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<title>Sphinn / ruud / Voted News</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:51:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Google using bounce rates for ranking websites?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/91588</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/91588</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:51:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/91588</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Post stands by itself (valid, good stuff; balanced) but another key part I liked is: &quot;I think what is the most troubling is how the SEO industry, generally speaking, seems to not only slowly begin to see the evolution of SEO, but makes bold statements instead of tempered, researched hypothesis. [...] Does everything need to be a BIG story these days?&quot;<br/><br/>47 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Michael Martinez & Real Search Market Share]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/89066</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/89066</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:14:53 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Other Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/89066</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;The real search market share report is measured in terms of estimated unique U.S. visitors rather than number of queries performed. Because of automated rank-checking tools (and manual rank checking), Google's estimated search market share based on queries performed is heavily inflated and therefore an unreliable indicator of potential search traffic.&quot;Clipped to Evernote for future reference.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Search Engine People turns SEO Scoop over to the community]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/86372</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/86372</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:44:34 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/86372</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;Unless you know somebody who knows somebody it's really hard to get a break somewhere, somehow.We want to turn SEO Scoop into that break; we want SEO Scoop to be that somebody, that somewhere, that somehow.&quot;Question is: what do you, the SEO community from newcomers to oldtimers, want? What would you like to see provided, done, shared?<br/><br/>50 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The worlda4s most super-designed data center a4 fit for James Bond]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/85534</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/85534</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:30:04 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/85534</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;This underground data center has greenhouses, waterfalls, German submarine engines, simulated daylight and can withstand a hit from a hydrogen bomb. It looks like the secret HQ of a James Bond villain.&quot;With photos, cool photos :)<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dust-Me: scan or spider for unused CSS. Page-level or site-wide]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/85508</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/85508</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:47:16 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/85508</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Oh, I *so* needed an extension like this. Dust Me will scan a page or spider a site and compare in page use of CSS with what it finds in the CSS files. It will then generate two reports: unused CSS selectors and used CSS selectors. You can export these reports to a text file or a CSV file.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Analytics for SEO programs]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/84845</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/84845</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:31:37 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Web Analytics</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/84845</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dave: &quot;Today we'll look at a4Search traffic' and how we can use Google Analytics to dig better understand the efficacy of your SEO program&quot;Love how the post walks me clearly from &quot;do this&quot; to &quot;see that&quot;, even touching upon &quot;so that means...&quot;. Although I have somewhat of an analytic mind I always have had blank stare moments with web analytics. Posts like this make it usable for me too :)<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Social Media Marketing A Waste Of Time?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/84445</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/84445</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:02:57 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/84445</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In this 1500+ worder, easily, Peter intelligently argues *against* SMM, highlighting exactly why and how it doesn't work.In stating that side so clear he forces you to either provide counter balance (start a discussion) or validate the time and energy you're investing in SMM.One of the better, more thoughtful posts on the topic out there and really worth the time to read through -- remember, a 1500+ worder is just 2 legal sheet, k? :) If *I* think SMM is a waste? nuhuh. SMM is one of the rare media which at relatively low cost can bring a brand from zero to hero in no time. What do you think?<br/><br/>63 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Insights bookmarklet expands your searches]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/77891</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/77891</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:15:22 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/77891</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;simply do a search at Google, Yahoo, or Live Search, then click  Google Insights Bookmarklet. The bookmarklet will automatically open a new tab/window with Google Insights showing the stats for the keyword you were just looking up at a search engine.&quot;I love bookmarklets. They're utterly geek. Like mixing up your own browser toolbar but better. Plus they bring extra functionality to Chrome :)<br/><br/>51 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Directory Links Next? Google Drops Yahoo & ODP Directory from Guidelines]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/76626</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/76626</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:43:12 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/76626</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google has removed the suggestion to add your site to relevant directories such as ODP or Yahoo.Google's JohnMu explained it's just something people don't *have* to do.Rustybrick/Barry: &quot;I have seen this before - or similar statements. In my opinion, this will lead to Google taking stands against many more directories - more than they have ever done in the past.&quot;<br/><br/>59 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IT at sea: Google to launch floating data centers]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/73870</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/73870</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:18:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/73870</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Powered by waves.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[City forbids link to its web site, starts criminal investigation]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/73283</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/73283</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:19:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/73283</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;Jennifer Reisinger says the Sheboygan city attorney ordered her to remove from her Web site a link to the city's police department [...] The city went further, the lawsuit claims, launching a criminal investigation of Reisinger for linking to the department on one of her sites.&quot;Lawyer calls it a first...<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Next Social Networks Will Be Powered By WordPress and Movable Type]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/66278</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/66278</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:41:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/66278</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Bringing the ease of blogs and blogging to social networks.&quot;With Six Apart's recent release of Movable Type 4.2, that revolution has begun. The new release provides DIY tools for building your own social networking platform.web pundits have been saying that social networking would gain in popularity to such an extent that it would become a feature, not a destination in and of itself. These latest designs from MT and WordPress seem to prove that point.