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<title>Sphinn / vanessafox / Hot Today</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:12:22 -0700</pubDate>
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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 17:12:22 -0700</pubDate>
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<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/>161 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>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:13:11 -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>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:19:23 -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 13:31:44 -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>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:01:30 -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>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:41:24 -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>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:23:46 -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[New! Sitemap Warnings Offered By Google Webmaster Central]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/375</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/375</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:51:19 -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[Dude. My cats are awesome.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/76</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/76</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:50:57 -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/>31 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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