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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:47:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ratio Analysis for Bloggers 1: Subscriber Conversion Ratio]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/62519</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/62519</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:47:01 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/62519</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Back to the central question, you can examine how well you are converting visitors into subscribers with the Subscriber Conversion Ratio (SCR), which is simply the total number of subscribers that you have (as reported by Feedburner, for example) divided by the total number of posts on your blog.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cuil Is So New That Cuil Doesn't Know About It]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/62055</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/62055</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:36:32 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/62055</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I think that's all the analysis needed, wouldn't you agree!?<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why You Should Give Yourself the "Opportunity To Cure" In Your SEO Consulting Contracts]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/62054</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/62054</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:31:23 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/62054</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Today, I'm very briefly going to review &quot;opportunity to cure&quot; provisions. This provision is valuable for any one providing a SEO/M consulting services.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Search Engine Cuil Launches But Something is Amiss]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/61961</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/61961</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:01:47 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/61961</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Menlo Park based Cuil has officially launched with quite a sizable index of 120 billion web pages, making them arguably a comprehensive search engine on the web. Cuil not only claims that they have found a way to massively reduce the costs involved in indexing the web and how they handle search queries (Google spends a billion dollars a year to run the back end infrastructure of it's search business), they also make the boastful claims to have better search results than Google and others based on how they index websites.<br/><br/>56 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cuil Launches -- Can This Search Start-Up Really Best Google?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/61876</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/61876</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:22:43 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/61876</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Can any start-up search engine &quot;be the next Google?&quot; Many have wondered this, and today's launch of Cuil (pronounced &quot;cool') may provide the best test case since Google itself overtook more established search engines. Cuil provides what appears to be a comprehensive index of the web, a unique display presentation and emerges at a time when people might be ready to embrace a quality &quot;underdog&quot; service.<br/><br/>48 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[25 Most Rehashed Posts I Never Want To See Frontpage Sphinn Ever Again]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/61875</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/61875</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:18:52 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/61875</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you really want to become a well-known and/or respected writer online, you will need to have original thoughts<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Knol is Behaviorally Targeting & Ranking well!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/61842</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/61842</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:18:50 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/61842</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Just thought I'd let everyone know, that on a search for how to backpack in Google is showing a top 5 result for Google Knol.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Who Is Johng77536 And How Did He Game Twitter?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/61841</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/61841</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:16:03 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/61841</guid>
<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons Twitter is such a useful platform for publishing is that it is largely spam free - you only received messages from people you choose to follow. So even though a large number of spammy accounts have appeared on the service, the only real damage they do is when they trick people into following them (a lot of people just auto-follow whoever follows them as a courtesy).<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Search BrowseRank Research Reviewed]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/61812</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/61812</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:56:08 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Microsoft SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/61812</guid>
<description><![CDATA[cNet recently covered a new Microsoft Search research paper on BrowseRank [PDF]. The theory behind the concept of BrowseRank is that rather than using links (PageRank) as the backbone of a relevancy algorithm, you could look at actual usage data from hundreds of millions of users.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Taking Your Beginning Blog To The Next Level Of Traffic]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/61809</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/61809</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:16:55 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/61809</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Like so many pursuits in life, it is easy for blogs to get stuck in an intermediate rut. I know, because I've been there. My site, Herbivoracious.com, has hit several plateaus in its first year of life. Each time the visits started to level out, I debated whether it was worth the effort to keep writing if only a few people were going to read it.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Google-Digg Prophesy - 5 Ways a Deal will Change the Internet]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/61169</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/61169</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:08:38 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/61169</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Could this be it? If you're on top of the tech news, you know that Digg has been on sale for over 6 months now - actively looking for buyers to take on the social media monster.In the latest round of rumors, Google is set to buy up Digg for $200 million. Will it actually happen this time? I'm no Nostradamus, but I vote yes.Before the summer months are up, Google will have bought up Digg and added it to its online empire of web properties.<br/><br/>58 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Official Google Blog: Knol is open to everyone]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/60897</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/60897</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:55:01 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/60897</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A few months ago we announced that we were testing a new product called Knol. Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. Today, we're making Knol available to everyone.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Experiments in Blogging: The Open-Source Model, Write To Done, and Other Tidbits]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/60725</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/60725</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:38:42 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/60725</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I'd like to start by saying I'm not a blogging expert. I'm simply a blogger who started out with no readers, a mere 18 months ago, and has steadily grown in readership as I've experimented in various ways, finding out what works and what doesn't. So, as with anything I write here at Zen Habits, I will give you some insight into what I've learned, but don't look at it as the final word on anything.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Where's the structure to the domain market? Domain name funds, mortgages and leases]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/59149</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/59149</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:31:18 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Domaining</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/59149</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Domains are funny things. Are they intellectual property (see Sarah's post on domain tasting), valuable investments, technical devices to prevent people having to remember your IP address, or political playthings (does anyone think the new tlds are a good idea apart from the benefit of allowing new character sets - maybe that's one for another post?)