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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:38:31 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Local Search Research Study Released by ComScore w/TMP Directional Media]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/78241</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/78241</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:38:31 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/78241</guid>
<description><![CDATA[According to the study, the first sources used are Search Engines (31%), Print Yellow Pages or White Pages (30%), Internet Yellow Pages Sites (19%) and Local Search Sites (11%). This represents a change from last year's study, which ranked Print Yellow Pages first (33%), followed by Search Engines (30%).<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Search Images Online - Most Advanced Methods]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/77665</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/77665</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:25:29 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/77665</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ann Smarty discusses: Image search is evolving rapidly. Today the machine understands much more about images than just a year ago: it can read the text on the image, see its colors and classify it based on its form, shape and textures. So which advanced image search methods can we use today?<br/><br/>31 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Deliver The Perfect Client Pitch]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/77629</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/77629</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:49:16 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/77629</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;Any Sales Pitch is About a Transferrance of Emotion From The Salesman to the Customer&quot;. Learn why it's not enough to just deliver a seemingly good pitch on the surface, but rather to read between the lines and peer into your audience's thought, discussing meeting overtones, undertones, and aftertaste.<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Create Effective Local Business Landing Pages]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/72584</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/72584</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:28:33 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Local &amp; Maps</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/72584</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Effective local business landing pages are imperative to getting good local search rankings. Dev Basu discusses 10 Best Practices for Local Biz Landing Page design that are tried and tested methods to gain great rankings.<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nielson Reports that  Social Networking is Going Mobile FAST]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46034</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46034</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 17:31:54 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Mobile Search</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46034</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hot off the heels of this study comes a new Nielson Mobile report showing a growing number of mobile phone subscribers worldwide are taking online social networking to the pubs, streets and subways!<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO is about to Grow Up - Are You Ready for the New Wave?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/44420</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/44420</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 13:20:42 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/44420</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SEO is becoming a bigger piece of the marketing pie. Jenn Osborne writes &quot;Those who have been in the industry since the late 90's have seen huge changes in SEO. The industry has really matured. But in the grand scheme of things, if you were to plot SEO on a product life cycle chart you would see that the industry is still in its' infancy.Except that we're poised for some serious growth.&quot;<br/><br/>48 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Live Imitating the Google Goliath]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/42687</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/42687</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:01:01 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Microsoft</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/42687</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Doug Gebhardt explains how MS Live Search is finally growing up and following in Google's footsteps. Site links, sponsored ads, and even their own MS Live Labs area. What are we to expect next?<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Stumbleupon Penalizing Reciprocal Stumbling by Banning Accounts]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/41815</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/41815</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:24:48 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/41815</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Bogdan comments :&quot;I have recently heard news about StumbleUpon banning several accounts because the users submitted comercial content. Here is the message these unfortunate stumblers usually received&quot;Regrettably, your account privileges have been suspended due to a breach of our TOS. I respectfully draw your attention to our Terms, particularly with respect to the clauses which forbid the use of personal accounts for the promotion of a business, product or service, and also with regard to the sending of 'spam' messages to other members.<br/><br/>69 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[International Multilingual SEO and Duplicate Content Concerns around English Speaking Countries]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38799</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38799</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:19:39 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38799</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Time for a great sphinnversation folks! The issue around ranking foreign domains is especially pertinent for large sites that have an international presence. I'm working on one such project right now, and need the help of the seo-phere to discuss some best practices regarding this issue. Option A: The ideal situation would be:- Use Regional TLD such as domain.ca, domain.fr- Geotarget the site in Google Webmaster Tools- Build relevant IBL's from regional domains or domains with regional content Cons to this include:- New sites may take as long as 6 months to 1.5 years to rank against established regional competitors.- Linkbuilding becomes more difficult as time and resources must be dedicated to each individual regional site- Dup content filters may affect largely similar content on english speaking country pages - eg: privacy, legal, disclaimer etc.Option B: The Middle GroundUse the structure domain.com/country-language/content- Register each individual country-language directory into GWT with geo targeting- Build region specific IBL's - Keep the top level domain with global content geo-neutral.Pros:- Link power rolls up to the main site making it stronger in the overall rankings- Google will be able to distinguish regional content based on the TLD of the referring IBL's (apparently Matt Cutts hinted at this at an SES)Option C: My least favoriteUse country based IP tracking to either prompt the user to visit the regional site, or automatically forward them. Pros: Not a bad thing to do for usabilityCons: Usually the site will be very poorly indexed, and only the global content will rank. Poor google bot...Please add to this conversation, thereby helping to make this a resource for a question that I'm pretty sure pops up for every business looking to expand on the internet, internationally.Thank you kind folks! -- Dev Basu<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Who's Tedster? If You're an SEO, You Should Know]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/28625</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/28625</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:58:42 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/28625</guid>
<description><![CDATA[He's arguably the most well-known poster at WebmasterWorld.com. He's cited by some of the most reputable SEO minds in the industry. He has likely influenced hundreds, if not thousands, of enterprising webmasters.Who is this veritable titan of SEO that I speak of? Why, Tedster, of course.<br/><br/>67 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Ballad of Social Media]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/24905</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/24905</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:48:02 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/24905</guid>
