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<title>Sphinn / gyutae / What's New</title>
<link>http://sphinn.com</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:20:14 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[7 Autopilot Link Building Methods for the Lazy Bastard]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/92993</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/92993</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:20:14 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/92993</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The most important thing in SEO 2.0 is to stop &quot;link building&quot; and to start &quot;getting links&quot;.Link building will always be artificial to some extent whereas when you get links from people who link you voluntarily these links will always be natural.So you have to provide incentives for other people to link to you.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Joe The Plumber and Link Building Best Practices]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/79456</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/79456</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:54:09 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/79456</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The sudden spike in searches for JTP (That's my shorthand for ole Joe), can help illustrate the Search Flow Link Building model. Yesterday, nobody had heard of Joe. Today, everyone knows Joe. While this will bring out the worst in the SEM world, it can also bring out the best.  So what's the best? What's a 100% white hat method of taking advantage of Joe's good fortune?<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Great Link Race Has Begun, But To Where?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/78928</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/78928</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:24:14 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/78928</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What happens when everyone uses the same 15,400 linking tools, and everyone has created the perfect back link profile, and everyone has properly tricked out anchor text, everyone has perfectly sculpted this, awesomely funneled that, cleverly silo'd this, no-followed that, etc., etc., etc?<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Tops Recession Internet Marketing Tactics]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/78633</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/78633</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:00:46 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/78633</guid>
<description><![CDATA[To tap in to the stream of marketing-savvy collective wisdom online, we reached out to our network with a top internet marketing tactics poll for the next 6 months. Over 400 business marketers responded, making this the most popular poll Online Marketing Blog has run to-date. Readers were asked: What 3 internet marketing tactics will you emphasize most in the next 6 months?<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Search Engine Rap Battle]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/73709</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/73709</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:36:53 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/73709</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Basically rappers go out it, mocking each other, as if they are Google, Yahoo and MSN. Google vs. MSN, MSN vs. Yahoo and Yahoo vs. Google. You can check out the videos and vote for the winner at searchenginerapbattle.com.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[10 Easy Methods to Promote Your Blog Reviews]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/73412</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/73412</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:50:22 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/73412</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In general, writing on your blog alone isn't enough to get you exposure. You have to get out there and actively work on building traffic.  Below are 10 ways to promote your content, more specifically your blog reviews.<br/><br/>21 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO For Regional Domains]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/71151</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/71151</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:52:50 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/71151</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Here is a guide to optimizing sites for the different regional flavors of Google.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Google Chrome Will Win the Browser Battle - 51% Market Share by 2010]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/70690</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/70690</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:17:00 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/70690</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The future looks bright for Google (or dark depending on how you look at it) and Google Chrome will not have any trouble taking away market share from Internet Explorer and Firefox, with whom Google ironically signed a 3 year deal.In fact, I'm going to make a bold prediction here: By 2010, Google Chrome will be the LEADING web browser, ahead of IE and Firefox.<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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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[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[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[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[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[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[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[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>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<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>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<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>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<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/>12 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>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<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>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<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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<title><![CDATA[How to Use Your WWW. to Prevent Duplicate Content]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47476</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47476</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 14:07:09 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47476</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Over the past several weeks I've been writing about duplicate content. Today's post wraps up the series that started with my theories on duplicate content penalties, where I explained the different types of duplicate content that the search engines find. Over the course of the series (see links to all posts at the end) I discussed various aspects of duplicate content, how it happens (sometimes inadvertently) and how it can be corrected.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What Nutella (and I) Can Teach You About Blog Marketing]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47417</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47417</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 09:39:04 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47417</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I spent the day at a small conference here in Columbus put on by Ohio Web Leaders. They'd asked me to come and speak about blogging for business and blog marketing to a mix of small business, PR types and in-house marketers. Now I always try to break things down into every day life examples, but thanks to an off handed comment about Nutella, I had a chance for a great object lesson.<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BBC buying and definately not selling links]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47416</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47416</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 09:37:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47416</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Today it seems like the BBC want to waste more of our license fees by buying up some of the tiny footer links for themselves. How many clicks do you think this advert gets compared to the price the BBC pay? If they are using nofollow then why bother with keyword rich links?<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Link Building Strategies: Product Reviews]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47408</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47408</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 09:27:33 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47408</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This is the first part of a brand new series, which will be featuring specific link building strategies every once in a while. Every a4Link Building Strategiesa4 post will explain what the benefits of the featured strategy are and it will give tips on when and how to use this tactic. This first part will discuss Product Reviews.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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