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<title>Sphinn / danzarrella / All</title>
<link>http://sphinn.com</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:00:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Text Navigation that Renders as an Image]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/73822</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/73822</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:00:10 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/73822</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In developing the new Shinedown website, we've used a traditional text link with href in the code. But it's being rendered on the end users browser as an image by the CSS style applied that makes it look and feel like an image.<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook for those over 40]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/72034</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/72034</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:19:20 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/72034</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I was recently asked to define and explain social media to an audience of 40-60 year old professionals. Here's a crash course in social networking to the over 40 crowd.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Proof that Savvy Social Media Users are the Most Contagious Viral Seeds]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/68239</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/68239</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:11:26 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/68239</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The research I did on viral content sharing shows that frequent users of social web technologies like Twitter, blogs, and social news and networking sites tend to share online content with more people, more often than those that do not. This means that for marketers these users can be a powerful vector for making content go viral.<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Review of Viral Content Sharing Survey Report]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/67080</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/67080</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:26:30 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/67080</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Blogger Dan Zarrella, who calls himself a &quot;Viral Marketing and Social Media Scientist,&quot; has an interesting report up on his site exploring the ways and types of content people share with each other via the Internet.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[To Reach Prolific Content Sharers, Lay Off the Humor]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/66973</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/66973</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:27:21 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/66973</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When most people think of viral content, one of the first things they think of is humor, silly Youtube videos, hilarious cartoons and toungue-in-cheek articles, but as I discovered with my viral content sharing report, the most savvy and prolific viral sharers prefer spreading news more than humor.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Get Included in Google News]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/66895</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/66895</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:34:13 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/66895</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I have been asked countless times how to get included in the Google &quot;One Box&quot;. That's when there used to be a &quot;one-box&quot;. Now we have Google Universal Search results. They contain listings from Google Products, Google News, Google Images, Videos, etc. Getting included in Google News can drive a ton of traffic. But, Google News isn't for every website or business strategy.<br/><br/>63 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Subscribe to My Email List and Win Prizes]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/64232</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/64232</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:52:09 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/64232</guid>
<description><![CDATA[On August 22nd, I'll pick one subscriber from the US (for shipping reasons) at random and send them a sweet prize pack, so sign up now if you want to win.<br/><br/>24 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Keyword Analysis - Details Explained]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/59733</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/59733</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:09:01 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/59733</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Here is a detailed explanation of the Keyword Analysis process &amp; Documentation. A must read.<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Who should be writing PPC ads, copywriters or PPC account managers?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/56551</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/56551</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:53:43 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/56551</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Some people think PPC ads should be written by writers; others argue PPC people.  Who should be writing PPC ads, a copywriter or a PPC account manager?<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Five Facebook applications for business]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48046</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48046</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 10:37:26 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48046</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Of course, you can set up a Facebook account without either of those, but my must-have apps integrate both of these things soa4 My point is your profile, and therefore your image online, will look a little sparse if you don't do more than slap a generic Fbook profile up. Assuming you have a blog and a Twitter account in place, set up a Facebook profile AND a business page, then add these:<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Box of Crayons, Not a Rubber Stamp]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48032</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48032</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 09:55:51 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48032</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The campaigns we build and the brands we manage must become platforms for users to express themselves with, each person that touches our messages should be recreating them, &quot;applying a bit of themselves, of their own values and perspectives.&quot;<br/><br/>30 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[63 signs youa4re addicted to Google and the Church of Search]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45693</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45693</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 06:57:47 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45693</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Seriously, each item below came right off the top of my head! Are you as big an addict? A few of those were straightforward, but many are from the land of Google geeks, how did you fare? Are you partying with any Google dust I missed?<br/><br/>49 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Marketing Research is Easy - Really]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/42728</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/42728</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:18:35 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/42728</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Simply and unprofessionally put (which is something researchers hardly ever do) marketing research is the process of learning as much as you possibly can about your target audience in order to reduce the risk of making decisions that will come back and bite you in the ass. Decisions that cost you ego capital. Or a lot of money.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SquareOak Giving Away Free Stumbles Today]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/41383</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/41383</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:29:33 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/41383</guid>
