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<title>Sphinn / snowboardjohn / What's New</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:09:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Oh my Gawd!! My Page Rank has dropped and now my dog has cancer!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/11165</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/11165</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:09:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/11165</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The SEO Guru discusses the more &quot;little known&quot; effects of losing page rank... lol ;-)<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What Facebook a4Really Isa4]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/10122</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/10122</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:32:45 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/10122</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Following my recent rant about the Web 2.0 sites I dislike the most, I felt it would be a good idea to discuss the nature of social media itself - and break it into chunks that allow you to really understand one of the most successful social media websites built so far...<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Top 5 Most Useless Web 2.0 Sites]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9922</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9922</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:24:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9922</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sick of all the Web 2.0 hype? So am I...<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Followup: SEO Empire Part 1]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9094</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9094</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:51:35 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9094</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The phenomenal follow up to his first post on SEO empire building... a look into the reality of link building &quot;brick walls&quot;, and the resource allocation required to break through them...<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why The a4Give It Away Freea4 Business Model Sucks Ass]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6562</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6562</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:27:00 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6562</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There's a lot of dogma that surrounds giving away &amp;quot;what you know&amp;quot; as part of your front end. However it's not all it's cracked up to be. Many people who attempt to give away information as a front end will ultimately fail. Here's why...<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why You SHOULD Buy Paid Blog Reviews!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5940</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5940</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:15:18 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5940</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Just to keep it super consistent, here is the follow up to Why You Should NEVER Offer Paid Blog Reviews. There are some great bloggers who offer paid reviews, which I think you should take advantage of... but you must know the pitfalls...<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why You Should NEVER Offer Paid Blog Reviews!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5875</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5875</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:02:53 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5875</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This is a controversial topic that no doubt people will strongly disagree with - however- there's some very legitimate reasons why you should NOT offer to do paid blog reviews...<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Do You Make These Blog Rush Mistakes?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5769</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5769</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:17:25 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5769</guid>
<description><![CDATA[With the recent launch of Blog Rush, it's clear that a few will benefit enormously... but like all things... most won't. Here's a list of common mistakes I'm already seeing with Blog Rush and how to avoid them...<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Manipulate People To Believe Whatever You Want Them To]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5700</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5700</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:24:32 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Display Advertising</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5700</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This unusual communication strategy has been mastered by many &quot;Gurus&quot; who dominate the niches they operate in.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[2007 Australian Federal Election Google Style]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5559</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5559</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:34:43 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5559</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google has launched an Australian Election Portal. It allows you to follow party arguments on youtube, look at your local electorate using Google Maps and more. I imagine Google is using this as a warm-up for the US election in '08.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Google Storm Front Looms Closer]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5517</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5517</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:33:52 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5517</guid>
<description><![CDATA[With Google's recent acquisition of Postini, I was motivated enough to get close to the eye of the storm and take a photo. This is what it looked like when the negatives were developed...<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How-to: Another Way to Exclude Wordpress Posts From the Front Page]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5330</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5330</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:44:53 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5330</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Over at WordPress support, it isn't all that unusual to see folks wondering how to exclude certain posts from their front page. I typically suggest they grab a &quot;category excluder&quot; plugin and add the posts they don't want to see to a certain category. The question came up again today, but the person was looking for something that wouldn't be category based. That got me thinking...<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google AdWords Chat With Account Specialist Feature is Fast - But Is It Useful?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5316</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5316</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:55:27 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5316</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SEO Roundtable has tested out the new &quot;Chat with Adwords account specialist&quot; feature - reporting that the response is speedy. I am yet to be convinced that Google really wants to help advertisers, and that this feature will do little more than provide Google with the new PR headline: &quot;Look how helpful we are&quot; (*cough* *cough*)<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Anonymous Copywriting Master Demonstrates How To Do Correct Graphic Layouts]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5091</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5091</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:49:53 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Display Advertising</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5091</guid>
<description><![CDATA[An advertising genius known only as Mr. Subtle has let you look over his shoulder as he turned a meaningless piece of branding into a direct response master work.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Use RSS Feeds to Build Stable and Ever Growing Traffic Streams]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5020</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5020</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:28:17 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5020</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Are you making mistakes in how you allow people to syndicate your RSS feed? Is your RSS feed building you deep links every time you post? The folks at Smart IT consulting have written a great article on how to gain every advantage possible with your blogs RSS feed.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Last Post Youa4ll Need To Read To Understand Facebook]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4988</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4988</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:13:56 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4988</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There's been a heated debate recently about the viability of Facebook as a business building tool. My response to this has been to analyze Facebook's Demographic, Marketing, and Traffic factors.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Spamdoo.com  - Watch Out Squidoo! (funny)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4975</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4975</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:10:14 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4975</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Apparently there is a new king of Social Media. His name is Sid Goneth, and it looks like he's intending to take on well known Web 2.0 site Squidoo...<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Screw Your Web Site With 'No Follow']]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4890</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4890</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:06:37 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4890</guid>
<description><![CDATA[After a recently heated debate with Matt Cutts, SEO Legend Mike Martinez gives some insight into the potential pitfalls of using internal 'NoFollow' tags to manipulate your Page Rank.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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