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<title>Sphinn / theGypsy / All</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:21:28 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The New Media Lifecycle and Social Discovery]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/58876</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/58876</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:21:28 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/58876</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Social Times  What is social discovery exactly? Well social discovery is the usage of social tools to find relevant content. A social tool is a system which enables the sharing of content with other users. That content can be as simple as the activities users are engaged in such as &quot;Nick just played MouseHunt on Facebook&quot; to the modification of my social profile to the sharing of a video, image or song that I thought was good.<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Beginners guide to starting your own blog]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/58845</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/58845</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:43:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/58845</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A great post on getting up and running with a Blog for the uninitiated. While it's certainly for the noob, a good article to pass on to peeps in need....<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What the hell can social media do for me?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/58214</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/58214</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:51:43 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/58214</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A great little guest post on SD from Mark Hayward - I noticed the words 'Hell' and $hit in my reader... knew it had to be a guest post...lol<br/><br/>50 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How a Search Engine Might Rank Bookmark Sets, Playlists, Directory Pages, and other Collection Items]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57717</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57717</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:52:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Yahoo Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57717</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Some interesting forward thinking from the folks at Yahoo as translated by the one and only Bill Slawski SEO by the Sea - With an increase in recent years of social sites that contain lists of sites or songs or videos, search engines may be considering ways to include such collection pages in search results in a manner that can be helpful to searchers.<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Trade You A Smarte Car For A Link]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57711</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57711</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:33:24 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57711</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Link Spiel: That old saying &quot;it's not what you say, it's how you say it&quot; is spot on in this situation. If you send out the old &quot;swap with me for PageRank&quot; type letter you'll find lower results than if you offer an incentive to act and develop your inquiry to sound beneficial for both parties.Bottom line? Throw out those old letters and boring articles and incorporate incentives to your link building content.<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[FriendFeed Starts Sucking Up the Conversation]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57421</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57421</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:48:11 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57421</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Social Times   If you avoided the grid for the weekend you probably missed out on a conversation going on yesterday about the default users recommended when you start FriendFeed. Then today a new conversation began about how FriendFeed is sucking away the conversation from blogs. Allen Stern suggests that commenting traffic to a blog can generate upwards of $100,000.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Digg Recommendation Engine Enlarges the Gap between the Top Submitters and the Other Millions of Users]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57205</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57205</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:09:03 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57205</guid>
<description><![CDATA[| Social News Watch | A Digg Analysis post on popFAILreveals an alarming &quot;widening of the gap&quot; between the top users and the middle users. In the report, an analysis was done of the last 500 stories to reach the front page of Digg, ... 31.4% of the stories that have hit the front page of Digg were submitted by 10 users.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The benefits of guest blogging - real world lessons from a virtual walkabout]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/56638</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/56638</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:57:42 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/56638</guid>
<description><![CDATA[One James Duthie has taken a break from his World Blogging Tour to write a post at his home sweet home. Of course because he's been away he's decided to write about his adventures in guest blogging...  | Online Marketing Banter | The principle is simple really. My blog is relatively new and has a limited reach. Other digital marketing blogs have an established audience. By contributing to industry related blogs, I put my work in front of a new audience. I create an opportunity to impress that audience and entice them across to read more of my work. But more importantly, I'm reaching out directly to my target audience.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Building Link Targeted Content That Works: Step 3 of 3 - Launching, Monitoring & After Care]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/55387</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/55387</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:57:10 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/55387</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Wiep - The most important factors of a successful campaign, however, are planning and dedication. If you can manage to think one step ahead, you'll manage to stay ahead of your competition as well. And sure, you might have success with something that you made in just five minutes, or with something that accidentally came across your path, but you'll only reach maximum effect if you're dedicated enough to walk through all steps.