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<title>Sphinn / rjonesx / All</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:19:12 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[File Extensions Google Should Deindex]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/93306</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/93306</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:19:12 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/93306</guid>
<description><![CDATA[From password files to actual emails, Google is indexing nearly anything regardless of the file extension. Maybe it is time that Google takes a step back and reconsiders indexing .psafe3 (password database) files or .eml (yes - emails!)<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Second Page Poaching]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/89337</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/89337</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:07:25 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/89337</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The smartest way to use PageRank flow to increase traffic by targeting pages that stand to gain the most from incremental rankings increases.<br/><br/>53 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[glync: Google Webmaster Tools External Link Tracker]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/83268</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/83268</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:09:32 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/83268</guid>
<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest shortcomings of Google Webmaster Tools is that you cannot see changes over time. Glync is a free Firefox extension that allows you to track your domain's links over time right in Google Webmaster Tools. The Pro Version lets you track Yahoo links side-by-side for all of your internal pages as well...<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Effective Keyword Discovery and Traffic-on-Investment]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/80951</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/80951</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:03:01 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/80951</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A comprehensive guide to creating a keyword efficacy equation. Definitely kinda technical, but hopefully it will be useful to some of you out there.<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How To: Successful Reinclusion Requests]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/79474</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/79474</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:50:03 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/79474</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Every SEO will have to deal with this one time or another. A new client enters your door with a site that has come under the gun for violating Google's ToS. Here are some tips for a successful reinclusion request.<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Digg Noise Filter 2.0 Launched]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/78954</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/78954</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:50:58 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Bookmarking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/78954</guid>
<description><![CDATA[For those of you constantly trying to tweak your Digg account reputation by finding high potential stories before they go popular, the Digg Noise Filter has been re-released with better features, better design, and a faster interface.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Features and Facelift for Yahoo Site Explorer]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/76686</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/76686</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:55:23 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/76686</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Take a look, Yahoo has updated their Site Explorer with new features and a better, more integrated look!<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Penalty Myths]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/72985</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/72985</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:28:05 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/72985</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The word &quot;penalty&quot; is perhaps the most misused term in our SEO lexicon. A simple break down of why, chances are, your site is not actually suffering a &quot;penalty&quot;.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gmail 302 Hijacked]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/63444</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/63444</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:53:21 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/63444</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The 302 Hijack has reared its head again. Search Google from &quot;gmail.com&quot; (no quotes).<br/><br/>48 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[W3C HTML Validation and Search Engine Optimization]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/63049</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/63049</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:53:55 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/63049</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The analysis is in, and you can send all the validators home. W3C HTML Validation shows little to no impact on search rankings on Google, Yahoo, Ask or MSN Live.<br/><br/>52 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Attempting to Overthrow Yahoo Board.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57784</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57784</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:11:41 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Microsoft</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57784</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft set the stage for a full-blown battle to overthrow Yahoo's board of directors on Monday when it declared it was interested in reopening talks to buy all or part of the internet company - but only if a new board was appointed first.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NFL Online Brand Penetration Analysis - Great Stats]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57755</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57755</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:55:03 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57755</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Pretty impressive way to look at how a brand, in this case individual NFL franchises, perform online. Looks at everything from KeywordDiscovery and Google Traffic Stats, to Technorati Google BlogSearch and individual Web 2.0 communities. Pretty comprehensive.<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The End of Paid Links is Near]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57456</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57456</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:03:33 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57456</guid>
<description><![CDATA[An unfortunately simple way of poisoning link networks may be on its way to Google Webmaster Tools.<br/><br/>47 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mixed Messages from Yahoo Search Team]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54952</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54952</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:36:35 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54952</guid>
<description><![CDATA[2 Reinclusion Requests, 2 Completely Different Answers.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[DomainTools Suffers DNS Poisoning Attack.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53753</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53753</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:12:53 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53753</guid>
<description><![CDATA[http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=domaintools.comPretty incredible!<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PowerSet Will Never Be a Google Killer]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45913</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45913</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 06:26:54 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45913</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Or any semantic search technology for that matter. They are setting themselves up for a terrible defeat if this early in the game they are letting their public beta be described as a &quot;Google Killer&quot;<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Making Millions Off Addictive Narcotics]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38602</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38602</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:31:11 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38602</guid>
<description><![CDATA[An interesting story in its own right, but also a very creative way of trying to determine Google Revenues using Google Traffic Estimator, KeywordDiscovery, etc.<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google to Revamp Performics]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38185</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38185</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:33:44 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38185</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal reporting that Google is intending to grow Performics, the SEO agency they acquired in the DoubleClick purchase.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google & Matt Cutts Get it Wrong]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/30869</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/30869</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:38:19 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/30869</guid>
<description><![CDATA[First Priority Should Be Webmasters, not Users.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Showing Bias Towards .org TLDs]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/29511</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/29511</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:55:05 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/29511</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Preliminary results from study show a bias towards the .org extension in Google.<br/><br/>36 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[I want THE top 10, not MY top 10...]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/22235</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/22235</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:06:51 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/22235</guid>
<description><![CDATA[and other reasons the search industry is heading in the wrong direction with &quot;Personalized Search&quot;.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Auto-Voting on Sphinn (Cross Site Request Forgery Revealed)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/7857</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/7857</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:57:29 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/7857</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you are logged into Sphinn and visit this story, you will vote it up, automatically. A perfect example of cross-site request forgery (XSRF)<br/><br/>21 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[StopBlock: Javascript To Block AdBlock Users]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4086</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4086</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:03:28 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4086</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sick of users reading content while blocking ads and taking those precious impression dollars? Fight back.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Robots.txt: Exclude-by-keyword]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2350</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2350</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:56:58 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2350</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Why not create a new standard for Robots.txt that prompt Search Engines not to index pages with particular keywords? With a single line of code, you could make your site valueless to a spammer...<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Misses Earnings: Is Anyone Surprised?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/971</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/971</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:12:30 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/971</guid>
<description><![CDATA[After Google took the enormous strides to remove Adsense/Adwords arbitrage from their network, they are now suffering the consequences of losing one of their strongest revenue generators.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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