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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:03:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dear Google: Was I bitchslapped for blogging about PPP?!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/14714</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/14714</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:03:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/14714</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I think my blog PR was slapped to zero for no other reason than mentioning PPP &amp; competitors.  Based on other's experience, because my blog is smallish, I know there is no way to find out for sure. Oh well...<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[2007 Weblog Awards: How to prevent ballot stuffing next year.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/13223</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/13223</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:16:43 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/13223</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hot Political Topic + Well Publicized Blog Contest + Flimsy Cyber Securty = Winner Not Announced!  Weblogs 2007 voting almost had ballots stuffed by zombie 'bot.  The 'bot appear to have affected two categories: Best Science Blog and Best Technology Blog.  This article explains how bloggers (or anyone running contests) could easily protect against the sort of ballot stuffing that likely occurred. The companion article explains how easy it was to stuff the ballot box.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Two Lessons About Search: What I learned by ranking #2 for a4PageRank Zero October 2007a4!  :]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/11904</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/11904</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:29:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/11904</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Last week's Page Rank dust up changed many people's Page Ranks. But it didn't change everything, and bloggers can still learn a lot about improving their SEO by examining search results.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Funny Google PR Fallout: Advertisers Requesting Posties To REMOVE Links.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/11525</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/11525</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:28:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/11525</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Here's your chance to eavesdrop on PPP Posties reaction to Advertisers asking them to remove paid links from their posts? Getting reincluded by Google may not be easy.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter Guide Part #2: Socialising with Twitter]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/11412</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/11412</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:37:34 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/11412</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Twitter is often seen as a tool for personal interaction only. Caroline explains how to use it to promote your business.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Do PPP and Google Agree About Something? Contests entry posts are not a4freea4!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/10840</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/10840</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:11:14 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/10840</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Who says PPP and Google don't agree on paid links? Of course they disagree. But, it turns out they do agree that payment can come in forms other than cold hard cash.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Did a4The Tampon Bloga4 MEET Blogrush Quality Standards?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/10486</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/10486</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:02:42 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/10486</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When I read Tamar Weinberg and other quality SEO blogs were banned from Blogrush, I asked myself, &quot;Did  'The Tampon Blog' make the cut?&quot; Behold the screen shot! :)<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Who Doesna4t Love Daegan Spam? Or a4Delete to Avoid a Google Penaltya4 : Big Bucks Blogger]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9868</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9868</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:38:18 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9868</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sploggers have always tried to build links using trackback spam. The newer splog/scraper sites are looking less sploggish; keep an eye out and delete those trackbacks.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New WordPress Plugin To Help Slow Widgets | More Than Scratch The Surface]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9867</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9867</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:30:23 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9867</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Social networking is a great way to build community and blog traffic. Unfortunately, many of the widgets load slowly, and make you risk losing traffic.  Steve solves the problem for Wordpress blogs.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dear John Reese: Are Tampon Sample a4Hobbiesa4?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9612</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9612</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:47:33 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9612</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I know Jill said she'd puke if she read another Blogrush post. But what I saw on my Blogrush widget made me snort milk out of my nostrils. So, I'll risk making her puke.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Does Google Page Rank Foster an Attitude of Entitlement? Alternate view to Wendy Piersala4s Post.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/8730</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/8730</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:38:33 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/8730</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Remember the story about the stingy PR5 blogger who wouldn't give out links to the PR0 blog when the PR0 blogger asked? Everyone seemed to side against the PR5 blogger-- but few read the underlying article. Sure, PR is a stupid way to decide who to link. But do we really think PR5 bloggers are required to give a site wide side bar link to a PR0 blogger just because they asked for one?I discuss some of the details of the event, and I think many of us would not have given out the site wide sidebar link. (Though, possibly, we would have stated our refusals a bit less rudely.)<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[More SEO Mistakes - Video Bashing my First Website]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/8051</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/8051</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:42:43 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/8051</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Josh Spaulding discusses how to improve the SEO of a web site using one of his first sites as an example. None of this is news to people who work in SEO, but the video could be useful for showing others the sorts of entirely white hat things professional do to get better rank and better conversion.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Sphinn Mailbox: Could it be tweaked?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/7329</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/7329</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:21:53 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/7329</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I received a PM at Sphinn, which was great to get! Unfortunately, I found it very difficult to read on my firefox browser for the mac. The text overflows past the right edge and bottom of the display box, there are no discernible scroll bars and I can't easily adjust the size.  I managed to read the text by selecting text with my mouse, but it wasn't easy.  I realize maybe &quot;everyone&quot; knows how to get this to display properly, or maybe it displays well on other browsers. Still, could the display and text be fixed so default display is readable? Thanks!<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pssta4 Alexa Rank Secret Revealed!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/7123</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/7123</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:26:58 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/7123</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Alexa rank, so meaningless. And yet, it feels so much better to have a good rank rather than a poor one.  Now, you can learn the secret of attracting visitors who all have toolbars installed and you can have John Chow's smiling image appear on your blogcatalog widget too!<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Five Tips for Getting Traffic From Stumble]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6428</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6428</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:16:13 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6428</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I've been trying to learn how to increase StumbleUpon traffic without spamming. I'm no expert, but I tried to glean from many of articles, and translate the advice into concrete &quot;to do&quot; tips.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Inject Affiliate Ads Proto-Plugin: Suggestions? : Big Bucks Blogger]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5840</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5840</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:46:17 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Affiliate Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5840</guid>
<description><![CDATA[People are discovering AdBlocker Plus, so I figure it's time to make it easier to insert ads that don't get blocked into a Wordpress blog. I looked for a Wordpress Ad Plugin that let me create and insert a banner of simple text-link type affiliate ads into my blog, but couldn't find what I wanted. Then, I realized I could write a &quot;proto-plugin&quot; in 30 minutes, so I did.I'm requesting suggestions (or if something similar already exists, let me know so I don't sink more than the 30 minutes I already spent!)<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Here Are Two Quick Ways to Catch Cloaked Nofollows]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5285</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5285</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:47:59 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5285</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Some dodgy publisher are cloaking paid links to show &quot;nofollow&quot; to the Googlebot, but follow to the advertisers who paid for the links.  This is almost certainly a violation of the contractual agreement between the publisher and the advertiser. This post explains how advertisers can detect the cloaking.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[DoFollow & the a4Jewa4 Google bomb]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4204</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4204</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:34:25 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4204</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Jewish Google-bomb is making the rounds again. I know many of us are using dofollow now.  I'm encouraging everyone to be vigilant and check for links to hate sites that might be dropped in comments.<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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