinn.  This is not a Forum. This is one of those messy social media.  It's like a turbulent river.  Many people will only have time to see the New or Hot Topics that float along the surface of the river. Few will have the time to jump in and check out the comments that lurk below the surface.  Many will use the number of Sphinns to determine which topics they might explore a little in their frenzied day.  That is really the only quick measure you have to help you choose.In practice Sphinn is a series of bandwagons.  Some gain momentum for whatever reason and many jump on.  Others are lost in the crowd and soon disappear.  Given that there are SEO implications attached to Hot Topics, this bandwagon effect caused some to be concerned.  This eventually has culminated in the appearance of the De-Sphinn Button.  The mechanism is set up to help deflate the scores for bandwagons that do not deserve their visibility.My take on all this is that the process is intended to be an adversarial system.  The presumption is that most spins are well intentioned and we only need a posse because there are a few bad apples that should be stopped in their tracks. (Apologies for the mixed metaphors.)  De-Sphinns are now much more weighty than Sphinns.  Reasons must be given.  It is not easy however to determine how many De-Sphinns any given topic has received. If there are a great number, then they could even bury a Hot Topic.  However only the algorithm will know the number of negative votesIt did not need to be this way.  I personally was pushing for a Ho-Hum Button.  I am not hung up about the actual name.  It could even be called the De-Sphinn Button.  The differences with the present mechanism would be as follows.1. There would be clear visibility of both numbers for any topic: in other words the number of Sphinns and the number of De-Sphinns.2. The two numbers would never be differenced.  The number of Sphinns alone would determine whether topics go Hot.3. A single set of comments would include all those from the De-Sphinners as well.This avoids the adversarial approach.  It's no longer a question of choosing sides.  Honest differences of opinion can be expressedI should make it clear that I'm not expecting these changes to be accepted, since there was long debate before the present system was set up.  However given the Lyndon topic and discussion, I wanted to give it one last whirl.Using the De-Sphinn process as a friendly way of showing differences of opinions is much to be preferred, IMHO.  Does anyone else agree?<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Blogs Take Center Stage For Marketers And For Google]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/28110</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/28110</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:34:29 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/28110</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The message is clear. Blog posts are just regular web pages like those to be found in any website. Indeed given Google's fixation on inlinks (or back links as they somewhat confusingly describe them), it is not surprising that blog posts tend to be more quickly visible than regular web pages.<br/><br/>11 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>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:30:56 -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 11:12:50 -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[Guarding Your Wordpress Blog]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27489</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27489</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:24:33 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27489</guid>
<description><![CDATA[WordPress blogs may be hacked in a way that is not immediately visible. Unfortunately it is becoming a more and more frequent occurrence. This threat means that you should be always vigilant, particularly at weekends and holidays. The hacker can achieve his objectives within only a few days.  You should also take the appropriate security measures to make it harder for your blog to be hacked.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IAC Troubles, Ask.com And A Post-Yahoo Internet]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26758</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26758</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:56:04 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Ask.com</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26758</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It's very choppy water in the search engine sea what with Mahoo and Go(og)liath.  Ask has always had a problem focusing and it sounds as though it's going to get even worse.<br/><br/>7 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>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:57:18 -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[Google Adsense Now Has Slideshows]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/24071</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/24071</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:56:54 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/24071</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I don't believe anyone else has spotted this that I'm aware of.  It only appears in a small fraction of web pages.  Presumably this happens when Google has a larger inventory of advertisers for a particular topic.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Putting the Short Tail to Work]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/23475</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/23475</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:05:47 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/23475</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Some useful advice on how to better optimize a PPC program. This approach is well-worth consideration.<br/><br/>8 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>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:32:16 -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[Where Do You Shop - MSN, Yahoo or Google?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/20854</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/20854</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:49:12 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/20854</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Search engines are widely used by prospects as they shop. Search engines are now behaving more like stores, so suppliers may need to pay the search engine fees to get exposure on their &quot;shelves&quot;. Organic or natural SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is now an even greater challenge than it ever was.<br/><br/>11 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>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:50:48 -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>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:19:04 -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[Google BlogSearch Is Broken]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/16015</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/16015</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:26:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/16015</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I used to be one of the strongest proponents for Google Blogsearch. However for some time I have been despairing of its quality. As Lisa Barone said, it's chock full of spam. In addition whatever algorithm it is using does not produce relevant blog posts for the searches I do.<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Find The Latest You Tube Videos - Undiscovered Secret!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/15126</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/15126</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:35:26 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/15126</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Checking tagged RSS news feeds for YouTube videos is a good way to get to the meat quickly.<br/><br/>10 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>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:08:09 -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[ASK - the Little (Search) Engine that could]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/13845</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/13845</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:53:25 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Ask.com</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/13845</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Perhaps ASK will turn out to be the strong number 2 in the market eventually.  Google may be overwhelming Yahoo and Live but ASK is holding its own.  Google has even suggested it may become more ASK-like in the future.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Tries To Close Pandoraa4s Box]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/11076</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/11076</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:24:50 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/11076</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The present furore over the PageRank wrist-slapping for many major websites should be a warning signal to Google.  Perhaps it's time to give up on the now discredited PageRank that can only bring them grief.  Perhaps for their second decade, they should launch Google 2.0 based on the vast data they have accumulated on what makes the most relevant answers to search queries.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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