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<title>Sphinn / martinbowling / Hot Today</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:34:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[33 Website Success Metrics Instead of Rankings, Google PageRank and Traffic]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/67378</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/67378</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:34:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/67378</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Tad Chef writes &quot;How to measure website success when rankings, Google PageRank and sheer traffic have gone the way of &quot;hits&quot;: All these older metrics become more and more meaningless in the current web environment.Why measure ranking when they differ from location to location and from computer to computer due to localization and personalization efforts by Google and other search engines?&quot;<br/><br/>70 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Breakdancing SEO's: Brian Chappell and Martin Bowling]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/66129</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/66129</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:49:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/66129</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Brian Carter makes a hilarious break dancing video of Brian Chappell &amp; I. Great for a laugh, hope you all enjoy as much as I did.<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Word Visualization on Search Marketing Blogs]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/65305</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/65305</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:42:33 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/65305</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lee Odden writes &quot;Lists and ranking resources can be tough and controversial. A while back we ranked top blogs on the topic of search engine marketing (SEO and PPC) that publish their RSS subscriber counts via Google's Feedburner.With changes in the search marketing industry, one can logically wonder, &quot;How many SEM blogs really still post about search marketing?&quot; To help answer that question, we took a look at 10 of the top search marketing blogs by RSS subscriber counts using the Wordle &quot;word cloud&quot; tool:&quot;<br/><br/>51 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Adolescence of SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/64228</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/64228</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:30:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/64228</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Kate Morris writes &quot;Back in the day, selling SEO/M services was relatively easy. The internet was &quot;new,&quot; business owners were completely oblivious to the craft of search engine optimization, and were willing to pay people to &quot;get them on the web.&quot; Those were the days when SEOs spent the majority of time on education (as much as we hated it), the rest on keyword density and link building. Life was good.&quot;<br/><br/>49 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Avatars and Brand - The Tale of a Sphinn Avatar]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/63922</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/63922</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:34:40 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/63922</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Pageoneresults writes &quot;In just under three (03) weeks, I've managed to view a very large percentage of the Sphinn Profile database through public access. I lost count on just how many profiles I've read. I did learn quite a bit about each and every one of you that I viewed. I could tell quite a bit about you based on your activity within the Sphinn Community.I've been in Advertising and Marketing since 1990 from the commercial printing and ad specialties side of things. I've been involved with over a thousand design projects ranging from business cards to fleet graphics. I'd like to think that I've developed an &quot;eye&quot; for certain types of things, particularly graphics and their initial impressions. In this case, Profile Avatars.&quot;<br/><br/>51 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[An Actual a4Non Big Branda4 Twitter Case Study]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/63929</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/63929</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:33:29 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/63929</guid>
<description><![CDATA[sugar rae writes &quot;Anytime someone asks how a business can use Twitter effectively, most people point to the twitter accounts of big brands like Comcast and Zappos. While both companies are definitely standout examples of putting Twitter to good use, you probably aren't marketing a household name and have a hard time seeing how your small merchant site or information site can use Twitter effectively. And by now, you're probably sick of the &quot;top ways&quot; people guess or hypothesize that a commercial website could use Twitter to their advantage.&quot;Note: This was not sphunn in some circle jerk fashion because sugar rae is a seo rockstar, an a lister, a seolebrity. I sphunn this because I thought it has very useful information for the SMB or independent seo on how to effectively use twitter to build brand awareness and increase traffic.<br/><br/>48 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dear SEO Community, Ita4s Not Me, Ita4s You]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/63755</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/63755</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:18:27 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/63755</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sugarrae writes &quot;Let me start off by summing up this entire post in one sentence for those of you busy actually doing some productive sh*t today (which I usually am):This &quot;community&quot; is f**ked and way too wrapped up in its own communal and deluded level of self importance and needs to get a life.&quot;<br/><br/>68 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Get Google Rankings for Your Persona on 27 Social Media Websites]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/60214</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/60214</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:36:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/60214</guid>
<description><![CDATA[brian carter writes &quot;Everyone who has a persona in multiple social networks knows that:   1. Social media site profile pages show up in search engine searches for your persona username and/or real name   2. These pages can be valuable links to your other web properties   3. You should use a consistent name and avatar for both meme-power (mind share) and semantic weight- both for search engines and for brand momentum with your audience&quot;<br/><br/>49 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Goodbye Page Strength, Hello Trifecta - SEOmoz's Latest Comparison & Analysis Tool]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/59221</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/59221</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:46:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/59221</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Rand Fishkin writes &quot;For the last two years, SEOmoz's Page Strength tool has been one of our most popular features. Using data collected from sources around the web, it aggregates, measures and scores a page based on its relative popularity and importance. But, it's always had one huge flaw - not everything on the web is a page.&quot;Note: Unlimited reports for the next 48 hours!<br/><br/>57 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Taylor Pratt: Search Blogger of The Day]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/59375</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/59375</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:58:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/59375</guid>
