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<title>Sphinn / theGypsy / Hot Today</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:00:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Personalize Your Link Building]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/77502</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/77502</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:00:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/77502</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SNIP - The ethnographic method is an approach of studying a person or group of people by participating in the culture of interest while still remaining a bit of an outsider. At its core is the focus on cultural relativism, which is seeing something through the eyes of the involved. Thus, to get to know someone or a group of people, you have to lose your own set of beliefs and views and start from scratch as you seek out the functional reasons why things happen.<br/><br/>47 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[StumbleUpon Without the Toolbar - will eBay love them once more?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/77147</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/77147</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:49:38 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Bookmarking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/77147</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Search Engine Land - here has been a lot of talk and speculation recently about eBay wanting to get rid of StumbleUpon, but until anything happens I am not going to stop using it. With over 6 million users contributing to over 350 million stumbles per month, it'll be interesting to watch that number climb over the next few months. I really like the changes and I think overall it is a positive move on their part. As with any change there are usually varied opinions out there. I will leave you with some quotes on the new StumbleUpon from some notable internet marketers across the web.<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Who Coined The Term SEO?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/76458</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/76458</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:15:18 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/76458</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SEL - Someone's trying to trademark the term SEO, which has roiled the SEO community. The someone is named Jason Gambert and he has persistently filed with the Patent and Trademark Office, claiming to have coined the term &quot;SEO&quot; (for Search Engine Optimization) in 2007. SEOMoz and other entities have moved to challenge Gambert's claim. As the person (along with my partner Leland Harden), who actually did coin the term Search Engine Optimization back in 1995, I feel uniquely qualified to weigh in on the validity of Gambert's claim.<br/><br/>60 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cover Your Link Ass(et)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/75247</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/75247</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:07:57 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/75247</guid>
<description><![CDATA[the Link Spiel - Your link marketing plan is a valuable piece of information and should only be seen by the people you contract to do your work. Don't let it become a piece of information passed around assembly line style. Protect your competitive link assets.<br/><br/>55 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[If You Build It SEO-Friendly, They Will Come]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/74273</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/74273</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:08:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/74273</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SEL - &quot;So I audited the website, made all kinds of great SEO recommendations, and nothing. None of them got implemented. Not a single one.&quot;Sound familiar? This story is told all too often, at search industry events, cocktail parties and around water coolers at web-based companies everywhere. It's a story that starts with a VP hiring either a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) manager or agency, continues with the company spending a significant amount of resources to generate detailed recommendations to enhance the woeful state of SEO at the company's website. But it almost always ends with the inability to close on these recommendations for one or more of a dozen reasons that now seem obvious through the 20/20 lens of hindsight.<br/><br/>48 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[To NoFollow or To NoIndex - That is the Question]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/73311</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/73311</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:17:35 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/73311</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SNIP - There needs to be a massive amount of inbound links to a site for it to become one of the seo black holes. A working example of such a site is Wikipedia, who NoFollowed links and has had content pages steadily at the top of SERPs ever since.In the end, you are not likely to build enough links to create one of these black hole sites, and you could actually hinder organic link building by capping all of your outbound links. So this is not a strategy I recommend. Also it means that you are aiding the Google agenda for the web, and isn't it more fun to fight the power?<br/><br/>41 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>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:55:34 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<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[The New Media Lifecycle and Social Discovery]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/58876</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/58876</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:02:50 -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[Trade You A Smarte Car For A Link]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57711</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57711</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:01:11 -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[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 10:49:59 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<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/>52 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>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:04:58 -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[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>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:38:15 -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[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>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:38:33 -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[Geeks Are Still Relevant In Modern SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/55344</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/55344</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:32:57 -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[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 13:11:52 -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[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 11:56:37 -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[Five great Plurk tools to feed the need!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/55135</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/55135</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:47:47 -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[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 10:28:02 -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[Persil White and the Seven Blogs]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54871</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54871</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:50:55 -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[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>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:35:08 -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[The Evolution Of The Modern SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54198</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54198</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:59:40 -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[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>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:11:52 -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[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>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:00:15 -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[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 15:34:35 -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[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 12:42:57 -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[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 17:56:45 -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 06:28:26 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<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/>42 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>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:27:48 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<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[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 15:00:10 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<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[Has Lyndon taken linkbait offline?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51647</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51647</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:35:36 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<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[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>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:36:47 -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>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:26:59 -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[Link Lust: Site Rejuvenation]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51223</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51223</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:21:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51223</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Spider Dave - Most web sites do not last past the first year of their inception. This means that there are hundreds of high quality sites simply floating around in your market with someone harnessing their search equity. By finding these sites, developing relationships with their owners, and taking over the content creation and management of the properties you will be able to use this equity to fuel your optimization efforts.<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Plurk: It Was Not Love At First Sight!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51015</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51015</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:07:46 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51015</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Well hey... why not a little more of this Plurkin' action huh? Some musings from our fav social mom!- Social Media Mom - I am totally hooked. Plurk is by far, more fun, more colorful and more interactive than Twitter and since Twitter has had so many technical issues lately, I'm really starting to think that Plurk might just be my new addiction. There is a great tutorial that I found, that does a great job explaining how to get the most out of Plurk. I sincerely suggest you give Plurk a try and by all means, let me know what you think of it!<br/><br/>46 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft Clarify robots.txt Support]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50488</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50488</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:24:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50488</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Vanessa Fox via Search Engine Land - Today, Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft have come together to post details of how each of them support robots.txt and the robots meta tag. While their posts use terms like &quot;collaboration&quot; and &quot;working together&quot;, they haven't joined together to implement a new standard (as they did with sitemaps.org). Rather, they are simply making a joint stand in messaging that robots.txt is the standard way of blocking search engine robot access to web sites.<br/><br/>43 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Build a Better Content Model for Your Site: Understanding News Consumption Patterns]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50779</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50779</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:25:38 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Usability</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50779</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Maki - While you might not own a large online newspaper, the points listed in this article can be applied to your blog or online magazine. Apart from having strong information sources, it's important to organize content in a way which provokes greater audience involvement.The points listed in the case study section above are strategies you can implement to manage content flow for your site. I also want to re-emphasize the concept of readers using content as social currency in their lives.<br/><br/>53 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Link Lust: A Lesson in .Edu Link Building]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50696</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50696</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:19:46 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50696</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Great post from the one and only Spider Dave Snyder!!SnydeySense - As is true with most content centered link strategies, it is likely going to take you more than one lesson or unit plan to achieve your link goal. You will need to not only learn how to create the lesson content, but likely the right channels to exhaust your energy on.<br/><br/>46 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 12:41:54 -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 21:37:08 -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>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:55:25 -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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