?<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Taking Note Of Competitors' Mistakes & Successes]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/58057</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/58057</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:43:32 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/58057</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Quite often, people ask me this, either to my face, via Q&amp;A or in emails: how do I come up with truly unique, never-before-seen, shiny new ideas? What a question. It's a rare thing to come up with something that's really never been done before. Many of the novels on a bookstore's shelves contain stories that have been told before in one form or another. Real originality is fantastic, but there is plenty to be made from taking a good idea and putting a new spin on it and making it better.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why the Social Media World NEEDS to Understand SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57830</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57830</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:21:27 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57830</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As I find myself drifting further and further from my search engine optimization roots to focus more time and effort on exploring the worlds of social media, blogging and viral marketing, I'm sometimes astonished at the misunderstandings between these two worlds. Search engine marketers look to social media as a vast expanse of link opportunities, almost completely missing the true potential of social media. On the other hand, social media types tend to look at SEO as some type of dirty game of tricks and scams that would tarnish the pure image they hope to build in their social media utopia.<br/><br/>51 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Importance Of Blog Linking Seems to Be Declining]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57821</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57821</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:02:54 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57821</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I am a strong believer in the power of linking between blogs, and I still go out of my way to link, especially to peers, to smaller blogs, and to developers of services I write about. At one time, I thought being linked to by the most prominent bloggers could have a significant impact on my traffic. And for a short time, it did. But now, I've seen traffic from other blogs to be driving an ever-declining percentage of visits to my site, swamped by social media tools, aggregation sites, and of course, Google search.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Establish a Stronghold on Your Personal Brand Using Profile Names]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57817</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57817</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:14:24 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57817</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I want to share 6 tips that can help you to establish a stronghold on your personal brand. Your account name accounts for more than you think.<br/><br/>43 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The PPC Diary Part 3:Hard Learned Lessons from Work and My Hiatus]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57447</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57447</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:18:28 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Paid Search</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57447</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Many of these are PPC lessons, but can still be applied to anyone who's selling anything. Regardless of the mediums through which the clicks were recieved. I may have stated these before, but I'll make sure I don't repeat anything unless it's actually important<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reddit, Stumbleupon, Del.icio.us and Hacker News Algorithms Exposed!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/56675</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/56675</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:39:06 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/56675</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It is greatly ironic that algorithms, the quintessential example of all that is not human, would be so fundamental to social media. Last week I wrote a post about how Google gathers user data. This week I continue by exposing how popular social media websites use algorithms to utilize user data.<br/><br/>57 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google The "Moral Compass" Of The US Justice System?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54837</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54837</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:33:02 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54837</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Who determines what is obscene and moral? The defense attorney argues that the community does and what better way to determine what the community sees as moral then to see what they are searching for from within the comfort of their own homes.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Get Google.com in Your AdWords Display URL]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54836</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54836</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:28:05 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54836</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Search Engine Watch Forums moderator, abbottsys, tested out a theory that actually worked for him. abbottsys created an ad for a search on ivf, the ad's destination URL goes to a search at Google for site:www.integramed.com/inmdweb/ ivf. So, as you can see, the ad's destination URL is google.com, but the search results are limited to a client's site.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Land an SEO Dream Job Via LinkedIn]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54835</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54835</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:26:24 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54835</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As an SEO recruiter with many years of experience, I simply have to ask: if you have not jumped on the LinkedIn bandwagon yet, what are you waiting for?<br/><br/>72 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The 5 Business Models of SEO - Pros & Cons, Discover the One For You]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54726</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54726</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:03:02 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54726</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SEO is a relatively new industry that has taken off with growing Internet usage and the surging popularity of search engines like Google and Yahoo. Businesses are realizing the potential of online search as a means for effective lead generation, and this has a created a huge demand for increased organic search rankings and thus search engine marketing services.So how can a good SEO profit from all of this? What are our options? I see the following 5 business models for SEO<br/><br/>52 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEMs Weigh In On Local Search Ranking Variables]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53521</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53521</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:03:15 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53521</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SEO practitioner David Mihm conducted a survey of local search marketing professionals about which variables they believe most heavily influence local rankings and results. It's a great resource for those interested in local SEO and related issues. Rather than a simple list it's an open discussion of the criteria and considerations that appear to boost or harm local rankings.<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Matt Cutts Translated: 8 SEO Tips I Heard Him Tell Eric Enge]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53485</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53485</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:07:21 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53485</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In the last big Matt Cutts interview, Eric Enge managed to get Matt Cutts to say PageRank Sculpting (or siloing, for you Bruce Clay fans) was okay to do on your site and that noindex pages still have PageRank attributed to them.