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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:04:13 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Get Developers On Your Side! Make Your SEO Job Easier!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/39511</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/39511</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:04:13 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/39511</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We're doing a &quot;developer day&quot; track at SMX Advanced, specifically for web developers. It will deal entirely with coding issues -- HTML and CSS, URL structure, CMS systems, Apache and IIS, javascript, PHP, asp.net, AJAX, Flash....Well, you get the idea. If you know developers or work with them, let them know about the day! If they attend, it'll probably be much easier for you to get SEO-related code implemented!If you are skilled at web development using SEO fundamentals and you'd like to speak, use the linked form to let me know!And if you are a webdev, let me know what issues you'd like covered at the sessions.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why the SEOmoz SEO Quiz Is Completely Wrong]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5274</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5274</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:52:11 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5274</guid>
<description><![CDATA[But why is this quiz so wrong? Too many of the questions go beyond the science and into the art of SEO, where things are fluid and changing and open to interpretation. The quiz is more accurately a test of how much of your personal SEO philosophy matches that of SEOmoz. Like a match.com compatibility test. You and SEOmoz, sitting in a tree. Romantically optimizing title tags.<br/><br/>162 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What Happened To Technorati?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4293</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4293</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:56:07 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4293</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This may be a glitch that will be fixed by the time anyone reads this, but what's up with Technorati? Every blog I check shows 0 links.my blog:http://www.technorati.com/blogs/www.vanessafoxnude.com?reactionsSearch Engine Land:http://www.technorati.com/blogs/searchengineland.com?reactionsSEOmoz:http://www.technorati.com/blogs/seomoz.org%2Fblog?reactions<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What Does SEM Mean To You?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4244</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4244</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:46:17 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4244</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I have always thought of SEM as the umbrella term for both SEO and paid search. However, two different people in the last two days have said something to me along the lines of &quot;SEM -- you know, paid search&quot;. Which makes me think that a lot of people think of SEO as organic search and SEM as paid search.What does SEM mean to you?<br/><br/>32 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO May Not Be Your Top Priority. And You May Be Absolutely Right.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/3999</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/3999</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:01:28 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/3999</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Recap of my SES session. The highlights:-If you don't have time for SEO at first, just make your system flexible enough to do it later.-Don't be your own worst enemy by initially building in things that block you from being found.-People don't search for things using shiny new web 2.0 words without vowels. Those are made up words. No really.-It's OK if your site isn't 100% SEO friendly. Neither is Sphinn.-You can indeed go wrong with user-generated content. But you can go right.<br/><br/>29 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Forget SEO; Think RDC --  Relevance, Discoverability & Crawlability]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1700</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1700</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:00:44 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1700</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Four part recap of the session I gave at BlogHer. It's introductory SEO, aimed at bloggers who are new to the idea of using search to drive traffic. There are no cat pictures. Sadly. However, Buffy is briefly mentioned so all is not lost.<br/><br/>60 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Does Google Handle Duplicate Content?Let Eric Count Up 15 Ways]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/746</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/746</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:40:26 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/746</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Eric draws on interviews, conference sessions, and personal experience and distills it into 15 things.#9 mentions that at SMX, I was asked if Google penalizes sites that make heavy use of nofollow on internal links throughout the site. Eric is right in summing up my response, but I would add that while Google doesn't care how many links are nofollowed, the reason I suggested using robots.txt or a meta robots tag to block the targets of those links was that nofollow isn't a great way to tell search engines not to index a page. You might nofollow the link to the page, but another site is likely to link to it and all of a sudden, like magic -- it's in the index.Another tip I would add that he doesn't have listed is that you want the canonical version of the URL to have few parameters if possible. URLs with lots of things that look like session IDs and things may be less likely to be algorithmically seen by search engines as the version to index.<br/><br/>43 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bricks & Mortar 2.0: Treat Me Online Like I'm In Your Store]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/724</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/724</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:43:07 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Usability</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/724</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If your web site is backed by a physical store front, you may want to do things a little differently on your site than you might if you were web-only. Here are a few ideas. I only rant a little.(Finally! I have written a post about something other than my cats! I thought I should commemorate the occasion by submitting to Sphinn.)<br/><br/>32 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is anyone going to ad:tech Chicago?