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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:57:10 -0700</pubDate>
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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>
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<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[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>
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<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[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>
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<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[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>
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<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[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[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[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[Has Lyndon taken linkbait offline?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51647</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51647</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:32:45 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51647</guid>
<description><![CDATA[James, James, James my bud... what have U been drinking this weekend? .... well, some fun on a Monday morning. | Online Marketing Banter | Perhaps looking to avoid the fallout from the money.co.uk linkbait scandal, rumours are rife that Lyndon has flown into Australia to continue to work away from the intense spotlight. Indeed, some are even suggesting he has converted to offline media in an attempt to keep a low profile. However, despite his best efforts to remain anonymous, a recent marketing campaign has all the imprints of a Lyndoman speciala4<br/><br/>51 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Who Is The Best Looking Man of SEO?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50941</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50941</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:14:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50941</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jaan has a poll and I want ya'll to get over and vote for your fav Web Gypsy - I shall send gifts and much Plurk Karma your way.... bwaaa ha ha ha ha.... (oh it is too early for this...)<br/><br/>63 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Plurk: Unique or Just Another Twitter Clone?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50773</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50773</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:08:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50773</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Muhammad Saleem via ReadWriteWeb - When I first heard about Plurk I was ready to hate it. But after using the site and comprehensively going over the feature set and its implementation I am thoroughly impressed. Ultimately, I think Plurk is an amazing evolution over the previous generation of lifestreaming services that does almost everything you'd expect to find and does it better, while adding unique and interesting features of its own. Perhaps the only quibble I have with the service right now is that when I reply to someone else's Plurk that reply is restricted to that person's Plurk and doesn't show up in my lifestream otherwise.<br/><br/>60 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[2012: The Year The Internet Ends]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50236</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50236</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:45:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50236</guid>
<description><![CDATA[hmmm... kind of scary. Thoughts? Wouldn't some one like Google merely become an ISP and offer unlimited access to the web? Is this a conspiracy theory? Madness?One man's conspiracy is another's entertainment - truth?? bah humbugSNIP - Almost all smaller websites/services will disappear over time and multinationals who are used to using big budgets to brute force their content into every media outlet will finally be able to approach the internet in the same way.<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why comment on FriendFeed instead of the blog?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50183</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50183</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:42:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50183</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I have been playing with and pimping FriendFeed the last while and the more I get into it the more I like it. Mark has some more compelling reasons why YOU might want to take a closer look.... is FF a stud or a dud?Why some people would rather comment somewhere else - BroadCasting Brain<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[the Sphinn Zone - enter at your own risk!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49736</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49736</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 06:56:12 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49736</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man, a land of linkbait and drama unfolding. It is a dimension as vast as social spaces, brimming with enigmatic individuals and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle-ground between light and shadow, black hat and white... between science and superstition, and it lies between the marketing mahem and search stardom. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area we call the 'Sphinn Zone<br/><br/>43 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Big List of Green Web Hosts]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49650</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49650</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 21:09:23 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49650</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So you say you want to be a part of the answer not the problem? Have you considered a Green Web Host? The lady Able has a great round up of Hosts that are environmentally minded... Great read... and worth promoting methinks ;0)<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter Will Die And I'll Tell You Why]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49281</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49281</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 07:42:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49281</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Great semi-rant - and a lyrical title too!! SNIP - The message has been so loud and clear that even those that were initially skeptical have jumped on the Twitter bandwagon. And yet despite my efforts to convince myself that I should use Twitter, I find myself more and more inclined to shut down Twhirl and move on.<br/><br/>55 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Succesful Viral Marketing Case Study: Weezer Gets it Right]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49271</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49271</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 07:05:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49271</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I don't know about you, but there is nothing better than a great write up and a music video to make the start of the day ROCK! Thanks Tamar ;0)<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Big Picture a4 Well Rounded SEM for SMBs, Part 1]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49059</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49059</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 09:38:48 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEM</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49059</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Nice advice and a great linkfest round up as well. The only bad part is having to wait 2 weeks for the next installment ;0)- Search Engine Watch - This first part will address the bread and butter of an online marketing campaign - Analytics, SEO and Paid Advertising. In two weeks I'll talk about social media, brand &amp; reputation management and some other fun things that can be very lucrative.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[FriendFeed Rooms - including Sphinn]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48247</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48247</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 06:01:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48247</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hiya folks... I was playing with the new FriendFeed Rooms feature last night and created some rooms including SEM and one for all the fine folks here at Sphinn... read on and be sure to join so we can see how useful this all is ...