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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:32:13 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Wikipedia forced dofollow?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/69886</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/69886</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:32:13 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/69886</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We all know that Wikipedia puts a nofollow on all of their outgoing links.  There is no way around it - if you put your link up on Wikipedia, it will be nofollowed.  The thing about these Wikipedia links, however, is that they seem to pass a definite amount of link juice.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How do you make viral link bait for a boring site?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/67591</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/67591</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:23:03 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/67591</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Getting links for a boring site is actually quite easy... you just have to think outside the box!<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Optimizing your URL for SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/65813</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/65813</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:47:26 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/65813</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If the URL is properly structured and keyword rich, do words in a web address (URL) serve as the anchor text to pass your desired anchor text to your pages?<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Using link building software is probably a bad idea]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/64635</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/64635</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:42:37 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/64635</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There are no easy ways out in SEO!<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Should you have your keyword in the domain name?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/63747</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/63747</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:11:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/63747</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Thoughts on having a good, keyword filled domain name.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Another pitch for article marketing]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/62114</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/62114</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:59:32 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/62114</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I read somewhere that duplicate content penalties don't hit larger authority sites... so I'm using article marketing to test this out.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Varying anchor text links]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/61588</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/61588</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:05:40 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/61588</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Methods for changing up link text when doing link building internally and externally.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Where can I find article subject ideas?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/60898</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/60898</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:55:02 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/60898</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Good article on how to think of new article ideas for your SEO efforts<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Put all your web eggs in one basket?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/60125</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/60125</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:32:55 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/60125</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Should you build ONLY one big site or MANY small sites?<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The importance of Sitemaps]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/58953</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/58953</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:51:23 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/58953</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When building websites, there are two types of navigation you need to keep in mind.  Navigation for humans and navigation for search engines.  In order to keep your site both human and search engine friendly, all websites should have both an HTML sitemap as well as an XML sitemap.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How much do you need to edit a stolen article?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57838</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57838</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:53:52 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57838</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In order to avoid duplicate content penalties, how much do you need to rewrite an article?<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Web promotion - Best bang for your buck]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54238</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54238</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:30:38 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54238</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Cheap ways to get your website seen.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Make pages out of incoming search terms]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53591</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53591</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:23:26 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53591</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Give your visitors what they are looking for and hit the big time!<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Use Blogger to build backlinks]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53288</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53288</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:26:45 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53288</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Using blogger for link building is a great idea and can be fast + simple if you do it the right way.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Breakthrough mediocrity and get real traffic]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52964</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52964</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:08:39 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52964</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So you're already ranked on the first page of Google for your keywords and there is seemingly no more SEO work for you to do.  The only problem is, now that you are therea4 you are realizing that the traffic levels are not as good as you had once thought.  How do you break thorough this slump and continue your growth?<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Content does not equal king]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52566</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52566</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:59:37 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>In House SEM</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52566</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Content only combined with marketing equals king in the web industry.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Avoiding duplicate content penalities with Wordpress]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52361</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52361</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:58:07 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52361</guid>
<description><![CDATA[All about robots.txt and the plugins you can install for optimum performance.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Truth About NoFollow Links]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52054</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52054</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:06:54 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52054</guid>
<description><![CDATA[NoFollow links DO hold value... We got the experiment done to prove it!<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PR is worthless]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51119</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51119</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:49:00 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51119</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google Pagerank isn't really that relevent<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Domain name more important than backlinks?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50845</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50845</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:51:27 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50845</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Are domain names the most important thing in SEO?<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Auto-blogging softwarea4 AKA a4Splogsa4 are a bad idea]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50295</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50295</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:12:58 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50295</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you are thinking about creating an automatically updating blog using WPomatic or a similar programa4 let me advise against it!<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ninteen ways to increase your web site traffic]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50107</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50107</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:38:25 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50107</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Saw a similar post on another forum, but thought some of the ideas were kind of, ah, sub-optimal. I've winnowed them out, taking the list from 64 tips down to the 19 I thought were best.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Content Management Scripts and SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49877</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49877</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 21:40:16 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Usability</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49877</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A look at Wordpress, Joomla, and Drupal.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reddit is also another good way to get your site indexed]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49665</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49665</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 22:47:12 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49665</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Submit to Reddit and get your site indexed fast!<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[One guya4s Google indexing ingredients]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48821</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48821</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 11:07:35 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48821</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How to use Digg and Propeller to get your site indexed fast!<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Get good rankings so you can steal othera4s content]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48659</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48659</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 19:33:39 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48659</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Avoid duplicate content penalties by stealing content from people who rank lower than you.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Target long tail keywords to dominate the search engines]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48531</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48531</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 16:49:24 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48531</guid>
<description><![CDATA[For those who don't know what Long Tail terms are, these are simply very specific search terms and generally have 4-5 or more words and little competition.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[List of web directories to submit to]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48322</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48322</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 11:18:22 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48322</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I found a great list with more than 6.600 directories.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to get current events SE traffic]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47747</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47747</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 10:51:45 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47747</guid>
<description><![CDATA[exploit news stories to get search engine traffic<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to get ranked quickly on search engines]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46995</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46995</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 13:33:50 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46995</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Good idea about how to get search engines to list you fast!<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Things to do before the search engine spiders arrive]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46687</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46687</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 13:24:05 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46687</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When creating a new site, there are a lot of things you need to do before you &quot;release&quot; it and show it to the search engines.  Check out the list<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What is the best way to build backlinks?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46286</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46286</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 20:34:56 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46286</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Getting links the natural way requires you to create link bait!<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Scaring people into coming to your site!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45970</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45970</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 10:49:44 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45970</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A fresh viral marketing idea.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dominate low competition keywords via article writing]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45710</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45710</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 08:21:24 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45710</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How to get visitors to your website through writing articles.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Outsourcing SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45383</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45383</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 21:22:26 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45383</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Why it's a good idea to outsource link building and other SEO activities<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Link building is like a balanced diet]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45147</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45147</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 14:32:31 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45147</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Think of SEO link building like the food pyramid<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to create good link bait]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/44864</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/44864</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 12:22:59 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/44864</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How to create interesting content that will force your visitors to link to you.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Making your website load faster]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/44644</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/44644</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 12:49:55 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Usability</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/44644</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How to tweak your website to make it load just a bit faster... resulting in increased pageviews and higher user retention rate.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Getting TONS of links through Press Releases]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/44278</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/44278</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 22:50:50 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/44278</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How to use internet press releases to market your site...<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is SEO a waste of time?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/44057</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/44057</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 07:30:22 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/44057</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Search engine optimization... is it a waste of time or not?<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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