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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:13:17 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Says, Long URLs May Hurt You]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54586</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54586</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:13:17 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54586</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Are you kidding me?  This must be a mistake.  This is just way confusing in my opinion.<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google's New Fav Icon]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49705</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49705</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 04:09:38 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49705</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google has a new, all blue, favorite icon.  My life is now complete!<br/><br/>52 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Barry Does Search News/Tips Videos]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/39927</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/39927</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:24:18 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/39927</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I love videos!  I have been messing around with them for a few months now and yesterday, I officially launched a video podcast.  For now, I will likely just do weekly video recaps, 10 minutes or less, on the past week's search news/tips.I have details on how to subscribe via iTunes, other RSS readers, and YouTube at the Search Engine Roundtable.Best part - search companies and agencies are giving me schwag as prizes.  So you can win awesome schwag just by watching!<br/><br/>57 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Selling Performics -- Damn!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38420</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38420</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:29:03 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38420</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I was going to use Performics for all my SEO work, but I guess that idea is over with!Just kidding...Google is going to sell off Performics, part of DoubleClick.  Smart move Google.  Hope the Performics team is okay...<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Small Google UI Change But Big Impact?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/22383</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/22383</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:40:35 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/22383</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google moved the &quot;cache&quot; and &quot;similar pages&quot; links from the line with the URL to the line under the URL, pushing down more of the results and screen realestate for other listing.I personally think this is a mistake and Google will revert it back, but this seems to be a global thing for now.Thoughts on how this may impact traffic and referrals?  Thoughts on how this may impact the use of the cache or similar pages links?<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ask.com Loses a Huge Soul to Search: Jim Lanzone No Longer with Ask]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/22274</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/22274</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:58:46 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Ask.com</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/22274</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jim Safka To Replace Jim Lanzone As CEO Of Ask.comJim Lanzone goes into venture stuff.  But more shocking... He leaves Ask.com.Jim, to me, is the soul of Ask.com.  It is very very sad to see him leave Ask.Thoughts on why, who, what?<br/><br/>32 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rand Fishkin : Most Giving Search Blogger]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/21974</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/21974</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:16:16 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/21974</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Congrats to Rand on winning the most giving search blogger.  Sharing the way you do is unprecedented in our industry.  Thank you for all of us.<br/><br/>50 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Best Search Conference Coverage of 2007 = Search Engine Roundtable]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/21926</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/21926</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:00:58 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/21926</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yay, the Search Engine Roundtable won the Best Search Conference Coverage of 2007 by SEJ!<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Google Identifies, Detects & Understands Music Files]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/19550</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/19550</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:59:29 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Video Search</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/19550</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder how Google or another search engine might locate music files?  Every wonder the different models they may use to identify such music?  Also, how to detect duplicate content when it comes to music with &quot;Factor Uniqueness Analysis&quot;.  Gary links to a paper released by Google's NY office on some methods one can use to handle this.  It is the first link in Gary's post.<br/><br/>29 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Changing the Way they Handle Subdomains]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/17696</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/17696</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:53:20 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/17696</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Subdomains will no longer be treated as separate domains.  Google will begin treating them as folders.  There will be exceptions of course.  Tedster at WMW rocked this.  Check the link for more details.This is huge!<br/><br/>63 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Begins Mailing Out 2007 Holiday Gift]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/17264</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/17264</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:38:48 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/17264</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Did you get yours yet?  Seems much cheaper than in the past.  A 2GB Memory card?  See pictures at my site.<br/><br/>31 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Buy a PR 7 Link on Google.com: For Real]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/16246</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/16246</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:27:13 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/16246</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google is selling PR7 links on their google.com mini pages.  All it costs is $1,995 per year!  And they don't use the nofollow!<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Says OK To Hiding Content]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/14142</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/14142</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:12:29 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/14142</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Well, kind of.  Google says there may be times where hiding content in a Z-layer is OK.  More details at the post.<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Want an SMX Event in Israel?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/14120</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/14120</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:10:14 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/14120</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Any interest from the folks here in having an SMX event in Israel?  Great way to write off a trip to one of the most historic places in the world...Please click through and let us know!<br/><br/>31 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AdSense Publisher Will See Drop in Earnings: Click Behavior Change Coming]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/13727</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/13727</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:24:41 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/13727</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google emailed me that they are changing what constitutes a click on AdSense ads.  They are implementing the same rules they have with AdWords ads.  A click on the title or URL is a click, but a click on the background of the ad will no longer be a click.I am sure this will impact AdSense publisher's earnings.<br/><br/>34 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Took Away my Search Results!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/13041</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/13041</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:51:10 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/13041</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google used to show a 1,000 search results, now Google is showing me only several hundred.Google, give them back!!! ;-)<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PageRank Reduction Caused By SEOs Reporting SEOs to Google]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/11614</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/11614</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:53:28 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/11614</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Just a theory, but I think Google's PageRank reduction for sites that sold links came through the hand of SEOs reporting sites of SEOs.I think we did this to ourselves.  Would love comments.<br/><br/>53 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Male Penis Found on Google News Home Page]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9578</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9578</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:15:06 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9578</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Google News was featuring an image of a male penis.That seemed to tick some folks off...<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Comment System For Search Engine Land]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6841</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6841</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:29:10 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6841</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Awesome, we can now comment at SELand via Sphinn.<br/><br/>32 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[My Pages Are Missing From Google! (Sez Many Webmasters)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4059</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4059</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:08:37 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4059</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Does that title even make sense?Google's returning less pages for the site: command.Are you also noticing this?<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Behind the Scenes on Search Conference Live Blogging]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1539</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1539</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:48:40 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1539</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder how we, at the Search Engine Roundtable, coordinate several authors over four days and 75 sessions for live conference blogging.  This post shows you some of that...<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Shoving PPA Ads Down AdSense Publishers Throats]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1497</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1497</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:58:50 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1497</guid>
<description><![CDATA[People find this outrageous. Why would Google force publishers into this program, when it is clearly available for them to select under the referrals section of AdSense? Why require an opt out, just let them opt in?<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sitemaps Autodiscovery Finally Comes to Live Search]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1381</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1381</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:04:02 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Microsoft SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1381</guid>
<description><![CDATA[After waiting and not knowing if Microsoft supports Sitemaps, they finally have said they accept them via your robots.txt file.  You cannot ping nor upload your sitemap via a console yet.  But that is &quot;coming soon.&quot;<br/><br/>31 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Design for SEW Coming Very Soon]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/860</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/860</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:16:04 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/860</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Rob, EvilGreenMonkey, said a new design is coming to the SEW property as soon as Monday.  Very interested in seeing the changes and added features!<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Videos Now Included at WebmasterWorld]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/653</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/653</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:18:30 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/653</guid>
<description><![CDATA[You can now embed videos within your WebmasterWorld posts.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google AdSense for Mobile Beta?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/309</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/309</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:43:50 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/309</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Looks like Google is finally testing mobile AdSense ads.  Sweet!<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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