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Topics related to social media search engines and sites. For more background, see the Let's Get Social column or social media news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Avatar Went Hot: August 20, 2008 - 7:46 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 2 hours 31 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webdevlounge.com)
Category: Blogging
Joost's on a roll today. Here is a list of his 8 must-have WordPress SEO plugins (several of which he has also written). This dovetails with his "WordPress SEO Guide" and should be bookmarked by anyone carrying out WP optimisation. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 20, 2008 - 7:10 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 7 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://yoast.com)
Category: Blogging
Breadcrumbs are a great utility, both for usability and SEO. They allow people and search engines to easily determine the structure of a domain. Good reasons for Joost to add them as an action point in his WordPress SEO guide. Now he gives us the pl read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 20, 2008 - 5:31 am
Posted By: aimClear 1 day 14 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: Social Media
Hot ass social media tips from Chris Winfield, Justilien Gaspard, Fionn Downhill, & Jennifer Laycock. SearchEngine People's Jennifer Osbourne hits the ball out of the park with her coverage from SES San Jose. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 17, 2008 - 2:04 pm
Posted By: Harith 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://pixelposition.com)
Category: Social Media
Dana Lookadoo: Is a picture worth a thousand words? Maybe. Here is overview of a few photo editing tools you may consider. Determine your goals, first.

What type of photos do you need to create and edit?

* Avatars for a your Social Media p read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 17, 2008 - 7:00 am
Posted By: Guillaume 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nvisolutions.com)
Category: News Sites
It just couldn't get worse. I mean, the top banner, all the wasted space (when I say wasted, it is really because it is, I do like clean and minimalist designs).

Well, what do you guys think about it, after having played with is a couple weeks? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 15, 2008 - 4:46 am
Posted By: graywolf 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Blogging
Most PR folks don’t read blogs and certainly don’t understand them. All they see is a Google alert with their clients name, and rush to put out a fire. Down the road they may try to bring those bloggers into the fold, largely relying on word of mout read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 11:38 pm
Posted By: richardbaxterseo 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Bookmarking
What do you do when your blog covers more than one topic (let's say SEO and Gadgets..) and your audiences are likely to hang around on different social media sites?

Seeing a Sphinn logo in the top left of your content isn’t exactly appropriate w read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 1:13 pm
Posted By: TheNanny612 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://traffikd.com)
Category: Social Media
Traffikd puts together a list of 35 Must-Read Articles for Social Media Marketers read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 9:55 am
Posted By: ffnstuff 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogaboutyourblog.com)
Category: Blogging
I’m not sure how making money online has to do with Carmen Electra or Paris Hilton, but MMO bloggers seem to be including "hot chicks" and half naked celebs in every post read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 13, 2008 - 11:43 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomegacorp.com)
Category: News Sites
Want to be successful on Digg? Why not do exactly what the most successful Diggers are doing. Manish details 10 of the habits of successful Diggers.

Good read! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 13, 2008 - 10:51 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.hubspot.com)
Category: Blogging
Your business is a data-driven machine. You live and die by leads and sales. You don't have time for unmeasurable, time-consuming concepts like community and conversation.

Fine.

Forget community. Forget conversation. There's a far simpler, far read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 13, 2008 - 9:31 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Social Media
Brent Csutoras writes, "One of the most frequently asked questions we get while speaking on social media marketing at conferences is “how can something boring be successful in social media? Well there is really no product, service, or topic that can read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 13, 2008 - 9:10 am
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Social Media
Really great interview and glimpse into the mind of one of THE best social media marketers in the game today. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 12, 2008 - 5:38 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Social Media
It is fun to watch Tamar Weinberg and John Andrews write about social media. Largely because they are both firm in their beliefs, and they believe polar opposites. Tamar's piece covering the definition of social media marketers is uplifting and pain read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 11, 2008 - 4:39 pm
Posted By: tonyadam 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brentcsutoras.com)
Category: Social Media
Twitter has always been looking for better ways to combat spammers and it appears they have recently... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 11, 2008 - 3:43 pm
Posted By: TheNanny612 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://traffikd.com)
Category: Social Media
Here are 13 very convincing reasons why you should care about social media and why it is worth your time. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 8, 2008 - 2:22 pm
Posted By: storyspinner 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://socialalerter.com)
Category: Social Media
Pierre has an interesting tale on how to Pre-classify your web pages so Eskimos don't receive refrigerators as
gifts and your hard work won't be mis-classified and given a thumbs down.

It's quite a charming tale... go on, read it, it'll make you read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 8, 2008 - 12:10 pm
Posted By: Gab 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com)
Category: Social Media
If you are like most Social Media users, you have more than one of social media profile on the web. Letting your friends and blog readers know what sites you use will allow you to connect in more places with new and current friends. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 8, 2008 - 4:35 am
Posted By: shimsand 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialdesire.com)
Category: Social Media
StumbleUpon has plans to finally remove their 200 friend limit. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 7, 2008 - 11:06 pm
Posted By: graywolf 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ck-blog.com)
Category: Social Media
the good news is that social media gives us a surefire way to avoid using all those words that are confusing, over-hyped or just so overused they've been rendered meaningless: read the comments and conversations of consumers and prospective customer read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 7, 2008 - 1:34 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoconsultants.com)
Category: Social Media
Pageoneresults writes "In just under three (03) weeks, I've managed to view a very large percentage of the Sphinn Profile database through public access. I lost count on just how many profiles I've read. I did learn quite a bit about each and every read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 7, 2008 - 10:48 am
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brentcsutoras.com)
Category: Social Media
“Tweet Pro allows you to quickly and easily find Twitter users who share your same interest by allowing you to search through posted messages and profile information. Using this software you can be following people all over the world who share your read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 7, 2008 - 10:47 am
Posted By: tonyadam 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoworld.entrepreneur.com)
Category: Social Media
Entrepreneur.com's Jon Rognerud interviews Brent Csutoras on Social Media in Entrepreneur.com SEO World Blog... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2008 - 3:02 pm
Posted By: SnoopBloggyBlog 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.snoopbloggyblog.com)
Category: Networking
Guess which celebrity launched a new social networking website? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2008 - 2:20 pm
Posted By: onreact 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: Blogging
What is the single most important factor in the success of my blog? Why? How to make your blog trustworthy enough to get 1000 subscribers after one year of part time blogging. read more »
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