<description><![CDATA[DazzlinDonna writes &quot;This is one of a series of posts in which I will be highlighting each member of the Search Bloggers list, with commentary on one of their posts (new or old). Look for this series to continue once or twice a week for the next couple of months.Meet Taylor Pratt. He's currently last on the Search Bloggers list because that's how it worked out alphabetically.&quot;<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[15 Signs an SEO Girl Likes You]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/59406</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/59406</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:45:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/59406</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Kate Morris and Lisa Barone write &quot;Idea so stolen from On365's 21 Signs a Geek Girl Likes You. This is coming from a couple of the apparently few single SEOs. As I've said before, almost all SEOs are married! I realized this while stalking people before SMX Advanced. Regardless, if you're single and think an SEO Chick *might* like you, here are some ways to tell.&quot;<br/><br/>63 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEM in Canada: Conference Postponed & Insights into the Canadian Search Marketplace]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/58546</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/58546</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:58:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/58546</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Laura Callow writes &quot;The SEM Canada Conference has been postponed until October of next year for the following reasons:1. We are in final talks with a new corporate sponsor who will enable us to really make the SEM Canada series world-class. Details will be forthcoming within the next 6-8 weeks2. We did not think anyone would necessarily want to come to a rescheduled conference in winter at -40'C - so that rules out everything until Spring3. In Spring we hit the SES (Search Engine Strategies) New York &amp; Toronto, and SMX (Search Marketing Expo) Advanced and other conferences, and we are not planning on competing for market share4. In summer everyone is on holiday, or already going to SES San Jose5.  a4hence October 2009a4 It will come around a lot faster than you think. It feels like yesterday that I was at last year's SES San Jose, and it's nearly a yeara4 I'm sayin'&quot;<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Six Ladies of SEO I Would Want to Be Stuck Next to on a Cross Country Flight]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/58339</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/58339</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:44:26 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/58339</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dave Synder writes &quot;Maybe this will become all that Snydey Sense is. One list after another of people I like.If that happens someone put a pillow over my face while I'm sleeping.The reality of the situation is that I wrote the last piece with six specific individuals in mind, and none of them happened to be women.&quot;<br/><br/>52 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The ProtoViral Posts, So Far]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57666</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57666</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:59:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57666</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dan Zarrella writes &quot;I made some changes to my sidebar and I noticed that I've started to build up a decent number of posts on my weird take on history, sociology, psychology, memetics, viral marketing and social media (I like to call it protoviral). So I decided to go ahead and make one big roundup post so that if you missed something you can read it from here, and so that I (and you will too) have a link to send people to help them understand exactly what I'm trying to do with my work.&quot;<br/><br/>33 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[My Thoughts On Ask.com & Core Search]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/55451</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/55451</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:00:36 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Ask.com</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/55451</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lisa Barone writes &quot;Oh my poor disgraced Ask.com bag. I wish I could rescue you from the back of my closet but I still can't bring myself to look at you.I didn't intend to blog about the recent phone call I had with Ask CEO Jim Safka and the PR guru that has won my heart with his wit and incessant emails, Nicholas Graham. However, now that Barry has commented on his phone call and I hear Danny is working on one as well, I thought I'd chime in with a few quick words&quot;<br/><br/>54 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Let's Pool Together to Buy .SEO & .SEM TLDs]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/55424</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/55424</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:56:27 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/55424</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Barry Schwartz writes &quot;Many of you already saw the article from the Wall Street Journal named Web Domains Could Expand Broadly Under New Plan.If not, in short it says, the company that manages the domain names, ICANN, said they will be offering a plan for companies and organizations to purchase their own TLD (top level domain). A told level domain is the .com or .net or .co.il portion of the domain name. So www.cartoonbarry.com's TLD is the .com. Now, I do not own the .com portion, I own the cartoonbarry portion.&quot;<br/><br/>48 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social Media Used To Be About Sharing]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54645</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54645</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:02:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54645</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lisa Barone writes &quot;Li Evans had a stellar post over at SEM Clubhouse entitled What Is Social Media's Purpose? Honestly, It's Not About Links. Li's post was inspired by some of the social media advice that was presented at last week's SES Toronto that included creating multiple user accounts, tricking people into being your friend, and faking credibility in the names of achieving fame and links. As Li so eloquently points out, social media isn't about links or deceiving your audience. &quot;<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Negative SEO Still Possible?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54585</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54585</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:29:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54585</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Last year, we looked at the impacts, if any, of negative SEO on websites, a discussion which arose from a Forbes article on the saboteurs of search. One year later, we're still discussing the consequences and seeing if negative SEO is still possible.<br/><br/>52 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Attend SMX Local & Mobile & Leave The PageRank Pack Behind!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53765</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53765</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:18:19 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Local &amp; Maps</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53765</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As I watch search marketers often continue to obsess about things like PageRank, I wanted to do a personal post / wake-up call related to our SMX Local &amp; Mobile Search Marketing show happening next month in San Francisco, July 24-25. Because for all the buzz that goes on around link building, link baiting, PageRank sculpting and so on, too many people are overlooking the new and prosperous frontiers of local and mobile search.