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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:00:23 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Needy Karma Turning Off Casual Plurkers?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/61869</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/61869</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:00:23 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/61869</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The karma system at Plurk is much too needy in its current state. It's no surprise that some sources claim plurks numbers are down. This same piece also mentions that those that are into it are really into it.<br/><br/>47 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why I No Longer Blog for SEOmoz]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/61162</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/61162</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/61162</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Michael Martinez&quot;There seems to be a growing misperception in the industry that I must have parted with Rand Fishkin on bad terms or something in 2006 after blogging for SEOmoz for almost a year. Nothing could be farther from the truth, and after seeing yet one more petty comment on the Web today that reinforces this misperception I decided it's at least time to rebut the nonsense with the facts.&quot;<br/><br/>72 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[George Carlin's Death Spikes Searches For His Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54588</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54588</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:54:41 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54588</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I was saddened to hear one of my favorite comedians, George Carlin,  passed away Sunday. Clearly he touched many people. A quick look at Google Trends shows searches related to him have spiked up as well as for his famous &quot;seven words you can't say on TV.&quot;<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Just Another Crappy SEO Article]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/43589</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/43589</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 20:19:11 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/43589</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Here we go again. SEO guidelines or advice that sucks, is not true or is just poop on a page being published on a big popular website.<br/><br/>59 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[You Want SEO Standards?  Well, Here Ya Go!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38192</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38192</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:10:14 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38192</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Another great post from SEOHack offering definitive SEO Standards. I think they should be adopted and we can put this issue to bed.<br/><br/>35 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Come up with Blog Post Ideas for Challenging Industries]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/37836</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/37836</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:18:31 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/37836</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Some industries appear to lend themselves better to blogging than others. In our field I'll always have far more blog post ideas than I do time to write. But what about more challenging industries?<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft adCenter - Where's The Revenue?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/37230</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/37230</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:17:46 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Microsoft adCenter</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/37230</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So Microsoft adCenter is the only one of the 3 major paid search platforms that does NOT report on revenue<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Danny Sullivan Tackles Search 3.0 and 4.0 in SMX West Keynote]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/32335</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/32335</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:12:27 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/32335</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The topic: Search 3.0, Search 4.0, and Beyond. To cover this -- surely not, 4.0?? we're still hearing complaints about Web 2.0! -- Danny will have to cover 1.0 and 2.0. This is straightforward stuff for experienced search marketers, but brand new to many.<br/><br/>30 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[11 Firefox Extensions for SEOs You Didn't Know About]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/28758</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/28758</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:28:08 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/28758</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Nice list of less popular Firefox Extensions that are helpful to SEO projects.<br/><br/>54 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Newa4And Unfortunatea4Changes To Google Local Search]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27203</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27203</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:08:54 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27203</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Previously, Google would display three local search results in the OneBox area, with at star rating and a review snippet. Now Google returns 10 local results listed A-J.<br/><br/>34 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[You Make Me Sick - Viral Video Response]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26809</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26809</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:09:07 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26809</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Interactive agency Digital Axle sent out pitches to a number of bloggers this morning promoting a &quot;viral video&quot; that I wanted to share. Mind you, I'm not going to share the actual video because it's sick, racist and violent.<br/><br/>36 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Search Really Works: The Keyword Density Myth]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26522</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26522</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:25:28 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26522</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Keyword density says something about words in a document in relation to the document itself. It doesn't help you to compare and thus sort or rank a set of documents.<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Internet Marketing Ninja Interview with Jim Boykin]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/21180</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/21180</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:11:27 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/21180</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Internet Marketing Ninjas instructional program including videos and tools conceived by Jim Boykin of We Build Pages, has officially launched.<br/><br/>36 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google has ita4s Head up Wikipedias Ass]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/20932</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/20932</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:27:54 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/20932</guid>
<description><![CDATA[C'mon Google WTF how can you possibly say that Wikipedia deserves to above Delicious for the search term [delicious]<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Worthless Meta Tags used by SEO Companies]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/18582</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/18582</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:38:40 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/18582</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Everyday I am amazed by the countless number of pointless tags that are inserted into the header of a website.<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Search Illustrated: The Value Of An Inbound Link]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/18187</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/18187</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:58:34 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/18187</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Inbound links can carry many different meanings beyond just a top ranking. This week's infographic explores three different perspectives on the value of an inbound link<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dona4t Buy Links - Buy the Whole Site]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/17339</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/17339</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:35:45 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/17339</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google has and will continue to penalize sites that flagrantly buy and sell links. If you are buying or selling links: do it covertly &amp; do it under the radar. However, in many instances there may be a better option that trying to buy a link from a site: buy the site outright.<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Diggs per minute...a Digg Virgin's online diary]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/16547</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/16547</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:28:42 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/16547</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We recently had a Digg submission go Hot. This is the first one that I was personally involved with. Given that I didn't have anything better to do on a Sunday afternoon, I thought that it might be fun to Chart the # of Diggs and resulting traffic to see if we could draw any interesting conclusions.<br/><br/>36 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Search Spam Is Getting More Dangerous Every Day]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/16286</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/16286</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:39:59 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/16286</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Search spam, using techniques that manipulate the search results, is becoming more dangerous each and every day. Some search spammers go as far as hacking sites to inject link spam into unsuspecting web pages. And some go even further by polluting the search results with nasty malware.<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Some Digg Functionality is Broken ... Ohhhh It Hurts.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/16062</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/16062</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:08:07 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/16062</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Its true a4 some of Digg's functionality appears broken at the moment. Fortunately, its not critical functionality, so we will survive. It is a pain however. Accordingly, in the remainder of this post, I'll identify the problem, show the symptoms, discuss the implications, and propose a solution<br/><br/>36 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sphinner's Crossword Challenge - Friday Fun!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/14370</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/14370</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:58:30 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/14370</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SEP's first crossword puzzle, with a heavy slant towards the Sphinn community.<br/><br/>28 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[10 Signs You Are a Search Marketing Geek]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/12703</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/12703</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:08:37 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/12703</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Title says it all. As I become more and more immersed in the world of SEO and search marketing I am noticing that it is creeping into every aspect of my life. The following are by no means comprehensive of search taking over your life but they are signals that you may be living the life of a Search Geek.<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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