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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:04:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How Good Is The Mainstream Media At Linking Out?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/59422</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:04:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/59422</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Our findings show that, in general, lots of mainstream sites are very good at linking out and that there is a direct correlation between the number of links they give and the number of links they receive.<br/><br/>50 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Google Trends For Websites Just A Big Google SEO Ploy?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54824</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54824</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:01:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54824</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Have any of you started to notice the new Google trend URL results showing up in the SERPs? Is Google just trying to get lots of search traffic when people type urls into the search box?<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEOmoz Penalised By Google For Web 2.0 Awards]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52509</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52509</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:29:28 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52509</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The SEOmoz Web 2.0 awards page is PR0 and no longer ranks. &quot;This seems to be a particularly harsh move by Google if you ask me. I mean people have ran awards and given out badges to the winners for years and it is totally white hat.&quot;<br/><br/>68 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Debunked: Only The 1st Anchor Text Counts With Google]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50401</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50401</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:40:34 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50401</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A little while ago I read the following thread over at SEOmoz:&quot;Results of Google Experimentation - Only the First Anchor Text Counts&quot;This made me panic a bit, because it would have meant that the footer link I had on this blog was not helping my homepage rank.<br/><br/>47 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Are these the best hidden paid links ever? Can you find them?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/42233</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/42233</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:46:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/42233</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Can you spot the paid links on this page? They are there and you can make them appear without looking at the source code.Most importantly they work very well.<br/><br/>59 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[25 million paid/coop links, cloaking & top rankings. How does moneyexpert.com do it?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/40690</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/40690</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:36:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/40690</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;We all know that Money Expert have been buying links. They know it. You know it. Google even knows it...........Serving different content to the search engine and the customer. Naughty, naughty.&quot;<br/><br/>64 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Live blogging April Fools day 2008]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/37819</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/37819</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:02:34 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/37819</guid>
<description><![CDATA[April Fools day 2008 has officially started and this post will be updated for the next 36 hours with the latest pranks.<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Webmasters Guide to April Fools 2008]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/35533</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/35533</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:01:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/35533</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Get your linkbait hats on. April Fools day isn't just a day to play pranks on your friends and readers - in recent years it has become an amazingly effective method of driving traffic and building natural links to your website as well.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Who did the SEO for GoCompare? Google, apparently!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/28503</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/28503</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:11:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/28503</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;The Search division of digital advertising specialist, DoubleClick, will work with gocompare.com on natural search optimisation.&quot;<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Link Diagnosis - examine your link competition]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25726</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25726</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:58:17 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25726</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Uses Yahoo data and is one of the best link analysis tools I've seen.<br/><br/>58 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[24 million links & Google looks the other way]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25398</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25398</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:24:56 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25398</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How can a site with 24 million links from an automated link network be allowed to rank number one for &quot;loans&quot;, &quot;credit cards&quot; and &quot;mortgages&quot; 6 months after Matt Cutts was aware of it?<br/><br/>103 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Digg is full of spam this month]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/21204</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/21204</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:45:20 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/21204</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;We provide Digg FrontPage service for only $40 per story. You will get a lot of traffic and quality backlinks(even from PR6 and PR7 sites!).&quot;<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ProBlogger & CopyBlogger - PageRank 4]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/10732</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/10732</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:41:46 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/10732</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Wow - this is an interesting one.<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEOmoz just lost 1 million links]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/8681</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/8681</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:10:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Yahoo Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/8681</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yahoo Site Explorer has just had a big backlink update making link counts a LOT lower.<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Thank you Sphinn for helping BlogStorm hit 1000 RSS readers in 3 months]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6076</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6076</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:49:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6076</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This is just to say thanks to everybody who has helped my new blog hit 1000 RSS readers. Building a loyal readership to a SEO blog is almost impossible these days and the fact Sphinn launched when it did has really helped new bloggers like me. Thanks.<br/><br/>25 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google about to give Digg a huge traffic boost]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1294</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1294</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:58:23 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1294</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Matt Cutts gave Digg a nice piece of news last week at Wordcamp 2007. During the conference Matt was offering tips on search engine marketing to Wordpress bloggers and explained that Google is starting to treat underscores in URLs the same as hyphens.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Security Flaw Allows Sites to Auto-Subscribe New RSS Readers]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/763</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/763</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:25:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/763</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Have you ever opened up your Google Reader account or personalized Google Hompage and spotted a feed that you didn't remember subscribing to? If you have then it might have been due to a security issue with the way Google handles RSS subscription requests.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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