<br/><br/>51 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Googlea4s Two Tiered Internet World Sinks to a New Low]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54286</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54286</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:49:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54286</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Michael Gray writes &quot;Today Google released an new feature that gives away traffic stats and keywords for most websites on the internet. However what everyone failed to notice is that Google laid everyone else bare, naked and exposed but kept their own stats locked up and private&quot;<br/><br/>90 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[There's No Shortcut for Link Building: A Case for Relationship Building]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53768</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53768</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:45:36 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53768</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Laycock writes &quot;When it comes to building links and generating coverage of your web site and products online, there's a skill that often gets overlooked. Relationship building gets a lot of lip service these days, but I sometimes wonder how many small businesses really, truly understand how much work goes into it. Relationships go beyond reading a single blog post or scanning a Facebook page...it means investing time in someone.&quot;<br/><br/>65 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[301 Redirect Explained]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53767</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53767</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:38:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53767</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ron Tovbin writes &quot;Let's start with the an overview of the basics. When you go to a web page, say, cnn.com , there is a lot going on behind the scenes to make that page show up in your browser. Remember, before anything can happen, a TCP/IP connection is established between your computer and the cnn.com webserver through port 80. Your browser will then start requesting &quot;assets&quot; to build the page. Some of these assets include HTML, CSS, Javascript and Image files, etc. They allow the browser to render the web page visible to you. &quot;<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[My Twitter Wish List]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53515</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53515</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:54:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53515</guid>
<description><![CDATA[David Wallace writes &quot;Besides just hoping that Twitter runs consistently without experiencing outages all the time, there are a few things I would love to see the micro-blogging service add that would make the Twitter even more useful than it already is. Even though it is several months till Christmas, I give you my Twitter wish list.&quot;<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What the hell does Lyndon Antcliff Know about Linkbait]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52795</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52795</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:52:03 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52795</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Patrick Altoft writes &quot;What the hell does Lyndon Antcliff Know about LinkbaitLyndon Antcliff has become one of the most notorious linkbait experts after a recent high profile project involving a hoax story was publicly &quot;outed&quot;.The fallout from this has driven Lyndon underground to launch an exclusive new linkbait coaching program.I decided to interview Lyndon to find out the truth about what's been going on and see if he really knows how to linkbait.&quot;<br/><br/>54 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Are You Losing Your Shirt Because You're Wearing the Wrong Shirt?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52088</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52088</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:02:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52088</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Brian Carter writes &quot;Previously a fashion choice made only by engineers and MIT students, graph paper shirts are now all the rage in the hot, young, explosive search marketing industry.  Coincidence?  I think not.&quot;<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Building Bricks: Keyword Discovery Process for Small Businesses]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52025</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52025</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:18:48 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52025</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Rishil writes &quot;As I have often stated, I work with many small clients, especially in the medical field. There are few problems associated with this market, none of them unique, but they're a pain to deal with for the revenue that you make on taking on small clients&quot;<br/><br/>48 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bloggers Need to Accept Responsibility Too]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49842</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49842</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:51:06 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49842</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Laycock writes &quot;I've read a lot of posts lately tearing down the public relations industry for what a poor job they do when pitching bloggers. I've also read (and written) quite a few posts about what a terrible job companies do relating to bloggers and having conversations with them. While there's no doubt companies and PR firms have a long way to go, a blast from my past reminded me that bloggers need to share some responsibility in all this.&quot;<br/><br/>51 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Social Media (but were afraid to ask)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49639</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49639</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 09:53:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49639</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Brian Wallace writes &quot;Today, I gave a social media presentation for the American Marketing Association, Louisville's monthly seminar. There was a great backdrop at the University Club, part of the University of Louisville where attendance was in upwards of 70.&quot;<br/><br/>55 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NonProfits Can Benefit from Social Media, Just Ask Mara Triangle]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49638</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49638</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 09:02:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49638</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sometimes as global audiences we get inundated with &quot;causes&quot; that we ignore those &quot;Donate&quot; buttons because we see them over and over again.  Unfortunately for Non-Profits, the offline blindness they have to overcome has now really become the same issues online.  What's worse is that some of these non-profits are getting bad advice about just starting up websites and &quot;they will come&quot;.  I'm sorry to break this to the non-profits, just building a static website anymore - won't cut it.