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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:11:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Happy Fifth Birthday AdSense]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54584</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54584</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:11:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54584</guid>
<description><![CDATA[AdSense turned five just a few days ago.  I remember when it was still in diapers. ;-)<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo Displaying Geo Criteria Of Search Ads]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45892</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45892</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 03:45:09 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Yahoo Paid Search</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45892</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Still waiting on confirmation from Yahoo.  But it seems new to me that they are displaying a location under some ads.  Google has been doing this for a long time....<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Directory PageRank Now Matches GoogleToolbar]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38762</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38762</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:05:32 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38762</guid>
<description><![CDATA[After months and months of the Google Directory being out of sync with the Google Toolbar, it seems like they are now in sync.  Not only are the toolbar and directory showing the same PageRank values, it is also showing the same number of bars (previous the directory was showing 0-7 and now its showing 0-10).<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Live Search Fixes Issue With Listing Google AdWords Ads]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/19653</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/19653</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:08:05 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Microsoft SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/19653</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft explains why they indexed billions of Google Ads and what they did to fix it.<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SER Covers 52 Sessions from SES & PubCon]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/17714</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/17714</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:15:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/17714</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We covered 52 sessions between PubCon and Vegas.  I even provided the top five sessions by pageviews.  I am sure the top five will change after the weekend, since most people didn't have a chance to view the Matt Cutts keynote session...<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AdSense CTR - Has it Changed for You?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/14127</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/14127</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:16:29 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/14127</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Since Google implemented the click area change, has your CTR dropped in AdSense?  Check the comments at ProBlogger.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AdSense Publishers Are Old Geezers]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/13042</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/13042</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:51:16 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/13042</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yea, AdSense publishers, base don my very very scientific poll, are damn old.  Well, maybe not crazy old, but older than I thought.<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Sitelinks Expansion: Early Results in Traffic Funneling]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/12740</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/12740</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:46:56 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/12740</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Impressive web analytics data analysis on Sitelinks...<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is the Live Search Webmaster Portal Coming Soon?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/11993</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/11993</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:12:14 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Microsoft SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/11993</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I have a feeling, Microsof'ts Live Search Webmaster Portal is about to be launched, at least a deeper beta.  This should be interesting.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Set Up Google AdSense Video Units Via YouTube]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/8988</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/8988</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:33:45 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/8988</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Step by step on setting up Google AdSense video units.  Now I am off to move to a new house...<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Directory Updated PageRank Bars]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6820</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6820</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:58:24 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6820</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yea, no one cares about PageRank... But Gabs noticed Google updated the PR bars in the Google Directory. I believe those updates are very very rare.Not that it matters. ;-)<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Webmaster Tools Link Update]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4667</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4667</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 04:54:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4667</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Seems Google WMT updated the link reports last night.  It just doesn't seem like a typical update, something seems off to me...Seems like older pages are higher up on this link update, as opposed to fresher pages.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo Stop Supporting the NOYDIR Tag?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4664</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4664</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 04:35:38 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Yahoo SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4664</guid>
<description><![CDATA[People are noticing that their Yahoo Directory titles are showing in Yahoo Search results even though they have added the NOYDIR tag to their site.  This seems to be a new occurrence.<br/><br/>6 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[Google AdWords Now Integrated with Google Spreadsheets]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2951</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2951</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:35:49 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2951</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I am not sure if this is a 100% new, but I think it is.  Export your AdWords reports to Google Spreadsheets.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Maps To Add Spam Tool]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2279</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2279</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:25:30 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2279</guid>
<description><![CDATA[People are hitting Google Maps with tons of spam.  Now Google is working on a Google Maps and Local spam filtering tool.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Finally! Opt Out of AdSense for Domains]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2069</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2069</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:11:18 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2069</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Coming soon, a way to tell Google you dont want your ads to be shown on the DomainPark sites.<br/><br/>21 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Cache Showing Last Retrieve Dates in Minutes]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1908</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1908</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:38:01 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1908</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Cache date is now showing &quot;X minutes ago&quot; as opposed to &quot;MM DD&quot; format for some searches.<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Become a Submarine Cable Negotiator for Google]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1861</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1861</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:41:48 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1861</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yes, Google is hiring Submarine Cable experts.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Post Offering Biagra]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1841</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1841</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:33:43 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1841</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yea, you heard me right.  Biagra, not Viagra.  Did WP get hacked, or sell that page to someone?<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google To Host Video Game Ads On AdScapeMediaInventoryTest.net?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1794</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1794</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:38:41 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1794</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As Gary Price reports, Google now has the domain AdScapeMediaInventoryTest.net.  AdScape is the company Google bought to provide in video game ads.  Maybe the test ad server will be at that domain?<br/><br/>6 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[Never End Your Google AdWords Campaign]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1496</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1496</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:58:30 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1496</guid>
<description><![CDATA[With this new setting, you can set your campaigns to never end...  Is this new?  Google says it is new.  But doesn't seem logical to be new to me...<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Make Popcorn on your iPhone]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/886</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/886</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:03:32 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/886</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This video shows how I can make popcorn on my iPhone. Hehehe.<br/><br/>3 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[What's new in the world of invalid clicks]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/815</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/815</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:52:43 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/815</guid>
<description><![CDATA[AdWords is a product that's constantly evolving. To help keep you up-to-date, we like to check-in with individual product teams to see what they're up to. This time around, I got an update from the Click Quality team, a group of folks dedicated to protecting advertisers from invalid clicks and click fraud. Here's what I learned:There's no &quot;silver bullet&quot; when combating invalid clicks and click fraud, so the team is continuously improving their techniques. For obvious reasons, the team couldn't go into detail about every initiative they're working on, but they were able to share some of their more recent efforts.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Accidently Terminates Advertisers AdWords Accounts]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/662</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/662</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:56:12 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/662</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Opps. :)  Google cancelled advertiser accounts totally by mistake.<br/><br/>5 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[Image Ads on Google Search Results]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/493</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/493</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:39:20 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/493</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Say it aint so.  Google actually is placing image and video ads on real search results pages!<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google wins another copyright case]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/437</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/437</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 07:10:38 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/437</guid>
<description><![CDATA[More copyright cases... Google keeps wining them in the states.<br/><br/>3 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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<title><![CDATA[10,000 Human Evaluators over at Google?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/68</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/68</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:48:54 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/68</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google reportedly has 10,000 people looking for spam manually.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bolded E Letters in Google Sponsored Results]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:57:09 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Es are bold, the Es are bold!!!<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ERROR: THIS IS A KNOWN ERROR WITH SPHINN RIGHT NOW!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:03:21 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What's going on? You see, right now with Sphinn, all headlines for any discussions link to this page. Seriously, it's weird. And we're working on it! When we get it fixed, well, you won't see this page. So go back, and remember that the URL of the discussion you're viewing is in the URL window of your browser.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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