<br/><br/>50 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Lost Art of Proxy Scanning]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52544</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52544</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:12:28 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52544</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I know you advanced guys are cringing right now. But bear with me. Ok. So true (non cgi/php) proxies come in a few varieties. HTTP(connect to port 80), HTTPS(connect to ports 80,443,sometimes others) and SOCKS4/SOCKS5(can connect to any port, but have unique rules).<br/><br/>35 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Turn the Coveted SEM Triple Play - The Little Known Integrated Approach to Success]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52362</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52362</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:58:22 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52362</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Internet marketing, and more specifically search marketing, can be broken down into 3 major components: search engine optimization (SEO), paid search (PPC), and social media optimization (SMO). The problem that I see in the search industry is that many of the most influential players focus on only one of these components and shut themselves off from the others.  The truth is that as the Internet matures, it will become increasingly important to integrate all three components into a marketing campaign in order to see success online.<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Pros and Cons of Working from Home on the Internet]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50968</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50968</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:54:09 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50968</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Almost two years passed since I quit my job inside a multinational company to work from home on the Internet. For me it was pretty a straight forward move. One year inside a corporation was enough to clarify what I wanted to do professionally, and working for someone else was definitely not part of it.<br/><br/>69 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Insane SEO: Blocking Robots.txt from Being Indexed]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49302</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49302</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 09:21:16 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49302</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google currently indexes 62,100 robots.txt files. Many of them have a decent PR while others have no backlinks at all (according to Yahoo Site Explorer at least):<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Duplicate Context in Link Building and Automation]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49021</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49021</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 07:46:30 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49021</guid>
<description><![CDATA[While I've long held that Google duplicate content filters are easily defeated, I've never truly examined the implications of them on a large scale link building effort. First, it may help to examine the large issues google has with link building at present time.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Content and Links are the Bread and Butter of SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48999</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48999</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 06:36:51 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48999</guid>
<description><![CDATA[While all of these specific tactics are great methods to use to get ahead of the competition in the search results, the core of SEO comes down to the 2 things: content and links.The bread and butter of SEO is content and links and you simply cannot afford to ignore these crucial components.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Has Too Much Power]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48639</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48639</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 16:12:00 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48639</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google's already shown that they're willing to censor their results, by altering the Tiananmen Square SERPs to remove references to the massacre committed by the Chinese government against its own people there in 1989. (They make a note of the fact that the SERPs are censored, but so what? Admitting that you're doing evil doesn't make it any better.) It's a matter of time before Google censors results in the West.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Temporarily Purges .info Domain Names]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48595</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48595</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 07:39:27 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48595</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I do not own too many .info domain names, but a couple of them that I do own have quite solid link profiles. In spite of this, on May 23rd all of my .info websites (including search-marketing.info) disappeared from Google's search results. And then the next day it returned. It may have just been a ranking glitch, but many other webmasters had the same issue... their .info domain names simply disappeared from Google.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Blogging - No Longer a Unique Business Strategy]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48594</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48594</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 07:29:19 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48594</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Blog posts are great for getting quick ideas out to the marketplace, but when you create something in depth it is usually better if you place it on another part of your site rather than making it a blog post. And if you find yourself spending 10 hours creating a piece of featured content then why not...<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google, Yahoo & Microsoft : SEO Influence of Keywords in Domain Names]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48266</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48266</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 07:44:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48266</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Well, the issue of whether or not search marketers report their competition to Google if their competitors are practicing gray or blackhat tactics has shed a new light on the issue, or on the difference between some SEO blogs and our audiences.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reporting SEO Competition to Google : Conflicting Reports]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48265</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48265</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 07:40:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48265</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Well, the issue of whether or not search marketers report their competition to Google if their competitors are practicing gray or blackhat tactics has shed a new light on the issue, or on the difference between some SEO blogs and our audiences.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Get Double or Indented Listings in Google in Just a Few Minutes]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47806</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47806</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 14:41:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47806</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Whilst I gain tons of Google indented listings for money terms, and I can achieve them quite often in minutes, rather than days, they are almost always achieved using a few simple steps.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Interview with Search Marketing Recruiter Anna Martin]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47792</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47792</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 13:31:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47792</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Anna Martin agreed to answer my questions about this &quot;mysterious&quot; profession that has reached out to so many in our industry....<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Pocket-sized Guide to Blogging]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47552</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47552</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 20:37:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47552</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you're like me, you've probably read the equivalent of a few books worth of material on how to run a successful blog. You've read about getting more traffic, getting more subscribers, getting more links, more comments, social media votes and so on. If triggered, you can probably remember (broadly at least) most of what you've read. But it's easy to forget the steps involved, particularly when we consume so much new information every day.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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