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Get recommendations from friends according to your tastes and preferences. read more »
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coworkersads is based on a simple idea that most people will trust and respond to ads more by a colleague or coworker than a stranger. read more »
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Interesting post about how our fellow Sphinner HotLara got banned by Facebook, apparently for either:
a) creating a blog using a domain that included the term "Facebook".
b) talking about making money using Facebook

Interesting ... read more »
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Chris Garret writes a great piece about what to look for (and ultimately change) when you find your blog traffic stagnating. It provides real fuel for thought about how to re-stimulate growth again!

As always ... great piece! read more »
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Jennifer Osborne offers some help on which is best...

PR Optimization is a great tactic for driving impressions and brand awareness. And let’s face it; the links are kinda nice too. But you have to choose a package that meets your objectives and read more »
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First Blog Media records, edits, distribute and optimize podcasts for search. The content can be either provided from blogs or from emails. read more »
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A thoughtful and helpful look at how personalization in search may impact search results, and an exploration of a handful of the key metrics involved in that personalization.

Very nicely done. read more »
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This concept of never-ending friending has spawned a new breed (or rather generation) of consumer...one that wants brands to befriend them, not market to them.
While it's obvious that these branded friendships can mean cha cha ching to a brand that read more »
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I've been a Webmaster for years, but I have only been blogging for about a year. One thing I really enjoy about blogging compared to Static Websites is the interaction between the Reader and the Blogger.

However, what happens when you receive read more »
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Heroku is a site that makes Rails development/hosting a piece of cake. Heroku provides a facility to either create or import rails application on to its website FREE. Anyone can develop a rails application on heroku and the best thing is the applica read more »
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The ultimate Face-off results from Google Trends read more »
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The last thing you need is to wade through a hundred search engine results on a display screen the size of a postage stamp! With Boopsie's smart prefix search all you need is the first few letters. "Harry Potter" - In Boopsie, that's "ha po." Instea read more »
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Android for mobile application development. Download the SDK to experiment with it and enter into Google Developer challenge read more »
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(Un)Official Sphinn Awards Part II read more »
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A great idea wrapped in flimsy writing is a waste of words.

On the other hand, an average but clearly expressed thought enjoys more attention.

Why bother about good writing practices, you ask? You are a blogger, not a would-be author of the ne read more »
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Whether you just started a website or came across a cool website/website feature then post it on sphred.com to gather opinions, get more visibility about your idea or to just let others know about it. Once posted, then invite your friends to either read more »
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I have to agree with Marshall...this is so simple, it's brilliant...put a small drop-down menu on your web page that will easily allow a user to translate your page into a different language.

Microsoft's done some pretty smart things lately (the read more »
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A great piece by Skellie looking at various headline formulas for blog postings. Good food for success! read more »
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Just did a spell check on my last submit and saw that Sphinn doesn't recognize the following words:

Sphinn
Google
Nofollow

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You thought blogging is all fun and money? Well, that’s not quite true.

Blogging is stressful. Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy blogging as much as any other serious blogger, but.. it’s stressful. Since you don’t look very convinced, here are my 5 rea read more »
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Scott Hendison finds an El Grande Giganto Adsense Skycraper Ad while surfing at the Ezine articles site. Screenshot included. read more »
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On the heels of Caroline's amazing post at http://sphinn.com/story/12535 ProBlogger offers us 11 Tips for Getting Your Comments Noticed on a Popular Blog.

"In this post I’m going to suggest 11 tips for leaving tips on blogs that not only get not read more »
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78% of senior managers say that they know that social media marketing can and will give them a competitive edge. However only 7.75% of their total online marketing budget is actually dedicated to social media marketing. read more »
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Rob Watts of Yack Yack SEO reminds us that we shouldn't be relying on Search Engines for Traffic...

Just like the quality sites that took a hit with the recent Google PR Update... look at their webstats and their site metrics, look at their publi read more »
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An exploration of some areas that a small business may be better able to take advantage of in their marketing and search optimization related efforts than a larger business. read more »
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