<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mythbusting: Ideas Do Not Spread Because they are Good]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49528</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49528</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 08:37:57 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49528</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dan Zarrella writes &quot;I'd like to debunk a myth that has gone on, rampant and unchallenged in marketing circles, especially viral and social marketing, for some time now, but first I feel a few caveats are in order.&quot;<br/><br/>47 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Importance of Pay Per Click Account Structure]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49573</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49573</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 22:01:50 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Paid Search</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49573</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dave Synder writes &quot;I had an epiphany while working on a site yesteray, and as most lessons come from life, I thought I might as well turn it into a blog post.The reality of SEM is that creating PPC accounts that yield a high ROI can often be more difficult than basic organic optimization.&quot;<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dona4t Sour Your Link Juice By Forgetting Basic SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49525</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49525</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 11:02:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49525</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Loren Baker Recently I was contacted by a site owner who wanted to know why their site is not ranking highly on Google for certain terms, despite years of building relevant and valuable links, and wanted some tips on building better links.<br/><br/>68 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Win a Free Pass to SMX Advanced with Twitter]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49294</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49294</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 15:16:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49294</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Loren Barker writes &quot;SMX Advanced is right around the corner and if you are still thinking of attending the intimate search conference and learning everything you can from the masterminds of the search marketing industry; and have not yet registered, here's your chance to win a free pass.&quot;<br/><br/>35 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Link Request Strategies for Blogs, Edua4s & .Gova4s: Respect My Authoritah!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49296</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49296</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 13:36:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49296</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Melanie Nathan writes &quot;This post is a follow up to my creating and managing your link campaign article.These are not techniques for gaining natural links rather they are methods of contacting other sites about your business and getting them to link to you - without initially coming right out and asking for a link. It occurred to me to add a few links to actual places where you can get free .edu links, however I did that before over at seomoz and the free sources are now useless due to being spammed. &quot;<br/><br/>63 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Online Reputation Repair by Promoting Other Peoplea4s Pages]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49038</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49038</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 11:16:37 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49038</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Brett Borders writes &quot;When negative or unflattering information about you or your company appears in the search engines, it's easy to panic. But before you rush to make a slew of new pages and profiles, you should be aware there is a more effective and natural-looking strategy: linking to existing pages about other people with the exact same name.&quot;<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Linkbuilding Using Fiction]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48616</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48616</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 11:41:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48616</guid>
<description><![CDATA[lyndoman writes &quot;As long as Google uses links to a website to help it rank its search results, people will develop content to attract links. We know that when trying to rank for a competitive keyword things can get a little dirty in the SERPS. People who don't play by the rules, but yet they still rank.&quot;<br/><br/>51 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Friend Feeds Underappreciated Value a4 The Comment Nexus]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47188</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47188</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 22:52:13 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47188</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Mark Dykeman writes &quot;Social media used to carry a lot of talk about social networking apps Facebook, and MySpace before that.Twitter started to catch on in 2007 and became a potentially indispensible (although not irreplaceable) communication channel to supplement the blogosphere. There are several microblogging applications out there now, designed to capture short comments for the SMS user, but easily adapted to support desktop and laptop computer users who roam the Web.&quot;<br/><br/>32 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Destroy Enemies Using Social Media Tools]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47256</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47256</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 23:39:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47256</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Marty from aimClear writes &quot;One person's defensive reputation management maneuver is another's ghastly crises. In search marketing blogs and communities, social media reputation management experts inadvertently teach losers to build nightmarish nuclear bombs. It's a nasty byproduct of the holistic work we do. However, to assume that only smiley-faced individuals harvest the reputation tips and tricks our community proffers would be incredibly naive.&quot;<br/><br/>36 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SERP Clickthrough Experiment Update]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46817</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46817</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 03:01:02 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46817</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago Tim Nash started an experiment with two of his clients on ways he might increase click throughs in the SERPs. well here is his first batch of results. And the results, might surprise you!<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[One Week of Sphinn SEO Lessons]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46685</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46685</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 10:02:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46685</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ruud Hein writes &quot;What valuable lessons, if any, do we teach on Sphinn regarding SEO?A high-level analysis of one week of Sphinn postings.The SelectionI'm coming at this from an angle where a non-SEO site owner says &quot;hey, I have to do somethinga4 now let's learn from the best&quot;.<br/><br/>47 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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