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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:52:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How to use URL Search to get thousands of visitors]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/63397</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/63397</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:52:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/63397</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Wow - Patrick knocks another one out of the park. A simple but elegant idea for getting lots of traffic from your competitors. Look how the URL is bolded in the title - really nice idea.<br/><br/>60 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is It Time For A New Agency Model?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/63375</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/63375</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:15:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/63375</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Alex discusses an interesting idea for managing enterprise new media clients and how the payment on results model extends to large multi-national clients.<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Blog From The Conversion Rate Experts]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57880</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57880</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:03:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Usability</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57880</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The guys over at the conversion rate experts (aka the squirrel guys due to their fantastic website optimiser piece) have just re-launched their site and have a new blog. Add to your feed reader now!<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Killer Headline Writing Tips Lifted From Viagra Spam Emails]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/56939</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/56939</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:22:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/56939</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Genius idea and an awesome post from wiep - very funny but really interesting as well.<br/><br/>68 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Don't End Your URLs in .0 - If You Do Google Won't Index Them]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52718</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52718</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:31:32 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52718</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Every webmaster needs to know this. Essential stuff. I wonder why Google thinks this is an indication of spam?<br/><br/>52 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The greatest example of linkbait............ever?!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46400</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46400</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 08:26:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Bookmarking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46400</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lyndon shows us how it's done by launching a simple article across social media. Some time later, 1/2 million page views, and he's on fox news with 'headline of the week'. Hat off to you sir!<br/><br/>117 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gab interviews 3 SEO stars: Stuntdubl, Graywolf and Sugarrae]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/40441</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/40441</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:35:46 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/40441</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Stuntdubl, Graywolf and Sugarrae all get together and share some insider secrets with Gab. It's not too long but there's some nice takeaways both for affiliate and blackhat projects as well as whitehat linkbait projects. A good read!<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Blogging Under False Pretences to Become a Crime in the UK]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/39562</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/39562</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:55:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/39562</guid>
<description><![CDATA[From May 28th 2008 the practice of blogging under false pretences (or flogging as we like to call it) will become more than just black hat - it'll become illegal!<br/><br/>38 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dell Caught Spamming by Dave Naylor. This is pretty blatant too...]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/36595</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/36595</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:07:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/36595</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As Dave says, it's a shame to see this kind of thing being done by such a big company as it gives them and the SEO community a bad name.<br/><br/>54 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AOL Buys Bebo For $850 Million]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/34401</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/34401</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:11:02 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/34401</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Nuff said! See the lowdown on SEL<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[See How Old A Page Is With One Click - New Firefox Plugin]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/33229</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/33229</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:39:53 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/33229</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A fantastic addition the linkdiagnosis plugin which now allows you to right-click a page and see when Google first found it. Essential stuff!<br/><br/>43 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEOmoz launches SEO Analytics - Web Metrics Tracking]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/32961</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/32961</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:17:36 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/32961</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SEOmoz launches their new SEO analytics service which tracks various metrics all in one place. Looks groovy to me!<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Googlea4s Latest Competitor - The BBC?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/31551</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/31551</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:45:25 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/31551</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Given recent developments on the BBC website are they about to launch into the search market? And if they do, could they take on Google?<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mobile search: Why Google could be the next Google]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/28335</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/28335</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:49:02 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Mobile Search</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/28335</guid>
<description><![CDATA[An interesting analysis of who's going to be the big player in mobile search. Take a look and cast your vote on who you think will win this race.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Universal Search: 2008 Edition]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25939</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25939</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:20:12 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25939</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A fantastic roundup by Danny on the ins and out of universal search and a peak into what we might expect in the future. Essential reading for anyone scratching their heads about universal search.<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Interview with Peter Meyers AKA Dr Pete - website usability specialist]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25547</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25547</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:20:42 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25547</guid>
<description><![CDATA[For those that read SEOmoz this is another instalment in the Critchlow-Dr Pete feud. For those that don't (!?) this is an insightful interview with one of the industry leaders in website usability.<br/><br/>29 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Community: Do your bit against RipOff Report]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25062</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25062</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:47:26 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25062</guid>