<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[10 Minute Guide to Plurk - Cliques - The Great Idea with the Awful Name]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/55380</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/55380</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:12:30 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/55380</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This is part three of a GREAT series on Plurk - this edition is one cliques, but I suggest reading Part I and II as well - I have been using cliques increasingly and they have a value... Check your Privates!! (lol)<br/><br/>57 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Are SEO Ethics Different than Social Media Ethics?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/55378</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/55378</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:04:26 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/55378</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A great rant from Li towards the social media spammers... Does  SMM = Social Spamming? Or is it about building relationships? Search Marketing Gurus - Along with that, I was just flabbergasted at a submission on Sphinn about gaming Twitter for &quot;do follow&quot; links.  It wasn't so much the fact that someone wrote this post.  Nickycakes is a great programmer and does come up with some time saving ideas, so naturally if he sees opportunities from his frame of mind (being a reformed black hat and all) he's going to write about it. However, what really made my jaw drop was who all Sphunn this article to put it to the front page.  People who I have greatly respected and thought they were pretty honest when it came to doing things in social media.  But here they were promoting something that pretty clearly is something that would &quot;spam&quot; a social media channel.<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Geeks Are Still Relevant In Modern SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/55344</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/55344</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:01:39 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/55344</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Steven Bradley (aka VanGogh) Holy optimization Batman! Are search geeks no longer relevant in the world of SEO? Nothing of the sort my caped companion in ranking. Search geeks are still highly relevant and likely will be as long as search engines exist. You might even say without them all your optimization efforts could fail entirely.<br/><br/>47 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[So, You Think You're A Search Engine Optimization Expert?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/55342</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/55342</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:50:14 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/55342</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Search Engine Land - So what am I trying to accomplish with this article? Honestly, I would really like the search industry to re-evaluate what they consider to be advanced SEO skills. I do not believe that advanced SEO skills are necessarily &quot;black-hat&quot; skills. Nor do I believe that persons with little or no technical skills are not advanced SEO practitioners.<br/><br/>65 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Scoop Is 4 Years Old Today!!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/55340</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/55340</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:46:48 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/55340</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I invite you all to hop on over to Donna's blog, grab a piece of cake and chat it up in the comments - it's a party after all. MODS - this is a dupe... please nuke it ;0)<br/><br/>47 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Behavioral Targeting Under Fire As ISP Backs Away From Tracking Subscriber Activities]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/55142</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/55142</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:36:44 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/55142</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Greg Sterling via SEL - Privacy is dead, get used to it. In the effort to rescue display advertising from its historically dismal performance and so-called &quot;banner blindness&quot; behavioral targeting (BT) was born a few years ago with Tacoda. It has both increased in popularity and infamy since that time. Consumers prefer more &quot;relevant&quot; ads but they also dislike being tracked. That's the paradox and the problem with BT.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Five great Plurk tools to feed the need!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/55135</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/55135</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:21:38 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/55135</guid>
<description><![CDATA[For those that are playing in PlurkWorld here are some toys and tools to start broadening your experience. I haven't played with them all much yet, so do share any experiences here if you could...