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One of the biggest shortcomings of Google Webmaster Tools is that you cannot see changes over time. Glync is a free Firefox extension that allows you to track your domain's links over time right in Google Webmaster Tools. The Pro Version lets you tr read more »
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Rand Outs a company ranking for SEO Company in Google sighting poor links and Aaron disagrees with the decision to write such a post. Who / where do you stand in this argument? read more »
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A couple of days ago Micheal posted his assertion that Rand Fishkin had lied about the details of the new Linkscape tool on SEOmoz. This caused Sphinn comments to be closed and a lot of fireworks. Now, read more about the bots that never were on SEO read more »
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Streko's got a hilarious survival guide - if you're going to SMX, you'll have to read this!

Remember, don't ask crazy people for directions! read more »
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Incrediblehelp explains why top sphinns are getting on his nerves, and the need for unique content that isn't just recycled SEM talk. read more »
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The analysis is in, and you can send all the validators home. W3C HTML Validation shows little to no impact on search rankings on Google, Yahoo, Ask or MSN Live. read more »
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Julie interviews Ruby on Rails extraordinaire Tony Spencer on SEO and Ruby on Rails compatibility, issues, and is it spider friendly? Great interview with some keen insight for PHP, Ruby programmers as well as technical SEO's. read more »
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Brent discusses why people need to be careful about what trade secrets they reveal on blogs and during conferences as it can have a profound effect on their own reputation and the reputation of the industry as a whole. read more »
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Tony Spencer discusses the issue of Google posting to forms and indexing the results, with a real world example of his Craigslist style classified site. read more »
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Good local perspective. read more »
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I'm happy to announce that the next SphinnCon has now been confirmed for Friday 2nd May 2008, just a few weeks away. The event in Greensboro is designed for local Sphinn members and internet marketers, looking to share knowledge and network with pot read more »
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New sites have advantages over older websites. Here's how a new site can benefit from it's newness to leapfrog over more established websites. read more »
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It's the latest hotly debated topic; buying blog posts. Why? Because it freakin works. Right now paid blog posts are an easy way to the top of the SERPS.

Now for some reason, Google's a bit offended by all this and wants to shut it down. Appa read more »
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Should Sphinn have a new page or section where the Editor (me) or Moderators can manually select the most important Sphinn stories? read more »
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Google's ads are paid for; its search results, supposedly, are untainted by commercial concerns. But French blog Zorgloob landed itself a screenshot that calls Google's purity into question. It shows what Google search results look like to a member read more »
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Should Google put more of an effort into targeting news before serving it in Universal Search results? read more »
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A comprehensive list of the best free competitor tracking tools online. read more »
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This SMX session was called “Extra! Extra! The Social News Sites” but it would be more aptly titled Digg, Digg, Digg, and MORE Digg-which is what the New York audience cared about anyway. :) Much of the Digg power-user universe is here in da' house! read more »
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I stumbled across this today, apparently this web developer was pissed about having to make more "SEO Changes" to his site ; hilarious! read more »
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Help these two crazy SEO kids hook up and find married bliss in Vegas for PubCon. Lisa D (SEO-Chick extraordinaire) and Rob K (evilgreenmonkey) will marry if Rob ranks on the first page for "weddings" (code in blog post).

It'll be the industry e read more »
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