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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:03:33 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The 5 Goals Of A Search Optimized Page - SEO 101]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/78867</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/78867</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:03:33 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/78867</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Donna does a great job explaining the 5 goals of SEO. It's easy to read and understand for even those not in our field. If you're trying to get people to understand why SEO is important, this article is a good place to start.<br/><br/>55 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The evolution of SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/66877</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/66877</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:43:23 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/66877</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Another rant from David where he talks about how &quot;SEO is dead, ranking is useless and other fairy tales&quot;. In his usual style David goes through gripes about SEO in a step by step, methodical way. &quot;Well peeps, it seems it's that time again and peeps are shovelling cr*p once more. Not that it's anything new, but worth me taking time away from my sabbatical to rant off a bit.&quot;<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[***holes Inc]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/64939</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/64939</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:56:10 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/64939</guid>
<description><![CDATA[David from Huomah.com decides Marketer's and Reputation Managers don't work hard enough. He's come up with an anti-reputation-management company, who's singular goal is to &quot;b*$%h slap&quot; your competitors. &quot;If you've got a competitor (or even a friend, spousea4 we don't care) that needs to be b*$(&amp; slapped far and wide on the web, then you've come to the right spot.&quot;<br/><br/>66 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Definition of Social Media Marketing: How to Find the Best Social Media Consultant]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57651</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57651</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:25:41 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57651</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What skill do you need to become a successful social media expert? Tamar asks several social media consultants, bloggers, marketers, search engine optimizers, and social media addicts about what they considered to be essential skills and characteristics of the most efficient and results-driven social media consultants.<br/><br/>56 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Twitter Fail Whale in 3D]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/56129</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/56129</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:12:29 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/56129</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Somebody had a lot of time while not twittering to make a 3D version of the image Twitter shows when it's down. Here's what the creator said:&quot;[Here's] A little kinetic sculpture of the lovely Twitter Failwhale, based on the image by Yiying Lu that is used when Twitter.com is over-capacity. The image is called' Lifting up a Dreamer' I've wanted to make this since I first saw the image some weeks ago.&quot;<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Plurk and Raising your Karma!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51232</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51232</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:44:29 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51232</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Plurk has a Karma system and it has definitely created some Karma whores. Everyone is trying to increase Karma but no one knows exactly what works and what doesn't work. Here's a look at different things that might change that value, for positive and negative.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Plurk an Evolution of Conversation]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51092</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51092</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:09:03 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51092</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Is the new contender in the Micro-Blogging sphere the Twitter killer? It might well be, it has definitely taken 140 characters to a new level.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Online Marketing Checklist]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50701</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50701</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:08:21 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50701</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Starting Online Marketing can be a daunting task, This checklist breaks it down step by step what should be done when you start, then daily and weekly.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Using Google Custom Search to Write Better Posts]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49037</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49037</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 08:37:43 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49037</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It's always better to work smarter and not harder; and thanks to Google we've been given a bunch of tools to make that easier. One of the tool, Google Custom Search Engines, is a great way to find links that are useful for your blog posts, building trackbacks, and making your site more connected. The article gives a step by step tutorial, on how to utilize Google Custom Search to find exactly the blog posts to link to.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why to Use Social Media]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47526</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47526</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 18:48:43 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47526</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Leveraging Social Media is known to build traffic to a site but there's a bunch of other reasons you should do it also.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Linkbait and Your Reputation]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46184</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46184</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 08:31:19 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46184</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Wonder how Calacanis can pull off a huge debate without taking a huge hit in his reputation? Ever think &quot;Why didn't I do that?&quot; A look into how reputation helps linkbait and how linkbait can hurt reputation.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[When Did We Skip Web 2.5?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45736</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45736</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 10:10:26 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45736</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There's so much talk going on about Web 3.0 and the future that people are missing the current transition phase - Web 2.5.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Affiliate Arbitrage - Ita4s Not Easy]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45172</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45172</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 19:07:37 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Affiliate Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45172</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A step by step look at Affiliate Arbitrage using a live example, and ending with the final question &quot;If it's so easy why aren't more people doing it?&quot; ...Because it's really not as easy as it seems.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Video Comments Are the Wave of the Future a4 NOT]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/42433</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/42433</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:17:02 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/42433</guid>
<description><![CDATA[With TechCrunch's latest announcement of using Video Comments on some of their blogs, we have to explore the viability of this feature? Will people really use it? Does it add to the discourse? I don't think so, and this is why...<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Flickra4s Unexpected Take On SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/42045</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/42045</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:42:41 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/42045</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Searching SEO in Flickr brings up an interesting result.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Blog Owners: a4Dona4t Forget to Update Your Twitter Settingsa4]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/41787</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/41787</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:14:37 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/41787</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Many blog owners that are using Twitter forget to change the setting for replies from just those that you follow to all. Without doing this you miss out on a lot of your readers trying to communicate with you, unless you're following them. This post is a step by step guide on how to fix this.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Proper SEO Industry Etiquette]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/40973</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/40973</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:21:53 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/40973</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There are some SEOs out there that do things that annoy the rest of us. Here's a list of a few things that all emerging SEOs should know so they can join the community and become part of the industry.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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