<description><![CDATA[To the tune of &quot;these are some of our favourite things&quot; from the Sound of Music:Matt Cutts on Paid Links and Google quite SmittenWebmasters scared and PageRank thats BittenInbound Links and Authority PagesThese are some of our favorite things!<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dynamic Crawler Identification 101: Trapping the Bots]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/23305</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/23305</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:23:37 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/23305</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We've recently discussed the limitation of bots, and how they can be exploited. Today, we're going to expand on that, and work on trapping bots altogether, no matter how well hidden they are. Some techniques have been repeated before, but many are new, and worth your while for Blackhats and Whitehats alike. Way to go Slightly Shady :)<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social Media By the Numbers: Delicious]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/22954</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/22954</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:57:03 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Bookmarking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/22954</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Tom Tsinas takes an in-depth look at the grand daddy that coined the term 'social bookmarking' aka Delicious. Check out the post for details on Delicious traffic, history, and even weird Delicious trivia.<br/><br/>32 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Funniest SEO Quotes of All Time]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/19410</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/19410</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:30:26 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/19410</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Including classics like &quot;I don't enjoy Rand because he is physically attractive (though he is, I'm not blind), I enjoy his presence because there's something very endearing about a passionate dork who plays with transformers.&quot; :-)<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Who's The Best LinkBaiter Of Them All?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/18767</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/18767</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:21:25 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/18767</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Joost De Valk introduces the latest version of his custom Blog Metrics Plugin that has some slick new features to get down and dirty with your blogging metrics.<br/><br/>31 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Star Wars SEO Link Building For Padawans]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/18412</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/18412</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:27:57 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/18412</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Okay, there's a Star Wars week on the TV at the moment, so I thought I'd examine how those damn Jedi (and Sith) would do SEO if there was a Google a long time ago in a galaxy far away... I had a good chuckle :-)<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Forgot to Check Their Feed Count AGAIN]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/13224</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/13224</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:17:10 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/13224</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Looks like Feedburner 'hiccups' are becoming more common, after feedburner forgets to count in its own google reader subscribers for the 2nd time in a week. Don't be surprised if you see lower than average subscribers on your feed count widget today...<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yellow Pages vs Google - Who'll Win The Search War?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/12701</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/12701</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:13:17 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/12701</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The answer might be counter-intuitive. Tom Tsinas explains why Yellow Pages visitors are more engaged than Google's. They're also 100% less likely to bounce, view 20% more pages, spend 12% more time on the site and, with almost 90% of the traffic being from people who'd never been to the site, reach a different audience!In a battle of David vs Goliath, this is a very interesting analysis into search relevancy and dynamics!<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sensational: Page Rank Increases Underway [Proof]]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/11230</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/11230</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:24:28 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/11230</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Proof: After months of waiting and a thousand false PageRank update scares, not to mention the recent fiasco over major authority sites and blogs being penalized for paid links, it seems like the PageRank update (not penalty) is FINALLY underway.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How To GoogleBait Authority Bloggers (Sneaky Tactic)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9185</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9185</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:22:34 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9185</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A different take on augmenting linkbait strategies other than conventional seeding tactics. Hint: Using Google Alerts.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[5 Reasons Page Rank Isna4t Worth Losing Sleep Over]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/8955</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/8955</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:58:38 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/8955</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Did your blog get a PageRank boo-boo? Still in the sandbox? Don't sweat it...Pagerank isn't worth losing sleep over.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[DealDotCom Wordpress Plugin]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6294</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6294</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:30:38 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6294</guid>
<description><![CDATA[BlueFur.Com has a released a wicked new DealDotCom Deal of the Day widget that can be displayed on your blog...<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Who Else Wants To Learn An Advanced StumbleUpon Secret]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4752</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4752</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:12:48 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4752</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Shh...I'm not telling here. Learn how to leverage Technorati and StumbleUpon to create consistent traffic to your blog.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Text-Link-Ads Deindexed From Google]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4745</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4745</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:33:14 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4745</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Surprised? I wasn't...Google's rampage continues as it penalizes and de-indexes Text-Link-Ads<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The 24 Hour John Chow Effect]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4382</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4382</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 14:28:38 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4382</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Analyzing the effect of 24 hours of advertising on johnchow.com with indepth commentary on ROI, intangible benefits, and more.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Ultimate Guide To Leveraging StumbleUpon]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4061</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4061</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:16:33 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4061</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Ultimate Guide to StumbleUpon discusses advanced techniques to increase StumbleUpon traffic using black hat tactics, building a power stumbler profile, killer viral strategies, mistakes you should avoid, and more.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Create 100 Free Backlinks In 5 Minutes Or Less]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4044</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4044</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:53:53 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Bookmarking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4044</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How to use the OnlyWire service to get a 100 High PageRank backlinks in as little as 5 minutes<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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