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<title>Sphinn / patbdoyle / Voted News</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:40:13 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Google To Add AdSense Features With DoubleClick Cookies Technology]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/64241</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/64241</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:40:13 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/64241</guid>
<description><![CDATA[To me, this is huge.  I always hated how DoubleClick tracked you across the web.  Now for Google to be doing it is even worse - they know so much already.  How can I continue to run AdSense on my sites, knowing what I am doing to my readers' privacy?<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Easy Project Management For Internet Marketers]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/63788</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/63788</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:58:13 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/63788</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Internet Marketers, like most entrepreneurs, tend to get distracted and flit from one project to another without accomplishing anything.  This is not really a flaw, but is due to our creative side taking over.  Here is a simple method to keep on track.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What I Learned About Communities and Social Media by Hanging Out With the Trolls]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/30879</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/30879</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:04:13 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/30879</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Excellent post about how different groups view Stumbleupon.  This is not your usual rehash of what has been said before - it is very personal and compelling - I really liked it!<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Paradox of Self-Promotion with Social Media]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/29724</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/29724</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:30:52 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/29724</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Great article about how to use social media correctly.<br/><br/>21 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Blogger Interviews: Interview with Nathania Johnson]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/21503</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/21503</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:01:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/21503</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Great interview with Nathania Johnson.  She discusses blogging, social networking, and web 2.0 topics.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Create a Static Front Page for Your Blog]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/21411</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/21411</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:43:16 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/21411</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Instead of just having your latest posts on the home page of your blog, you can create a custom front page and display whatever you choose.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Plan For Bloggers Struggling to Find New Readers]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/17452</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/17452</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:48:59 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/17452</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Great post by Skellie - how to find new readers for your blog.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Be Careful With Gmail]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/17445</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/17445</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:34:56 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/17445</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I just started using gmail a few days ago, had all my mail archived there, and all of a sudden my account was suspended.  I have no idea why!  Luckily I was able to recover most of my email from my old computer, but I lost the mail from the last few days.  I had no idea this could happen!!  Has this happened to anyone else?<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Declare Independence From Your Computer]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/17395</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/17395</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:23:59 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/17395</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Facing business decisions about how to access mail and files from multiple computers, and how to have backups for disaster recovery.  If you are serious about your internet business, you should think about these things.  People left good info in the comments too.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Publish an Ebook in Amazona4s Kindle Book Store!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/16302</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/16302</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:27:30 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/16302</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I got my ebook published in Amazon's Kindle bookstore.  Here is how I did it.  If you want to be a &quot;published author&quot; on Amazon.com, this is an easy way to do it, and it is free.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Are You Committed To A Marketing Plan?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/15110</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/15110</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:25:15 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/15110</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A reminder that it may take many times of viewing an ad before someone purchases, so you should commit to a marketing plan for the long term.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Main Reason Why Adsense Doesna4t Make You Money]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/13088</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/13088</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:32:33 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/13088</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Why some blogs make a lot more money on AdSense than others.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Get Links To A Boring Blog]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/13086</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/13086</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:26:35 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/13086</guid>
<description><![CDATA[From the article: &quot;Yesterday, I focused on building links to the blog. In order to rank well in the search engines, I am going to have to get links to the blog. The blog is so boring, it would not work well for social networking.There are going to be three parts to this section on link building, because I don't want the post to get too huge. Today, I will discuss entering the blog into blog carnivals. The next two sections will focus on two automated tools I used for article submission.&quot;<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ScratchBack Review]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/12342</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/12342</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:09:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/12342</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I have been testing the ScratchBack widget in my sidebar. ScratchBack, currently in Beta, is a creation of marketer Jim Kukral. I am reviewing it as a publisher and as an advertiser on other blogs' Scratchback widgets.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Build Your Brand Through Social Media]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/11780</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/11780</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:43:04 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/11780</guid>
<description><![CDATA[From the article: &quot;Instead of seeing social media as a way to bring more into your site let's look at how you can put more into social media sites and in doing so how you can brand yourself and increase your sphere of influence.&quot;<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Whata4s Going On With Page Rank, and Should We Care?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/10833</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/10833</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:53:20 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/10833</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Is Google going too far in alienating everyone?<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Can You Be Found Where People Are Looking?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9063</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9063</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:59:19 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9063</guid>
<description><![CDATA[From the post: &quot;When you think of search engines it's conventional to see them as a source of traffic for your site. However, what you're really doing is building a presence on another site. Search engines are not the only place you can build that presence.&quot;  Great advice!<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Two Blogging Profit Models]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6887</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6887</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:09:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6887</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The well-known blogs who make their money by advertising may not actually be using the most effective profit model.&amp;nbsp; We tend to forget the other model - selling your own products.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Market Your Site the Smart Way]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6277</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6277</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:29:23 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6277</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Graphic designer David Airey has gotten at least 1,271 links from his contest so far.  Analysis of what makes his contest so good from a marketing standpoint.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[7 Tips To Beat the Blogging Blahs]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6153</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6153</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:03:58 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6153</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Many blogs are abandoned after a short time.  Make sure your blog is not one of them.  Implement these tips now before the &quot;blogging blahs&quot; hit you.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Top 100 Make Money Online Blogs]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4819</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4819</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:06:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4819</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Mark has created a Top-100 list of &quot;Make Money Online&quot; blogs - ranked by Page Rank, Technorati rank, and Alexa rank.  There is still time to get your blog entered - just give Mark at 45n5 your URL.  Kind of a fun, friendly competition.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Do You Really Only Work Two Hours Per Day?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4759</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4759</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:43:48 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4759</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Good discussion on how many hours per day a successful internet entrepreneur works, how much money is enough, workaholism, etc.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[8 Tips For Visitor-Friendly AdSense Placement]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4756</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4756</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:44:06 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Contextual Ads</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4756</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Think about your visitors when deciding where to place your AdSense ads.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sphinn - The Good and The Bad]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4697</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4697</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:13:24 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4697</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I love Sphinn and have found  some really great posts here.  My only problem is that the pages load so slowly that I get impatient and leave.  I would spend a lot more time browsing if the pages loaded quicker.  Thanks!<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why I Use the WordPress Default Permalinks]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4640</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4640</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:28:53 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4640</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Does it matter if you use keywords in your permalinks?  Does it hurt to use the default WordPress permalinks?  What do you think?<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Find Profitable Affiliate Programs]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4074</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4074</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:33:17 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Affiliate Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4074</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Tips on finding affiliate programs that are a good fit for your site.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[23 Great Ideas For Blog Posts]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4039</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4039</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:39:45 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4039</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Have you run out of ideas for what to post on your blog?  This article will give you some fresh inspiration.<br/><br/>25 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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