<br/><br/>46 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Enough already with the Lyndon/Cutts affair]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48244</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48244</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 05:46:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48244</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Good lord peeps... we have really taken the bandwagon effect to new heights with this whole story... Can we give it a friggen rest already? I think Jill's comment about Matt's take sums it up best;&quot;Quite the leap some people are making in taking what Matt said at Sphinn about one specific link baiting incident, and trying to apply it to every article that ever gets published.From what I read, Matt was simply providing his (and presumably) Google's stance on Lyndon's link bait that was posted on money.co.uk.Sure, if someone else does something similar and it is obvious or promoted as such, then Google would take the same stance. But I didn't see Matt say anywhere that they were going to build some sort of moral compass into their algorithm. I find these discussions that suggest as much to be taking away from the real issue at hand, which has nothing to do with Google.&quot;I for one am becomming frustrated with how we tend to really over-do things sometimes...Just my 2c...<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Ministry of Truth to ban Jason Calacanis for spreading false information]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48239</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48239</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 05:37:22 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48239</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Tad via SE Optimise - ...as SEO is purely virtual and limited to the Internet it can't stink, so it can't be bullshit either. Unfortunately this link bait tactic based on this false information has already spread and other people are using it. Now as Matt Cutts truthfully has spoken out about this problem I'm sure they all get banned. I'm glad. Please Google, ban them all. We really need a Ministry of Truth.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47122</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47122</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 07:03:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47122</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Oh I am feeling so old..... techipedia | tamar weinberg - I just shared my own story about how I got here. When and how did you make it into the lovely World Wide Web? Feel free to add your story to the comments or in your own blog post.<br/><br/>36 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Would you block Google for $1000? Mark Cuban's plan to Beating Google]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46944</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46944</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 06:27:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46944</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Mark Cuban did a post on AltSearchEngines where he speculates how Yahho/MS could break Google by courting the top sites of the web... interesting, but flawed. I love this guy... he he<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Confessions of a Sphinn-o-holic]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46166</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46166</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 07:29:46 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46166</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yup..it's official... I am hooked up and in need of an intervention!<br/><br/>47 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Blog: 7 Writing for Blogs Guidelines that Define Blogging]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/41990</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/41990</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:22:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/41990</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This had my head Sphinning;How to blog then to really make your blog a blog? That's easy once you acknowledge and put into practice the 7 writing for blogs guidelines that define blogging:...a good post from Tad all in all... not sure about the rest, but I like to think mine has... 'character' he he...<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Diving into Indexing the Deep Web]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/40569</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/40569</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:58:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/40569</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Bill gives us a little background on the whole - Google Form Search methodologies and some insight into what to expect.(the post ain't new, but VERY relevant with recent discussions) -SEO by the SEA - There are a number of strategies used in this document to return a result from a deep web database to a searcher. Generally, those try to understand the source of the information, the forms used and how they work, information associated with each field of each form, content that may be retrieved by using the forms, how to rank the information that may be found in response to filling out a form, and a location associated with that information if necessary.<br/><br/>38 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[the SEO Search Engine - vertical search for the SEO community.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/40034</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/40034</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:41:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/40034</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hey troops... a while ago I was playing around with Google Custom Search Engines and loaded one up with some of the more prominent SEO blogs/sites that I could use for research when writing posts etc... Then I decided to play around integrating it into the CMS; now you can play with it too..I included the following sites;the MadHat,Search Engine People,the LinkSpiel, Sebastians Pamphlets,Hamlet Batista,TopRank,Search Engine Journal, Sphinn,   SEO Book Blog, SEO by the Sea, SEO -Theory, Search Engine Land, VanGogh, Cornwall SEO, Search Engine Watch, Marketing Pilgrim, Bruce Clay Blog, SEOmoz Blog,  SEO Scoop, 10e20, Jennifer Slegg,John Andrews,Wolf HowlSmall Business SEMHobo SEO Joost DeValkSEO ScientistAdded; SEM PortlandEric WardThe great thing is that it's perfectly Spam free and highly targeted. Any feedback or nominees to be on the list of sites searched, please let me know.<br/><br/>27 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social Media Is Where The Conversation Starts - theLisa gets her Rant on]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38684</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38684</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:32:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38684</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Bruceclay.com - Give me a second here. My entire brain just exploded onto the floor. That's perhaps one of the most ridiculous stats ever. First of all, who are these 1,100 people? Do they read blogs to begin with? Are they at all savvy? Even if they are people like me and you, I don't think that means a darn thing. How many bloggers do you know that pitch products? Most stay away from that kind of stuff in fear of losing their street cred. And if they are pitching, the product is probably way out of your price range anyway. :) On the other hand, Mom thinks you should totally buy that emergency kit for your car in case you get stuck and Dad thinks that new socket wrench on sale at Sears is way sexy. Go get your credit card, hot shot!<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What features you would like in the ultimate link analysis tool?