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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:19:19 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bad SEOs, bad SEOs, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when SEOMoz comes for you?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/81937</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/81937</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:19:19 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/81937</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Rand Outs a company ranking for SEO Company in Google sighting poor links and Aaron disagrees with the decision to write such a post.  Who / where do you stand in this argument?<br/><br/>146 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Search Marketing Predictions for 2008]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/24744</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/24744</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:22:59 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/24744</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Many industry experts have weighed in their predictions for 2008; curious... what are your top three predictions?<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social Nightmare]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/19617</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/19617</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:16:54 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/19617</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Today I had a social network take my account for their further benefits.  They claim that it was due to their system not recognizing that it was a restricted username.  Personally my guess is that they forgot to reserve the username.  However, I've owned and built the profile for four months now and they've taken it away.This is my official boycott on http://www.ClaimID.com until they do the right thing.  Help support this strike if you can; I've promoted this site on blogs, forums, to my clients and friends and now I'm getting screwed.- 10 minutes of SEO, SEM &amp; Internet Marketing<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[It's All in the Links [SearchEngineWatch]]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/18021</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/18021</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:01:36 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/18021</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Eric Enge does a very nice review of Matt Cutts most recent post, &quot;Subdomains and subdirectories&quot;. (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/)I however still have a question that I don't feel is being addressed by Matt, Eric or anyone else writing about the topic of choosing sub domains or sub directories.Eric writes, &quot;I do think that there is a slightly greater risk that a subdomain will be treated as a separate site by Google. While this risk is fairly low, I don't think that there is zero risk of this.&quot;My question is this...What if I WANT Google to treat sub domains as if they were owned and operated by separate users?  I'm set to launch a new niche site that is largely geared around user contribution.  While at the beginning it may be possible to police the network, eventually that won't be possible.I don't want my hard work and invested money into this project to be killed just because some yahoo or other unknowing baboon does something to their section of the network which creates a penalty for everyone.One great example of a mega site that will have problems with this is Wordpress.com.  They create hosted blogs as an option for their users using sub domains.  Wordpress.com is a well known established and trusted site so surely sub domains won't be a problem for them according to Eric.  However what about Joe Smoe or John Jones (me) who is just launching?<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[You May Violate Google Guidelines Ifa4]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9414</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9414</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:11:59 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9414</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Four ways you could possibly be guilty of violating Google Guidelines.  A short post on something that has probably been pointed out before but I always enjoy seeing it so thought I'd share it with those who may not have seen it yet.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Open Directory Launches The Official DMOZ Blog]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6932</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6932</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:06:35 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6932</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Can it be that Dmoz has life in it still?&amp;nbsp; Many people don't think so but in a surprising twist, Dmoz has decided to launch an official blog to set the record straight. - Originally&amp;nbsp;addressed by Barry Schwartz at http://searchengineland.com/070925-132849.php<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Making Money with Social Networking]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6465</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6465</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:48:33 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6465</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What's the purpose of spending hours on building a Social Reputation if in the end the Social Network(s) you've chosen to target doesn't result in a sale of the product or service that you are probably promoting?<br/><br/>28 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ia4m Sorry, Did I Drop That?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5104</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5104</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:32:20 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5104</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This may shape up to be a great case study for those of us who haven't thought about utilizing Google Alerts as a marketing tool.  Matt Cutts, Rand, Aaron Wall and others are all brought up in this blog posting; will this post work?<br/><br/>26 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Dirty Truth About SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4985</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4985</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:07:07 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4985</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Someone told me tonight, &quot;It's really a dark zone where nothing is official and everything is based on assumptions / trial &amp; error&quot; This came right after he said, &quot;There is a lot of contradictory information out there about SEO&quot;<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Paid Directory Collapse]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4518</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4518</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:57:32 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4518</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I think Lyndon said it best when he said, &quot;The rules have changed but the directories have not.&quot;<br/><br/>24 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo tops Google in customer satisfaction survey]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2890</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2890</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:23:04 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2890</guid>
<description><![CDATA[For the first time, Yahoo Inc. has replaced Google Inc. as the No. 1 portal of choice, according to a customer satisfaction survey released today.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[76 Useful SEO / SEM Websites & Tools]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2445</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2445</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:22:28 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2445</guid>
<description><![CDATA[76 useful Internet marketing websites to have in your arsenal.  Download-able tools, on-line tools, forums, blogs, educational sites and other SEO, SEM &amp; Internet Marketing related links.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Should you be the first to Sphinn your own article?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2230</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2230</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:27:14 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2230</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So far I've read two really great articles through various sources that I wanted to Sphinn.  The first was on &quot;Google Dumps The Supplemental Results Label&quot; which Danny Sullivan wrote.  That Sphinn went HOT right away and just left the front page yesterday (http://sphinn.com/story/2229).Today I read &quot;Cheat Sheet For Google Cheat Sheets&quot; by Barry Shwartz and felt it was a great resource to Sphinn as well.  (http://sphinn.com/story/2229)So I am wondering why I happened to be the first to Sphinn these articles when these two well known guru's in their own right should have that credit.  I am also wondering if I am getting deadly arrows pointed at me as we speak.Thoughts from everyone else on Sphinning first?<br/><br/>28 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Things you've wanted to say to troublesome clients.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/938</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/938</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:59:48 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/938</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Most of us have a story or two to tell about nightmare clients.  Often we have learned our lessons or at least some of them from these wonderful people we have dealt with in our past.Tonight I polled a few people in the industry I know and came up with seven statements that each of them have or would like to say to troublesome clients at one point in time or another.1.Sorry, but we must have payment prior to the work being started and completed.2.The standard rates are going up.3.I'll have to set up a call allowance for my services.4.That isn't part of our agreement.5.Your site is down because you didn't make the payment buddy.6.Google mustn't like your sitea4 sorry.7.You want to pay how much? (Followed by laughter)What are some of the things you wish you could say to some of the most troublesome clients you've ever dealt with before you learned that the money isn't worth the hassle?<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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