<description><![CDATA[All you have to do is post your to be stumbled link in the comments section and I'll give it a thumbs up or submit it if it hasn't been already. The only condition is it has to pertain to seo, sem, social media, wed design, essentially anything pertaining to this site's industry or niche.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Accepting the Salvation of Shoemoney]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/35817</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/35817</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:57:21 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/35817</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows I suck - but you know someone who doesn's suck? Shoemoney. This dude has all kinds of money. He's kind of this a4icon' or a4playboy' for affiliate marketing. Flashy black hummers, t-shirts, daily blog posts about how great his life is a4 He is a modern day Affiliate Marketing Messiah. Every decent blogger (and some that suck) feels compelled to take pictures with him.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Build a Successful News Blog]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/34493</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/34493</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:15:13 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/34493</guid>
<description><![CDATA[News blogs are fast-paced blogs which track, aggregate and disseminate current news on a set range of topics. Their main selling points are comprehensiveness and timeliness: a good news blog must cover the field throughly and speedily by pointing readers to new information or developments.<br/><br/>53 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Writing Magnetic Headlines Art Or Science?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/32835</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/32835</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:25:30 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/32835</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Everything you ever get noticed by will have a headline to go with it. Think about that, it means that even if you have a collection of photos, people will find it by searching for words in the title. It means that new visitors skimming your blog or forum will make judgments based solely on what people have called the posts, or the threads, or the website itself. Most importantly, though, it means that if you're going to do well in any kind of media, you need to be writing killer headlines.<br/><br/>34 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Automatic and Adwords Don't Mix]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/32295</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/32295</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:46:32 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/32295</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google is offering a service that allows you to put your Adwords campaign on autopilot while they find the best way to spend your money.  This sounds great to the small advertiser who may not have the time or expertise to manage their Adwords campaign.  Unfortunately, these are exactly the people who shouldn't be automating their PPC account.<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Link Attraction Factors: Report, Tools, API and Plugin]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/31905</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/31905</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:08:01 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/31905</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I published my Link Attraction Factors report over on Read/WriteWeb and the response was awesome. Never one to get complacent I've also developed an XML API version of my link attraction factors title checking tool and a Wordpress Plugin version of the same tool.<br/><br/>34 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Link Attraction Factors: Getting Dugg and Going Viral]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/29889</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/29889</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:15:21 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/29889</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Plenty of research has been done via Digg's API to study how stories make the homepage. We know the best time to submit to Digg, and we know the best categories and types of stories (e.g. top lists, how-tos and stories about Digg), but what has never been studied before is what happens after a link goes popular.<br/><br/>53 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Votrs.com Member's System Enters Private Beta]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/24883</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/24883</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:13:15 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/24883</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I just launched the new member's system of Votrs.com which allows you to upload your own avatar and background, and edit your previously shortened links. It also allows you to have a shortened user page that shows all the links you've posted to Votrs and their social media voting buttons.<br/><br/>26 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Proactive Approach to Online Reputation Management]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/24477</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/24477</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:26:50 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/24477</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Someone says something bad about you on the internet, whether it be in the form of a blog, news story, Wikipedia article or compliant site. So what do you do? Implement an Online Reputation Management Program to replace the bad with good and make it harder for people to drag up bad press. To solidify yourself as a major player and credibly expert in your industry, you need to take a proactive approach that guards against false accusations and bad publicity.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Freebie Niche: A Secret and Powerful Vector for Social and Viral Marketing?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/24206</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/24206</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:13:07 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/24206</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As of this writing, just under 72-hours after it began the freebie niche has sent over 10k visits to my site. This is digg and stumbleupon amounts of social media traffic here, but what differentiates it is that over 100 different sites sent traffic in the first 3 days a much larger number than normally seen with digg or SU traffic.<br/><br/>35 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tables Vs DIVSa4  The couch model]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/23812</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/23812</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:17:14 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/23812</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sadly, this question still comes up in the web design community a4 Why use DIVS/CSS when I can use tables? That's like asking: why sleep on a bed when I have a couch?<br/><br/>33 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Use Wordpress to Add SEOd Content to a Low Content Site]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/23341</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/23341</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:15:19 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/23341</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Every SEO will come across that one site that is very straight forward with very little content on it, what the heck do you do to add optimized content?<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Facebook Made Me a Better Copywriter]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/23132</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/23132</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:22:31 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/23132</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I learned how to very quickly tell if the client's service would work on Facebook, and whether or not the client would go for it. If either of those looked like a &quot;no, I didn't need to spend much time looking for a Facebook avenue. This saved me a lot of time, but paled in comparison to my second realization.<br/><br/>29 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Should I DKI?