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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:59:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[I Hate Spam Email from Bad SEO Consultants]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/18772</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/18772</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:59:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/18772</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It's late at night and I'm finishing a presentation for tomorrow, and my email tells me I just got 7 new emails.  Four of them are leads from our website (cool!), one is from Brian, one from Dharmesh (we work late at HubSpot [grin]) and one from someone I don't know with the subject &quot;Suggestion re: blog.hubspot.com&quot;.  I've been meeting a lot of folks through this blog, and figured this was someone with a comment or an idea about a new article.  Wrong.  It's an SEO consultant pitching me on why I need their help.  For your reading pleasure I have placed his email below, with what I was thinking when I read it in italics, and my email reply back to him.  Some info has been deleted to protect the guilty.  Enjoy.<br/><br/>38 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New York Times SEO Strategy - When Bad News Follows You]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/3851</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/3851</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:33:21 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/3851</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A BUSINESS strategy of The New York Times to get its articles to pop up first in Internet searches is creating a perplexing problem: long-buried information about people that is wrong, outdated or incomplete is getting unwelcome new life.People are coming forward at the rate of roughly one a day to complain that they are being embarrassed, are worried about losing or not getting jobs, or may be losing customers because of the sudden prominence of old news articles that contain errors or were never followed up.<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Take Advantage of the Coming Web 2.0 Crash]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2776</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2776</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:39:41 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2776</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Every single person working in the media today who experienced the dot-com bubble in 1999 to 2000 believes that we are going through the exact same process and can expect the exact same results-a bust. It's dj vu all over again.... I can assure you that after this next collapse, nobody will think of the dot-com bubble as anything other than a prelude.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why you should not use XML Sitemaps]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1814</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1814</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:05:13 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1814</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Some debate on XML sitemap's.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEOmoz | The Wisdom & Folly of Directory Link Building]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1392</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1392</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:33:17 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1392</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Rand's criteria for submitting to a directory.  Commit these to memory.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEOmoz's Search Marketing Glossary]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1349</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1349</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:44:20 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1349</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SEO Glossary.  Nice list.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Five Link Development Experts: A Group Interview - Sugarrae]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1347</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1347</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:22:08 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1347</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So, I asked a few of the more well known guys on links to do a kind of &quot;group interview&quot; on link development a few months ago and I've been admittedly slow about getting the final result up. But, today is the day, so get ready to learn a bit about link development methods and theories from:- Eric Ward, the Link Moses behind URL Wire- Rand Fishkin from SEOMoz- Roger Montti aka martinibuster, the VP of Verticals at Best of the Web- Todd Malicoat of Stuntdubl and SEO Class- and myself, Rae Hoffman of Sugarrae and SEO ClassIf you've been under a rock and don't know any of the above names, click through to their sites and grab their feeds now. Seriouslya4 goa4 now.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[21 Essential SEO Tips & Techniques]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1221</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1221</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:17:49 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1221</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This article is the second in a two-part SEO checklist specifically for small business owners and webmasters.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1178</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1178</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:07:27 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1178</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Everybody is using it, but (almost) nobody really knows how it works. Google PageRank is probably one of the most important algorithms ever developed for the Web. With billions of existing pages and millions of pages generated every day, the search issue in the Web is more complex than you probably think it is. PageRank, only one of hundreds of factors used by Google to determine best search results, helps to keep our search clean and efficient. But how is it actually done? How does Google PageRank work, which factors do have an impact on it and which don't? And what do we really know about PageRank?In this article we put the facts straight.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEOmoz | 5 Books all Search Marketers Should Read]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/915</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/915</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:21:57 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/915</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When is the last time a book that was relevant to Search Engine Marketing wasn't obsolete by the time it hit the printing press? For most of us, the appeal of SEM is its dynamic nature, a constantly changing environment with a relatively level playing field. This doesn't translate well to printed materials that take time to edit, review, print, and distribute. With the immediacy of breaking news, great SEM reporting and frequent blog posts, it's no wonder our feed readers have become our primary source of knowledge and information.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Impact of Googlea4s unavailable_after META Tag]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/693</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/693</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:08:16 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/693</guid>
<description><![CDATA[One of the major issues plaguing search engines right now is the growing list of web documents available online. While no exact numbers are available, there are billions of search results to sort through. But, they can't all be relevant both on material content and time - can they?Of course they're not, and Google is hoping to solve this problem through the adoption of the unavailable_after META tag.<br/><br/>24 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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