&quot;<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Guardian on Google, 10 years in: big, friendly giant or a greedy Goliath?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/66271</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/66271</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:31:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/66271</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;It is conceivable that future historians will regard the first day of Google Inc on 7 September 1998, and not 11 September 2001, as the true dawn of the 21st century.I don't think it's possible to exaggerate the significance of this thing.In 50 or 100 years' time, when the real histories get written of the internet, it will start with those two boys at Stanford&quot;<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Politics of Digg]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/66266</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/66266</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:03:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/66266</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;In the past week I've conducted phone and email interviews with over 50 of Digg's top users in an attempt to piece together the cohesive links and strategies that make them so successful. It was during these discussions that I discovered that these Diggers are much more than a team of link pushers and self-marketers; many of their conversations have later developed into real-world friendships.&quot;<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Headline Writing for Google, Social Media and Profit]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/65697</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/65697</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:15:02 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/65697</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Good, long write-up on effective headlines. What makes a good one and how to get to it.Or: how do you go from &quot;Cheap Condoms, Expensive Condoms&quot; to &quot;World's Most Expensive Places to Have Sex&quot;<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BunSpace is my space!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47699</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47699</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 08:07:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47699</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Off the beaten path of &quot;Twitter! Twitter! Twitter!&quot; posts and into the obscure world of highly specialized, highly popular niche social media.Is your bunny a VIB?<br/><br/>32 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ia4m Your (Twitter) Pusher Mom]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/44926</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/44926</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 19:14:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/44926</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ladies &amp; Gentleman, it's the wonderful Elizabeth Able on the guitar doing... pusher mom....&quot;Tweak and test, coding cleanSuper lean WordPress themeDealin' good, for the brandBetty Crocker, Take a standQuoterati, quickly readTwitterpated, in the head&quot;<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Users: Give Me Organic Results -- But First Page Only]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/41068</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/41068</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:21:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/41068</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;Online search has become so efficient that most Internet users are now impatient with anything less than great results.&quot;With more searchers clicking first page results and less searchers reporting to be willing to go past page three results, organic SEO, reports eMarketer, is looking at some pretty interesting spend.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Google Sets Works]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/36866</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/36866</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:48:40 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/36866</guid>
<description><![CDATA[From the post: &quot;The simple explanation of how the program works is that Google attempts to identify lists on the web as it crawls pages&quot;<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Growing Loyalty While Growing Your Audience]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/34176</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/34176</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:41:18 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/34176</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;The truth is that, while it isn't easy, it is possible to have both loyalty, engagement and a big audience.This delicate balance hinges on perception.&quot;<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Donorgate: money buys manual edit by Jimmy Wales]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/34147</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/34147</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:21:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/34147</guid>
<description><![CDATA[After receiving questions from the press, Jeff Merkey, formerly at Novell, has made a statement that Jimmy Wales offered to clean up Jeff's entry and place him under his 'special protection'. Protected entries can only be edited by Wikipedia administrators.All this in exchange for $5000/yr. Once Jeff terminated his payment he was banned from Wikipedia.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Allegations swirl around Wikipedia's Wales]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/32898</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/32898</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:30:41 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/32898</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Two-fold problem: misusing money from the foundation and editing an entry in a possible conflict of interest scenario.As Wikimedia Foundation chair woman Florence Devouard chastises Wales in a personal email; &quot;I find (it) tiring to see how you are constantly trying to rewrite the past. Get a grip!&quot;The story comes just weeks after The Register published (tinyurl.com/34ye4h) another incident of conflict of interest editing where Jossi Fresco, administrator, heading the Conflict of Interest Noticeboard, &quot;guards&quot; the &quot;Lord of the Universe&quot; entry pertaining to the leader of the cult he's a member of.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[StumbleUpon Alerter]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/32877</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/32877</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:48:15 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/32877</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Nice idea for a tool.&quot;Get alerted whenever your discovery on StumbleUpon is reviewed or given a thumbs up.&quot;<br/><br/>51 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[This Month In SEO...]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/31932</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/31932</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:46:42 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/31932</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you like roundups a la Search Engine Land, Van Gogh's monthly roundup isn't something to miss. I like his roundup style, his tone of voice -- and he has a knack to list at least 3 things that weren't on my radar.<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hiding Content Temporarily Is OKAY, Google Says]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/30124</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/30124</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:17:29 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/30124</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;If your text is temporarily &quot;hidden&quot; as part of your site's UI but is still intended for the user to see at some point, you probably don't need to worry about Google mistakenly viewing it as deceptive.&quot;<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Penalized in Google: Official notification methods]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/28360</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/28360</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:17:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/28360</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;There are million of various theories out there about how to find out if your site is penalized by Google. I thought I'd recap what Google officially says, and by officially I mean on their domain and bearing their brand.&quot;<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[dup post - ignore]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27606</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27606</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:08:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27606</guid>