<description><![CDATA[RipOff Report is the virtual equivalent of someone saying it'll cost 50 not to have your legs broken. Do your bit and spread the word about their shady practices.<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[An Online Reputation Management Case Study]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/18020</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/18020</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:28:05 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Other Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/18020</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I use my own name (which is my brand online) to show you how online reputation management works. Finally - those naked photos of me at pubcon are buried! No, wait...<br/><br/>32 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hot Topics : Find hot blog topics & cool stuff on the Internet]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/16045</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/16045</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:59:33 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Bookmarking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/16045</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Patrick comes up trumps with this one. A truly useful yet very simple tool which will easily increase your social media creativity! Thanks Patrick!<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Forget UGC, Discover The Secrets Of User-Generated-Linkbait]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/12856</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/12856</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:36:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/12856</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you're still writing your own linkbait then you need to get to grips with User Generated Linkbait (UGL). Includes a step by step guide to the process.<br/><br/>33 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Adwords Finally Allows Date Range Comparison (Hooray!)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/10578</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/10578</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:17:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/10578</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Finally there is the option within Adwords to quickly and easily compare two date ranges, just like in Analytics.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[T.S. Elliot - A Black Hatter]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/10558</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/10558</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:44:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/10558</guid>
<description><![CDATA[An amusing quote unearthed by Quadzilla showing why TS Elliot was a black hat ;-)<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to use Google to search Creative Commons licensed content]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/10396</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/10396</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:21:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/10396</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A nifty trick you probably weren't aware of to use Google to search Creative Commons licensed content. Handy for finding images quickly that are free to use.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Adds Sitelinks Control To Webmaster Tools & Much More]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9977</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9977</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:22:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9977</guid>
<description><![CDATA[From SEL - Google is now allowing you to control which sitelinks get shown under your URL.<br/><br/>43 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Suggest Now Extended to Fix URLs Too]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9713</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9713</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:36:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9713</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It appears Google is now suggesting alternative URLs for mis-spellings and typos as well as simply correcting keyphrases.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Equip Your Firefox for an SEO Adventure]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/8987</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/8987</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:23:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEM</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/8987</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A list of the firefox extensions and plugins I use to optimise my SEO experience online. I also confess to being a roleplayer in my youth.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Big List of UK Internet Marketing Blogs - Free Links]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6222</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6222</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:34:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6222</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Anyone with a UK SEO/SEM/Internet Marketing blog join in! Patrick is linking up any UK SEO/SEM blogs so dive right in and get listed.<br/><br/>29 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Manchester Trip Report]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5812</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5812</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:45:29 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5812</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I review the awesome weekend which was the Manchester SEO meetup. Good times had by all I think, I certainly enjoyed myself!<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Explained in pictures, funny!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4542</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4542</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:35:46 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4542</guid>
<description><![CDATA[You gotta see these!<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook Has a Google Penalty?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4471</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4471</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:09:30 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4471</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So up until recently my Facebook public listing was out-ranking my profile page on out own site. Now, it's no where to be found, even for highly targeted searches. Yet it's still cached by Google. Does Facebook have a Google penalty?!<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo is much better than Google, go ona4 say it]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2882</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2882</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:47:55 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2882</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A closer look at just how badly Google handles searches like [it support company]<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The effect of news on stock prices, with a case study on Apple (AAPL) | Distilled blog]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2784</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2784</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:04:51 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2784</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Something we have been wondering recently - is there any correlation between blog buzz and online news items to a companies share price? In particular, just how closely are the two tied and can you get any trading tips out of it? We take a closer look...<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New UK Ask.com commercials - nothing but ads for Google Universal Search]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2783</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2783</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:54:37 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Ask.com</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2783</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It seems to me that the latest Ask.com adverts being shown in the UK have only one unique selling point: Google Universal Search. Which Google rolled out about 2 months ago. What's that? Pictures of Winston Churchill? Yeah Google can't do that. Oh, and they also have a monkey. Which seems like it's only going annoy animal rights protesters regardless of whether the monkey enjoyed eating the cardboard or not.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization Tricks for WordPress]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1818</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1818</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:47:54 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1818</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;If each one of your blog entries is its own [.exe file], you likely have a problem.&quot;And other great tips for optimising wordpress!<br/><br/>21 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[5 crafty outside-the-box link building tricks & tips]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1238</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1238</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:30:22 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1238</guid>
<description><![CDATA[5 tips and tricks from around the web for creative link-building, designed to allow you to gain a few very easy links regardless of which industry or niche you are in.<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[One Hundred BILLION Links! - Rand dressed as Dr Evil]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1237</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1237</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:24:17 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1237</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ok, so this one isn't quite fresh anymore but Sphinn wasn't around when we made this post. In response to Rand bragging about getting 1 million links we decided to do some creative photoshopping. Enjoy :-)<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Job titles through the ages]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/494</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/494</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:40:01 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/494</guid>
<description><![CDATA[An amusing look at the changing nature of SEO over the years, we've got a good few years before we're all unemployed though ;-)<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Search Google without wikipedia - a Firefox search plugin | Distilled blog]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/159</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/159</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:29:43 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/159</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Due to wikipedia's dominance of the SERPs we have developed a firefox plugin which allows you to search Google and get results with wikipedia no where to be seen!<br/><br/>23 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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