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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:40:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[An Ethical Debate On Which We Can All (Maybe) Agree: The Average Webmaster And Dodgy SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/76337</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/76337</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:40:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/76337</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jane follows up Danny's post about his conversation with a truthfully challenged (if you see what I mean) search marketer. She mentions the 'e' word. Twenty quid to the first person to mention Lyndon-gate in the comments.;)<br/><br/>67 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Conversation With An Idiot Link Broker]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/75955</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/75955</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:11:19 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/75955</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ohhh, I love stupid people. No, really, they make my day a lot of the time. Like the person who decided to ask Danny Sullivan to put paid links on Search Engine Land and then tried to reassure him that there are no dangers involved in such actions. Seriously, you couldn't make it up.<br/><br/>95 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Snake Oil In Disguise: Useless Information Passing As Good Advice]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/70844</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/70844</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:14:19 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/70844</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jane thinks that there is a lot of hot-air which passes for insight in the search industry. I think she should just get on with creating good content....;)<br/><br/>53 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UK SEO Personalities Line Up]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/69869</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/69869</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:26:32 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/69869</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hey, any list that gives me a namecheck is gonna get a Sphinn. There's a few names that should probably be up there that aren't, so drop a comment if there's a search Brit you think deserves a plug..<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA['Googlebomb' blows up in Daily Mail hack's face]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/68956</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/68956</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:55:02 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/68956</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A journalist at British paper the Daily Mail wrote a piece about what she thought was a case of Googlebombing. It wasn't. But now the journalist in question is (kind of) a victim of a Googlebomb herself (I know she's not really, but you have to love what now happens if you search for her name).<br/><br/>62 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Accidental Ad Blocker: IE8 To Kill Analytics & Ad Serving?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/68177</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/68177</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:08:46 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Microsoft Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/68177</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reports on a planned feature of IE8 that could have grave repercussions for anyone using 3rd party analytics or ad serving software, as users may be able to block them.&quot;It has the potential to undermine the economies of the Internet,&quot; said Mike Zaneis, vice president of the Interactive Advertising Bureau.<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Distilleda4s Big PPC Competition: Use Your Ad Powers For Good!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49567</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49567</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 09:58:07 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Paid Search</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49567</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Will &amp; the boys are running a competition to raise funds for the Burma cyclone appeal. All you PPC demons need to get on it now.<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Search Engine Redirect Users To Country-Specific Sites]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46412</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46412</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 08:59:07 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46412</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Interesting post on how the various engines handle people attempting to go to the .com from outside the US (sparked by Yahoo's late adoption of this policy.)<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Shoemoney Knows That SEO Has A Future]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45229</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45229</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 03:53:01 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45229</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I think that Shoemoney (and Jason Calacanis) know that SEO has a future. And it involves writing posts entitled things like &quot;Why SEO doesn't have a future&quot; and getting loads of SEOs to link to them from rebuttal posts.Can we move on now please?<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dear Danny. Please Allow Us To Comment On SEL, Rather Than Forcing Us To Sphinn]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/41392</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/41392</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:25:35 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/41392</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dear Danny,I love Sphinn. And I really love Search Engine Land. But if the two are separate, why do you force me to submit something from SEL to Sphinn in order to comment on it?There are times when I don't want to Sphinn a story (not because I don't think it deserves it, but because another Sphinner would probably have a better chance of getting it 'Hot') but I do want to comment. So why do you force me to ruin your story's chance of going hot in order to comment?Please can you fix it for me to be able to do both.Cheers,Ciarn<br/><br/>51 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to get online advertising for free]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/28458</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/28458</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:16:37 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/28458</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Matt Inman (ex-SEOmoz) is featured in an article looking at using widgets to gain links. It (unintentionally) highlights how unclear the 'rules' around this are. And Danny, I'm sorry but how is this 'pushing it' when Mr Cutts himself praises the creation of linkbait with no relevance to a site's themes?<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Wikipedia May Not Be Totally Safe From Google Knol]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/19641</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/19641</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:10:14 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/19641</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Charles Arthur of The Guardian reckons Wikipedia is utterly safe from Google Knol. I'm not so sure...<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Head Sphinning? This Should Help: All The Sphinn Tools from YOUmoz]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1175</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1175</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:39:20 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1175</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There are lots of Sphinn tools which have popped up recently. This should be your one-stop-shop for finding them. I hope....<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google shares slide as it misses Wall St targets |   | Guardian Unlimited Business]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/950</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/950</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:54:24 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/950</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google only makes $925 million. Wall Street pissed off; throws toys out of pram. Google's like, &quot;whatever dude, we're playing Risk&quot;<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEOmoz | Why Rand Is Wrong, And Sphinn Is A Popularity Contest]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/924</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/924</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:21:24 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/924</guid>
<description><![CDATA[TannerC thinks this site is a popularity contest. Rand disagrees. I don't. Sort of...<br/><br/>33 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[5 Books all Search Marketers Should Read from YOUmoz]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/861</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/861</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:21:56 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/861</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There are some things that are so good it's worth cutting down trees to publish them so that you don't hurt your eyes staring at a screen; here are 5 of them.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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