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38549</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38549</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:33:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38549</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Patrick has a shout out for ideas on a kick-ass SEO tool. Let your opinions be known (shouldn' be hard around here oui?). Some starters are;    * Ability to analyse up to 20 domains at once    * Tool can analyse 20 domains and find their most common link sources    * The tool should run in the background either via the web or a browser    * Show PR and link data for any page on a site    * Show PR and link data for any page that links to you    * Show anchor text and title tags for these pages    * Option to exclude nofollow links    * Graphs of how all link data changes over time    * Ability to filter links by domain extension    * Ability to filter links by hosting location    * Easy link to whois data for every domain    * Calculation of deep link percentage    * Use of colours to represent one way or reciprocal links    * Ability to exclude certain domains from the reports    * Ability to exclude sitewide links<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Defining Link Building Best Practices]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38109</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38109</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:40:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38109</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Search Engine Land - When I am asked if I have a link building guide or manual which summarizes my own personal best practices, I explain that every single site must have its own individual link building best practices guide, which takes into account the subject, industry, and competitive landscape. And even then, the best practices cannot be cast in stone. Some years ago it was considered a best practice to submit your site's URLs to WebCrawler, Excite, and even Magellan. Who? Not long ago a link from DMOZ was considered a must.<br/><br/>43 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Breaking News - Michael Gray hates April fools day pranks]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38009</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38009</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:36:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38009</guid>
<description><![CDATA[No really...it's true. Or an evil anti-prank troll has ran off with his laptop, a case of cola and a major addiction to the De-Sphinn button... we may never know..( I have seen that before, believe me; it's ugly)ha ha ha ha.... Thanks Wolfie, yer my fav part of the 'festivities' so far!<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Looking Cool Can Look Link Stupid]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/37691</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/37691</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:00:48 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/37691</guid>
<description><![CDATA[the Link Spiel - You want to look cool? Buy sunglasses. You want to grow your company and your link base? Advertise in on and offline publications and venues that reinforces your credibility.MODS - thanks..sleeping at the wheel.<br/><br/>38 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Another Sphinn Spam Rant]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/37625</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/37625</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:31:43 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/37625</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Pilo - I am a fan of Sphinn and generally find a bunch of good information and discussion there. Lately though I have noticed increasingly more SPAM submissions there. If I see Spam I report it right away and I hope others do the same. Unfortunately the problem seems to be getting worse though. I like to check in on Sphinn early in the morning and now it seems that I am trudging through more Spam than real posts. This is a problem. Sometimes the Spam is cleaned up quickly but far too often it stays alive for too long.<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Debauchery, Douchebaggary, & Drunkenness: Being A Twit]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/37371</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/37371</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:18:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/37371</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ya just gotta love Friday's with Aaron.... yeee haaatheMadHat - You are now a twit. There are many useful and sneaky ways to use the twitter and in my opinion it's the best social network out there at the moment. The items listed above don't fall in that category. They fall in the &quot;I'm a nutball category&quot;.<br/><br/>43 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[We Do Need SEO Standards]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/37287</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/37287</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:54:27 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/37287</guid>
<description><![CDATA[oK... Now (the)Lisa is digging into the fray. I might just have to jump in with a rant myself in the comming days... so many rants, so little time... *sigh*Bruceclay.com - As you might imagine, I disagree with Jill. Taking a look around, I think we are absolutely at the point where it's Do or Die time for SEO standards. We don't need the perfect search engine optimization How To guide (though I'm sure Mahalo is working on that), but we do need to outline what SEO is and what it means to optimize a Web site. We need to establish best practices, what the risk is for abandoning them, and what all these different terms that we throw around actually mean.<br/><br/>59 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[We Don't Need SEO Standards!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/37121</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/37121</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:42:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/37121</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Well the topic IS BACK, and this time Jill takes a run at it. What's YOUR take? We really should start hammering this one out one way or the other IMO and put this topic to bed.<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Matt Cutts 1 - DaveN 0]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/36917</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/36917</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:11:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/36917</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Seems Dave got an answer as to why a site he was looking into got a SMACK DOWN!.... U guessed it...Paid links! Strange part it that the site owner said he stopped his involvement with them 6 months back and only recently got nailed. So we're grandfathering paid link penalties are we dear Google?The orignal post it here; http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/reinclusion-request-indigoclothing.html  and here; http://sphinn.com/story/36674Dave N - as I said SES NYC and say again Buying and Selling links is just not worth the risk !<br/><br/>58 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Live chat with Adam Lasnik this Friday!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/36759</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/36759</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:26:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/36759</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Official Google Webmaster Central Blog has announced a Live Chat session for this Friday (March 28) to be hosted by Adam Lasnik<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Did We Just Witness a Twitter Marriage Proposal?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/36029</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/36029</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:08:04 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/36029</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Aawww.... ain't it just the sweetest? I guess Twitter is really becomming part of the lexicon huh? What next?<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[200 Sphinn Submissions - and new friends too!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/35073</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/35073</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:15:22 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/35073</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I just wanted to take a moment (having just reached 200 submssions) to say YOU ALL ROCK! I have only been around Sphinn since last fall, but in my time here I have met a TON of new friends and working partners alike. As a guy working from his home office in the middle of freakin nowhere (country living) - you, my online friends are invaluable. I have always said that the best part of social media is the SOCIAL part... I look forward to many more new friends and cracking 300 submissions! Cya there....<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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