<description><![CDATA[duplicate -- move along folks until a moderator deletes this :)<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Removes Download Option From Webmaster Tools]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27506</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27506</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:47:13 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27506</guid>
<description><![CDATA[''If you login to Google Webmaster Tools and go to your &quot;links&quot; and then &quot;external links&quot; section, you may notice Google removed the &quot;Download This Table&quot; link from the bottom. What remains is the &quot;Download all external links.&quot;''<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ia4ve Just Written A Novel - Summarizing A Concept]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27503</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27503</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:39:05 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27503</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How the process of getting a book summary applies to getting client information to work with.&quot;From just these few questions, I've gotten a feel for the specialty, area of service and the unique value proposition of this client's business. From such things are keyword research and compelling, relevant copy born.&quot;<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[5 Mindsets to Reshape Your Networking]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27150</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27150</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:42:07 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27150</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;The mindset of my generation (18-34) is a cynical one -- a mindset that desires authenticity and is skeptical of randomly nice people (after all, how many times has a &quot;nice person&quot; turned out to be selling insurance, CUTCO knives, or a spot in their MLM downline?). So the idea of people befriending you with an agenda other than friendship is a bit disconcerting. So what's a potential entrepreneur to do? Obviously, you need the connections, but at the same time, you can't stand the &quot;game.&quot; Well, here are five mindsets to take with you next time you shudder at the thought of networking.&quot;<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[WordPress: Add a Second Widget-Ready Sidebar]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26460</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26460</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:44:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26460</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Great step-by-step overview of adding a 2nd widget ready sidebar to WordPress<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[There Are No Secrets On The Web]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26361</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26361</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:16:12 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26361</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Everything can be found. *Everything*.The good thing? &quot;...if you're wiling and able to be yourself in front of everybody and own what you say and do - then you're going to stand out from your competition.&quot;<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Securing Your Name: If Seth Godin Can Be Faked, So Can You]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26354</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26354</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:54:46 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26354</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Wherein Darren Browse learns from Seth Godin that he doesn't use Twitter at all and informs 1400+ fans of the fake Seth they've been fooled.His take-away: &quot;It highlights to me the important of getting a hold of account names for your brand and name on popular social media sites&quot;<br/><br/>34 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Seth Godin *Almost* Gets Link Bait]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26186</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26186</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:11:47 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26186</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Seth: &quot;Here's what you do:Put a picture on your website. Something novel but still recognizable.Or something really useful.Then, put lots of links to various websites within the image.&quot;<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rating Burner: Ranking Blogs by RSS Subscriber Stats]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26185</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26185</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:06:52 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26185</guid>
<description><![CDATA[350+ blogs so far. Includes an ad-price info delivery idea (see: ads).<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Your Mother's Facebook: Youngsters not happy oldies going online]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26125</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26125</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:07:43 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26125</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Cool social media hotspots become deadbeat boring adult meetups. Where's a teen to hide?From the article: &quot;And his 72-year-old grandmother sends him online instant messages every day so they can better stay in touch while he is at university.&quot;Marketing note: typically something you can play on &amp; create and write for.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Beauty Bloggers No Bottomfeeders]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26054</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26054</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:27:24 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26054</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As more and more women turn to beauty blogs, the cosmetics industry is taking beauty bloggers serious.This is what we call the Inverse Target Strategy:&quot;&quot;It would be foolish to ignore them,&quot; said Ms. Brod, who recently hired an employee whose job is to get bloggers to write about clients.&quot;<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Readers owe you nothing]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26048</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26048</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:14:05 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26048</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It's focused around newspapers and newspaper websites -- but there's pretty solid stuff here.&quot;Readers owe you nothing. They have no responsibility as citizens to read your reporting, and no responsibility as consumers to look at your ads.&quot;&quot;...when your design crosses the line and forces readers to look at ads they don't want, you encourage those readers to look elsewhere...&quot;<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tribe Management]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25904</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25904</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:31:42 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25904</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;...what people really want is the ability to connect to each other, not to companies. So the permission is used to build a tribe, to build people who want to hear from the company because it helps them connect, it helps them find each other, it gives them a story to tell and something to talk about.&quot;<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MySpace Platform Goes Live February 5]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25903</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25903</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:27:14 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25903</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Oh joy. I can barely contain my excitement. :D<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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