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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:00:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Secret Google Admin Area Lets You Change Search Rankings]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/12827</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/12827</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:00:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/12827</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The moderator has ties to Google and told me that some of the most popular SEO gurus have been secretly using this technique for years. All it requires is typing in a special prefix before a search term to take you to an admin area where you are able to manually adjust rankings.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ok Who Broke Feedburner?!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/12373</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/12373</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:41:49 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/12373</guid>
<description><![CDATA[My RSS numbers took a plummet today and at first I was worried until I saw that the numbers of a load of big blogs had dropped - some come on, who broke Feedburner? :-)<br/><br/>31 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Do You Actually Read What You Sphinn?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/12292</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/12292</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:56:34 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/12292</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I have a confession to make... Yesterday I hadn't checked Sphinn in a few days and I felt a bit guilty about it. I was pushed for time so I whizzed through the front page, and the upcoming submissions (new ones, and most sphunn so far) and I began checking them out...With the clock ticking I found myself sphinning the article BEFORE having read it because I just liked the title, or liked the site it came from. Sometimes just because I liked the submitter. Oh my gosh! Am I the only one that does this?Today is Saturday, I'm feeling chilled, not posting on my blog today so I'm taking my time and I'm actually READING the posts I sphinn... but it makes me wonder if other people do the same.And then there's this one - do you ever sphinn without even clicking through to the article? I've done that a few times too *blush*Okay confession over, back to sphinning :-)<br/><br/>52 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Lighter Look at PageRank, LOLCATS Style :-)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/11211</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/11211</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:18:28 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/11211</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Darren (ProBlogger) thinks we should all lighten the mood around the recent PageRank drops and I couldn't agree more. So here is my take on ita4<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Are You Focused on Results, Or Obsessing Over Meaningless Numbers? (PageRank)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/10827</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/10827</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:30:35 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/10827</guid>
<description><![CDATA[PageRank is just a number, it's a means to an end, and not the end itself. Why are people obsessing over it? If Google came around and gave everybody a PR10 tomorrow what would happen?<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Who Will Get Lyndon's 1000th Sphinn?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9424</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9424</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:14:58 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9424</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I was browsing around the user profiles and noticed that Lyndon had racked up a nice 999 sphinns. I snapped it, here's the picture:http://www.flickr.com/photos/11265659@N02/1558968637/I wonder which post will get his 1000th sphinn? :)<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to time your Sphinn Submissions Perfectly to Hit Front Page]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9221</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9221</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:30:44 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9221</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Eloi has captured data every hour for the past two weeks in order to compile a good, up to date, illustrated, informative analysis of Sphinn traffic and posting times. They should help understand how Sphinn is used, and when to post in order to give maximum exposure to your story.<br/><br/>49 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[11 Pointless Blog Posts that Waste my Time]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/8245</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/8245</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:48:48 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/8245</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I had almost 2000 unread posts in my feed reader and I just couldn't get them down even spending 1-2 hours a day going through them. I had to do a major purge. I used many criteria but mainly it came down to quality of content. What I found was that so many blogs just put up pointless post after pointless post - these blogs got purged.Here's some of what I consider to be a pointless posta4<br/><br/>29 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A detailed look at what can (and cana4t) be automated in SEO a4 Hamlet Batista dot Com]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/7443</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/7443</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:43:27 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/7443</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hamlet looks at how technology is helping certain parts of SEO become automated and offers up some interesting creative ideas for automating the creative link building process.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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