<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The SEO Superlatives Committee Announced! - let the nominations begin]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54923</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54923</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:45:42 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54923</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In preparation for the greatly anticipated (tongue firmly planted in cheek) - SEO Superlatives Contest - the committee members have been announced. Leave nominations in this thread for considerationSome of the hardware up for grabs include;SEO Most Likely to Succeed SEO Conference Clown SEO Couple SEO Party Animal SEO Flirt Smartest SEO Most Athletic SEO SEO Social Media Addict Best SEO Blogger Best Smile Best SEO Conference Best SEO Conference Speaker Best SEO You've Never Heard Of Most Creative SEO Most Likely To Be Banned V1@gr.A Salesman Of The Year Cutt's Pet Biggest Google Fanboy Least likely to date Hooley (ha haha) Best technical SEO Top Linkbaiter SEO with the biggest PageRank Best Dressed SEO Best SEO Hair Biggest SEO Nerd Best SEO Nickname/Handle Most fiery SEO SEO most likely to become president Most Likely To Get Kicked Out Of The Bar Most Likely To Close The Bar The SEO You'd Be Most Afraid To Bring Home to Mom Best Up and Coming SEO Most Feared SEO Mr / Ms Congeniality? Most Likely to Start an Argument Most Likely to Win an Argument (even if they're wrong!) Best Fence Sitter Best Tweeter Nosiest SEO Snarkiest SEO Most Traveled SEO Best Ranter SEO Most Networked SEO Best SEO Hater Most Sharing/Giving SEO<br/><br/>46 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Persil White and the Seven Blogs]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54871</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54871</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:18:53 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54871</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Tis' time for a story; Set in a far, far away land. So, snuggle up get cosy and I'll tell you how being a serial blogger has been the most financially rewarding move I have ever made. Guest Post from Paul Steven<br/><br/>36 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pre-emptive Reputation Management (PRM) Comes of Age]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54649</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54649</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:19:29 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54649</guid>
<description><![CDATA[| Search Engine People Blog | If these calculations are correct, how can a company that has spent years building its reputation, not engage in Pre-Emptive Reputation Management? There is just too much at risk! . It just takes one really bad piece, and your pristine reputation can be popped like a balloon.<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Buy me a few beers and Ia4ll drop U a link my friends!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54564</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54564</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:45:13 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54564</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ok, maybe I am being a tad cheeky today, but Matt decided to highlight the interview he did, so why not? Reading the article on USA Today he mentions;&quot;In a nutshell: Google ranks sites based on popularity. If authoritative sites link to you, you must be good, and therefore you get to the top of the list. If you can't get top sites such as USATODAY.com or The New York Times to link to you, try your friends. And what if they don't have a site? They probably do. Read on.&quot;I thought to myself, a4Hey I have a few hundred friends on Sphinn and other social locales - let's get some links!!' - Now I am not suggesting that you do anything more than buy me a couple pints as mates, helping a fella down on his lucka4...and if there is anything I can ever do to pay you back for this favour; just let me know. What's that? You say you have a website? Wow, how coola4. Matt Cutts of Google said you should get friends to link to you? Ok, then it must be oka4 sure, I'd be happy to!!So what are you waiting for? Can anyone spare a few bucks so this Gypsy can get a pint or two? __________________________________________________________Sigh, I simply wanted to highlight the fuzzy nature of the whole links game and once more muse at where the lines get moved about as far as what constitutes payment. I can't BUY links, but I can whore my ass out to my a4friends'? Yeeesha4.Oh, and what about relevancy? If all my friends had websites on a variety of topics NOT related to my site theme,  linking out to unrelated websites could potentially hurt me I thought? Why no mention of this one MC? Tsk tska4. Anyhooa4. Just musing on a Monday morninga4.. USA Today Interview; http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/services/2008-06-22-google-search-engine-optimization_N.htm(A post just for Sphinn - why blog?)<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google "Sometimes" Case Sensitive When Searching]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54200</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54200</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:46:31 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54200</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Barry via Search Engine Land - Last night, during the Webmaster Help Group chat session, the question was brought up in the Q&amp;A box. John Muller of Google was the first Googler to admit that Google may, on some occasions, take case into account on a search result. I have posted the Q&amp;A transcript, so let me quote it for you:<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Evolution Of The Modern SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54198</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54198</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:44:11 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54198</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Guest post from James Duthie - at TheVanBlog this time out - seems he's becomming quite a Gypsy himself!SNIP - Riddle me thisa4 If I asked you to imagine a picture of a stereotypical SEO what would they look likea4? Glasses, buck teeth, bald, badly dresseda4 with suspenders holding up their pantsa4? Perhaps not quite. But the words a4search' and a4geek' have become somewhat synonymous over the past 10 years.<br/><br/>64 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Plurk Karma Secrets Unravelled - tips on the road to Nirvana]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53922</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53922</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:16:25 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53922</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Love it, hate it or indifference; Karma is talked about more than enough - some perspective on the road to Nirvana- Plurkable - Now, real quick, I would like to say that I think the ALGO is good for new Plurkers, but I think it stinks for more entrenched Plurkers. I think one of the advantages of reaching a certain level of Karma should be a new karma ALGO.I mean, why should I be penalized if I need to take a day off, when I've been Plurking every day for a week straight? Why should I fear asking someone to be a friend? Why can't I Plurk more than 30 times if I want to? Have I not, as a regular and loyal Plurker, proven myself to not be a spammer?