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/711</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/711</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:15:23 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Paid Search</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/711</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I was thinking of going, and wondered if anyone else was planning to attend or had thoughts about past conferences. Danke!<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New! Sitemap Warnings Offered By Google Webmaster Central]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/375</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/375</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:58:06 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/375</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google Webmaster Tools just launched Sitemap warnings. This is pretty cool because it breaks down problems with your Sitemap into two parts: warnings and errors. Before, every problem was classified as an error. Now, the only problems that are listed as errors are those that make it so your Sitemap can't be accepted and parsed. For instance, an invalid file format (such as an HTML File) would be an error.A warning is something like an invalid date on an entry within the Sitemap file. For something like that, the Sitemap would still be accepted, just the date value wouldn't be used.In addition, it looks like they've launched some new alerts for the warnings section. They'll crawl a sampling of the URLs listed in the Sitemap and see if there are any problems with them. If there are, those will be reported. This may seem on first glance to be the same as the Crawl Errors report, but it's actually different. The crawl errors are errors Googlebot had accessing pages during the regular crawl process that is part of indexing. These new crawling problems are reported before the regular crawling and indexing process. You can use this to fix problems before Googlebot comes around trying to index the pages (which could help prevent a slowdown of the indexing process) and also can use it as a sanity check to make sure the process you use to create the Sitemap isn't creating a bunch of bogus URLs.Good job webmaster central team!<br/><br/>31 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What do you look for in an email marketing provider?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/320</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/320</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:41:16 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/320</guid>
<description><![CDATA[And do you have specific providers that you recommend? I imagine you'd need good mailing list management, templating, good reporting to start with. But what do you think is most important?<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A lot can happen in three days at Zillow -  What I'm doing now]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/278</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/278</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:42:30 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/278</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Because it's all about me, right?<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Congrats, guys!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/154</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/154</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:08:48 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/154</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This all looks so great. My only complaint is that you launched it the same week I start a new job because I want to hang out and chat rather than, you know, work and stuff.But other than that (and really, shouldn't you be thinking of me when you plan these things), really great job. I look forward to hanging out.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PopShops Affiliate Showcase Tools]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/117</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/117</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:05:36 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Affiliate Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/117</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I just met someone who just launched this site, which lets site owners create custom affiliate solutions. You can apparently pick the products you want, and the customize the titles and descriptions and things, then add them to your site.I asked about how those sites would rank in the search engines -- like does she educate users on overcoming the inherent challenge of creating unique content and adding value, but she thinks that her solution, being basically infinitely customization, is already one step ahead at that.What do you think? Easy to create spammy pages? Easy to create value-add pages? Good resource for affiliate marketers...?<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[This is a test. But hey, surely you care about my twitters too]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/91</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/91</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:38:16 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/91</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So, I got this stern email that I submitted my story to the wrong category. I wonder if it might be better to have the default category be &quot;please choose a category, you lame-o&quot; rather than &quot;Google&quot; so that people who somehow, with the best intentions, even the smartest among us, accidentally skip right over that. Then, when they click Submit, they'd get this error message, reminding them of their lame ways.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dude. My cats are awesome.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/76</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/76</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:36:37 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/76</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I have searched the internet and could find nothing quite so sphinn-worthy as a blog post about my cats.<br/><br/>32 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Questions On Sorting]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/66</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/66</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:45:02 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/66</guid>
<description><![CDATA[OK, just one question so far, but I might have mor later! I'm a questioning kind of person by nature.I can see hot topics and new topics, but what if I want to topics that are neither new nor hot? Is that just the &quot;All category&quot; link on the higher level menu? It almost seems like that should be a tab as well, but maybe I'm just lame and non-observing.Hmm... it seems to disappear when you go to submit topic and then click &quot;start discussion&quot;, btw.PS. It's very pretty!<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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