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/22889</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/22889</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:39:01 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/22889</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So for four weeks, David DiMartino ran one of our AdWords campaigns using DKI. The test was simple, he just created copies of every ad in the 200 keyword campaign, and inserted {KeyWord: } tags into the title of each copy.<br/><br/>34 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Image Optimization Techniques for Search Engine Results]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/22287</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/22287</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:54:53 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/22287</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Optimizing images for search engine increases your chances of ranking in Google Image Search and generates an alternate source of traffic to your website. There are 3 major places you can optimize an image: the file name, the Title and Alt attributes and the caption.<br/><br/>33 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Review of New Microsoft Keyword Research Tool]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/22257</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/22257</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:29:33 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/22257</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft just unveiled the beta of Ad Intelligence, their new keyword research tool. The tool is a plugin for Excel 2007, check out my first review.<br/><br/>33 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[10 Ways Twitter Can Boost Your Social News Profile]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/21417</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/21417</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:24:05 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/21417</guid>
<description><![CDATA[You can also use Twitter to build up a bit more authority on social news sites. Below are a few more tricks to get you started.<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dona4t Fight Remixing, Encourage It]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/21229</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/21229</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:02:58 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/21229</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Online social media, like socialized forms of media before it, has at its core the concept of communal recreation. Lessig called it The Remix Culture. What ever you label it, its a focus on derivative works.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Should Social News Be a Republic Rather Than a Democracy?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/21119</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/21119</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:36:07 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/21119</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If we assume that the average user on a social media site is a4fairly intelligent' (though it's true that not all users are equally savvy and in the end some users will rise above others to be stronger contributers) then it makes sense to give a a4top contributor' more weight than a new user just like google gives a link from techcrunch more importance than a link from my site.<br/><br/>34 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google AdSense Tips from Philipp Lenssen]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/21115</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/21115</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:42:20 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Contextual Ads</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/21115</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Great, robust post of 10 detail tips from Google Blogoscoped for Adsense webmasters. Must Read.<br/><br/>27 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Copywriting for Ecommerce Product Descriptions]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/21111</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/21111</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:32:04 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/21111</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A lazy SEO can write an ecommerce product description in minutes; a thorough SEO professional will need at least 15 minutes, maybe more, but the difference in quality and results is so tremendous that the small time difference hardly seems a waste-more like an investment.<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[18 most popular Web Analytics blog posts of 2007]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/21049</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/21049</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:42:58 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Web Analytics</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/21049</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The 3 most popular blog posts from the 6 most influential Web Analytics bloggers around - All in all the 18 most popular Web Analytics post of 2007!<br/><br/>35 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Developing Exciting Copy that Speak Your Visitor's Language]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/21002</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/21002</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:43:35 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/21002</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There is a distinct difference between editing a site for search engines and making edits for visitors. Traditionally in SEO, adding keywords to a web page falls under the category of editing for search engines. But many don't realize that adding keywords to your copy can and should be a function of making the site function better for visitors.<br/><br/>36 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Marshall McLuhana4s Tetrad in Social Media]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/20912</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/20912</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:02:48 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/20912</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I saw a post on sphinn and digg and I wanted to respond to a few points. Its about applying a method of discussing the effects of media change on society by Marshal McLuhan called a Tetrad.<br/><br/>26 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[12 Ideas to Drive Traffic Without Google]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/20887</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/20887</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 07:45:48 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/20887</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Great list of traffic sources other than the big Google. And it doesn't just say &quot;Digg and Stumbleupon&quot; 12 times.<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Desire vs Commitment: in Social Media, a Graph]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/20726</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/20726</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:35:57 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/20726</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We can say there are two drivers of viral growth then, desire and commitment. If a meme isn't desireable at all, it won't spread. If a meme requires a low level of commitment from the user, like a simple text-based blog post or a short video it requires less desire to motivate people to engage it.<br/><br/>27 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[URL Shortening for Social Media]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/20507</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/20507</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:55:13 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/20507</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Votrs.com is a URL shortening service that makes it easier for your friends to vote for stories on your favorite social sites. Put in the URL of a page you think will do well in social media, select the ones you think it will do best on, and Votrs will give you a shortened URL as well as check to see if the page has already been submitted to those.<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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