<br/><br/>50 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Understanding The SEO Site Review Process]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53804</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53804</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:22:35 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53804</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lisa gives some perspective on the SEO start-up process. So, does it match yours? I know ours is a little different.Lisa Barone - In many instances, the search engine optimization process officially starts with the site review. It's when your optimization vendor gets his or her first look at your Web site and really starts looking for holes and ways to improve it. Sometimes it's simply one person who goes over your site and other times it's a group of people, either way, however your vendor handles this process will impact life of your campaign. Here's a (very) condensed look at some of the factors our SEO analysts look at when conducting a site review:<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Irony: If Google Can't Reach Your Robots.txt File, It Might Not List Your Site]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53654</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53654</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:25:19 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53654</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Search Engine Land - It is important to clarify that Google will still index your site if you do not have a robots.txt file. If you simply do not have the robots.txt file on your server, it does not mean Google won't index your site. As long as Google sees a normal server status response, such as a 404 not found, Google will index your site. It is when Google is not sure if you have a robots.txt file, where it plays it on the safe side.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[It May Be Stupid, But Ita4s Twittera4s Greatest Strength]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53558</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53558</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:17:07 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53558</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Steven B - Maybe it sounds stupid and pointless to share mundane details about what we're doing at various moments throughout the day, but the truth is I do care what you're doing right now and I hope you care about what I'm doing too. We don't necessarily need to know, but knowing will bring us closer together.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Compete: Google Keeps Stomping The Others In Search Traffic]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53527</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53527</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:48:23 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53527</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A nice stats round up from Danny Search Engine Land - Ouch. Again, Google is stomping on everyone else in terms of number of searches it handles (the scale shows billions of searches handled per month).<br/><br/>55 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Still Wearing My Google TinFoil Hat After All These Years]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53489</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53489</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:28:24 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53489</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dazzlin D - Don't get me wrong. I know that &quot;the world&quot; (meaning the government and the marketing world, specifically) has tons of information on all of us, and I don't really spend time worrying about trying to keep much of anything private. Still, Google is an exception. Why? I don't know. I guess it's just the natural aversion that a dyed-in-the-wool SEO has to sharing too much information with the Godzilla of Search (Google).<br/><br/>48 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[5 Most Addictive Social Media Sites]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53473</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53473</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:16:51 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53473</guid>
<description><![CDATA[| Collective Thoughts | Today, we're going to have a little fun with it. We're going to take the web 1.0 metric of time on site and go a little more touchy feely with it for a web 2.0 world. Trust me, this will be fun. Here is a list of my top 10 favorite most addictive sites within social media. Perhaps they aren't even my favorite, but rather that I can't seem to get myself off of them<br/><br/>53 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What The SEO World Needs is a Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52579</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52579</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:31:58 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52579</guid>
<description><![CDATA[| Gonzo SEO | Put on your white hat or black hat and get back to marketing! If you don't like the way something is, be the leader and take the steps to fight back. It's going to be hard, and it would be a lot easier to just write about it - but nothing is going to change unless you make it change.Save the hypocrite comments. You won't hear another peep about this from me, I'm making the change.<br/><br/>47 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Matt Cutts Hacked .. again!!! -- (not really, it was just a server hiccup silly)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52405</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52405</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:22:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52405</guid>
<description><![CDATA[DaveN - Now call me cynical  but with all this false stories and linkbait, can we trust you Matt :O - ... at the moment it's just a holding page on pair, so my guess it a WP hack again seeing loads of that or a Pair attack.theGypsy - in the end it seems it was nothing more than a server hiccup, thus I leave a quote;&quot;Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.&quot; - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher.<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Improve The ROI Of Your Guest Posts]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52327</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52327</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:28:29 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52327</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I simply have to highlight Steven's post since we played Guest post trade-sies and the ROI was getting to know him.... another great post from Steven!SNIP - How do you decide what topic to write about when guest posting for another blog? What tone should you take in your writing? How can you get the most ROI from your guest posting opportunity?<br/><br/>21 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Grab Your Longtail Keywords By The Short And Curlies]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52242</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52242</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:13:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52242</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yup, I am a sucker for those kind of titles.. always handy when there is great content behind it!! Werd| SEOpsCentre | Find the right ones and they can bring you a decent flow of targeted, relevant visitors to your site. Arm yourself with a wide enough collection of longtails and you can tick another item off your checklist of &quot;Things to do to optimize my website for the search engines.&quot;But how do you find the right ones and decide which longtails you want to grab?<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Plurk to UnVeil New Karma System]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52227</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52227</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:23:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52227</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Kinda interesting as I was just whining about the double edged sword that is *Karma* - nice to see some activity from the developersPlurkable - Many dedicated plurkers will attest the Karma system is cool but at the moment it basically just rewards activity. In a public place activity has to be of social nature to be beneficial. You could go to a busy party and just yell out disconjuncted gribbel which wouldn't bring anything to the party and in fact would probably annoy other members.<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is black hat SEO advanced enough to be called advanced SEO? -- utter crap and nonsense!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51826</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51826</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:15:09 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51826</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Love him or hate him.... MM does make some damn fine posts and I agree with much of this!!- SEO Theory and Analysis Blog - Do people really think that sneaky redirects and buying links are advanced search engine optimization? What utter crap and nonsense!People who rely on links for their search engine optimization had better be doing it only because they cannot change the content they are trying to rank. Linking is the worst possible way to optimize for search because it's inefficient and the return on investment sucks.<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Relationships and Online Social Networks: The Value of Sites Like Twitter and Plurk]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51793</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51793</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:13:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51793</guid>
<description><![CDATA[he he...  Maki worked the word 'Plurk' into the title.....DoshDosh - You can keep on thinking of ways to leverage a new social channel like Plurk, but don't forget: In the end, people market people. If these lifestreaming/microblogging sites help you to develop persistence in beneficial relationships, isn't that a good enough reason to use them?<br/><br/>51 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Sucky Interface is Better Than No Interface]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51778</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51778</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:44:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51778</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Funny that this quote/title was first spotted (for me at least) on Plurk... (dats 2 in one day Li!! woot)Search Gurus - Twitter, you just got funding.  Twitter, you really need to wake up and realize, people will go where the conversations are happening, right now that conversation isn't happening on your service because you are always BROKEN or limiting the use.  Dear Twitter, use your funding to fix this, and fix it fast.<br/><br/>34 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[WideCircles - Takes Spam Seriously? LMAO - and Sphinn Spam too!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51767</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51767</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:01:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51767</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Not only is this an interesting study of pathetic spammy campaigns, but also highlights how sock puppets in need of a stage can abuse Sphinn.... tsk tsk tsk... bad little spammers!<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Searching for consensus]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51705</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51705</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:22:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51705</guid>
<description><![CDATA[| SEOptimise | Despite consumers barely noticing the aesthetic changes and quality updates, search engines must provide their users with useful results or they will lose them to the competition.This means their search criteria are constantly upgraded and businesses really need professionals with a day-to-day understanding of the industry to ensure their websites qualify for high rankings.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Do You Find Your Audience? Thoughts from the McDonald's Drive-through]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51699</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51699</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:54:31 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51699</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Search Marketing Gurus - The point is, you can't expect your audience to tell you where they are.  You have to ask, if you don't ask, you'll never know that they are hanging out at the local McDonald's on a Saturday Night!<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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